[Code Geass] Irregular 165

Chapter 165 – 164. Absorption

The first greeting (?) With the Black Knights ended safely. I didn’t know if it was because the people inside the Black Knights who had seen us before explained properly what kind of people we were. Toudou looked at me with narrow eyes, but he ignored me. It would be nice to have Toudou, but even if he wasn’t there, he wasn’t that much of a disappointment. What I have to do now is not to recruit Toudo at all. If you knew how many more important people were on this submarine right now, Toudou would look like a jerk.

It seemed that Lelouch was still talking to Nanari. I headed to the place where the correspondents were gathered and locked up. The regular researchers were trapped elsewhere, Suzaku, Lloyd, and Cecil. The three of them were gathered separately. It’s because I asked for it. I had to succeed in convincing them all today.

“Long time no see?”
“Woojin…”

Suzaku was glaring at me. I laughed round and round. Suzaku also doesn’t know the whole story properly. Lloyd’s expression was exhausted, and Cecil’s expression was dark.
I pulled a chair over to them and sat down and talked to them.

“How long is this?”
“It’s been such a long time~”

Lloyd smiled awkwardly and raised his hand. I chuckled. It was clear that Lloyd would be very uncomfortable here now.

“Why did you arrest us?”

Cecile asked. I shrugged. It was clear that the people I had to attract somehow were the right ones. We will have to tell them all the truth. Cecil, in particular, had to listen.

“Do you want to make me hold hands?”
“Do you really think we’re going to join hands with you?”
“I don’t know, but I’m just thinking it would be nice.”

I smiled round and round and continued.

“Suzaku, did you know that Lelouch is Zero?”
“Lelouch?”
“Lelouch vi Britannia. The 11th Prince of the Britannian Empire.”
“Prince!? Of Empress Marianne!?”

At my words, Lloyd and Cecil jumped to their feet in surprise. Also, they didn’t know yet. Suzaku’s expression darkened when I exposed Lelouch’s true identity. Suzaku seemed to be thinking a lot. While belonging to Britannia, what kept Lelouch’s true identity hidden was that he still had complicated feelings for Lelouch.

“Lloyd, do you know what kind of ruins Gawain you created were investigating?”
“You mean the ruins of Kamine Island?”

At Lloyd’s words, I nodded. Lloyd shook his head. I just made a druid system under Schneizel’s instructions and installed it on Gawain, but it was stolen before the accurate analysis was finished. Then, suddenly, one thing came to my mind. He made a noise and glared at me.

“Gawain… You stole it…”
“That’s right. In order to give Lelouch strength, he needed the Druid System, Float System, and Hadron Grape.”
“And while it seems like the Druid system isn’t being used… That’s the most important thing.”
“The druid system wasn’t important to Lelouch, so I gave it to him, and I wasn’t interested in what Lelouch did with it.”
“You…”

Lloyd looked at me with a resentful look. I chuckled.

“To explain why I’m working with the Black Knights, I must also explain Gears.”
“Gears?”
“Yes. Gears. Lelouch has it, Charles G. Britannia. It’s the power of a king that he also has.”
“The king’s power? Emperor-chan?”
“Okay.”

Right. Lloyd called the Emperor Emperor-chan. I don’t know if the liver is big or if the emperor is keeping it alive because it’s so competent.

I slowly took my time and explained the situation to Lloyd, Cecil, and Suzaku. When Suzaku returned to Area 11 as a Knight of Nanari, he seemed to have already heard the explanation about Gears from the Emperor. While Lloyd and Cecil were greatly surprised, Suzaku was not so greatly surprised. These people have to work with Rakshata, but they feel comfortable when they are completely Swordbreakers, so I had to teach them all of their secrets. What the emperor is doing now, and what will happen if he doesn’t stop it. He told me everything except for my true identity. And I was able to talk like that. Because they are smart.

“I’m not participating.”
“Count Lloyd!?”

