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[TRANSLATED] Lelouch the Tutor (Chapter 2)
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My name is Lelouch Lamperouge.
A third-year high school division student at Ashford Academy.
NARRATION
Quite recently,
I've become the personal tutor
of an enigmatic transfer student named C.C.,
supposedly an old friend of my mother's.
NARRATION
—And to top it off, my utterly charmless pupil
is now living next door to me.
Rule No. 1:
When it's time to study, you will come here.
C.C.
<?>
Why?
LELOUCH
Because
Society deems it improper for a man to call on a woman who lives alone.
Whereas if we study at my place, my younger sister and Miss Sayoko, our maid, will be here too.
C.C.
Oho.
Well, you've definitely got a point there.
<Too bad~>
LELOUCH
...
Could you please try to pay a little more attention to the social etiquette of the world around you?
<Why're you treating this like somebody else's problem?!>
Rule No. 2:
<soft thump>
LELOUCH
Don't approach to me at school.
I'll be steering clear of you, too.
C.C.
<?>
Why?
LELOUCH
...You draw too much attention.
C.C.
I see.
<giggle>
You're pretty conservative.
<It's kind of cute.>
I'm betting you don't like it when other people invade your territory.
LELOUCH
...!
So,
C.C., that girl you've started tutoring,
what's she like?
LELOUCH
...
SUZAKU
All you've said so far is that she's a friend of Lady Marianne's...
LELOUCH
My damn mother!
Forcing me to look after a woman like that!
Moreover, I'm supposed to improve her grades!
When that self-absorbed, self-important woman won't listen to a word I say?!
SUZAKU
That...
sounds pretty rough.
LELOUCH
It is.
<ugh>
LELOUCH
And if it were only that...
SUZAKU
?
But she's also tactless!
C.C.
<What are you, a virgin1?>
LELOUCH
Her diet is so unbalanced it consists entirely of pizza!
LELOUCH
Her room is a complete disaster!
No matter how you look at it, she's not a normal girl!
LELOUCH
UGHHHHHH!
How could she have grown up like this?!
<yank, yank>
SUZAKU
Ahaha—...
But with you helping her,
I'm sure she'll start doing better.
LELOUCH
Well, obviously!
—Just watch,
I'll turn that that pizza girl into an honor student!!
SUZAKU
<Yay!>
<clap clap clap!>
<You go, Lelouch!>
Thanks for lending me your notes, Lelouch!
LELOUCH
Sure.
SUZAKU
You really saved me!
LELOUCH
It was nothing.
C.C.
Hey, you.
Is Marianne's boy in there?
GIRL
Marianne?
BOY
Who?
LELOUCH
...
SUZAKU
Lelouch?
Could that be...?
Umm...
Lelouch?
<I think?>
STUDENTS
<whisper, whisper>
W, wait, she knows the Vice President2?!
SFX
<suddenly!>
LELOUCH
...!
Come here!
C.C.
Huh?
What, are you famous, or something?
...Gah.
What do you want?!
<Didn't I say, just yesterday, to stay away from me?!>
C.C.
Heheh.
I just figured I'd ask you to show me the way to the Student Council Room.
LELOUCH
To the Student Council Room?
C.C.
If you're the Vice President, that's even better.
<Look!>
PAPER
Pizz...
LELOUCH
Huh?
C.C.
This is a petition for the establishment of a Pizza Club.
PAPER
Pizza Club
Establishment Petition
C.C.
I wanna submit it.
Only after you're one of the top three students in your class.
Remember?
C.C.
Heheh.
Isn't that what you're for?
LELOUCH
GET BACK TO CLASS.
C.C.
<Yeah, yeah.>
LELOUCH
<You only need to say it once!3>
That Night
LELOUCH
So, you completed the homework that was handed out yesterday, right?
Shall I go over it?
C.C.
Yeah.
I did all of it.
<Here.>
LELOUCH
Hmm...?
<flip, flip>
<sigh>
You...
C.C.
What do you think?
Aren't I a talented artist?
LELOUCH
I can't believe you!
First of all, you need to take your study prep more seriously!
If you have enough time to scribble, you could have at least answered one of the many actual problems you were assigned!
C.C.
Hmph!
What a narrow-minded man!
At around the thirteenth century, where did Japan reveal that it was an abundant producer of sakuradite?
C.C.
Mark Polo's Description of the World4.
