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[TRANSLATED] CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Re;surrection (Chapter 4)
Original Scans: courtesy of Comic NewType
Albion Zero, scenario start!1
Eliminate the terrorists' air support, then proceed to phase two.
BLACK KNIGHTS SOLDIER
We haven't yet regained control of the air traffic control system—
BLACK KNIGHTS SOLDIER
—but passenger planes that were waiting to land have begun preparations in accordance with the order of their flight plans.
CHIBA
!
CHIBA
I'm taking over for a sec!
(They're too close together.)
(We knew the RDP2 was down,
but are their TCA Systems3 not functioning either?!)
CHIBA
(They're going to...)
This is terrible, Capt. Toudou4!
CHIBA
A virus that overwrote the planes'
flight plans has been uploaded!
CHIBA
It came from the Shinagawa Seaside Airport control room!
Sir, it was Bandou!
TOUDOU
What?!
Can we contact them...?
CHIBA
Negative! Something's blocking comms.
That, too, might be part of what the virus overwrote...
TOUDOU
(Do we have no choice but to put this all on him...?)
TOUDOU
Contact Zero...!
Lelouch of the Re;surrection
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) 2006-2018 CLAMP-ST
VOICE (Toudou)
<beeeep>
Zero!
TOUDOU
Bandou uploaded a virus from the control room that overwrote its flight plans!
If you don't do something in the next fifty seconds, three passenger plans that were scheduled to land at the Shinagawa Seaside Airport are going to collide in midair!
Damn—
SFX
<whoosh>
<bang>
<zig-zag>
SUZAKU
Display remaining time until the passenger planes' paths collide!
SFX
<rooooar>
SFX
<beep>
SUZAKU
(First...!)
SFX
<beep>
<clash>
SFX
<rwwhhhh>
SUZAKU
Just hang in there a little longer5...!
SFX
<bang>
<thwackoom!>
<bang>
<fwoom>
<screaming>
COPILOT
We've lost our second float!
H, how are we supposed to control the plane?!
VOICE (Chiba, or else the soldier from earlier)
NAL-117 is no longer on a collision course!
(Which still leaves two more planes.)
SUZAKU
Next!
SFX
<swooshummm>
SFX
<whiz—>
<rooooar>
SUZAKU
No good!
It's already too late...
SFX
<beep, beep>
SFX
<whoosh>
SUZAKU
But if I can just alter its trajectory a little—!
SFX
<rooooar>
<krackoom>
SFX
<vrrr>
<bang, bang>
SFX
<rumbling growl>
<bang, bang>
SFX
<beep, beep, beep, beep>
SUZAKU
(Come on, you can take it!)
(If we're off by even a few degrees, these planes are gonna—)
<vroooooom>
SUZAKU
<roaring>
SFX
<beep>
...
VOICE
RDP restored.
Any further flights will be able to land normally.
SUZAKU
Then there's just
one thing left...!
Find me an acceptable place for that first plane —
SFX
<woosh, rooooooar>
SUZAKU
— Flight NAL-117, to make an emergency landing!
SFX
<clang>
Pilot of the NAL-117, do you read me?!
I'm going to guide you to your airstrip!
Begin landing procedures!
COPILOT
Captain,
the plane's stabilizing!
PILOT
Indeed!
I guess we've no choice but to obey that transmission for now!
SUZAKU
(Bring them down safely, Albion Zero!)
<slash, shove, roooooar>
SFX
<beep, beep, beep, beepbeepbeepbeep>
SUZAKU
Just a little further!
<roooooar>
SFX
<squeak>
SFX
<rooooar>
SFX
<sliiide>
SUZAKU
<pant, pant, pant>
SFX
<beep>
SFX
<thump>
<shine...>
<creaking>
ALBION ZERO
<squeeze6>
VOICE (Chiba)
Zero!
Are you all right?!
Zero!!
CHIBA
All three passenger planes have landed safely.
With zero casualties.
(Somehow... we're all safe...)
SUZAKU
(Staking your life to protect peace...)
SUZAKU
It really is heavy, isn't it?
SUZAKU
This mask...
!
SUZAKU
But thankfully...
