Meeting

"It has been a long time Lelouch," came the voice of Leylin as Lelouch entered the room.

"What do you want?" Lelouch went straight to the point. "You obviously haven't told Cornelia yet, so what is it that you want? Is this why you came to Japan? Found me out have you?"

"You think too highly of yourself Lelouch, no that is not the reason. I had known of your stay here since the day you appeared outside Ashford's door and so did the Emperor, not Cornelia or even Schneizel of course, the OSI made quick work of erasing your details from the database."

"So you work for the OSI now? Does Cornelia know, I wonder how she would react if she finds out?"

"Seriously Lelouch, I thought you were better than that. That or you think too lowly of me. At least hide your threats, I am smart enough to get them and it also keeps the conversation civil. Though to answer your question, no I do not work for the OSI, I just got the information before they could erase it."

"And you haven't told Cornelia yet why?"

"Unlike what you may think Lelouch, I do not have anything against you. I wouldn't go as far as to say I want your good, however, if I can I will help you. When you arrived here you were in no shape to return to Britannia, and once the OSI decided to hide you, and you yourself did not want to come back, I thought it best for you to choose."

"What happened to your duty to Cornelia? Been keeping secrets from her?"

"Both of us know nothing good will come out of her knowing you are still alive. Nunnally and Euphie might be happy for a moment to meet each other, however, you would once again be a part of the game. And with the emperor seeming to want to keep you out, and you yourself choosing to stay out I didn't see a point."

"You said the emperor knows I am here why would he not want me back? HEe hates me."

"As I said Lelouch you think too highly of yourself. I agree you are smart, you can probably compete with Schneizel given enough time. However, that does not change the fact that you are still just you. The emperor stopped caring about the empire decades ago. With Schneizel slowly gaining power and the emperor still not doing anything against him, I have to say he is too involved with other things to care for the empire much less his sons and daughters. But no that's not why I am here, I am sure you can guess why though."

"What do you mean?"

"Lelouch I may not keep a track of you 24x7 however I will notice if a purple-eyed student from Ashford takes the name of an ex Duke to make a Knightmare pilot come out of here machine and somehow extract the codes from them."

Oh, how Lelouch wished to just geass Leylin right now, but he knew that Leylin was smarter than that. He did not need to threaten Leylin with anything as Lelouch expected all these things knowing of Leylin's cunning. This is what he meant by silent threats, just knowing your opponent is smart enough to make the assumption you want them to make.

"Don't worry, the woman along with most of her faction have been dealt with. Though I have to ask why did you kill him?"

"Cant you guess the reason, all your assumptions seem to be right so far."

"Well, I do have a few ideas, but I doubt you will give me a straight answer. So, I know you have questions, ask away."

"I thought I was the one being questioned?"

"Yes, but I think we might as well have a little bit of equal exchange, you tell me something I tell you something."

"Very well, what do you know of my mother's assassination?"

"Oh my, straight to the meat of it. Here I thought I would be learning of a few hobbies of yours."

"Answer my question."

"No wonder the kids call you the Ice Prince. Well as you may know I was a part of the guard detail of your mother, now what I will say here will not leave the room. You see on that night your mother ordered all the guards to leave. Now while we may have protested if this was the first time, this had happened before. We don't know who she met on such nights however we do know they had a long connection as I traced these back to ever since she became an empress. Even before that she was known to disappear for long periods of time, people, of course, expected her to be with the emperor."

"So mother was meeting someone secret and that someone killed her, why?"

"Well I can tell you about the who as well but that would be another question so you must answer my question first."

"Damnit, okay but I want to know more after this."

"Of course, now I want you to tell me, was yesterday planned?"

"No, I ended up there by accident and the military was killing everyone, I decided the best way to leave was to carve out a path myself."

"And that path just happened to be through G-1 eh? Very well"

"Now tell me what else you know, who is the other person."