The rapid, agitated, scribbling sound of a pencil against paper filled the office of the normally rowdy and boisterous Student cil of Ashford Academy, as everyone silently stared at the figure at the end of the table with fused, surprised expressions.

  Milly, Rivalz, Lelouch, Shirley and Nina g each other briefly as they watched Kallen making the estimated budget summary of the various clubs in Ashford Academy for the school festival aggressively. She had a scowl on her beautiful face, an expression no one would’ve expected from a normally soft spoken, quiet, and graceful sickly young dy, as she clutched onto her meical pencil with a vice grip.

  “Uhm… Kallen-…?”

  Milly tried to snap her out of it, but her voice failed to reach the agitated red hair as she tio write aggressively on the piece of paper.

  Milly looked around to her friends with a fused look and asked.

  “...What happeo her?”

  “I’m not sure… She seemed fierday… But she’s been like this since m.”

  Shirley answered, shaking her head, as the rest simirly shook their heads in fusion.

  Kallen erfectly normal wheended school yesterday. But the moment she entered css this m, she was visibly in a bad mood.

  When some of her friends asked her what happened, she kept denying that something happened. But, given how upset she seemed, they k was a lie and that she wasn’t keen on sharing it.

  Lelouch silently g Kallen and couldn’t help but smile inwardly as he recalled his versation with Yuuji yesterday.

  It seems like every world he goes to, he’ll always have trouble with women.

  In both of the worlds he had visited before Code Geass, including his inal world, Lelouch had heard about the many troubles and iions he had with girls. The other members of the group chat also knew all about it. After all, Aika and Erika had shared many of the stories they knew about his episodes with women directly to the group chat where everyone see, to Yuuji’s headache and embarrassment.

  So, it’s not surprising for him to have trouble with women here as well. His appearance alone was already a massive mag for trouble with women. Add to it his personality, character, and him being a “protagonist of a harem hentai”... He was fated to be troubled by women who wished for his love and lived a debauchery-filled life of a harem protagonist.

  Just then, the door to the Student cil office clicked and swung open, revealing two a male with jet-bck hair and another male with dark brown hair carrying tall stacks of files, binders, and papers in their hands.

  “We’re back. We’ve brought the dots you all requested.”

  “Oh, wele back~ Thank yo-”

  *SNAP*

  The entire room went silent as all heads snap-turowards Kallen in an instant. And there they saw Kallen with her head looking down, her beautiful, straight, crimson hair c her eyes, and the meical pencil she had been using snapped in two.

  Ae all his immunity towards spells and magical effects that would affect the mind, Yuuji felt a chill down his spine as his eyes widened in shobsp;

  And with the silence prolonged lohan it should be, Kallen snapped out of her daze and realized what happened.

  She slowly turned her head and looked towards her friends, her gaze nding at Alexander a few seds lohan the rest, befazing down to her hand that was holding the snapped pieces of her meical pencil.

  “A-Ah! A-Ahahaha! I-It seems like my pencil was already very worn out! I-I’ve been meaning to repce it for a while now, but I haven’t got the ce!”

  She ughed nervously as she begaing profusely, trying to make up an excuse about hoposedly sickly young dy from a rich family could snap a meical pencil in two.

  But this was irely her fault! Mordred was also at fault!

  How could he just let C.C flirt ahat close to him yesterday?! What’s their retionship?! She never heard of those two being so close to each other like that!

  Was he keepis from her? No, he obviously has secrets that he hadn’t shared with her, but she didn’t expee of them to be being that close with C.C!

  And why did he let her use his shoulders and hug his arm like that?! E-Even she hadn’t actually held his hand or be that close with him!!!

  “What… happened…?”

  Yuuji muttered with a nervous smile on his fabsp;

  “I-It’s nothing…!”

  Kallen said in a fluster and resumed doiask in a fluster with a new meical pencil, trying to ighe surprised gazes of her friends.

  Yuuji and Suzaku looked at each other in fusion before Suzaku shrugged a ahead, putting all the stacks of papers oable.

  He followed suit, and as he went past Lelouch’s side, he g him questioningly.

  But instead of an answer, Yuuji only got a somehow… pitiful smile before Lelouch tinued doing his work.

  After pg the majority of the stuff he had brought onto the table, Yuuji took a file from the pile aowards Kallen.

  “K-Kallen, here you go. It’s the ating ledger from ret years for the Equestrian Club’s School Festival budget you asked for.”

  “A-Ah… Thank you…”

  “Mm… You’re wele.”

  He sat down on the seat opposite her, and looked at Karen briefly. And after a brief thought, he realized what might’ve just happened.

  Ah… I guess I ’t put this off any longer huh…

  He smiled helplessly in his mind and began thinking of ways to tell her… and C.C the truth.

  The members of the student cil tinued w in silence as ead every one of them focused their attention on their respective task. Only the sound of papers, pens, and g of the keyboard from Nina’s puter resounded within the room until a ph captured everyone’s attention.

  They all turowards Suzaku, who immediately took his pho of his pocket and answered the call.

  “Hello…? Ah, yes. Yes, I’m currently in the academy… O-Of course. I uand…”

  The tone of his voice slowly turned from surprise, to grave as he lowered his void spoke quietly to his pho was difficult for the others to clearly hear what he was saying, but Yuuji and Lelouch could clearly hear it.

  “Yes. I will see you soon.”

  Suzaku closed his phoood up, and faced the others with an apologetic smile.

  “Everyone, I’m very sorry, but I’ve been summoned by the military… They said it’s urgent.”