LELOUCH
What was the name of the movement for independence that broke out in the American colonies in the eighteenth century?
C.C.
Washington's Rebellion.
LELOUCH
1853, Imperial Calendar. For what reason was Britannia unable, at that time, to order Japan to open itself up to trade?
C.C.
<pfft!>
Because for the first time since its foundation, Britannia was embroiled in a wide-scale civil war of its own.
LELOUCH
(Huh!)
(Well, aren't you surprisingly good at history and culture?)
NARRATION
Wouldn't it be nice if that extended to anything else....
BOOK
Mathematics: MATH
LELOUCH
...!
Figures.
...Right.
Let's take a short break.
C.C.
<Hmm?>
What?
Don't tell me you're...
C.C.
Skipping out5 on me?
LELOUCH
...Knock it off. I'm just saying I'm going to make us something to drink.
You should clear your head a little, too.
C.C.
Useless jerk.
How'm I supposed to do that...
<Silence...>
C.C.: ...
C.C.
<hmph>
That jerk.
—He's taking forever...
<My stomach is eating itself...>
C.C.
(Something...)
<Hmm?>
C.C.
(...smells like pizza.)
SFX
<opening—>
<stagger>
<Pizza ♪>
<Pizza...>
SIGNBOARD
Supermarket
C.C.
...Erm...
<Hmm?>
Where am I?
LELOUCH
Where...
...did that fool go.
SFX
<silence~...>
(...Still not back yet. And it doesn't seem likely that she would have returned to her own house.)
<siiiip>
LELOUCH
What terrible timing.
Any moment now, it'll be time for me to start Nunnally's supper...
This girl... where on earth can she have gotten to?!
LELOUCH
(I take my eyes off her for one second, and look what happens!)
(Aren't we supposed to be studying?)
SFX
<opening!>
LELOUCH
Gah!
What a troublesome little...!
So places like that sell frozen pizza...
What a haul! ♥
C.C.
—!
LELOUCH
C.C.!!
<huff, puff>
C.C.
...
<deftly>
You...
C.C.
<oh—>
LELOUCH
<Look, it's cold, so.>
You could have at least taken your cell phone with you.
<Do you know how long I've been looking for you?!>
C.C.
I couldn't help it.
The pizza was calling to me.
LELOUCH
...
<This again...>
NARRATION
Seriously?
Hasn't she already had pizza today?
<!>
Oh.
C.C.
<lighting up>
This is exactly enough, right, Lelouch? Show me to that pizza place from the other day.
I wanna collect on my points!
LELOUCH
Can't you get it delivered?
Ugh, more pizza...?
C.C.
<Delivery pizza costs three times as many points!!>
If you show me where the pizza place is, I'm sure I'll be able to focus better.
Pizza always seems to motivate me!
LELOUCH
I get the picture!
Fine. I'll show you where it is.
And in return, you'll focus on studying for two hours.
C.C.
Two hours?
...Don't be so unreasonable.
LELOUCH
IT'S NOT UNREASONABLE!
C.C.
By the way, Lelouch...
...are they that heavy?
LELOUCH
<huff, puff, tremble>
<thud!>
LELOUCH
Hey,
why'd you only get frozen pizza?
C.C.
Hmm?
Well, the pizza place isn't open 24 hours a day, you know.
LELOUCH
(This girl... I bet she didn't even glance at the prices on these... hmm?)
LELOUCH
Be that as it may, a diet this unbalanced approaches toxicity.
<Three meals a day, huh...?>
C.C.
What are you saying?!
What's unhealthy about something that brings cheese, tomato, and bread together?!
Don't you see?
It's a perfectly balanced food!
LELOUCH
Good grief...
We must be able to do better than this.
From now on, whenever we're studying together, let's just have dinner here.
C.C.
...Oho?
C.C.
Are you saying you're an okay chef, for a man?
<smirk>
Too bad you'll never outdo pizza.
LELOUCH
...shut up.
<TO BE CONTINUED...>
1 D.T. is slang for 童貞, itself slang for virginity, especially of a man.↩
2 Student Council VP, of course.↩
3 Saying はいはい (as C.C. does here) carries with it a connotation of, "Yeah, sure, whatever," and Lelouch's response is very much the response of a real teacher. Or a parent.↩
4 Commonly known as The Travels of Marco Polo in English, but given various other titles in other languages. C.C.'s answer is a literal translation of the book's Italian title.↩
5 Literally the word for truancy or cutting class, but it also means procrastinating.↩
My name is Lelouch Lamperouge.
