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[TRANSLATION] CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Rebellion Re; (Chapter 3)
Original Scans: courtesy of Comic NewType
2018, Imperial Calendar
Several days have passed quickly since the coronation of the exiled prince, Lelouch vi Britannia. Lelouch has—
—abolished the aristocracy, dissolved the mega corporations, liberated the Numbers, and thoroughly dismantled longstanding systems in place within the Holy Britannian Empire to maintain it.
The eyes of the world were on him as he took what seemed to be actions bent on destroying the very nation of Britannia itself.
Had Lelouch become a force for justice?
Or a force for evil?
That was something no one could have begun to guess.
NARRATION
But the people of the world could not help wondering...
"What should I do?"
"What should the world be like?"
NARRATION
For these reasons, Lelouch walks on undaunted.
In his eyes dwells the power of resolve.
CODE GEASS
Lelouch of the Rebellion Re;
Comic By: Tomofumi Ogasawara
Scenario By: Koujirou Taniguchi (Sunrise)
Original Story:
based on CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Rebellion
(c) SUNRISE/PROJECT L-GEASS
Character Design (c) 2006-2017 CLAMP-ST
<jingle!>
LLOYD
Have no fear, soon you'll be able to launch~
SUZAKU
Lloyd, Miss Cecile...1
LLOYD
Z-01/Z Lancelot Albion.
The penultimate fruit of our combined labors.
Forgive us, won't you? For taking so long to complete it?
We've been occupied with sortieing the Vincent line...
SUZAKU
No, don't apologize...
CECILE
But we owed you one, Suzaku. Only by leveraging all of your combat data were we able to complete that unit.
CECILE
Once we've finished constructing the independent sequence based on that data, it will definitely be a unit that only you can pilot—
SUZAKU
Lloyd... Miss Cecile...
I'm so... sorry that you had to be involved with all of this...
...
LLOYD
It's a little late for that!
Besides—
LLOYD
My career was over a long time ago.2
<spin, spin>
LLOYD
If you're going to destroy the world, you might as well do it in good company.
<sudden stop!>
SFX
<flap, flap>
SUZAKU
...
SUZAKU
Heh.
Enough! Honestly, Lloyd...
CECILE
...
But on that note, Suzaku...
CECILE
We've completed those preparations.
SUZAKU
!
KNIGHT 2: Who knows?
KNIGHT 3: Should we even be following Lelouch?
KNIGHT 3: Well, he is a member of the royal family...
SFX
<creeeeak... BANG!>
SUZAKU
Be silent!
<Murmur, murmur...>
SUZAKU
<Glare>
KNIGHTS
<Gulp!>
His Imperial Majesty, Lelouch, has arrived!
SFX
<click, clack>
<click>
(Lelouch has the mysterious power of geass.
The power of Absolute Obedience, which forces anyone, no matter who they are, to follow his orders.)
SUZAKU
(Lelouch says C.C. gave him this power.)
SFX
<plop!>
(On that day...)
It's... not poison gas?
GRAFFITI
<Free Japan!>
SUZAKU
(That was the day Lelouch and I were reunited.)
SUZAKU
(And the day C.C. infected3 him with the power of geass.)
Is this the end
for me?
LELOUCH
With me not having done a single thing in my life... so easily...
SFX
<grab!>
LELOUCH
!!
If you had power, you could live?
C.C.
In exchange for power, you must make my one wish come true.
C.C.
Accept this contract, and while you will live in the human world, you will live unlike any other human.
A different providence.
A different time.
A different life.
C.C.
The power of the king will isolate you.
C.C.
If you are prepared for it...
Very well...
SFX
<ominous roar...!>
LELOUCH
I accept
your contract!!
<claaaaash!>
LELOUCH
Lelouch vi Britannia commands you...
All you bastards...
SOLDIER
!
LELOUCH
Die!
<clash!>
SOLDIER
Yes!
Your Highness!
SFX
<squeeze>
(And so Lelouch, infected by geass, used his power on many people.
All for the sake of that one wish.)
(However, as he continued exercising that power, something awful happened to him—)
SUZAKU
(—a geass gone berserk.)
