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[TRANSLATED] CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Re;surrection (Chapter 2)
Original Scans: courtesy of Comic NewType
<vrrrr>
It's true that Lelouch's death
gave the world a chance to start anew...
RESISTANCE LEADER
But!
Zero is still at the center of the new world order!
RESISTANCE LEADER
He murdered Col. Kusakabe, who was only trying to free Japan,
when he could have united with us!
As a result, we lost Maj. Katase—
—and were forced underground, where we've been hiding ever since.
But that all ends today.
RESISTANCE LEADER
Thanks to this braconidae, our names will go down in history!
SFX
<shing—>
RESISTANCE SOLDIERS
<Yeah—!>
SFX
<slide>
Let's remind Zero who we are...
with a prick from this needle!
RESISTANCE LEADER
Cheers!
SFX
<gulp>
<shatter!>
SFX
<vrrr>
ASAHINA
<♪>
<♫ ♪>
SFX
<jingle>
SFX
<close>
SIGN
cafe
ZERO
(Seeking Part-Timers!)
ASAHINA
How's it going?
I'll have the usual!
TAMAKI
Sure thing!
Just a sec.
TV BROADCAST (MILLY)
As we enter Kouwa 21, the first post-war reform...
Topic: As we ener Kouwa 2, the first post-war reform of the education system...
ASAHINA
Man, it's only been like six months,
but we're already in the second year of the Kouwa era2.
I don't think it's totally hit me yet. You know?
TAMAKI
I feel you...
TAMKI
But I could get used to this.
We've all got the chance to really live now!
<Ouch, ouch—>
TV BROADCAST (MILLY)
And at the same time, reconstruction projects are being carried out one after the other
to heal the remaining scars from the war.
TAMAKI
We quit the Black Knights, sure, but you can't just be aimless, you gotta live a little, man!
Like me!
ASAHINA
Hmph.
I live plenty, I'm a musician and I play tennis... I'm keeping busy!
Kinda sounds like you're just messing around, but...
Here you go, our breakfast special. Sorry 'bout the wait.
ASAHINA
<munch>
Oh!
ASAHINA
It's one of Villetta's old students.
TV BROADCAST (MILLY)
Today, the United Federation of Nations' Supreme Council will hold its meeting at this venue.
The agenda is said to mainly revolve around reconstruction efforts and infrastructure development—
The UFN Supreme Council, huh...?
Funny, to think we used to be part of all that.
TAMAKI
Sure is!
But we're all still doin' our part for peace, man.
Including my best bud, Zero!
Lelouch of the Re;surrection
ZERO
This is wrong.
No, you see,
it's precisely because of the current situation that Zero needs a machine worthy of all he represents.
ZERO
..."Need" is the wrong word.
SCHNEIZEL
Look. However much progress the world as a whole makes towards peace,
the occasional conflict will always sprout up.
<shing>
In order to prevent that, it is imperative that you project strength —
— the same strength that defeated the treacherous Emperor, Lelouch.
...
KAGUYA
Surely you can see he's right.
No matter how many of the people in the world have come to want peace
small seeds of conflict remain.
KAGUYA
Our world has been at war for so long...
You can't expect to simply extinguish all conflict.
Besides, wherever there are individuals living their lives, some conflict will be inevitable.
LIHUA
And perhaps it is only right for Zero, the hero who brought about this peace,
to have the power to enforce it by putting an end to these conflicts...
That doesn't follow.
Undue military power given to the Black Knights would only frighten the public,
creating more conflict.
We exist only to preserve world peace.
ZERO
To that end, I'm asking the Glinda Knights to keep the Black Knights in check.
SCHNEIZEL
...
SFX
<roooar>
<vrrrr>
SFX
<vroooom>
SFX
<screech>
SFX
<whoosh>
<zoom>
SFX
<ka-thunk>
SFX
<whoosh>
<squeak>
SECURITY OFFICER
!
That truck...
SECURITY OFFICER
Hey!
No one said anything about a truck like this coming in for a—
!
SFX
<ka-thunk—
<ruuuumble>
<vrrr>
<clang>
SECURITY OFFICER
That's—
A Knightmare?!
SFX
<rrruummmbbllee>
SFX
<BA-DUMP>
SFX
<focus>
SFX
<fsshh>
<crunch, rumble>
SFX
<ruuuumble>
SFX
<rumble rubmle>
<click>
SECURITY OFFICER
Wha—
Who are you people?!
SFX
<bam bam bam>
SFX
<hurrying—>
Now, Zero...
We'll make sure everyone knows that our war isn't over just yet!
SFX
<roooar>
SFX
<pssh, rumble>
<loosen>
NUNNALLY
Welcome home, Zero.
