Six days A.Z.R (After Zero Requiem)

As the morning sun shines through the studies window, Lelouch sits at his desk sipping his cup of tea and looking at a map of the Britannian Empire and its surroundings. To the north of the empire, there is a wall of mountains with only three cracks to get to the Empire on the other side of the wall. Each crack has a fort on either side. The Empire beyond the wall is the Chinese Empire, the only Empire other than Britannia to be in this world from the other world. To the east was 3 smaller empires bordering Britannia, the border is an open field with grasslands and few forests, forts were in strategic areas, like on high hills. South and west had the ocean, but the west side was a bit like the Mediterranean Sea in Europe in this world. South-west was a peninsula that they owned that met with the other side of the continent, this opening was the only way in or out and this was called the devil's mouth. The Britannian Empire had good relations with the Chinese Empire because they knew that fighting a war against each other would be a death wish for both empires. So, they signed a non-aggression pact and started trading. The three other Empires to the east had been fighting wars against each other for millennia and the Britannian Empire always went and took a bit of land when they fought, but sometimes It sparked war against them which ended a win for the Britannian Empire, but the last two wars ended in a stalemate because of the depression that was happening in Britannia.

Lelouch wonders if Empress Tianzi was leading the Chinese Empire and Xingke would be helping her. Then he started thing about his Geass and him not even using it yet. He wonders if will be using it in this world.

Kallen was in a carriage that was taking her to the capital of Britannia, Pendragon and straight to the palace. The Black Knights had said their farewell to Kallen, she remembers that Ohgi had said that there will be Black Knight stationed in an inn in the Capital so anytime she was sent out for whatever reason she would have to go and report her findings. The carriage had entered the capital, she looked out the window saw that people were most happy and going about their daily lives without fear. It was funny to her that just a few days ago this very city was filled with despair and fear and now it's people are happy; the guards help the people instead of hurting them just to get there hopes up. Before she knew it, the carriage stops, and the driver said that this was the end of the ride. So, she climbed out and grabbed her truck that had some clothes and some other items. The Driver immediately moves away when she was finished. She looked at the silver gate and two guards with white coats with silver armour and wielded spears and diamond-shaped shields, they stood either side of the gate. She walked up to one of them and told him that she was one of the new maids and showed him the papers for evidence. He checks it and gives it the all clear and opens the gate to a maroon brick road with gold edges, there were flowers spanning around following the road that ended at the palace. She began to walk up the road and got to another gate which she gave the papers to the guards that were present. They had less amour but wore black coats with gold patterns around it, they wielded black diamond shields with gold patterns on it and had a spear and sword near the waist. They opened the gate and one of the guards left his post to show her the way to the servant's door. She walked past beautiful gardens and saw that gardeners were tending to the gardens. What caught her eye the most was a girl in a gazebo drinking tea and looking out at the garden. The guard had turned around and noticed what she was looking at.

"that's princess Nunnally," he said, "She is kind and pretty, but we best not gawk we need to get going".

Kallen agreed and they were on their way again. They got to the servant's door, the guard opened and walked in with the new maid in tow. Anyone that was in the room was on their break most do not pay any attention, but some look in her direction.

"Sayoko the first maid is here, she's all yours. He yelled as Sayoko walked into the room hearing the yelling guard "I'll now take my leave"

The guard walked back outside and closed the door. Sayoko walked up to her and investigated her and then smiled and said.

"I'm Sayoko Nice to meet you, the other new maids probably won't be becoming until the evening, so what is your name?".

"Kallen, Kallen Kozuki" she replied.

"well then we should get onto the tour of the palace," the maid said

Kallen said nothing and followed the maid out to the corridor and went left, going down the corridor they walked silently until one of them conducted small talk but when to being silent after they finished. They reached near the end of the corridor and Sayoko opened the door that leads to an open area. There were two staircases on either side of the room heading up to the second floor in the middle of the stairs stood a double door and at the front of the room stood another double door that most likely when to the outside because of the windows around the door shining brightly.

"this is the front of the Palace, through those double doors is the throne room," Sayoko said pointing to the double doors in the middle of the stairs "why don't we have a look"

Kallen nodded in agreement, the maid walked over to the double doors with Kallen in tow and opened the doors to the throne room.