As soon as Lloyd heard my story, he decided to join me. I thought it was natural. Lloyd realized that it wasn’t a question of whether he believed me or not. At Lloyd’s consent, Suzaku and Cecil looked at Lloyd in surprise. Lloyd laughed out loud.

“If you don’t agree, we die.”
“Yes!?”
“I taught you so many secrets, but there’s no reason to send it back to Her Highness Schneizel without consent. From Ugin’s point of view, Schneizel is also an enemy. Isn’t that right?”
“Yes.”

Schneizel was also someone who could have become an ally if he was persuaded well. But he branded Euphemia a traitor, and there was no way I could forgive the bastard who put me in prison.

First you’re a man

Now that I think about it, I think I can understand why Schneizel made that choice. But Schneizel went too far. Rather, if I had personally visited Yufi and me, explained the situation and asked for cooperation, I might have gladly helped Schneizel. Because there was no talent like Schneizel to dethrone the emperor.

I know that Schneizel was originally that kind of person. A human being who takes the sacrifice of a cow for the greater good for granted. He is obviously a person with a calm personality and ability, but I get it after I become a cow.

That bastard is a toxic human being.

Perhaps, time was running out to find out what plans Charles was hiding. At the same time, it must have been difficult to give up the political gains of Japan as a special administrative zone, and it would have been inevitable to follow the story that came out through V.V. The investigation of the ruins was disrupted because Gawain, whom I called to Kamine Island to solve the mystery, was stolen by the Black Knights I helped.

I must have needed time to somehow turn the eyes of the emperor, and that is the story of me and yuppie.

From Schneizel’s point of view, it was a great cause to unravel the Emperor’s secret, and Yuffie and I were comforting.

Fuck.

I understood with my head, but never with my heart. The moment they meet, they either ask Lelouch to cast Gears on him and treat him like a dog, or he just rips them into pieces and kills them and makes them part of an accidental elevator.

At Lloyd’s words, Cecil and Suzaku made faces of dejection. I kept laughing round and round. You probably don’t want to work with me. Because there is no justice for my actions. Admitted. There was no justice in my goal. It’s just that justice got in the way of the process. Cecil and Suzaku seem to be struggling with that, but it’s just as Lloyd said. I couldn’t let anyone here reject my offer. It was the same even if it was Cecile who mixed with me.

“So? What about the other two?”
“Isn’t there any other way?”

Cecile looked at me with resentful eyes and asked. I nodded. Yes there is no way They are destined to come under my umbrella unconditionally.

“By the way, you’re amazing? How did you know all those facts? How did you know?”
“I’ll let you know when it’s all over.”

I shrugged. Lloyd was frustrated by my gestures and put on an expression as if he was drugged. Probably won’t tell you anything.

ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ

He could be confident that he had cut off all of Schneizel’s limbs. The current Schneizel had neither Nina nor a correspondent. Suzaku took Lancelot along with him. Can’t you be sure that there’s nothing you can do while stopping Emperor Charles? No connection with the Commonwealth of China has been made yet. What happened to the angel? What about Shinku? Fuck. My head is complicated.

But once I knew what was most important.

The Sword Breaker and the officers of the Black Knights gathered together. Kaguya and Lelouch were together. Rakshata was in a state where the person who should have been sitting on the side of the Black Knights was sitting next to me and holding out scraps of paper to me.

“Ah. What’s the matter?”
“It’s a manual for Asura. Read it all. Memorize it. Do you understand?”
“Ha…”

I sighed. The manual for Asura is actually not so necessary. Because of the skill calibration, you can instinctively know how to move the moment you climb into the cockpit and hold the control stick. Still, she didn’t have to tell Rakshata about it, so she got the booklet to obey. In the meantime, Kaguya and Zero started talking.

“Now the time for action has come.”

Those were Kaguya’s words. I was waiting for that

“The liberation of Japan.”

Now the real war with Britannia has begun.

While everyone was uplifted, I felt like I was the only one feeling down.

War. And the direction of Gears. In order to block all variables, we had to find Cornelia and investigate the direction of Gears. That way my argument will be persuasive.