ZERO
<hanging up...>
Sorry to keep you waiting, Nunnally.3
<thump>
ZERO
<sigh...>
ZERO
!
What's wrong?
Would you mind...
removing your mask?
ZERO
...
NUNNALLY
It's just that...
here, at least, I want to talk to Suzaku, not Zero.
<click, whoosh>
SUZAKU
<slide—>
Haah...
SUZAKU
I'm just no match for you.
Guess that runs in the family, too.
NUNNALLY
Maybe so.
SFX
<glug glug...>
<clack...>
SFX
<ting>
NUNNALLY
I asked something of you today, as my accomplice4.
SUZAKU
About your scheduled humanitarian visit to Spain next month...
Right?
SUZAKU
The anti-Britannian sentiment in Spain has run deep — ever since Marrybell's reign5.
It's not safe there yet.
NUNNALLY
I know.
That's why I'm making this request of you, Suzaku... on whom that same punishment was inflicted.
SUZAKU
...
I know I only became the World Humanitarian Agency's honorary consultant a month ago...
...a position I was only given for appearances' sake,
but I have to do as much as I can.
NUNNALLY
I've also been meaning to apologize — keeping you here, at the side of someone like me... it was selfish.6
And yet, I still...
SFX
<clack>
SUZAKU
No, Nunnally, you're completely right.
All around the world, there are still so many scars from war.
What we really need are more people, offering their support.
If going there to engage in relief efforts
is something you feel you need to do...
...then please — I'd like you to make full use of Zero's power7.
NUNNALLY
Thank you.
In that case...
SFX
<bzzbzz>
SUZAKU
!
>beep<
SUZAKU
What is it?
VOICE
Incoming call from the UFN Supreme Council!
Apparently an armed group calling itself the Japanese Revolutionary Army8 has seized control of the Shinagawa Seaside Airport!
SUZAKU
!
NUNNALLY
Suzaku...
SUZAKU
Don't worry, everything's fine.
I'll be back soon, okay?
<sweep>
SFX
<whoosh>
SFX
<rustle>
SFX
<click, whoosh>
<pssh>
—Zero has no need for power.
Or so I said...
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 Re;surrection
(c) SUNRISE/PROJECT L-GEASS
Character Design (c) 2006-2017 CLAMP-ST
The final volume of the Revolution Series will move you to tears!!
Volume 4 on sale July 10th!!
1 Leaving this "untranslated" because it's not a word, exactly, it's nengou — a system also used in real life by Japan, and a system to which Code Geass's fictionalized Japan has apparently returned after Lelouch's death. Although in the TV show, dates were only ever given in a.t.b. (Ascension Throne Britannia), Akito added the Revolutionary Calendar, of which 2017 was "Year 228", (which lines up roughly with the real-world French Revoluion of 1788, or at least it does now that Sunrise has given up on the idea of a.t.b. as not lining up with AD/CE dates), and this also implies that the Chinese Federation might have its own date system. It would be neat to know what's being used by Britannia, now that it's a Principality and presumably wants to cut ties with things like the Imperial Calendar it was previously using.
2 This actually makes perfect sense with the way nengou works IRL, too. Assuming Lelouch died in a.t.b. 2018, the exact day he died would have been the first day of Kouwa 1, which would have been a short year — lasting only until January came around again — and then Kouwa 2 would have begun on schedule. In Chapter 1, Kallen stated that it had been 数か月 ("several months") since Lelouch's death; here, Asahina says it's been 半年 ("half a year"), so presumably some more time has passed. Come Chapter 5, the narration will say it's been one year since Lelouch's death, and all of that, I think, makes sense... but by Chapter 14, characters are going to start claiming it's been two years since the Second Tokyo Settlement Battle, and that, I think it less the logical further progression of time than Koujirou losing track of the timeline. I just have trouble believing that Suzaku and Nunnally spent nine months or longer in Zilkhstan. ↩
3 Suzaku's earlier dialogue was all a somewhat passable imitation of Lelouch's "Zero" voice, but here he's reverted to his own speech patterns again. (Or maybe I should just say: Lelouch doesn't apologize often, even in set phrases like this one.) ↩
4 This is the same 'accomplice' that C.C. always used with Lelouch.↩
5 Referring to the events of Oz the Reflection.↩
6 Lit. "I've been thinking of apologizing to Suzaku-san for, selfishly and unfortunately, causing him to keep company with such a person as myself." Jeez, Nunnally, give yourself a break. ↩
7 この力 is often used to mean "my power", but the way Suzaku stands up straight, and the mask behind him, clearly show what his intent is — whose power he wants Nunnally to make use of. ↩
8 Despite clearly being made up of former JLF (日本解放戦線) members, this is a different name. Probably because they know Japan isn't precisely in need of liberation any longer... ↩
<vrrrr>
It's true that Lelouch's death
gave the world a chance to start anew...