A third-year high school division student at Ashford Academy.
NARRATION
Quite recently,
I've become the personal tutor
of an enigmatic transfer student named C.C.,
supposedly an old friend of my mother's.
NARRATION
—And to top it off, my utterly charmless pupil
is now living next door to me.
Rule No. 1:
When it's time to study, you will come here.
C.C.
<?>
Why?
LELOUCH
Because
Society deems it improper for a man to call on a woman who lives alone.
Whereas if we study at my place, my younger sister and Miss Sayoko, our maid, will be here too.
C.C.
Oho.
Well, you've definitely got a point there.
<Too bad~>
LELOUCH
...
Could you please try to pay a little more attention to the social etiquette of the world around you?
<Why're you treating this like somebody else's problem?!>
Rule No. 2:
<soft thump>
LELOUCH
Don't approach to me at school.
I'll be steering clear of you, too.
C.C.
<?>
Why?
LELOUCH
...You draw too much attention.
C.C.
I see.
<giggle>
You're pretty conservative.
<It's kind of cute.>
I'm betting you don't like it when other people invade your territory.
LELOUCH
...!
So,
C.C., that girl you've started tutoring,
what's she like?
LELOUCH
...
SUZAKU
All you've said so far is that she's a friend of Lady Marianne's...
LELOUCH
My damn mother!
Forcing me to look after a woman like that!
Moreover, I'm supposed to improve her grades!
When that self-absorbed, self-important woman won't listen to a word I say?!
SUZAKU
That...
sounds pretty rough.
LELOUCH
It is.
<ugh>
LELOUCH
And if it were only that...
SUZAKU
?
But she's also tactless!
C.C.
<What are you, a virgin1?>
LELOUCH
Her diet is so unbalanced it consists entirely of pizza!
LELOUCH
Her room is a complete disaster!
No matter how you look at it, she's not a normal girl!
LELOUCH
UGHHHHHH!
How could she have grown up like this?!
<yank, yank>
SUZAKU
Ahaha—...
But with you helping her,
I'm sure she'll start doing better.
LELOUCH
Well, obviously!
—Just watch,
I'll turn that that pizza girl into an honor student!!
SUZAKU
<Yay!>
<clap clap clap!>
<You go, Lelouch!>
Thanks for lending me your notes, Lelouch!
LELOUCH
Sure.
SUZAKU
You really saved me!
LELOUCH
It was nothing.
C.C.
Hey, you.
Is Marianne's boy in there?
GIRL
Marianne?
BOY
Who?
LELOUCH
...
SUZAKU
Lelouch?
Could that be...?
Umm...
Lelouch?
<I think?>
STUDENTS
<whisper, whisper>
W, wait, she knows the Vice President2?!
SFX
<suddenly!>
LELOUCH
...!
Come here!
C.C.
Huh?
What, are you famous, or something?
...Gah.
What do you want?!
<Didn't I say, just yesterday, to stay away from me?!>
C.C.
Heheh.
I just figured I'd ask you to show me the way to the Student Council Room.
LELOUCH
To the Student Council Room?
C.C.
If you're the Vice President, that's even better.
<Look!>
PAPER
Pizz...
LELOUCH
Huh?
C.C.
This is a petition for the establishment of a Pizza Club.
PAPER
Pizza Club
Establishment Petition
C.C.
I wanna submit it.
Only after you're one of the top three students in your class.
Remember?
C.C.
Heheh.
Isn't that what you're for?
LELOUCH
GET BACK TO CLASS.
C.C.
<Yeah, yeah.>
LELOUCH
<You only need to say it once!3>
That Night
LELOUCH
So, you completed the homework that was handed out yesterday, right?
Shall I go over it?
C.C.
Yeah.
I did all of it.
<Here.>
LELOUCH
Hmm...?
<flip, flip>
<sigh>
You...
C.C.
What do you think?
Aren't I a talented artist?
LELOUCH
I can't believe you!
First of all, you need to take your study prep more seriously!
If you have enough time to scribble, you could have at least answered one of the many actual problems you were assigned!
C.C.
Hmph!
What a narrow-minded man!
At around the thirteenth century, where did Japan reveal that it was an abundant producer of sakuradite?
C.C.
Mark Polo's Description of the World4.
LELOUCH
What was the name of the movement for independence that broke out in the American colonies in the eighteenth century?
