"I know. Xiao Lulu told me that he was trying to protect you two brothers and sisters. Lelouch, please don't misunderstand him."
Mariana explained helpfully.
"Misunderstand?
Okay, he was sent as a hostage to escape from the situation in the capital. I can believe that he acted to protect Nunnally and me.
However, later on, they launched a powerful invasion war against Japan regardless of the safety of Nunnally and I as hostages. I think this is not a misunderstanding, right? "
As Lelouch said, he asked again: "And mother, do you also know these?"
"Sorry, Lelouch, there is nothing we can do about it. Your father has great ambitions that he wants to realize."
Mariana's expression was a little unnatural. She didn't know these things, but she knew that even if she knew it at the time, she wouldn't stop her man.
"In order to realize your ambition, do you have to sacrifice your son and daughter?"
Lelouch questioned, although he already knew the answer.
"Aren't you and Nunnally okay?"
Mariana said with a smile, trying to calm her agitated son.
"Very well, mother, it seems you are on Charles's side."
Lelouch's expression calmed down and he took a step back.
"In this case, I have nothing to say, let's do it!"
【Do it? What to do? ! 】
Mariana was a little confused, and the next moment, she felt a crisis coming from the side.
As an excellent knight, she instinctively wanted to resist, but to no avail.
The combat power of the Black Abyss Demon is equal to that of a military mecha.
Perhaps, while piloting the mecha, Mariana can defeat many black abyss demons.
However, in the current state of being bare-handed, there is no resistance.
In just the moment of the fight, she was captured alive.
"Lelouch, what are you doing?!"
Next to him, Cornelia questioned.
"Don't worry, Sister Huang, she is still my mother no matter what, I will not harm her life."
Lelouch replied.
"You call this no harm?"
Cornelia's eyes twitched as she looked at the princess who was being strangled by the neck and kicking her feet off the ground in mid-air.
"Mother, this is the last time I call you mother. From now on, you will no longer be the mother of me and Nunnally, but a woman who looks very much like our deceased mother."
Resurrection can be regarded as repaying her kindness for giving birth to herself and her sister. As for the kindness of raising her, since she has made a choice to sacrifice their brother and sister, there is nothing to say.
"Lelouch, I love you."
Mariana said with some difficulty. After discovering that she was unable to fight against the Black Abyss Demon who captured her alive, she gave up her useless resistance.
And the Black Abyss Demon did not do any further harm to her.
“Your love for us siblings is not as good as your love for Charles.
To me, you are not a qualified mother because you failed to fulfill your obligation to protect the young me and Nunnally.
Although this is too much to say, since you have not fulfilled your obligations, I also ask you not to think of yourself as our mother in the future. I have unilaterally deprived you of your rights and identity as the mother of me and Nunnally.
I love you, but I love Nunnally more. If I had to make a choice between you and Nunnally, just like you chose Charles over our brothers and sisters, I would choose Nunnally over you. This mother. "
Lelouch is a sober person in the world. He considered Mariana's situation before she was resurrected.
What he did at this time was what he had thought about before.
"Put her down and escape into her shadow."
Lelouch gave orders to the Black Abyss Demon who was holding Mariana, and the Black Abyss Demon merged into the woman's shadow without hesitation.
"Ahem..."
Princess Mariana held her throat and coughed. There were obvious marks of hand armor on her white neck.
"From now on, the demon of the black abyss lurking in your shadow will be the one who restricts your freedom and behavior.
And through the situation of being lifted around the neck just now, I think you should also know that you cannot defeat the opponent.
Therefore, for the sake of your personal safety, I hope that you can live in this world as an ordinary person in the future, and not intend to become our obstacles or enemies. "
Lelouch didn't say something very clearly, but Mariana understood the meaning.
"Lelouch, you are really a gentle child..."
Mariana straightened up and said.
"Well……"
On the side, Cornelia and Ania widened their eyes when they heard this.
They had to wonder if the princess had something wrong with her brain.
"You thought that the Brittanian Empire had no chance of winning, and you were afraid that I would confront the forces behind you later, so you put an end to any possible confrontation on my part in advance."