RESISTANCE LEADER
But!
Zero is still at the center of the new world order!
RESISTANCE LEADER
He murdered Col. Kusakabe, who was only trying to free Japan,
when he could have united with us!
As a result, we lost Maj. Katase—
—and were forced underground, where we've been hiding ever since.
But that all ends today.
RESISTANCE LEADER
Thanks to this braconidae, our names will go down in history!
SFX
<shing—>
RESISTANCE SOLDIERS
<Yeah—!>
SFX
<slide>
Let's remind Zero who we are...
with a prick from this needle!
RESISTANCE LEADER
Cheers!
SFX
<gulp>
<shatter!>
SFX
<vrrr>
ASAHINA
<♪>
<♫ ♪>
SFX
<jingle>
SFX
<close>
SIGN
cafe
ZERO
(Seeking Part-Timers!)
ASAHINA
How's it going?
I'll have the usual!
TAMAKI
Sure thing!
Just a sec.
TV BROADCAST (MILLY)
As we enter Kouwa 21, the first post-war reform...
Topic: As we ener Kouwa 2, the first post-war reform of the education system...
ASAHINA
Man, it's only been like six months,
but we're already in the second year of the Kouwa era2.
I don't think it's totally hit me yet. You know?
TAMAKI
I feel you...
TAMKI
But I could get used to this.
We've all got the chance to really live now!
<Ouch, ouch—>
TV BROADCAST (MILLY)
And at the same time, reconstruction projects are being carried out one after the other
to heal the remaining scars from the war.
TAMAKI
We quit the Black Knights, sure, but you can't just be aimless, you gotta live a little, man!
Like me!
ASAHINA
Hmph.
I live plenty, I'm a musician and I play tennis... I'm keeping busy!
Kinda sounds like you're just messing around, but...
Here you go, our breakfast special. Sorry 'bout the wait.
ASAHINA
<munch>
Oh!
ASAHINA
It's one of Villetta's old students.
TV BROADCAST (MILLY)
Today, the United Federation of Nations' Supreme Council will hold its meeting at this venue.
The agenda is said to mainly revolve around reconstruction efforts and infrastructure development—
The UFN Supreme Council, huh...?
Funny, to think we used to be part of all that.
TAMAKI
Sure is!
But we're all still doin' our part for peace, man.
Including my best bud, Zero!
Lelouch of the Re;surrection
ZERO
This is wrong.
No, you see,
it's precisely because of the current situation that Zero needs a machine worthy of all he represents.
ZERO
..."Need" is the wrong word.
SCHNEIZEL
Look. However much progress the world as a whole makes towards peace,
the occasional conflict will always sprout up.
<shing>
In order to prevent that, it is imperative that you project strength —
— the same strength that defeated the treacherous Emperor, Lelouch.
...
KAGUYA
Surely you can see he's right.
No matter how many of the people in the world have come to want peace
small seeds of conflict remain.
KAGUYA
Our world has been at war for so long...
You can't expect to simply extinguish all conflict.
Besides, wherever there are individuals living their lives, some conflict will be inevitable.
LIHUA
And perhaps it is only right for Zero, the hero who brought about this peace,
to have the power to enforce it by putting an end to these conflicts...
That doesn't follow.
Undue military power given to the Black Knights would only frighten the public,
creating more conflict.
We exist only to preserve world peace.
ZERO
To that end, I'm asking the Glinda Knights to keep the Black Knights in check.
SCHNEIZEL
...
SFX
<roooar>
<vrrrr>
SFX
<vroooom>
SFX
<screech>
SFX
<whoosh>
<zoom>
SFX
<ka-thunk>
SFX
<whoosh>
<squeak>
SECURITY OFFICER
!
That truck...
SECURITY OFFICER
Hey!
No one said anything about a truck like this coming in for a—
!
SFX
<ka-thunk—
<ruuuumble>
<vrrr>
<clang>
SECURITY OFFICER
That's—
A Knightmare?!
SFX
<rrruummmbbllee>
SFX
<BA-DUMP>
SFX
<focus>
SFX
<fsshh>
<crunch, rumble>
SFX
<ruuuumble>
SFX
<rumble rubmle>
<click>
SECURITY OFFICER
Wha—
Who are you people?!
SFX
<bam bam bam>
SFX
<hurrying—>
Now, Zero...
We'll make sure everyone knows that our war isn't over just yet!
SFX
<roooar>
SFX
<pssh, rumble>
<loosen>
NUNNALLY
Welcome home, Zero.
ZERO
<hanging up...>
Sorry to keep you waiting, Nunnally.3
<thump>
ZERO
<sigh...>
ZERO
!
