Code Geass FF chapter 94

Sorry for the late update.

I've been busy this day or yesterday?

Damn it's midnight already...

Anyways, as I said, Busy on holiday.

I don't bother remembering what this holiday is called though I just know that we got really busy in our house.

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"Reynald, come help me cook our dinner." An old feminine voice said with gladness in tone.

"Yes Matron." Reynald responded as he followed the old lady into the kitchen.

Reynald is currently in the orphanage where he lived before.

He was left in this orphanage as a baby in a basket like a typical cliche child abandonment.

He grew up here until he was starting his teenage years.

The orphanage is not quite the same as what he remembered it from those gone days ago.

The orphanage is now fully refurnished and renovated. Everything is much better than what he remembered.

"Sigh... The orphanage had really gotten good now Matron. I don't know if my meager donation and help is even needed anymore." Reynald said as they got into the kitchen and he saw that the kitchen even had a complete set of utensils and other modern kitchen appliances.

"That's right, everything is due to our Britannia becoming an empire." the old lady spoke slowly as she opened the fridge and started taking out thing while also making Reynald take out the heavy one's. "Everything in the empire must be the best.

Specially if it is near the capital.

The empire is the number one in the world, that's why everything in it should represent the capability of the number one.

Everything had to be of the highest standard.

That's what I heard and that's what I observed."

'That's right, I noticed that, that is really the case.

Everything I saw on the street on the road to here had been the highest or one of the highest quality.

Damn! Now I know why I am feeling strange on my way here!

There were no beggars! What happened?' Reynald thought as he became agitated at the end of his thinking.

"What happened to the beggars? I remember that there are quite many of them before." Reynald asked slight hurried as he arranged the ingredients that they would be using to cook food.

"They were taken. Useless people are not allowed in the empire.

The empire has many ways to make this people become useful.

Some of the strong one's are conscripted into the army, some to sent to the mines together with the prisoners, others are sent for training in many service type of jobs but the one I am quite sure of is that, some of them are sent to farm fields.

And even then, they still have it quite easy as they don't really have to do it manually.

They are given heavy equipment for that like tractors and such things.

The food that will come out will be given to the colonies conquered by the empire.

I don't know why they are not using the people they conquered to work for their own food right now." The old lady grumbled as she started rinsing, skinning and cutting the vegetables.

"That's... Sigh...

The empire is really quite something.

Right, why are there only this few children here?

I remember that there are many of us in my time here." Reynald asked again as he sighed in wonder about the things that change.

"All the orphanages in the empire had changed the management system.

It was the empress's project.

There is a capacity now, this town orphanage is on the small size so there are only a few children here.

The other children had been taken into city orphanage where it is really big." the old lady said with a bright smile as she continued what sh was doing before together with Reynald.

"Wow, this project seems to be really costly." Reynald said with a bit of unbelieving tone.

"That's right! Some of the cost are carried by the all the people's tax.

And the rest are from those businesses that the royal family dedicated into supplying the needs of the orphanages.

Do you not notice that we are going to eat meat tonight?

Also, only some of the vegetables and fruits are planted nad harvested here in the orphanage, the others are supplied from outside.

The empress is really kind, although I have not met her personally yet, I think that she should really be a very kind, motherly and saintly person.

The empress had not shown her face to everyone ever since her coronation.

Sigh... It seems that she doesn't even want any credit on what she does." The old Matron said with admiration and a sigh of gladness.

"Does it mean that there is more money here now? Is my donation useless already?" Reynald asked with a troubled expression as they finished preparing the vegetables and they started preparing the meat.

"Not really, child. All this things are given as is. All the orphanages are not given any budget now.

All the foods are directly delivered to us as food.

The clothes as clothes and the other things are the same as well.

If we wanted money to buy the kids something more, like toys, then we will have to come up with something else like having someone else donate it to us or someone donates money.

We could also do some things to earn money ourselves like doing crafts that we could sell.

In fact, this one is the one that is more encouraged in the orphanages by the people from the government.

They said that the children should train their artistic sense and imagination because learning the things that had already been discovered will become easier and easier until even having a great memory would not give you any advantage anymore.

I don't really believe the last part but I think that it is really good to teach the children some crafts.

At least, they can use it too when they got older, right?" the old Matron ranted and grumbled again like a gossipy grand mother.

"Right." Reynald just nodded with an eye roll as he thought that he only asked one thing but ended up being made to listen to so much at once.

'The Matron is really getting older. Aren't there anyone who helps the Matron?' Reynald thought to himself.

"Grandma! Do you need me to help? And also, who is this big brother?" A bright and young feminine voice was heard just at the door of the kitchen.

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