C.C.
Washington's Rebellion.
LELOUCH
1853, Imperial Calendar. For what reason was Britannia unable, at that time, to order Japan to open itself up to trade?
C.C.
<pfft!>
Because for the first time since its foundation, Britannia was embroiled in a wide-scale civil war of its own.
LELOUCH
(Huh!)
(Well, aren't you surprisingly good at history and culture?)
NARRATION
Wouldn't it be nice if that extended to anything else....
BOOK
Mathematics: MATH
LELOUCH
...!
Figures.
...Right.
Let's take a short break.
C.C.
<Hmm?>
What?
Don't tell me you're...
C.C.
Skipping out5 on me?
LELOUCH
...Knock it off. I'm just saying I'm going to make us something to drink.
You should clear your head a little, too.
C.C.
Useless jerk.
How'm I supposed to do that...
<Silence...>
C.C.: ...
C.C.
<hmph>
That jerk.
—He's taking forever...
<My stomach is eating itself...>
C.C.
(Something...)
<Hmm?>
C.C.
(...smells like pizza.)
SFX
<opening—>
<stagger>
<Pizza ♪>
<Pizza...>
SIGNBOARD
Supermarket
C.C.
...Erm...
<Hmm?>
Where am I?
LELOUCH
Where...
...did that fool go.
SFX
<silence~...>
(...Still not back yet. And it doesn't seem likely that she would have returned to her own house.)
<siiiip>
LELOUCH
What terrible timing.
Any moment now, it'll be time for me to start Nunnally's supper...
This girl... where on earth can she have gotten to?!
LELOUCH
(I take my eyes off her for one second, and look what happens!)
(Aren't we supposed to be studying?)
SFX
<opening!>
LELOUCH
Gah!
What a troublesome little...!
So places like that sell frozen pizza...
What a haul! ♥
C.C.
—!
LELOUCH
C.C.!!
<huff, puff>
C.C.
...
<deftly>
You...
C.C.
<oh—>
LELOUCH
<Look, it's cold, so.>
You could have at least taken your cell phone with you.
<Do you know how long I've been looking for you?!>
C.C.
I couldn't help it.
The pizza was calling to me.
LELOUCH
...
<This again...>
NARRATION
Seriously?
Hasn't she already had pizza today?
<!>
Oh.
C.C.
<lighting up>
This is exactly enough, right, Lelouch? Show me to that pizza place from the other day.
I wanna collect on my points!
LELOUCH
Can't you get it delivered?
Ugh, more pizza...?
C.C.
<Delivery pizza costs three times as many points!!>
If you show me where the pizza place is, I'm sure I'll be able to focus better.
Pizza always seems to motivate me!
LELOUCH
I get the picture!
Fine. I'll show you where it is.
And in return, you'll focus on studying for two hours.
C.C.
Two hours?
...Don't be so unreasonable.
LELOUCH
IT'S NOT UNREASONABLE!
C.C.
By the way, Lelouch...
...are they that heavy?
LELOUCH
<huff, puff, tremble>
<thud!>
LELOUCH
Hey,
why'd you only get frozen pizza?
C.C.
Hmm?
Well, the pizza place isn't open 24 hours a day, you know.
LELOUCH
(This girl... I bet she didn't even glance at the prices on these... hmm?)
LELOUCH
Be that as it may, a diet this unbalanced approaches toxicity.
<Three meals a day, huh...?>
C.C.
What are you saying?!
What's unhealthy about something that brings cheese, tomato, and bread together?!
Don't you see?
It's a perfectly balanced food!
LELOUCH
Good grief...
We must be able to do better than this.
From now on, whenever we're studying together, let's just have dinner here.
C.C.
...Oho?
C.C.
Are you saying you're an okay chef, for a man?
<smirk>
Too bad you'll never outdo pizza.
LELOUCH
...shut up.
<TO BE CONTINUED...>
1 D.T. is slang for 童貞, itself slang for virginity, especially of a man.↩
2 Student Council VP, of course.↩
3 Saying はいはい (as C.C. does here) carries with it a connotation of, "Yeah, sure, whatever," and Lelouch's response is very much the response of a real teacher. Or a parent.↩
4 Commonly known as The Travels of Marco Polo in English, but given various other titles in other languages. C.C.'s answer is a literal translation of the book's Italian title.↩
5 Literally the word for truancy or cutting class, but it also means procrastinating.↩