What's wrong?
Would you mind...
removing your mask?
ZERO
...
NUNNALLY
It's just that...
here, at least, I want to talk to Suzaku, not Zero.
<click, whoosh>
SUZAKU
<slide—>
Haah...
SUZAKU
I'm just no match for you.
Guess that runs in the family, too.
NUNNALLY
Maybe so.
SFX
<glug glug...>
<clack...>
SFX
<ting>
NUNNALLY
I asked something of you today, as my accomplice4.
SUZAKU
About your scheduled humanitarian visit to Spain next month...
Right?
SUZAKU
The anti-Britannian sentiment in Spain has run deep — ever since Marrybell's reign5.
It's not safe there yet.
NUNNALLY
I know.
That's why I'm making this request of you, Suzaku... on whom that same punishment was inflicted.
SUZAKU
...
I know I only became the World Humanitarian Agency's honorary consultant a month ago...
...a position I was only given for appearances' sake,
but I have to do as much as I can.
NUNNALLY
I've also been meaning to apologize — keeping you here, at the side of someone like me... it was selfish.6
And yet, I still...
SFX
<clack>
SUZAKU
No, Nunnally, you're completely right.
All around the world, there are still so many scars from war.
What we really need are more people, offering their support.
If going there to engage in relief efforts
is something you feel you need to do...
...then please — I'd like you to make full use of Zero's power7.
NUNNALLY
Thank you.
In that case...
SFX
<bzzbzz>
SUZAKU
!
>beep<
SUZAKU
What is it?
VOICE
Incoming call from the UFN Supreme Council!
Apparently an armed group calling itself the Japanese Revolutionary Army8 has seized control of the Shinagawa Seaside Airport!
SUZAKU
!
NUNNALLY
Suzaku...
SUZAKU
Don't worry, everything's fine.
I'll be back soon, okay?
<sweep>
SFX
<whoosh>
SFX
<rustle>
SFX
<click, whoosh>
<pssh>
—Zero has no need for power.
Or so I said...
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 Re;surrection
(c) SUNRISE/PROJECT L-GEASS
Character Design (c) 2006-2017 CLAMP-ST
The final volume of the Revolution Series will move you to tears!!
Volume 4 on sale July 10th!!
1 Leaving this "untranslated" because it's not a word, exactly, it's nengou — a system also used in real life by Japan, and a system to which Code Geass's fictionalized Japan has apparently returned after Lelouch's death. Although in the TV show, dates were only ever given in a.t.b. (Ascension Throne Britannia), Akito added the Revolutionary Calendar, of which 2017 was "Year 228", (which lines up roughly with the real-world French Revoluion of 1788, or at least it does now that Sunrise has given up on the idea of a.t.b. as not lining up with AD/CE dates), and this also implies that the Chinese Federation might have its own date system. It would be neat to know what's being used by Britannia, now that it's a Principality and presumably wants to cut ties with things like the Imperial Calendar it was previously using.
2 This actually makes perfect sense with the way nengou works IRL, too. Assuming Lelouch died in a.t.b. 2018, the exact day he died would have been the first day of Kouwa 1, which would have been a short year — lasting only until January came around again — and then Kouwa 2 would have begun on schedule. In Chapter 1, Kallen stated that it had been 数か月 ("several months") since Lelouch's death; here, Asahina says it's been 半年 ("half a year"), so presumably some more time has passed. Come Chapter 5, the narration will say it's been one year since Lelouch's death, and all of that, I think, makes sense... but by Chapter 14, characters are going to start claiming it's been two years since the Second Tokyo Settlement Battle, and that, I think it less the logical further progression of time than Koujirou losing track of the timeline. I just have trouble believing that Suzaku and Nunnally spent nine months or longer in Zilkhstan. ↩
3 Suzaku's earlier dialogue was all a somewhat passable imitation of Lelouch's "Zero" voice, but here he's reverted to his own speech patterns again. (Or maybe I should just say: Lelouch doesn't apologize often, even in set phrases like this one.) ↩
4 This is the same 'accomplice' that C.C. always used with Lelouch.↩
5 Referring to the events of Oz the Reflection.↩
6 Lit. "I've been thinking of apologizing to Suzaku-san for, selfishly and unfortunately, causing him to keep company with such a person as myself." Jeez, Nunnally, give yourself a break. ↩
7 この力 is often used to mean "my power", but the way Suzaku stands up straight, and the mask behind him, clearly show what his intent is — whose power he wants Nunnally to make use of. ↩
8 Despite clearly being made up of former JLF (日本解放戦線) members, this is a different name. Probably because they know Japan isn't precisely in need of liberation any longer... ↩