Lelouch walked out of his study and down the corridors of the palace. He looked at the painting on the walls of the palace and any other things that were in the corridor to make it look like royals lived here. Lelouch walked through the palace corridors and came across Suzaku.

"Suzaku" yelled Lelouch playfully as he put his arms around his neck startling the Knight.

"your majesty," Suzaku said trying to calm down "what are you doing here?"

"is it weird that the Emperor takes a stroll through his own palace," Lelouch said letting go of Suzaku with a smile and knowing that the Knight only said that because he was startled.

"no, your majesty," Suzaku said with worry that he had a fended him.

"good" Lelouch said with a smirk "you're going to accompany me on my stroll as punishment"

"yes, your majesty," Suzaku said sighing in relief that it's just a stroll with him and knowing that it's more a joke than punishment.

Lelouch and Suzaku strolled through the palace corridors and entering the throne room by the second story. Lelouch and Suzaku who trailed behind walked up to the balcony and looked down as they saw that two young women in maid's uniform had walked in. the leading maid was Sayoko and the one following was Kallen. The two looked down as Sayoko and Kallen walked over to the centre of the room.

"your majesty who's that following Sayoko?" questioned Suzaku.

"if I remember correctly that is one of the new maids coming in" Lelouch replied "Kallen Kozuki I think was her name"

They continued looking down until Sayoko noticed the two up on the balcony, Kallen noticed Sayoko jump a bit. Kallen looked over at the area that the maid was looking at and saw the Emperor and his Knight looking down at them.

"Good Morning to you your majesty," Sayoko said loud enough for them to hear and bowing. Kallen noticed and bowed as well.

Lelouch gestured them to stay put. Sayoko was confused that he was coming down to talk to them. Lelouch walked to the doors that had the stairs behind them, he opened the door and began to walk down the stairs with his Knight in tow. He reached the bottom and opened another door that led into the throne room's first floor. He saw the two maids and began to walk over to them. Kallen became nervous as he walked over to Sayoko and her. Her heart started beating faster and faster, Sayoko saw Kallen shaking she put a hand on her shoulder. Kallen calmed down when Sayoko's hand touched her shoulder.

"don't worry he won't hurt you" Sayoko reassured her.

Kallen nodded and saw that the Emperor with his Knight behind him was standing in front of Sayoko and her.

"you're showing the new maid around the palace?" Lelouch asked

"yes your majesty I am indeed" Sayoko replied

"ahh I see now your Kallen Kozuki are you not?" he said turning to Kallen

"y-yes I am y-your majesty" Kallen repelling to his question, she was stuttering and shaking she was near like that around anyone before, but the presence of this emperor had her trembling. "i-is there something you want?

"yes, In fact, I'm quite interested in you," He said, the only thing that had him saying these is his connection to the Kallen in the other world.

"interested?" the three said and Lelouch only smiling.

"what do you mean?" Kallen asked.

"I would like to know a bit about you" Lelouch replied "How about we meet in my study this afternoon how does that sound"

"o-ok that sounds g-good," she said knowing that if she would to question him god knows what will happen.

"Good I look forward to the meeting" he responded walking off pass Kallen.

Nunnally sat in her chair under the gazebo, she looked out in the sea of flowers while holding and sipping the tea that Jeremiah had poured for her. The sun gaze fell on the flowers as their beauty met with the eyes of Nunnally. She couldn't believe how much Lelouch and his kingdom had changed in mire five days.

"A mire five day's" she mumbled,

"what was that princess?" Jeremiah asked.

"mmm oh well I was wondering how emperor Lelouch has changed the empire and himself in just five days it's astonishing" she responded finishing her cup of tea and gesturing to fill up the teacup again

"yes, quite true" he replied filling the teacup up but noticing the entrance of the gazebo having to figures "your majesty, Knight of Zero how is your mourning"

Nunnally span around almost spilling her tea and saw Lelouch and Suzaku walking into the gazebo. Jeremiah pulled a chair out and faced it to the garden. Lelouch sat down on the chair while Suzaku stood next to him.

"cup of tea, your majesty?" asked Jeremiah.

"yes, please" he replied.

