[Code Geass] Irregular 54

Chapter 54 – 53. The Saitama Ghetto Massacre

“Don’t go, Lelouch.”

C.C was holding a pistol. C.C, who aimed a gun at Lelouch, who was about to leave for Saitama, continued.

“Because it’ll be troublesome if you die before you finish your contract with me.”
“Aren’t words and actions different?”

Seeing C.C like that, Lelouch asked. Because if he shoots him with a pistol, Lelouch himself will die. At his question, C.C shook his head.

“I won’t kill him. I’ll just shoot him in the leg and make him unable to go.”
“Right.”

Lelouch chuckled. You shoot me in the leg so I can’t go. In the end, it is said that C.C cannot kill himself. Why? He gave himself the power of Gears and it must have been because he wanted something. C.C, who only talks about contracts every day, but doesn’t tell you the contents of the contract, is so selfish, but it was easy to read.

“It’s like saying you can’t use Gears. If you could use Gears, you’d give me orders.”

C.C.’S eyes trembled at Lelouch’s guess. Lelouch looked at C.C, who reacted as if he had been caught off guard, and continued.

“Well. I was expecting it. If I could have used it myself, I wouldn’t have asked for it.”

As she spoke, Lelouch raised from her own bosom a pistol identical to the one her C.C. Was holding and aimed it at her. Both were pistols used by Britannian soldiers. C.C asked with a calm face.

“You think I’m afraid of guns?”

C.C herself is an immortal witch. In the end, even if Lelouch shoots herself, she never dies. In the state of aiming guns at each other, the winner is promised to be C.C. Lelouch was relaxed.

“You must be scared.”

Lelouch pointed the gun he was aiming at C.C. At his own head.

“Hmm…”

I saw C.C’s embarrassed face. It was. It wasn’t her own death that her C.C. Was afraid of. She made her contract with her Lelouch and her own death. This is because if Lelouch dies, the contract will not be fulfilled. Lelouch continued talking to C.C, who looked at him in bewilderment.

“Before I met you, I was dead. I lied about being alive to a helpless corpse. A life of doing nothing, a life of just living. What is the difference between a meaningless death?”

Lelouch put his finger on the trigger guard of his pistol. He really wanted to die now. Because you can’t fool C.C. With sloppy acting. Anyway, each day of Lelouch was like walking on a tightrope. If she hadn’t gotten Gears, it wouldn’t have been easy for her to create an opportunity like this, and she had to take it when it presented itself. There will be another chance next time… I’ve never had such a clumsy idea. Because opportunities don’t necessarily come.

“To go back to the old days…”
“Stop.”

In the end, C.C surrendered first. C.C, who quickly lowered the gun he was aiming at Lelouch, saw his own reaction and gave a self-deprecating smile to Lelouch, who slowly lowered the gun, before shaking his head.

“It certainly has no meaning. A life like that.”

Lelouch won the battle with C.C. The same words as the last monologue, without knowing that they were not addressed to Lelouch himself, but to C.C.

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When Lelouch arrived at Saitama ghetto, the cleaning had already begun. An additional Nightmare sprang from the command vehicle’s catapult. Lelouch, who was already wearing a Britannia soldier’s uniform and walking around gathering information, saw the corpses of Eleven. Most of them were members of the Resistance or ordinary people who supported and cooperated with the Resistance. I saw four Sutherlands waiting motionless in a corner of Saitamageto. All the cockpits were open, and the pilots stood outside the cockpits and looked miserable.

One of them, Jeremiah Gottwald, bowed his head.

“Why don’t you let us participate?”
“There must be oranges.”
“Kuk!”

Jeremiah turned her head away with a look of resentment at the sound she heard to her left. There she was, Quel Soreshi, who was looking at her with disgust. He is also a pureblood. He was a Nightmare pilot who had been ordered to stand indefinitely until Cornelia’s orders were given.

Quel ignored Jeremiah who was glaring at her. Anyway, the first thing Her Highness Cornelia did after taking office was to demote Jeremiah. She gave it a chance. However, there was no chance as her change-back. In order for Jeremiah to prove her own allegiance once again, she had to choose between the two. As a normal Nightmare Pilot, she either goes back to work from scratch, or returns to her hometown to work in the orange groves. Although it was very disgraceful, Jeremiah chose her military service path. She felt sorry for herself Of course, the reason for her chagrin was something she couldn’t explain herself, so she had to prove her allegiance to Jeremiah as her regular Nightmare pilot.

“I’m just grateful that I didn’t get punished. Because of you, our way forward has been blocked.”
“But it’s zero…”

Quel stopped treating Jeremiah. She was natural In the aftermath of the shocking demotion, Quel Soreshi’s rank was now higher than Jeremiah’s. Jeremiah’s protests did not reach. Because there was no evidence. Quelle Soreshi’s words certainly had some truth. Failing to explain the ‘Orange’, he had no choice but to become an obstacle to the pure-bloods, including himself. But Jeremiah did not give up. A colleague like her could have retired for the sake of career, but he had something far more important than that, something he had sworn for a long time.

