[Code Geass] Irregular 253

Chapter 253 – 252. Rehabilitation

“Hello, princess.”
“Hello. Would you like to sit here?”
“Yes…”

Cecile, who came to visit Yuffie with Biretta, hesitantly greeted Yuffie. Yuffie smiled brightly and invited Cecile to sit down, pointing to the chair in front of her. Cecile, like a person who sits on a cushion of thorns, made an expression that she would die because she did not want to sit down, and he forced himself to sit down. Biretta stood behind Cecile and watched. Cecile thought. What? Is this a new type of bullying?

“I heard the story from Naomi-san.”
“That… What kind of story is it?”

Cecile asked even though she had already guessed. If she pretended to know, she would make Yuffie realize that Biretta had told her, and then she might see Biretta as the woman she was talking about. Yuffie lowered her eyes at Cecil’s words and asked in a calm voice.

“Has she ever had a relationship with Woo-jin?”
“…Yes.”

Cecile was reluctant to make such a confession out of her own mouth, but he reluctantly agreed. She also hated being lied to, but her opponent is the princess. She couldn’t argue with Naomi already knowing that she was right.

“Do you like Woojin?”
“Um…”

In response to Yuffie’s question, Cecile pondered over which word to choose. Does she herself like Woo-jin? In fact, this seemed like a long way to Cecile. The first and last time he mixed flesh with Uzin, while spying on Naomi and Uzin’s affair, he was aroused too, so he had a tendency to be swept away by the atmosphere. He didn’t deny that Woo-jin was a man he liked, but if you ask if he had a deep emotional connection with Woo-jin that made him fall in love with him, it wasn’t.

“I don’t know either.”
“Maybe you don’t know how you feel?”
“It was unexpected.”

Seeing Yuffie’s questioning expression with her eyes wide open, Cecile smiled and nodded her head. She was sure she didn’t know what she was thinking of Woo-jin.
Yuffie is a good person. That, too, is an obvious good. She didn’t lie The reason she asked Cecil to come was not because she wanted to warn her not to get any closer to her Woojin. Woo-jin’s actions would make him feel ashamed, but not Cecil. When Woo-jin has relationships with multiple women at the same time, Cecil is already a victim. Yufi thought so.

Yuffie doesn’t know her own feelings, so she just wanted Cecil to consult her.

“I am…”

Yuffie’s inner thoughts burst out at Cecile.

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I was meeting Lelouch. First of all, the first thing I need to do is interrogate Schneizel. There is one thing Schneizel knows. When this is completed, she will put on the last button to enter C’s world with C.C. Lelouch didn’t want to kill Schneizel either. His ability was too close to kill. So he has to play gears, but he has no idea which gears to play.

“Um… How about ‘work hard for world peace’?”
“That’s not possible. You know what happens when you reach the idea that humans are better off for world peace, right?”

Is it like Skynet?
At Lelouch’s words, I nodded. It definitely didn’t seem right to do this.

“Then you say you are loyal to the Britannian Emperor?”
“The moment the Emperor of Britannia wants a war, the same situation as before could happen.”
“Hmm…”
“My Gears can only be cast once per person. So if you do it properly, you won’t regret it later. I guess I’ll have to think about it a bit.”
“There’s something I need to find out quickly…”
“Why?”
“Your mother, do you know what Empress Marianne is plotting with the Emperor?”
“Okay.”
“It has something to do with it.”

At my explanation, Lelouch tilted his head. In fact, he wanted to explain it properly, but he was in a situation where he had to tell Lelouch the details of the contract with C.C. I made an assertion before Lelouch asked.

“It’s important to you too.”
“Me too?”
“Yes. But it’s hard to tell you exactly right now. Once the work is done to a certain extent, then I can tell you exactly.”
“Hmm…”

At my explanation, Lelouch made a suspicious expression. I avoided Lelouch’s eyes. I, too, would not hesitate to be suspicious of Lelouch. No matter how he is, he is the most intelligent character in the world. I didn’t want to become a test bed for superiority between tactics and strategy after being looked down upon and suspected.

While pondering how Schneizel could come out cooperatively, an alternative came to mind. It may be a bit difficult in the current situation, but this seemed the best in the current situation.

“How about obeying Yuffie?”
“Hmm? To Yuffie?”
“Yeah. Yuffie doesn’t want to be emperor. Neither do you. Once you cast Gears to obey Yuffie, Yuffie can directly order Yuffie to obey whoever she wants after the job is done. What do you think?”
“Hmm… That’s a good way, but can Yuffie really ask Schneizel to obey someone else?”
“… That would be impossible again.”

Yufi was too nice to be able to order Schneizel to become someone else’s slave. Come to think of it, Yufi can’t do it. Neither should I. If I had asked Lelouch for this, Lelouch’s suspicions might have grown. C.C and Karen have already switched from the Black Knights to Sword Breakers. Make an administrator like Schneizel on my side here? To Lelouch, it would only be seen as plotting a plot.