LELOUCH
If I really order someone to do something, no one can resist.
To shoot me,
to dismiss Suzaku,
any order at all.
LELOUCH
For example, if I told you, "Kill all the Japanese"...
...it wouldn't matter how you felt about it—
SFX
<glint!>
(According to C.C., it's part of the power's growth process within its user — sort of like measles.
Now that I think of it, Mao — that man who abducted Nunnally — must have also lost control of his geass...
That's why he always wore those headphones.
Still—)
(—even now that I know the truth, I can't forgive him.)
(But that's why we need to move forward.
We can't undo the past4.
Nor can we ask for forgiveness.)
(Even if it means deviating from the right path...
...that is another burden I've accepted.)
SUZAKU
Lelouch...
LELOUCH
Yes.
<slip>
LELOUCH
Lelouch vi Britannia commands you...
All of you, become my slaves!!
SFX
<glint!>
Yes, Your Majesty!
SUZAKU
(That inhuman ability to twist the wills of other people—
Geass.)
KNIGHTS
All hail Lelouch!
KNIGHTS
All hail Lelouch!
SUZAKU
(An abominable power.
But one we have no choice but to use.)
All hail Lelouch!
SUZAKU
(Because the enemy we're about to take on is too great.)
SUZAKU
(For that enemy is...)
KNIGHTS
All hail Lelouch! All hail Lelouch!
(...the entire world.)
1 The official translations have opted not to translate the -san Suzaku attaches to Lloyd's name... ↩
2 Lit. 'I've been broken for a long time.' ↩
3 得る has several definitions — among them, a neutral 'to obtain', and a much less neutral 'to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment)' or 'to get (ill)'. The wording here is especially likely to be significant since only a few pages ago Lelouch is quoted as saying he 'received' (もらった) the power from C.C., neutral as can be. Suzaku is sort of 'correcting' the verb here to something uglier. ↩
4 Similar in sentiment, but distinct in phrasing, from Lelouch's protest in Turn 17, 過去には戻れない！ (I can't turn back time! / [more literally] the past can't be returned to!) ↩
2018, Imperial Calendar
Several days have passed quickly since the coronation of the exiled prince, Lelouch vi Britannia. Lelouch has—
—abolished the aristocracy, dissolved the mega corporations, liberated the Numbers, and thoroughly dismantled longstanding systems in place within the Holy Britannian Empire to maintain it.
The eyes of the world were on him as he took what seemed to be actions bent on destroying the very nation of Britannia itself.
Had Lelouch become a force for justice?
Or a force for evil?
That was something no one could have begun to guess.
NARRATION
But the people of the world could not help wondering...
"What should I do?"
"What should the world be like?"
NARRATION
For these reasons, Lelouch walks on undaunted.
In his eyes dwells the power of resolve.
CODE GEASS
Lelouch of the Rebellion Re;
Comic By: Tomofumi Ogasawara
Scenario By: Koujirou Taniguchi (Sunrise)
Original Story:
based on CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Rebellion
(c) SUNRISE/PROJECT L-GEASS
Character Design (c) 2006-2017 CLAMP-ST
<jingle!>
LLOYD
Have no fear, soon you'll be able to launch~
SUZAKU
Lloyd, Miss Cecile...1
LLOYD
Z-01/Z Lancelot Albion.
The penultimate fruit of our combined labors.
Forgive us, won't you? For taking so long to complete it?
We've been occupied with sortieing the Vincent line...
SUZAKU
No, don't apologize...
CECILE
But we owed you one, Suzaku. Only by leveraging all of your combat data were we able to complete that unit.
CECILE
Once we've finished constructing the independent sequence based on that data, it will definitely be a unit that only you can pilot—
SUZAKU
Lloyd... Miss Cecile...
I'm so... sorry that you had to be involved with all of this...
...
LLOYD
It's a little late for that!
Besides—
LLOYD
My career was over a long time ago.2
<spin, spin>
LLOYD
If you're going to destroy the world, you might as well do it in good company.
<sudden stop!>
SFX
<flap, flap>
SUZAKU
...
