Code Geass FF chapter 348 (bonus)

On Cornelia's side...

"Check the reports of our scouts!

Make sure that our target, Zero, is in place!

We can't just raid the place when the leader isn't even there!

That will only be a waste of my time!

Zero should be capable enough to just build up another group!

Also, make the army do another check!

We can't have our side suddenly stumble in the middle of the fight!

That would embarrass me!

And anyone who embarrasses me will surely get his or her dues!

You don't get to lose my face, okay?!" Cornelia shouted while commanding and also threatening her subordinates to do their best now and then.

She had been doing that for a while now.

It's not because she is nervous or anything, no.

The reason she is doing this is that she wanted her subordinates to be high-strung and full of tension!

She knows how complacent this guy was before she got them so the only people she wasn't scolding from time to time right now are her private army and Lloyd's, especially the unit.

The whole army needed to be put into high tension because they need to be alert at all times so that they could be on their best behavior and not slack or be complacent.

Just a little more than a week isn't enough to retrain this army after all.

It's too big to be reorganized and renewed so fast.

So she resorted to this.

As for why Lelouch's people didn't need this kind of measure when they haven't even gone on military training?

It's because they are all very excited about having this confrontation.

They all were raiding drug dealers and suppliers all this time and their only big move was against the real terrorist.

But all of them haven't forgotten that their main goal from the very start had always been liberating Area eleven from Britannia and bringing back Japan!

So anyone can already imagine their willingness to be in this battle.

But they are not the topic now so let's get back to Cornelia.

She had already deployed her private army in the surroundings to be on standby while the main force that will be at the front of this battle, in the beginning, will be the army here.

As for the location of the battle.

It is the slums area where Naoto's group first based themselves before.

Everyone in the surroundings had already been evacuated either by the Britannian side or by Zero.

Zero did that because of his subordinates, well, he was reminded by Naoto and Kallen.

While Cornelia did that because she isn't that ruthless, she wouldn't ever want to kill the innocent if it is avoided even if it would be troublesome.

so she got the army to evacuate the people in the slums in the name of renovating the place for a new block to be built that has already finished planning.

Of course, she knew that it would tip the enemy if she did that so she only did that on the very last day before the scheduled battle.

And of course, she had already surrounded the place at that time and the people can only get out of the place via the checkpoints that she set up in place.

The checkpoints were for the off chance that the Black Knights tried to escape the place by disguising themselves as one the slum people.

Cornelia at this time stopped her scolding as she felt like it is enough for now.

Then she operated the coms again to a private channel.

Then she got connected to Suzaku or more like Lloyd's communication channel.

"Suzaku?" She said as Lloyd's communication channel isn't only used by Suzaku, I mean, it is obvious by the name itself.

"I'm here, your highness!" Suzaku answered respectfully and in a very disciplined way or tone.

"Are you ready for this battle?" Cornelia asked nonchalantly as she knew from Suzaku's records that she is a very disciplined soldier, although, she did disobey orders before that is only because the order is going against her righteous principles.

Although she too agrees with the military in this one though, even if she won't admit it openly.

Soldiers are meant to follow orders.

They aren't supposed to think about anything or even doubt the orders.

The military is supposed to be very strict in this kind of thing.

Orders from above are absolute and any order from a superior officer has to be followed except if it is countered by an order from a person who has a higher rank.

Well... Cornelia isn't going to say something like that to Suzaku.

After all, her goal of establishing a connection to Suzaku is...

"Suzaku, have you finally thought about my offer?" Cornelia asked with a little more seriousness and a commanding tone.

"Your highness...

I...

I still haven't made a decision yet." Suzaku said with hesitation.

When she was offered this by Cornelia she was also extremely surprised and even felt impulsive to just accept it.

But she still said that she had to think about it first.

The people with her most of the time right now, Lloyd and Cecil, are both also surprise when they heard that offer to Suzaku.

Lloyd even felt annoyed as his narrowed closed eyes opened a little bit to show how this offer displeased him while Cecil felt that she should support Suzaku as this is certainly a very prospective opportunity.

Even she would've accepted the offer directly if she was given that.

But even when Lloyd was extremely annoyed by this offer he also knows how good this was so he did expect Suzaku to just accept it mindlessly.

Well...

They were both shocked silly when they heard Suzaku's reply.

As for why Suzaku did not accept directly?

We all have to look for the reason why he had accepted Euphie's offer directly in the original series of code geass.

It's not just because of Euphie's booty, okay?

That would be out of character for Suzaku.

I would even think that someone might have transmigrated to Suzaku if that were ever the case.

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