Lelouch started to be wary of me since C.C. Had already crossed over to me. Here is the Maginot Line. C.C is the person who gave Gears to Lelouch. It wouldn’t be strange for Lelouch to think that C.C. Came to me to give me Gears. I couldn’t get Gears because of the power of the system, but I couldn’t properly explain this to Lelouch. The case of the system is a secret I must keep until I die.

“How about this?”
“What?”

I wondered if there was anything that reminded me of Lelouch. I was curious and asked right away. Lelouch spoke very simply.

“I will only speak the truth for the rest of my life.”
“Yes?”
“Isn’t it okay? Anytime you can find out what’s going on, anytime… No. I’ll pretend I didn’t hear it.”
“Why?”

After talking like that, Lelouch shook his head and didn’t say anything more. I didn’t have an idiot. Why don’t you talk Are you trying to kill people out of curiosity?

“Why. Tell me.”
“No. If you tell only the truth, there might be a way to not tell at all.”
“Ah.”

Come to think of it, something like that could be possible. Shit. What can I do to properly control the Schneizel? Wouldn’t it be better to just let it go?
Originally, everything would be okay if I cast Gears with the feeling of obeying Lelouch or obeying Zero. But because of the plans I have to make, it becomes burdensome when Lelouch casts Geass on Schneizel like that.
What I have to ask Schneizel for could be a sensitive issue for Lelouch.

Even if I secretly ask, if Lelouch asks Schneizel about what he talked about with me, Schneizel with the Gears of ‘absolute obedience to Lelouch or Zero’ cannot keep a secret. The conversation with me would flow directly into Lelouch. If Lelouch understands, it doesn’t matter, but if Lelouch doesn’t understand and raises his voice, I’m screwed. In particular, there is a possibility that the family members living with me are more at risk than I am.

“Um…”
“It’s difficult.”

I felt nervous. There is no way I can think of to prevent Lelouch from casting Gears on Schneizel. Go ahead and kill them? As long as there is something I need to hear from Schneizel, I cannot kill Schneizel until I hear it. But even after Schneizel really told the story, I couldn’t kill Schneizel. It was no different from a declaration that he had decided to take a different route from Lelouch. If so, it’s hard to believe that Lelouch will leave me alone.

Even if I’m light and thoughtless, I’m an unmatched number one when it comes to personal strength. Even Suzaku, who would have been in first place if it wasn’t for me, I don’t know if it was before Nightmare, but if I attack with my bare body, I’m confident that even if Suzaku attacks from time to time, I’ll kill them all. I couldn’t figure out what Lelouch would do to me, thinking that such an existence was taking a different route from him. Lelouch is also a guy who basically wants to work for peace, but it’s not because of the cause. It’s because what he’s been doing for Nanari has rolled like a snowball, and he can’t stop. It is no exaggeration to say that among all the things he did to create a kinder world, it is the peace achieved by a man who has no choice but to shoulder the wishes of those who sacrificed himself for him.

However, that is the story in the original work, and now in Lelouch, not a single person has been sacrificed for himself. Shirley lived, Roro also lived. He lived to yuppie. Compared to the original work, there was no guarantee that Lelouch’s spirit would have matured, so I moved with the need to be careful and cautious when dealing with Lelouch.

Because he’s in second grade.

If I suddenly run out of control and put an irrational number, I can save my life, but the problem is that I don’t know if it’s possible to save all the dog Sword Breaker’s family.

I need to get information from Schneizel, but what should I do…

Just as he was thinking that, Lelouch started his luck again.

“I’ll have to wear Gears like this.”
“How?”
“Me and you, please do one of our requests. How about it? I ask you to work for me for the rest of my life.”
“Ah.”

I exclaimed at Lelouch’s words. And I felt ashamed as well. So, Lelouch said to ask for the information you need to ask with confidence. That I already know that I have a secret.

“Sorry.”
“Can you talk to me later?”
“Um… Maybe? I don’t really want to hide anything from you either. This time…”
“I see. You think I won’t last?”
“…That’s right.”

Even though I’m 34 years old, I’m sitting with my whole heart pierced by a guy who only lives half of me. I felt weird for a moment. A subtle sense of defeat, as well as feelings of shame and gratitude, swirled inside. So I had no choice. It is a story related to Lelouch’s parents. Lelouch is trying to stop his parents’ plans, but I don’t know what Lelouch thinks about his parents. It’s hard to even ask. It was clear that the moment Lelouch was asked, he would think about the number of different cases again.

I couldn’t help but nod my head. It seemed good to do as Lelouch said.

“Let’s do that. Lelouch, as you said, use Gears.”
“I get it.”

Lelouch nodded.