  Milly waved her hand dismissively in respoo his apology and gave him a kind smile.

  “Don’t worry and just go. You leave the rest to us, right Alex~?”

  She wieasingly towards Alexander, who let out a sigh at her words. But, he also gave Suzaku a kind smile and reassured him.

  “Yes. Just go. We’re almost doh today’s work, so don’t worry. You’ve helped enough.”

  The others nodded in affirmation to his words.

  “Everyohank you. Then, please excuse me.”

  He lowered his head ahe room with hasten steps.

  And as he left, Leloud Yuuji g each other with meaningful gazes.

  Something must’ve happened…

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  The door into a small, makeshift room built within a tainer smmed with a bring noise, alerting all four people who were resting within.

  “O-Ohgi-san!”

  “What happened?! Is it an emergency?!”

  Ohgi immediately rose to his feet, followed by Inoue, Sugiyama, and Tamaki, when they heard the young man’s panicked shout.

  Having lived with the possibility of being raided by Britannian soldiers day in day out for so long, they’ve never been able to pletely rex their guard and alert. Even if their base were hidden and there was little to no possibility of Britannia attag them out of nowhere right now, they still couldn’t drop their guard pletely.

  The young man with a shaved head, a ret member of the Bights, stuttered as his mouths fpped open and close in a fluster, before finally telling his seniors what happened.

  “T-There’s a beautiful woman, and s-several guys in white coats. T-They came here, and just barged into the base!!!”

  “What? Are they armed?”

  “N-No, t-they’re unarmed. B-But they’re heading to the hangar! W-What should we do?”

  Ohgi and the others looked at the young man fusedly, their minds still processing the bizarre situation he just described.

  But, Ohgi soon shook his head and snapped himself out of his daze.

  “Let’s go! There’s no use thinking about it here!”

  ““Yes!””

  They all quickly made their way to the hangar, or at least, the make-shift hangar they’ve built within the warehouse where they stored their knightmare frames in.

  Upon arriving, they were weled by a bizarre se of men in white coats, some of the quite nky and some quite plumped, crowding around the jet-bck a the hole of the Bights, the Excalibur, and a beautiful, chocote-skinned woman with pale blonde hair.

  She wore a long white coat and a maroon red shirt underh which was barely buttoned, revealing her smooth, golden brown skin, thin waist, and a voluminous chest barely held onto by a cy bck bra. And the exotic beauty was currently standing a few distance away from the Excalibur, staring at it with eyes full of i, as she held a pipe to her luscious red lips.

  Even with Ohgi and the others’ loud arrival, she did not even spare them a gnd tiaring at the Excalibur in silenbsp;

  Ohgi, Inoue, Sugiyama, and Tamaki were stunned by the appearance of such a bizarre group of people. Then, they noticed Silver, the masked-cd leader of the Bight’s teology’s R&D department, simply watg over the group in silence, calm.

  Tamaki, who had been dumbfounded up to this moment, snapped out of it and became a the strangers’ arrival at their base.

  “Oi oi oi! Who the hell do you think you a-”

  “Tamaki! Stop!”

  Ohgi quickly held him back from approag the group of, as it seemed, stists with his arm and raised his voibsp;

  The group of stists crowding around the Excalibur stopped when they heard the noise and turowards the newly arrived group; they just realized the presence off as they’ve been too preoccupied and… enamored by the beauty that was the Knightmare Frame before them.

  While the female stist still hadn’t move from her por shifted her attention away from the Excalibur.

  Inoue and Sugiyama pulled Tamaki back as they stared at the group of stist with wariness and genuine fusion.

  “...May I ask who you are? And why have you e to our base…?”

  Ohgi stepped forward and asked with wariness clear in his voice.

  While they might seem harmless, bearing no on or any of the sorts that he could see, he was still extremely wary of the people who could simply walk into their “secret base” so easily as if it was their own front yard.

  He g Silver for a moment, trying to see if he was simirly wary of their “guests”. But, with the mask c his fad the silence he kept, Ohgi failed to gain anything from just gng at Silver.

  The group of stists, who heard his question, turowards the brown-skinned woman and waited for her answer.

  Silence fell upon the area as eaent seemingly felt like minutes.

  And soon, the woman slowly turned her head back, gng towards Ohgi and the rest of the group. Her sharp, turquoise eyes looked at them with a hint of annoyance, as if they had just disturbed her.

  The silence tinued as the woman simply gred at the group, when suddenly, a few more sets of footsteps resounded from behind Ohgi’s group.

  “They’re my guests, Ohgi. You may stand down.”

  Ohgi and the others all turned bad saw Zero, Mordred, C.d a seemingly surprised Karen, walking towards them.

  “Zero!”

  The masked leader of the Bights stopped and stood a few distance away from the pale blonde-haired stist as Ohgi’s group stood in the middle, and addressed her.

  “Wele. I see you’ve mao find your way into the hangar without anyone leading.”

  “I waited for a few minutes, but no one came. So, we just entered and “tally” found our way here.”

  “I see.”

  The brown-skinned beauty answered, her silky, seductive voice, capable of tig arousal out of most men, resounding throughout the warehouse.

  “Well, I don’t personally mind. But would you like to introduce yourself to the others? I believe they’ve bee quite wary of you, which might be a hindrao our future cooperation with each other.”

  The pale blonde haired woman narrowed her eyes and sighed heavily, before turning towards Ohgi’s group.

  “Fine… I am Rakshata. And I’m the mother of the Guren you see here.”

  “!!!”

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