Conversations

"Not much I'm afraid, as I said all the guards left that night and we could do nothing afterward as the emperor called for us to stop. Doing any open investigation was a quick way to join Empress Marianne. However, that did not make the efforts stop, Cornelia was heartbroken after the assassination, she always did idolize the empress. As soon as the tide had died down a little I started again, talking to the people there, finding out the missing pieces etcetera. Now there was almost no clue, the initial medical examination file was closed and destroyed, fortunately, I remembered seeing it before and knew most of the important data."

"And, what did you find, tell me"

"Patience, young grasshopper, what I found in the medical file was ….. nothing. There were multiple bullet wounds, all from the same gun, an automatic used by almost all secret agencies due to its silencing capability. Now we tracked the largest order of these to a shell company, which is a front for the OSI. Hence our belief that the OSI was behind the attack. Now for my question, why did you kill Clovis?"

"He saw me, I could not let him expose me and Nunnally."

"He would not have seen you had you not wanted him to see you. You could have easily hidden and threatened him to stop the attack if you entered as stealthily as we believe you did. So what made you decide to confront him?"

"Thats another question."

"Oh it's a meaningless question, I'm pretty sure it was the same question you asked me. However, I doubt his answer was good enough. He always loved to spout about how much he loved you and Nunnally, but never acted much on it. The fact that you took your mother's maiden name while a good gesture is an unnecessary risk, even keeping the same first name is. I have no doubt that Ruben could have easily made new identities easily. No matter now what's your question?"

"Why are you here now?" Lelouch asked growing tired of this game. "What do you want from me?"

"What I want you to do, is to do nothing. But both of us know that is just not possible. No the reason I am here is that you will no doubt continue to do things against Brittania and I cannot let that continue."

"What makes you think that?" Lelouch knew that if Leylin wanted all he needed to do was tell Cornelia of his whereabouts and he would be finished.

"You've gained a victory against Britannia, the strongest epmire, with a ragtag bunch of terrorists, now imagine what you could do with trained soldiers under you. That is what you are thinking right now. What you forget is that the one you killed was but a cog in the machine. You can continue to keep being a hindrance to Britannia by helping terrorists, I am sure you would do great. You might even cause multiple Britannian casualties. However, you would still be able to do nothing. I don't doubt your mind, no you could do all that if fortune favored you."

"And yet you are here to convince me of something."

"Yes, you could continue to cause problems but soon you would be found out, not by me maybe, but surely by others. The OSI will observe the differences and the emperor would know."

"And the OSI don't know you are here?"

"No, they don't" the silence hung in the air as Lelouch expected Leylin to continue.

"Nothing more to add?" Lelouch said having expected Leylin to explain his plan with the OSI.

"What makes you think I would tell you how I might have escaped the intelligence of the biggest intelligence agency on the planet?"

"Che, so you still haven't answered what do you want me to do?"

"Quite simple really, you do what you would do normally, just outside of Japan. See both of us feel the same, the emperor is no longer fit to rule. Now while I cannot allow you to hurt the Area I'm in control of, what I can do is give you ample information and power to take down the emperor elsewhere."

"So, you want me out of your hair and also want to destabilize the empire. What makes you think I will do that?"

"Why because I control your heart, young prince."

"You know very well, while I may not love the idea of going back I will not be killed if I go back."

"Oh, no my prince, not your actual heart, but your real light, the only reason you are doing this."

"DON'T YOU DARE THREATEN NUNNALLY IN FRONT OF ME!!!"

"I am doing no such thing my prince, its but a fact, you will be found out if you keep doing this, say the emperor is feeling very gracious then Nunnally to be sent back to Brittannia, or else, I don't know what the emperor may do to her to get to you."

"And if I do as you say, how can you be sure the OSI won't find out about me, You say I will be in another country"

"Oh don't worry, I don't own the biggest tech company for nothing."