Chapter 5:Fallen Angel

He ignored it and considered the possibility. Koneko had said his wound wasn't healing despite… something.

"What do you mean when you say when Rias," how had she put it? "brought me back?" That was rather confusing.

Koneko moved back to her bed, crawling over and sat down next to him, getting comfortable leaning back into her pillows which she had fluffed up to lay back against her headboard.

"After you were stabbed by the Fallen Angel Kiba was fighting," she started, ignoring Lelouch's snort at Fallen Angel, "you were dying."

She brought her knees up to her chest to block out the pain in her heart. "Actually, by the time Lady Rias arrived. You had died."

Koneko looked at Lelouch to gauge his reaction, his face had gone blank.

So, he had died at the hands of a Fallen Angel, and somehow Rias revived him.

"I see." He said quietly. "Why did Rias bring me back? And how, exactly can she bring back the dead?"

His voice was hollow as he considered what he would have done with that power. Pink hair and warm eyes flashed in his memory as he closed his eyes, reminding him of the two deaths that had affected him the most in his life.

'Euphie, Shirley.' He ignored his memories as best he could so he could hear Koneko's reply.

"Kiba convinced her," Koneko said, which reminded her, she needed to thank him. Maybe she could share some of her sweets with the blond next time he asked.

"As for the how, she brought you back as one of her Pieces." Lelouch went ramrod straight at that, causing Koneko to look at him strange. "What's wrong?"

Lelouch resisted the urge to growl, took a deep breath before asking his question. "What do you mean by pieces?"

He asked, suppressing his rage at the thought of being used by someone yet again after everything that had gone on in his past life.

He didn't care if she had saved his life, there was no way in Hell he would be forced to be someone's pawn again.

"Evil Pieces are a tool given to Devils so they can revive humans to act as their servants." Koneko spoke, noticing Lelouch still looked incredibly tense.

"But Lady Rias doesn't force us to do anything we don't want to so we're more like her companions." Her friend's body loosened up slightly, but Koneko knew what his next question would be.

She had been trying to dance around the Devil topic as carefully as she could, but discussing the Evil Pieces pretty much required her to bring up her status as well as his own.

"What do you mean, Devils?" Lelouch asked carefully, calming down slightly though he was still uncomfortable with being someone's Piece, he was somewhat reassured that Rias, whatever the Hell she was, wasn't likely to abuse this. At least according to Koneko.

Koneko sighed, turning her head to look out her bedroom window as she explained her friend's new circumstances.

"Devils, like Lady Rias, have tools called Evil Pieces that can be used to gather humans as servants." She repeated before elaborating further.

"Evil Pieces are capable of resurrecting humans who have recently died as members of the Devil's Peerage, each Piece corresponds to one in the game of chess and it is those Pieces that give us unique attributes depending on the Piece used.

"Koneko punched the wall next to her bed, causing a much larger hole than should have been possible for a girl her size.

"I'm a Rook. I don't know what Piece Lady Rias used on you because she was in a hurry to get back to healing another person, but you can ask her when we meet up with her later today."

Koneko turned to see Lelouch's reaction, seeing his shoulders shaking as his hair covered his eyes. She reached up to hold his shoulder in comfort and when she did she was surprised to hear a chuckle escape his lips.

So, he was a Devil now. How… amusing. Lelouch had no idea why he was in this world, but this development was just too funny! He remembered Koneko mentioning that his wound had been failing to heal despite being resurrected and he suspected he knew why.

His world's God, he deduced ignoring the pain that split his skull, had likely intended for him to die at the hands of that Fallen Angel as his punishment and because of that his wound refused to be healed at first.

This resulted in the Evil Piece's power being insufficient to heal him alone even though it severely weakened the wound's resistance to being healed.

It had taken Koneko's constant application of healing magic throughout the night to finish what the Evil Piece had left undone.

A chuckle escaped his lips, before he spoke. "Alright then." He said with a sigh of… satisfaction? It had been a while since he had felt that emotion.

He finally had a hint as to why he was in this world in the first place. He turned to Koneko who had placed her hand on his shoulder for some reason.

"Do you have any clothes I can wear so we can go meet Rias?" He assumed that, since Koneko hadn't dressed in her uniform that they weren't going to be heading to classes today.

Considering how high the sun was, they were likely going to end up skipping the entire day.

Koneko blinked, having forgotten that he was naked. She couldn't let him go to the club room like that.

"I don't have any boy's clothes, but I do have some pants you can squeeze into." Koneko got up and pulled out the longest and loosest pants she could find for Lelouch to put on.

"You'll have to settle for a coat to wear since I don't have any shirts in your size."

"It's alright, I can wear them on the way to my house so I can get my own clothes before we leave."

Lelouch said before he noticed Koneko freeze. "What, something wrong?" She turned to look at him sadly.

"Your home was destroyed, the Fallen Angel launched another spear after escaping. It's pretty much rubble now." She mustered as much tact as she could, which is to say not much.

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