Mariana continued.
"Hey, is that so, Lelouch?"
Cornelia asked Lelouch, and the melon-eating girl Anyia next to her also looked at the boy.
"You can understand that, but I never did it intentionally."
Lelouch didn't admit that.
"Sixth Knight over there, what do you say?"
Lelouch changed the subject and asked Anya over there.
"I-what can I say?"
Aniya still doesn't quite understand the situation.
They say there are enemies, but it seems there aren't.
He said he had no enemies, but just now the young man called the empire's current majesty by his first name.
However, listening to the conversation just now, it seems that they have a father-son relationship.
Because he was once abandoned and just complained a few words, should he arrest him?
"Forget it, let me possess you too!"
Lelouch gave up communicating with the Sanwu Girl and directly commanded the new Black Abyss Demon to infiltrate into the opponent's shadow.
There was no conflict throughout the whole process, and Anya, the Sixth Knight of the Round Table, did not show any resistance at all.
After doing these things, Lelouch wanted to say something, but found that there was nothing to say.
The Imperial Master behind him looked like he was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, not caring about how many enemies he would have to face in the future.
Lelouch tried to use his brain to help, but found that the other party didn't need him at all. The main thing that stood out were two words: strong and hard.
In the face of absolute power, using any resourcefulness is an act of disrespect and it is questioning his power.
Well, you still have to do whatever you need to do, just do it!
If the sky does not fall, even if it does, it is something that the tall man needs to consider, and it has nothing to do with him, a short man who has a tall man on his back.
With the words "The greater the power, the greater the responsibility" in his mouth, Lelouch took Princess Mariana and left.
He said that he didn’t recognize the mother, but he still brought her back to the dormitory after all. It’s not correct to say that the beauty is hidden in the golden house, but there is still no problem in saying that the mother is hidden in the golden house.
Of course, he was bumped into by someone in the dormitory later, which caused an unnecessary misunderstanding between Xia Li and her jealous confession to him.
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The camera turned to the EU side. After more than a month of hard work, Schneizel finally, on behalf of Britannia, persuaded many members of the EU alliance to agree to form an alliance to deal with the federation first.
Well, don't think that this kind of alliance can be easily accomplished. If it weren't for the headshots of some powerful people in both countries dying of abnormal deaths every day, I'm afraid it would have been delayed for a while or even rejected. .
However, on the day the covenant was signed, Schneizel received a communication from Cornelia from District 11.
"Cornelia, it's rare for you to take the initiative to contact me. Is there something wrong?"
Schneizel shook the red wine glass in his hand and asked directly. He understood that Cornelia was not a person who liked to mince words and make polite remarks.
"Brother Second Emperor, you are responsible for the affairs of the United EU Alliance. I hope you can stop for the time being."
Cornelia didn't waste any words and said straight to the point.
"Stop, why?"
Schneizel was a little confused.
"I have investigated the situation of the Moral Theosophy in the Federation, and I am afraid that their strength is far beyond our imagination..."
Next, Cornelia also told Schneizel the information she had investigated about the Moral God Cult and her speculations about the strength of the National Master.
Of course, they are explained selectively, such as the matter of Lelouch using the identity of zero to lead the god general belonging to the Moral God Cult to defeat himself, and the matter of Princess Mariana being resurrected by the National Master of the Moral God Cult. , these were not disclosed.
But just what was revealed about the strangeness and combat power of the Black Abyss Demon can make people take it seriously, not to mention the unpredictability of headshots that ignore distance. s method.
"Second Emperor Brother, if you want to start a war with the Federation, this is something that needs to be done carefully and carefully. We must not make a decision that may cause heavy losses to our side just because some idiots died..."
At the end of her words, Cornelia had already revealed her intention to prevent this upcoming war from happening.
"I understand, but it's not something we can decide on."
To be able to have the two imperial sisters who are famous for their military exploits say such things shows that the enemy the empire will face this time is unfathomable. It is not that Schneizel has not investigated this, but what if the investigation comes out? , this time is not to seek justice for the dead, but to eliminate the threatening guys who can behead the political figures.
