In my haste to update the last chapter, I forgot to thank Digimon Dreamer for coming up with descriptions of Marie and Kasumi! You rock!

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The author of the book was David Reid. I wonder why that sounded familiar. I decided to read the introduction.

The book you are about to read is about the great man who was Zero. Of course this is before he is replaced by Suzaku Kururugi.

My great uncle Deithard inspired me to write this. Of course I never knew him, but his motivation runs through me!

I seek to tell of the great Zero, before he turned for the worst and tried to destroy the world!

As Diethard Reid's descendant I see it as my duty-

I shut the book. This dude was a maniac. Could I find a less creepy source of research? Maybe I should just wait until tomorrow, when Leandra and I go to the Delaney Archives. I was sort of scared of finding another vi Britannia psycho-fan.

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"Watcha doin'?"

"Agh!"

Once again, Casper snuck up on me. I was doing some homework on my desk. I seriously had to put something on this boy's neck. He might shock me into an early grave.

"I'm doing homework. Where have you been?"

"My parents took me to my hospital appointment. The doctor says my conditon is getting better."

"That's good news."

Casper had a heart condition. Sometimes he had to see a special doctor. His parents lived close by and that's why he's allowed to live in the dorms. But once, I saw him collpse on the grounds. That's when I found out about.

At that moment the part of my enrollment papers that asked if I knew CPR and how to use a defibrilator made sense.

"Are you busy on Sunday?", Casper asked.

"I've got a chess tournament. Why?"

"I was wondering if you could go somewhere with me. My parents are busy and won't let me go alone."

"Sure I'll go. The tournament shouldn't last long anyway, its only a few of us playing."

"Alright. Thanks."

I finished my homework and went to bed. Tomorrow I would go with Leandra to the archives. Like Jun said, I should be alert. Or else I'll get hit by a car.

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"Good morning Alex."

"Morning Lea."

We left the school grounds and made our way to a bus stop. We were standing there for about five minutes when I realized I had been staring at Leandra's skirt the whole time. Focus! Focus!

The bus came and took us around before stopping at the Delaney Archives. Leandra and I craned our necks at the impressive building.

"I can't believe Marie and Kasumi work here", Leandra said.

"Well they're just interns. They can't have anything high priority."

"But still, to have to come and work here. . ."

We went inside and showed them our passes. Marie and Kasumi met us in there. She stood before a white door. Both she and Kasumi wore normal clothes, but with archive IDs.

"You guys need to do some research for your project right? Behind this door is an archive made exclusively for Geass", Marie said.

"Since you two have the 99th Emperor and C.C., we thought this would be the perfect room", Kasumi said.

"Thanks", I said before Marie opened the door and showed us in.

"This room works in a special way. You just enter a date and a place, and the room will take it from there", Marie explained.

"You can also type in a person's name and the room will give you everything it knows", Kasumi added.

She and Marie left us to get to work. I looked around. The room was a bright white with different screens, and different sizes. At the end of the room was a keyboard.

"I guess we're supposed to type something", Leandra said.

We walked over and I typed in 'August 10 2010'.

"The start of the war between Britannia and Japan?", Leandra asked.

"Exactly. I want to know where vi Britannia was when it happened."

The screens turned on and showed different scenes.

'August 10 2010. Britannia invades Japan.'

I added Lelouch vi Britannia to my search. All the screens stayed the same.

"I guess they don't have any video on him."

'Lelouch vi Britannia, August 10 2010. Resident of the Kururugi Shrine.'

Leandra raised an eyebrow. "Kururugi Shrine? Suzaku Kururugi?"

"Yeah, that's where they met."

"When did he meet C.C.?"

"They met at the Shinjiku ghetto. But I can't remember the date", I said.

Leandra moved me over typed in something.

'Shinjiku ghetto, 2017, C.C.' . . . 'C.C., an experiment by Britannia. This was the day she escaped from the labs. Also recorded as the day C.C. met Lelouch Lamperouge.'

"Lamperouge?"

"That's the name vi Britannia went under after the war", I answered.

I heard something growl behind me.

"Are you hungry Lea?"

"Uh, a little."

"I'll just search one more thing and then we can get some lunch."

I knew exactly what to look for now.

'C.C. and Lelouch vi Britannia.' . . .'Accomplices. C.C. has been spotted with Lamperouge, vi Britannia, and Zero.' . . . 'Has taken Zero's place several times.'

There were a bunch of clips of the two. One of the screens said 'Ashford Academy Security Cam.' It showed Lamperouge pushing C.C. into the bed of a truck. But why was she wearing a uniform?

"So she did really know all of him", Leandra said.

"Yeah. Come on, let's go eat."

As we walked towards the door I saw one interesting video clip. It looked like the pictures of the old Imperial Palace that I've seen. vi Britannia stood before the throne, wearing Ashford Academy's uniform.

"I'll make this easy for you then. Acknowledge me!"

"Lea wait!"

This was amazing! The footage of vi Britannia using his Geass to take over the Britannian Empire.

"All hail Lelouch! All hail Lelouch!"

This man, he really was a mastermind. Just once, I wish I could meet him. His words shook me, and I felt something. This was different from normal excitement. I wonder, what exactly it is, I'm feeling.

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Up next: Before they can get to lunch, Alex and Lea meet a strange person. And disturbances across the world occur.