rainfall | [TRANSLATED] Lelouch the Tutor (Chapter 18)

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Lelouch the Tutor
Chapter 15[sic]

Comic By: Urushidama

Original Story:
based on CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Rebellion

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Queen

MILLY
Here's how it works! The Queen's commands are absolute.
If you don't follow her command, you have to go without bathing for a whole week!
Also, in the Queen's Game, commands stay in effect until the game ends, okay?

LELOUCH
'Queen's Game', you say... it's still going to end up being a King's game, isn't it?

TEXT
Queen

LELOUCH
Hmph. I'm the Queen, am I?

LELOUCH
Very well.

LELOUCH
<seriously>
My command is to end this game immediately!

EVERYONE
!?!?
<shaken>

MILLY
Hold it right there, Lelouch!
You can't just decide that!

LELOUCH
Why on earth not?
The Queen's commands are absolute, aren't they?

LELOUCH
Now, then...
With that out of the way,
we can go on to...

LELOUCH
...Hmm?

LELOUCH
What's the matter, Nunnally?

NUNNALLY
<trembling>

NUNNALLY
Oh, no,
it's just that I don't...
<trembling>
often get to play this sort of game with anyone, so I'm a little bit disappoin—

LELOUCH
Right!
Game back on!
Number Five, chug a glass of seltzer!

RIVALZ
<startled>
<#5>

RIVALZ
<glug, glug>

C.C.
Honestly...
What a loser, acting like such a killjoy...
Oh.
Guess I'm the Queen now.

C.C.
A command...?
<sigh>
Got it.

C.C.
Number three, will you entertain us?¹

NINA
N, number three?
That's me...
S, so—
I'll recite Pi to a million places!

RIVALZ
Th, this is too much!
Enough already!
Stop!

NUNNALLY
Then, could whoever is Number One please end all of their sentences with a meow?

EUPHY
All right! Meow...

SHIRLEY
Erm...
Without naming namings, Number Six...
should 'fess up about who they like! Or something.

C.C.
Hmph.
In that case...
I'm grateful for how they're always right there whenever I need them...

LELOUCH
<Huh?>

SHIRLEY
<gasp>

LELOUCH
C.C., don't tell me you...

SHIRLEY
<Huh?
??
Huh?
Huh?!?!>

C.C.
...to deliver my pizza.

LELOUCH/SHIRLEY
...

KALLEN
My turn?
I need a command...?
How about playing the Pocky Game?

SHIRLEY
Anything but thaaaat!
<snap!>

MILLY
Heeheehee!
I'm the Queen now~.
And my command is... for Number Seven to tickle Number Two!

EUPHY
Understood! Meow.

KALLEN
Whaaa?!

EUPHY
Here goes, meow—

KALLEN
<S, stop, ahaha, heeheehee—<²

SUZAKU
(Oh...
It's already pretty late, we really need to...)

SUZAKU
(But how am I supposed to just blurt it out while everyone's busy with this game?)

KALLEN
<Ahahahaha, that's enouhahaha...>

EUPHY
!

RIVALZ
Oooooh, yeah!
Finally, I get to be the Queen!

RIVALZ
I command Number Eight to let the King sleep with his head in their lap!

SUZAKU
(That's right! I can just use the game itself!)

MILLY(?)
All right, next!

SUZAKU
Okay—!!!³

SFX
<ta-dah!>

SUZAKU
I did it!

KALLEN
S, so intense...
What's he going to command us to do?
Don't tell me it's gonna be something gross, like Rivalz's...

SUZAKU
Of course not!
My command is...

SUZAKU
Just to follow me and Euphy,
without asking any more questions!

SFX
<flutter>

MILLY
Hmm?

MILLY
Whoa! What's this?
It's so — sparkly!

C.C.
They're fireflies.

KALLEN
Fireflies?
At this time of year...?

RIVALZ
And this many of them?!

SUZAKU
Heehee.
Yeah, this is the sort of thing that makes me proud of my country.

SUZAKU
It was thanks to your help that we managed to get them to understand each other better.
So I wanted to repay the favor a little by showing you some of the nice things about Japan.

SUZAKU/EUPHY
Thank you so much,
everyone (meow)!

^{1 C.C. asks for a one-liner, a joke — or a 'quick trick'. Since her word means all of these things, I've tried for an approximation of her request.↩}
^{2 Kallen's laughter evolves into something squeakier, which isn't really something we have a written 'sound' for.↩}
^{3 Suzaku is just sort of... yelling with effort here, not saying any actual words. It's a very 'martial-arts' thing to do, betraying his training.↩}

[TRANSLATED] Lelouch the Tutor (Chapter 18)

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