Five days after the Zero Requiem.
Lelouch stretched when he finished writing on a page that looked like a scroll. Suzaku picked the page up and looked at it with surprise. It said, "King's Festival, a Festival will be held all over the country, all palaces will be open to the public, but some areas are resected. Do what you like bring food stands, entertainment, whatever you want. King's festival is the about the giving the public what he has for a day and celebrate a new era, a changed king".
"This festival will bring the peoples hopes up, they'll start thinking that the Emperor of Britannia is changing from an evil tyrant to a good Emperor a great Emperor," said Lelouch Proudly "but I dare say that there are people out there that would want revenge for what I've done".
"I see," said Suzaku "I've noticed around the capital that the people are beginning to trust you but still has doubts and the army has mostly reformed into what you proposed"
"well we will deal with anything that comes our way," said Lelouch "Now go get this copied and get the guards to hang them up around the country".
Suzaku turned around and walked out of the room.
"the People of Britannia are beginning to trust me" said Lelouch in a low voice and putting the back of his left hand on his left side of his chin "some will not like this change, I predict that some of the dukes will be unhappy and the some of the citizens will still have doubts. If these dukes do seek to revolt, then I will have to learn and make up some strategies on the arts of war in the medieval era"
On a road near the capital of Pendragon a group of mercenaries' head back to their fort in the Mountains.
"Man, that last village had people are more or less happy," said Inoue "it's like when we get closer to the capital the more people are happier, it's weird"
"Haven't you seen to the guards helping the people out and their new outfit they're wearing, it's getting more confusing, weren't they under the evil tyranny of Emperor Lelouch vi Britannia?" Questioned Suigiyama.
"well since the death of the 98th Emperor Charles zi Britannia at the hands of 99th Emperor Lelouch vi Britannia, there still been fear and chaos and it was getting worse by the day," said Kallen "we'll get answers to our questions at the guild, right?"
The cart with Inoue, Suigiyama, Kallen and four other members lower in rank than them travelled back from their assignment of protecting farmers and miners that were getting her harassed by bandits to their home, a fort up in the snowy mountains near Pendragon.
They reach the Fort in which they called home, the gates opened, and they were welcomed back. The four members that were lower in rank jumped of the cark and headed for the guild hall and Inoue, Suigiyama and Kallen were not far behind. As they walked through the doors into the guild hall and they were greeted with yells of "welcome home" and applause of their return. Inoue and Suigiyama went their separate whey leaving Kallen to report to their leader Ohgi. Ohgi was sitting on a stool at their bar listening to Tamaki but clearly not listening but he was talking about stuff without a care in the world.
"Ohgi," said Kallen as he turned around to find the voice.
"ah Kallen good to see you again hope it wasn't difficult," said Ohgi.
"it wasn't that difficult, we got some scratches but were fine," said Kallen proudly "oh and we've been seeing changes to the guard's amours and they have been helping the citizens out, do you know what's been going on?"
"it's good you've come back without getting too hurt but all we know about your question is that…" Ohgi took a breath as he looked at Kallen "well Emperor is changing as they say"
"Changing? How so?" she asked.
"we'll all we know is that his been changing laws and reforming the army, the laws are having a positive effect on the people," Ohgi said, "But…"
"but?" she replied.
"but we don't anything else, so we plan to send someone to the palace as a maid," Ohgi said giggling witch but a questioned look on Kallen "before you ask who will be doing it… it'll be you..."
"meeee?" she said shocked at the answer her leader said, "why me?"
"because you can put a different face and emotion on better than anyone here." He said still giggling then putting on a serious face "you'll be going to the capital tomorrow, so pack your bags and hang around until then and you have no objections you hear"
Kallen was surprised at the fact that she would be going undercover for the Black Knight Mercery Guild just because they did not know the intentions of Emperor Lelouch, but she didn't really want to argue with Ohgi because she was beat after the long journey, so she just said, "yes sir" and walked to her room to prepare.
Lelouch was in the palace library reading about the history Britannia. He sat in a comfortable chair and next to him was a stack of war strategy books and weapon books that he finished reading. The page that he was read stated that the 97th Emperor of Britannia was overthrown by the 98th Emperor and he was ruling under iron fist having 3 wars under his rule, but he was overthrown by Lelouch because all Lelouch wanted was the power that his father had. But there could have been a different reason. That was all the book had to offer in history. He looked up as he heard footsteps heading towards him it was Sayako being him some tea.
"Looking at the history of Britannia?" asked the maid putting his tea down on the table.
"yes, it's somewhat interesting," he said picking up the tea and having a sip "but why is it that I'm not in the history books yet?"
"well that's because your history is still being written up and until you die it will not be published," she said.
"well, that disappointing," he said looking at something that caught his eye. He got up and walked to the book that caught his eye, he picked it up and the title said "Knightmare dreams, a folktale" a drawing on the front cover depicts what he could make out was the two Knightmares with swords in the air to look like a partnership.
'Knightmares' he thought, 'is there Knightmare Frames in this world too? No, it's just a folktale nothing more'
"your majesty is there something wrong," said Sayoko.
"no, I'm fine, thank you for asking," he said.