Biretta Nu, who was Jeremiah’s former adjutant, turned his gaze away from Jeremiah’s motionless posture and glanced at Jeremiah from the side of her eye at Jeremiah’s zero age.

‘That’s the sound again.’

Biretta thought. A Britannian student she saw in Shinjuku before losing her memory. Her school uniform was that of Ashford Academy. She didn’t think he was zero. But he thought there might be a connection.

‘As expected… If a student is a collaborator, I’ll have to think about it.’

Without telling anyone, Biretta was searching for Zero on her own.

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Lelouch climbed the wreckage of the building and watched Eleven being slaughtered. It was the same. He killed Clovis, but Cornelia, who came in his stead as governor, also had nothing else. Britannia hasn’t changed. As the strong, he only took away everything from the weak and trampled on them.
Eleven, there were so many Japanese corpses that we had to describe them as rolling around on the ground. Saitama Ghetto is an area that has had deep ties between the general public and the resistance from the beginning. The reason he knew but tolerated it was because he had the confidence that he could trample at any time during the days of Clovis. Clovis didn’t do anything particularly well, but he had the qualities of an entertainer. He was someone who like a ghost figured out when and what to do to impress the public the most.

Sutherland climbed up to the building next to the wreckage where Lelouch was standing, holding a slash hacken. He spoke to Lelouch through an external voice speaker.

[Where do you belong? Enter unit name and ID]

At the words that flowed from Sutherland, Lelouch blew the information about the owner of the military uniform he had captured. It was information that I memorized from before until it stuck in my mouth to avoid making mistakes.

“This is Dario Tres of the 3rd Reconnaissance Company. I got these items from a terrorist.”

Lelouch took out a small disc he had brought beforehand and lifted it up. The disk is fake. There was no information inside. But what he was aiming for was somehow Sutherland’s pilot coming out of the cockpit.

“Could you send it to headquarters?”

I heard the sound of air escaping. A hatch in Sutherland’s back cockpit opened and the pilot came out.

“It’s a disk. But before that, I’ll check the ID.”
“All right.”

It meant that he would personally come down and visually check the ID registration certificate. Lelouch agreed. And a pattern appeared in his left eye.

“But before that, I’d like to get your Sutherland.”

In an instant, the Nightmare Pilot, caught in Gears, obediently descended. It’s got Gears.

“Okay. Use it carefully.”

“Thank you.”

Lelouch was able to capture the enemy’s Sutherland that easily.

After that it was simple. All you had to do was connect the radio to connect with the resistance, inform Zero, and defeat Cornelia’s army just as you controlled the Ohgi group.

“Now. Shall we pull Cornelia out, or shall we make a hole in her?”

Sutherland, who had already been captured by Lelouch, was operating only the Fact Sphere with full force in the square. The fact sphere attached to the head parts provides a strong radar net within a certain range, but it can be broken even with a small impact, so it is usually protected by the head armor. I only open it for a while and use it when I really need to use it. Originally, the Nightmare Frame was for combat, so there were no pilots who used it like Lelouch. It was natural. Originally, in the case of what Lelouch is doing now, it is because a huge command vehicle that can be seen accurately even from quite a distance takes its place. Thus, the Britannian army can focus on fighting only by using the command vehicle’s radio that overlooks the battlefield.

“R-1,r–2 retreat as it is, bring the enemy to the position where n-2 is. B-7 shoots in the direction of 2 o’clock.”

The call signs Lelouch uses are like chess. P, von. It is attached to an individual that can construct a fire net that can prevent an advance. It is a group whose purpose is to maintain the front line. R stands for look. Attach it to an object that can act as a bait or provide support due to its excellent mobility. N, Knight. Attaches to an object that can bind the opponent. B. Bishop. Attaches to an object with firepower that can quickly neutralize an enemy that has fallen into a trap. Q. Queen. Attach it to a versatile object where everything is possible. Karen was the only one who had ever used a Q callsign.

“P-5 team open frontal fire.”

Lelouch was on a winning streak. This is a possible action because it shares the enemy’s radar anyway. In other words, it was like playing a strategy simulation game with the map hack turned on. There was no possibility of losing. Little by little, the battle progressed in the same direction as Clovis. At the same time as the overwhelming exchange rate, Lelouch himself appeared, Cornelia’s unit was being asked to take damage. Lelouch was happy.

Now how are you going to come out? Cornelia.

Several options came to mind at once. Cornelia has a choice. And she came up with dozens of ways to respond depending on what choice she made.

[Notify all troops. Hurry up and retreat out of the ghetto. I won’t ask about placement. Hurry and move out of the ghetto.]

Lelouch sat in Sutherland’s cockpit and laughed at Cornelia. It was too easy even if it was easy. If he blended in with the retreating troops in this state… It was possible to hide right next to Cornelia.

“I’ll have to feed you the final blow inside.”

Lelouch retreated out of Saitama ghetto as Cornelia ordered. With Britannia.