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[TRANSLATED] CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Rebellion: Lancelot & Guren (Kallen's Side: Chapter 1)
Original Scans: courtesy of Fukkatsu no Fansub
(Some chapters can still be found at Comic NewType.)
KALLEN
(What am I to you?)
NARRATION
Ashford Academy
KALLEN
(A friend? A teammate? A subordinate?)
(Or...)
KALLEN
(A disposable pawn?)
(...Lelouch, what am I to you?)
(At the time...)
KALLEN
(...you said we were nothing more than your pawns.)
KALLEN
(But... if that's true...)
LELOUCH
You have to live on, Kallen.
KALLEN
(What was that about?)
(Would you throw those words at a disposable pawn?)
You remember, right?
Those girls...
Thinking about those two, I can't help feeling like...
We couldn't have all just been pawns to you, Lelouch... right...?
(It's not like you'd give me a straight answer, I know.)
(Still...)
(Don't you feel anything...?)
(Don't you, Lelouch...?)
SFX
<chatter>
BENIO
Wow...!
This place is packed...?!
I can't believe how many people came...!!
BENIO'S FATHER
And all of them Japanese.
BENIO'S MOTHER
And I don't think it's even just the people in here...?
BENIO'S MOTHER
I heard on the radio that there wasn't enough room in the venue for all the people who entered the drawing, and there's a great number of them crowded around the entrance!
BENIO'S FATHER
What, really? Then we're really lucky, aren't we?
That's right! We're the luckiest!
SFX
<tacklehug!>
BENIO
Eep—
BENIO'S MOTHER
Because we've got the best daughter anyone could ask for!
BENIO'S FATHER
And our lives are only going to get better now, aren't they?
Here, where we'll be able to live freely.
SFX
<sniffle, sniffle>
BENIO
It's all because of how hard you work, Dad.
BENIO'S FATHER
Hey, your mother works hard, too.
BENIO
Oh, c'mon, you too...!
I'm not a little kid anymore!
Wasn't everything delicious today, Benio?
That's because your mother put her whole heart into it, you know.
BENIO
(Yeah... We're lucky...)
(Their conversation is a little hard to listen to, but...)
(I don't think I've ever seen them so happy...)
BENIO
(This is gonna be a really good day...)
<running—>
BENIO
Oh! It's Lady Euphemia!
SFX
<deep breath...>
All those who call yourselves Japanese...
I have a favor to ask you.
Could you please die?
—Huh?
What did she... just say...?
EUPHEMIA
Um, well...
I was hoping you would all commit suicide, but... is that too difficult?
CROWD
Wha...?
What the hell is she...?
She can't mean it...?
EUPHEMIA
Very well. Soldiers, if you would...?
Please slaughter them all.
This will be a massacre.
<bang>
SFX
<falling—>
EUPHEMIA
Now then, please be quick about it.
Ahhhhhhh!!
SFX
<scattered shots>
SFX
<bang>
CROWD
Ahhhhhhh—
Ahhhhhhh—
SFX
<bang bang bang bang bang bang>
<thud>
<distant gunfire>
BENIO
(Why?)
BENIO
(Why did this have to happen to us Elevens...?)
SFX
<whir—>
SFX
<ker-wham>
It's the Black Knights!
SFX
<whoosh>
BENIO'S FATHER
Thank goodness...! They'll save us, I'm sure of it!
BENIO'S FATHER
Get out of here, Benio!!
BENIO'S MOTHER
Be strong!
SFX
<bang—>
<boom>
BENIO
?!?
Dad...?
Mom...?
SFX
<whir...>
<whir...>
BENIO
Haa— Haah—
SFX
<trip>
BENIO
(Why...?)
SFX
<thump>
(What did ever do to anyone?)
(Do we really have to die just because we're Elevens?)
BENIO
(You can really lose everything that easily...)
BENIO
(It's not fair—)
Nooooooo!!
SFX
<bam>
<clang>
<shove>
BRITANNIAN KMF
!
SFX
<fling, plink>
<whip-swivel>
SFX
<crash—>
BRITANNIAN KMF
So... fast...?!
KALLEN
'Bye now...!
<boom>
<sizzle>
(I couldn't take the time to fully understand what had happened, or even to really let myself grieve...)
BENIO
(All I had was the color, etched so deeply into my mind.)