"Your majesty," said a voice breaking the conversation between the Sayako and Lelouch, Suzaku appeared from the side of the bookshelf "I've been looking for you, I've finished the assignment that you gave me. The posters are being put up over the capital and the whole Empire will soon have them up in a matter of three to four weeks"
"ah thank you Suzaku," Lelouch said with a pleased smile on his face. "know we wait until two months from now and we'll see how it goes"
"Oh, before I forgot these are the papers on the five new maids coming tomorrow," said Suzaku.
Suzaku handed the papers to Lelouch "thank you I'll be going back to my study now" he said "Suzaku follow"
Suzaku bowed as Lelouch placed 'Knightmare dreams' back on the bookcase and walking through the library with the knight of Zero in tow. They walked silently down the halls of the palace and to his study. He opens the door and saw that Jeremiah was waiting inside with a note on a tray.
"Your majesty a letter from princess Euphemia," said Jeremiah
"Euphemia?" they both said but with different expression's one feeling sadness of remembering that time and the other with glee.
'No, this a different world, of course, she would be alright not dead' He thought, straightening his posture and walking over to the butler/soldier and taking the note off the tray and sitting down in his chair at his desk. He placed the papers down on the desk then grabbed a knife and sliced the letter open and sliding the letter out of the envelope. He unfolded it and it read "hello Lelouch, my half-brother I writing to you because Cornelia, Schneizel and I are coming back from our little vacation. Though we have been hearing good things about you from the people of Britannia and very pleased that your changing, oh and some of the knights of the round that we passed are coming to the palace as well" P.S "can't wait to see you again Lelouch we'll be there in around five days maybe".
"they're coming back to the palace," said Lelouch trying to hide his sadness with a smile.
"your majesty this is good news when will they be getting here," said Jeremiah
"well around three to five days," he said estimating the time the letter was sent to now. He then looked a Suzaku wondering if they love each other in this world too.
Lelouch put the letter down and pick up the papers of the five maids that were coming to the palace, it had details of their appearance like what colour their hair was, the colour of their eyes, their age, height, width and details of their background. He looked through the papers and carefully examining the details of the new maids, he turned to the last paper and saw to his surprise as he saw the name Kallen Kozuki. 'Kallen' he thought 'so my red queen will be in serves to the throne by being a maid, she is most likely coming here to spy on me for the black knights, Black knights? Do they exist in this world?'
"question" Lelouch said, Suzaku and Jeremiah looked at the Emperor for what his question might be. "are there a group out there calling them self's the Black knights?"
"black knights?" they say together being there thinking faces on.
"Oh, you there is such a group," Suzaku said with excitement. "but they call them self's the Black knight mercenary guild"
"so, what do they do?" asked Lelouch.
"well they help the weak because the Britannian military did nothing to protected them, so they formed the guild," said Suzaku "some of the Britannian people join up with them".
"I see," Lelouch said putting the papers down.
'I wonder why they would send Kallen over here' he thought walking to the balcony in his room.
"well will see what happens tomorrow," he said looking at the sunset.
A female with red hair was walking around her room spouting words of hate because she didn't get a say in the plan that consisted of just her pretending to be a maid in the palace where Emperor Lelouch resided, she hated him, she hated that excuse for an Emperor. Her brother died in one of the 98th Emperor's wars and she hated the whole line of Emperor's after him, even if he didn't do it. But she calmed herself down when she heard her stomach growl, knowing that she would have to go down to the guild hall to get her dinner. She opened the door and saw the maid's outfit was hanging from the door. It held a note saying that it was to be put on after she got up in the morning. She growled and through the maids' outfit onto the bed and began to walk down to the guild hall. She opened the door to the guild hall, the hall was packed with Black Knight Mercs singing merry songs and having their dinner with conversation. She walked through the hall to Tamaki's bar. She ordered a toasted sandwich and cup of tea. As her dinner was being prepared Ohgi appeared behind her saying
"You ready for tomorrow?"
"More or less" she replied turning around to see Ohgi.
"sorry if we caused any unhappy thoughts," he said.
"you better be, you know how much I hate them" she snapped back.
"yes, I know, but…" Ohgi said having the dinner Kallen ordered place in front of her and she began to eat why'll she listened to Ohgi "everyone here has faith that you can do it"
Kallen looked over to the people that he was talking about, they had stopped talking and sing just to comfort her and saying that she can do it. She looked back at Ohgi.
"are you going to let their words of encouragement be in vain" he continued
"No, I…" she studded
"Oh, and before a forget you can't get out of it you tried because your document is already in the palace," he said walking away.
"wait, what," she said shocked at what he said
Of cause he said it. But It was most likely the others that planned him to say that because he wouldn't say that would he?
Author's note- Well hope you in joy this chapter it was a bit longer than the last chapter. I'm aiming for a 2,000 to 3,000-word chapters but if you want longer chapters just ask. If you got any suggestions about the story, I'll see if it would fit in with the story that I have already got planned. Just to remind you that this is my first fanfiction and It might be a bit rusty but hey what can you do. Thank you. Again, hope you in joyed it. Please review. I've edited the story a bit hope it's better.