Jeremiah poured the tea into a posh-looking teacup, he then placed it down next to Lelouch and he then stood aside admiring the flowers until he was called upon again. Lelouch and Nunnally made small talk until Lelouch said

"am I the Ideal Emperor?" he asked "I mean I was this tyrannical Emperor that ruled with an iron fist but then everything changed. In just a few days I go from bad to good. I've seen the new maid and she was trembling when I went near her, people are still afraid of me"

He was reminded of what he had done in his own world when he became a tyrannical leader and all the lives lost. Nunnally had not heard her brother question himself before and seek help and guidance. Nunnally sipped her tea.

"Big Brother," she said making Lelouch look at her, she noticed that there was a tear forming in one of his eye's "you… you are the ideal Emperor even if you were an evil tyrant, we still loved you. If you show the people your respect I'm sure that the people will follow you to hell and back. Just don't go back to be that tyrant".

"yes, I won't go back to be that tyrant," he said, "I'll be the Emperor that loves his subjects and they love and respect me in return"

Nunnally, Jeremiah and Suzaku could not help but smile at what he said.

"thank you, Nunnally," Lelouch said

They conducted small talk with each other but Nunnally caught the glimpse of a lime green haired girl in the garden and stared at the person trying to see the full picture from afar until Lelouch saw Nunnally staring into the garden and looked towards where she was looking at. To his surprise it was…

"C.C," he said in shock.

"C.C?" Nunnally said under her breath and saw Lelouch get up and started to run down to the garden steps

"stay were you are and don't come down until I'm done" he yelled

The garden steps were made of stone and had four steps then two-meter gap than it repeats until he got to the bottom of the garden he looked to the right and saw C.C standing in front of him.

"C.C what are you doing here?" he said huffing and puffing

"hmm oh Lelouch it's good you found me," she said dodging his question

"what do you mean?" he asked as he got his composer back, he investigated the clothing she was wearing. She wore Black knight clothing from his world. she began to talk again

"Lelouch I have news that might be of use to you…"

"wait before you tell me I have I few questions" he interrupted her.

"Alright I'm all ears" she responded.

"First tell me how you got here two are you in the black's knights and three how fairs the world that I have left behind?" He asked

"right well C's world chose me as the messenger because of our contract with each other, I am in the black knights, I'm a captain of a small group I thought that if I joined the black knights again for a little while It would be fun… and the world fairs good peace is in order there is still some rebuilding to do but fairs good."

"are good that puts my heart at rest but if you're the messenger then what would be your message?" He asked

"mmm well you may not like it but there is a Geass user some were near the capital"

"WHAT" yelled Lelouch in shock, everyone on top of the garden heard him yell and they began to worry.

'if C.C aka the messenger from C's world is here telling me this then this guy is dangerous' he thought while regaining his composer.

"tell me more about this Geass user C.C" he calmly said

"I don't know much of his Geass the C's world didn't tell much in the way of information" she answered.

"well thank you for the information C.C," he said, "this is going to hard if I don't have the information, but anything that comes my way I will overcome any challenge that comes my way. That is because I am Zero the miracle worker".

Authors notes- sorry I took long to finish this chapter, I had some stuff going on, so I didn't have time to write. The next chapter will maybe take as long as this one or longer depending on the time I have to write.

I hope you guys got the idea of the continent, but I'll summarize it for you if you didn't get it. Basically, the Chinese Empire is to the north but there is a "wall" of mountains meaning hard to traverse without pathways to get to either side. East is a few nations that hate each other and equally hate Britannia they'll be in the story later on. Oh, the south is a sea the size of the Mediterranean Sea but has only one entrance to the sea which is near the peninsula the Britannian empire owns I do stress that this continent is not Europe. And well west is just ocean.

The time when Kallen was approached by Lelouch and began to tremble, who wouldn't tremble near a Once was tyrannical Emperor it's five days since the emperor hard "changed" nobody would know if he would be telling the truth. People mostly still fear him even if they don't show it.

This Geass user is just a person to spice things up a bit but feel free to voice your approval or disapproval to keep him when he comes out and shows himself, so I don't need to kill him off so quickly.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

edit: I've changed the last few sentences so it does ruin the mystery of the geass user.