(The red stain that my parents had become—
—and the crimson machine that had saved my life...)
KALLEN'S SIDE ① / END
(Some chapters can still be found at Comic NewType.)
KALLEN
(What am I to you?)
NARRATION
Ashford Academy
KALLEN
(A friend? A teammate? A subordinate?)
(Or...)
KALLEN
(A disposable pawn?)
(...Lelouch, what am I to you?)
(At the time...)
KALLEN
(...you said we were nothing more than your pawns.)
KALLEN
(But... if that's true...)
LELOUCH
You have to live on, Kallen.
KALLEN
(What was that about?)
(Would you throw those words at a disposable pawn?)
You remember, right?
Those girls...
Thinking about those two, I can't help feeling like...
We couldn't have all just been pawns to you, Lelouch... right...?
(It's not like you'd give me a straight answer, I know.)
(Still...)
(Don't you feel anything...?)
(Don't you, Lelouch...?)
SFX
<chatter>
BENIO
Wow...!
This place is packed...?!
I can't believe how many people came...!!
BENIO'S FATHER
And all of them Japanese.
BENIO'S MOTHER
And I don't think it's even just the people in here...?
BENIO'S MOTHER
I heard on the radio that there wasn't enough room in the venue for all the people who entered the drawing, and there's a great number of them crowded around the entrance!
BENIO'S FATHER
What, really? Then we're really lucky, aren't we?
That's right! We're the luckiest!
SFX
<tacklehug!>
BENIO
Eep—
BENIO'S MOTHER
Because we've got the best daughter anyone could ask for!
BENIO'S FATHER
And our lives are only going to get better now, aren't they?
Here, where we'll be able to live freely.
SFX
<sniffle, sniffle>
BENIO
It's all because of how hard you work, Dad.
BENIO'S FATHER
Hey, your mother works hard, too.
BENIO
Oh, c'mon, you too...!
I'm not a little kid anymore!
Wasn't everything delicious today, Benio?
That's because your mother put her whole heart into it, you know.
BENIO
(Yeah... We're lucky...)
(Their conversation is a little hard to listen to, but...)
(I don't think I've ever seen them so happy...)
BENIO
(This is gonna be a really good day...)
<running—>
BENIO
Oh! It's Lady Euphemia!
SFX
<deep breath...>
All those who call yourselves Japanese...
I have a favor to ask you.
Could you please die?
—Huh?
What did she... just say...?
EUPHEMIA
Um, well...
I was hoping you would all commit suicide, but... is that too difficult?
CROWD
Wha...?
What the hell is she...?
She can't mean it...?
EUPHEMIA
Very well. Soldiers, if you would...?
Please slaughter them all.
This will be a massacre.
<bang>
SFX
<falling—>
EUPHEMIA
Now then, please be quick about it.
Ahhhhhhh!!
SFX
<scattered shots>
SFX
<bang>
CROWD
Ahhhhhhh—
Ahhhhhhh—
SFX
<bang bang bang bang bang bang>
<thud>
<distant gunfire>
BENIO
(Why?)
BENIO
(Why did this have to happen to us Elevens...?)
SFX
<whir—>
SFX
<ker-wham>
It's the Black Knights!
SFX
<whoosh>
BENIO'S FATHER
Thank goodness...! They'll save us, I'm sure of it!
BENIO'S FATHER
Get out of here, Benio!!
BENIO'S MOTHER
Be strong!
SFX
<bang—>
<boom>
BENIO
?!?
Dad...?
Mom...?
SFX
<whir...>
<whir...>
BENIO
Haa— Haah—
SFX
<trip>
BENIO
(Why...?)
SFX
<thump>
(What did ever do to anyone?)
(Do we really have to die just because we're Elevens?)
BENIO
(You can really lose everything that easily...)
BENIO
(It's not fair—)
Nooooooo!!
SFX
<bam>
<clang>
<shove>
BRITANNIAN KMF
!
SFX
<fling, plink>
<whip-swivel>
SFX
<crash—>
BRITANNIAN KMF
So... fast...?!
KALLEN
'Bye now...!
<boom>
<sizzle>
(I couldn't take the time to fully understand what had happened, or even to really let myself grieve...)
BENIO
(All I had was the color, etched so deeply into my mind.)
(The red stain that my parents had become—
—and the crimson machine that had saved my life...)
KALLEN'S SIDE ① / END
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