SUZAKU
Heh.
Enough! Honestly, Lloyd...
CECILE
...
But on that note, Suzaku...
CECILE
We've completed those preparations.
SUZAKU
!
KNIGHT 2: Who knows?
KNIGHT 3: Should we even be following Lelouch?
KNIGHT 3: Well, he is a member of the royal family...
SFX
<creeeeak... BANG!>
SUZAKU
Be silent!
<Murmur, murmur...>
SUZAKU
<Glare>
KNIGHTS
<Gulp!>
His Imperial Majesty, Lelouch, has arrived!
SFX
<click, clack>
<click>
(Lelouch has the mysterious power of geass.
The power of Absolute Obedience, which forces anyone, no matter who they are, to follow his orders.)
SUZAKU
(Lelouch says C.C. gave him this power.)
SFX
<plop!>
(On that day...)
It's... not poison gas?
GRAFFITI
<Free Japan!>
SUZAKU
(That was the day Lelouch and I were reunited.)
SUZAKU
(And the day C.C. infected3 him with the power of geass.)
Is this the end
for me?
LELOUCH
With me not having done a single thing in my life... so easily...
SFX
<grab!>
LELOUCH
!!
If you had power, you could live?
C.C.
In exchange for power, you must make my one wish come true.
C.C.
Accept this contract, and while you will live in the human world, you will live unlike any other human.
A different providence.
A different time.
A different life.
C.C.
The power of the king will isolate you.
C.C.
If you are prepared for it...
Very well...
SFX
<ominous roar...!>
LELOUCH
I accept
your contract!!
<claaaaash!>
LELOUCH
Lelouch vi Britannia commands you...
All you bastards...
SOLDIER
!
LELOUCH
Die!
<clash!>
SOLDIER
Yes!
Your Highness!
SFX
<squeeze>
(And so Lelouch, infected by geass, used his power on many people.
All for the sake of that one wish.)
(However, as he continued exercising that power, something awful happened to him—)
SUZAKU
(—a geass gone berserk.)
LELOUCH
If I really order someone to do something, no one can resist.
To shoot me,
to dismiss Suzaku,
any order at all.
LELOUCH
For example, if I told you, "Kill all the Japanese"...
...it wouldn't matter how you felt about it—
SFX
<glint!>
(According to C.C., it's part of the power's growth process within its user — sort of like measles.
Now that I think of it, Mao — that man who abducted Nunnally — must have also lost control of his geass...
That's why he always wore those headphones.
Still—)
(—even now that I know the truth, I can't forgive him.)
(But that's why we need to move forward.
We can't undo the past4.
Nor can we ask for forgiveness.)
(Even if it means deviating from the right path...
...that is another burden I've accepted.)
SUZAKU
Lelouch...
LELOUCH
Yes.
<slip>
LELOUCH
Lelouch vi Britannia commands you...
All of you, become my slaves!!
SFX
<glint!>
Yes, Your Majesty!
SUZAKU
(That inhuman ability to twist the wills of other people—
Geass.)
KNIGHTS
All hail Lelouch!
KNIGHTS
All hail Lelouch!
SUZAKU
(An abominable power.
But one we have no choice but to use.)
All hail Lelouch!
SUZAKU
(Because the enemy we're about to take on is too great.)
SUZAKU
(For that enemy is...)
KNIGHTS
All hail Lelouch! All hail Lelouch!
(...the entire world.)
1 The official translations have opted not to translate the -san Suzaku attaches to Lloyd's name... ↩
2 Lit. 'I've been broken for a long time.' ↩
3 得る has several definitions — among them, a neutral 'to obtain', and a much less neutral 'to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment)' or 'to get (ill)'. The wording here is especially likely to be significant since only a few pages ago Lelouch is quoted as saying he 'received' (もらった) the power from C.C., neutral as can be. Suzaku is sort of 'correcting' the verb here to something uglier. ↩
4 Similar in sentiment, but distinct in phrasing, from Lelouch's protest in Turn 17, 過去には戻れない！ (I can't turn back time! / [more literally] the past can't be returned to!) ↩