Chapter 97: Undergone

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It was odd, seeing such a childlike action from a being whose power he couldn't fathom. Eventually, the vision version of Lelouch began to stir, his eyes opening to reveal a cloudy violet.

The Lelouch observing narrowed his eyes as his past counterpart began moving his mouth, no words coming out. "I should have been dead, how did you revive me?" He asked the girl who was staring out at the same scene he was.

There was no way he should have been able to survive his wound. Or the cremation that followed. Odd magical realm or not.

"I did not." The girl stated firmly beside him as the version of her within the memory began to speak.

"So, you've finally awakened." The voice of the memory rang out everywhere around Lelouch as he observed with widened eyes.

"Wait, if you didn't revive me, how…" Lelouch's statement drifted off as his eyes began to widen in horror. "Code." He whispered as despair began to flood his heart. "How?!" He screamed hysterically as the memory paused, the attention of the girl beside him being fully turned to him.

He looked to his side to stare down into her grey eyes. "How, why, do I have that cursed power?! What are you?!" He screamed, power surging around him as he lost control over his emotions and fully faced the girl before him.

Suddenly, his power was forced into submission so fast Lelouch felt numb. His power, his Wrath, the rabid dog that personified his powers in his mind, was cowering as he stared at the monster standing before him in the form of a little girl.

Energy blacker than the deepest void, darker than the darkest night, nothingness given form, infinite in its span, exploded from the girl.

Her hair whipped about in the nonexistent wind her power was creating, revealing her oddly pointed ears, as she cowed him into submission.

"I am Ophis." Her voice rang out without moving her mouth, the power still pouring out of her small body in a pillar that reached for eternity. "I am the Dragon of Infinity, the Ouroboros Dragon of Eternity, the Infinite Dragon God who rules uncontested over my home, the Dimensional Gap." Without warning, everything stopped as the girl suddenly sat down with her knees pulled to her chest and pouted.

She was dragging her finger in circles with a cloud of depression hanging over her head. "Or at least that's how it was before he showed up." Her voice spoke the word "he" with such venom Lelouch half-expected her to literally spit poison, but the pout she had on her face kind of ruined the effect.

Numb to everything at this point, Lelouch sat down in front of the little girl who looked so pitiful despite her apparently infinite powers. "Why don't we start over at the beginning?" He suggested as he crossed his legs and placed his hands in his lap to protect his modesty.

Ophis' eyes looked up at his despondently. When she nodded, her chin still resting on her knees, he asked his first question. "How did you know about my existence?" He recalled she had called him by a title whispered in fear around his world.

The Demon Emperor, it was not a title the world called him to his face, but he was well aware that was what people whispered under their breath. All while shouting, "Emperor for Justice" for everyone to hear so that they could avoid suffering from his wrath.

Ophis stared at him, her grey eyes still despondent as she answered. "As ruler of the Dimensional Gap I can observe other worlds." Her voice was soft as she spoke of her home.

"When I saw a man by the name of Charles zi Britannia creating a weapon in my world I began paying attention in the hopes that I could use it against him." Once again, she spoke of her mortal enemy with hatred. "He was trying to kill the God of Humanity, the Collective of the conscious and unconscious minds of all humans everywhere, living or dead.

If he succeeded, or looked like he was about to succeed, I was going to steal it and kill Great Red." Here, her eyes developed a spark of joy and a disturbingly cute smile graced her face at the thought of cold blooded murder.

"But you stopped him." Ophis' eyes shined with interest and hunger as she looked at him. "You, who claimed to be a man of miracles, broke the law all Gods know to be true." Her despondent appearance changed as she laid her legs down to cross them like how he was sitting.

Ophis had a look on her face as she expanded on her previous statement. "You used a power that held the ultimate concept of Command, greater than that held by even Gods, and drew a lot of attention when you ordered the God of Humanity to obey your wish." Ophis' eyes were shining with a dark sort of joy that wasn't reflected on her face, which still held that innocent smile.

'Was my Geass really that powerful?' Lelouch thought to himself, disturbed by the hungry look he could see in Ophis' eyes as she spoke of his power. "That doesn't explain why I ended up in your world after my death." He spoke, noticing she had limited her answer to how she knew about him.

It looked like she would only answer his question directly, though she would at least go into some detail as she answered. This odd girl with infinite power was rather straightforward and selfish, from he what he could discern.

His mind was recovering from the shock he had undergone, but he still felt numb as he tried to comprehend everything.

All of this talk of his Geass being stronger than a God's will and Gods observing him after he stopped his father's plan was starting to feel overwhelming.

"When you left the World of C as those in your world called that part of my realm, I watched you." Ophis admitted, the hunger in her eyes growing.

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