"This is what my father meant. Can you see my father?"
Cornelia asked directly.
"I can't see my father, but this is what he meant, and it's not wrong."
Unlike other princes and princesses, Schneizel was valued by Charles because of his good mind, and he was not completely ignorant of the secrets of World C behind the empire.
"So, this war cannot be stopped. So, Brother Schneizel, I think we have to think about how to deal with the changing situation."
Cornelia said.
"Do you mean defeat?"
Schneizel was also a smart man. Although he didn't know what Cornelia had been through recently, he obviously noticed the change in the attitude of this imperial sister who was good at fighting.
"Consider defeat before victory. This is the quality a great general should have. Brother Emperor, haven't you ever considered this kind of thing?"
Schneizel drank the red wine in one gulp.
"You are right. I have considered the result of failure, but I am a little surprised that you would think so. It seems that the intelligence information you have is better than mine."
After a pause, Schneizel said: "We can exchange more information first, and then discuss the countermeasures and results that should be taken if we cannot defeat them."
The affair between Cornelia and Schneizel did not affect the outcome of the alliance between Britannia and EU. The troops of the EU Alliance were also mobilized to confront Kyushu Island and were deployed to another part of the Federation. On one side of the border, a hundred miles away, preparations were made for a flanking threat without any cover-up.
However, war is not just a matter of fighting, because it is a continuation of politics, so only when political means cannot solve the problem, war will be used to solve it.
The Brittanian Empire and the EU Alliance began to speak to the federal government only after they had clearly prepared their vehicles and horses to attack the federation from a flank.
The content is nothing more than a plan to denounce the real murderers hidden behind the Federation in response to headshot incidents in various places.
"The Brittanian Empire and the EU Alliance are asking us to hand you over."
Li Xingke came over to report the situation. He only felt that the other two major forces in the world were a bit ridiculous. In front of the Federation, which was now turning from decline to prosperity, did he really think that the alliance of the two major forces could make their Federation surrender?
"Master National Preceptor, the Federation is ready for war!"
The third-grade military attache next to him patted his chest and said, as military attaches, they are happy to see the war coming. Only when there is war can we achieve military exploits. The real martial arts class is not afraid of challenges.
"It's not urgent. Is there anyone preparing to cause trouble in the area I asked you to keep an eye on?"
If a country is either not sick, or if it is sick, the root of the disease is deep inside, and it will be as difficult to get rid of in a short time as maggots attached to the bones, and this is the same even if the Federation has its own help.
No, Wu Ke just listened to the reports from the group of tool men who were given the authority to control the demons of the black abyss in these days, and there was indeed information that there were unwilling people who were secretly causing trouble.
"It's fishing, don't worry, everyone, stay calm and take a good look at who is being threatened and who is voluntarily doing things secretly.
Let’s not talk about those who are threatened, but those who take the initiative to cause trouble will be recorded in the small book of clearing lists in your hands, and they will be cleared out after the incident is over. "
"Uh, what about accepting the challenge?"
"You don't have to worry about the challenge. You just need to take care of the justice tasks assigned to you. As for the rest, I will take care of it."
Wu Ke waved his hand, gave a few more instructions, and then dismissed the group of tool men.
"How do you plan to respond to the EU Alliance and the Brittanian Empire's accusations against innocent people who shot their heads?"
After a group of people left, cc got up from the bed and walked over and asked.
"Gao Hai has sorted out the reasons for the headshots of some guys abroad. Take it and ask them, why do they do nothing in the face of crime?"
"This was just a pretense to cause trouble, and I don't think they would pay any attention to it."
"First of all, let's spread the word. We must stand up for our righteousness on the surface, and secretly someone will pass this news to the armies of both sides stationed on the border. We want to make the matter bigger and let everyone in the world Know what’s going on inside.”
"If you do this, are you sure that the two countries will not attack the Federation directly?"
"Of course they will take action, but there will be a tolerance threshold. Before reaching that threshold, they will give the world time to understand the situation."
"What's the point of doing this? Isn't it going to be a fight in the end?"
“Determining right from wrong and thinking about justice is itself a kind of meaning.”