Wha—
SUZAKU
(...)
SUZAKU
(Isn't it obvious?
This machine is the symbol of a regime that terrorized the world.7)
<squeeze6>
REPORTER
The other day, there was an incident in Shinagawa, where the Seaside Airport was taken hostage by a group of extremists...
REPORTER
...but, after being called in by the UFN, Zero and the Black Knights were able to arrest and subdue the culprits within just three hours.
REPORTER
Recently made into a chaotic crime scene...
REPORTER
...but now, with no flights even needing to be canceled, the airport has returned to normal—
TAMAKI
What'd I tell ya, Zero's awesome~.
Well, sure, he's a big ole hero now.
KALLEN
(A hero, huh...?
Yeah, I guess that's what he8 had in mind.)
—Anyway.
That reminds me, Kallen.
Shouldn't you be on campus right now?
Instead of hanging out with us all the time~.
KALLEN
<sigh!>
Today's my last day of vacation9.
Because yeah, Sugiyama-san, some of us lead busy lives.
VOICE (HINATA)
You tell 'im!
SIGN
cafe
Zero
(Seeking Part-Timers!)
SUGIYAMA
Hey, shut up!
SFX
<ding-dong>
KALLEN
No one likes an aimless guy, you know!
HINATA
No one!
SUGIYAMA
<tch>
GIRL (Benio)
Um...
Are you still looking for part-timers?
TAMAKI
H, hey...
Aren't you...?
KALLEN
(You know what, Lelouch?
This world really has gotten way better.)
(The same drive we all used to put into conflict has now been redirected into tackling things like poverty, education, and just... recovery.)
SIGN
MAHOROBA: Type-01
KALLEN
(Everyone's really doing their best to make the world a better place.)
KALLEN
(Taking advantage of all the opportunities we just didn't have before.)
SIGN
cafe
Zero
(New menu starts today!)
(Opportunities you gave us, I think, by taking on our hatred, our resentment... basically all of our negativity.
Everything bad in the world was the Treacherous Emperor Lelouch's fault... right?
And yet, it's thanks to that same guy that the rest of us might be able to move on, without being bound by the past.)
(...Me, though—
...I don't think I'm there just yet.
But give me a little more time to come to terms with everything, and I'll get moving, too.)
(We're going to make this world a wonderful place, I just know it.)
(If only I could show it to you, too, somehow...)
C.C.
Thank you both
for everything.
JEREMIAH
Oh, no, it was nothing...
More importantly, how are you holding up?
I appreciate the sentiment,
but what's one person compared with the whole world, right?
JEREMIAH
...
ANYA
If you need...
anything else — let us know.
C.C.
Sure.
If that time ever comes, I'll be counting on you.
C.C.
Well, I should get going.
C.C.
Can't keep him waiting, you know?
<creak>
SFX
<whump>
C.C.
This might be a long trip.
I hope you're ready for it...
SFX
<ignition starting>
Lelouch.
<clakity clak>
<roar>
1 状況開始, literally "situation" + "start", is a fairly cliched phrase in Japanese media about the military, and is something said at the beginning of any sort of military... situation. (Cecile frequently uses an offshoot of it, "operation start", before the Lancelot joins the fray in R1, to refer to their small piece of the action.) ↩
2 This real-life acronym stands for Radar Data Processing. The RDP system detects and tracks aircraft in-flight. ↩
3 Similarly, a real-life acronym that stands for Traffic Collision Avoidance System, also known as an Aiborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS). TCAS/ACAS in an on-board system that monitors the airspace around a given plane, warning pilots of the presence of other transponder-equipped aircraft. It's no substitute for air traffic control towers, as not all planes have transponders and transponders can also fail (just like any other system or part), but it would help here, were it working. ↩
4 Fun fact: In the first season, Toudou was addressed as 中佐 (lieutenant colonel (army/airforce/marines)); in R2, as 将軍 (general (generic term, not specific to any one branch of the military)). In many ways, 指令 (captain) is a demotion, but it would probably be wrong to think of it that way, since this word for captain is a civilian term — used by, for example, fire departments, where a captain is the rank between "chief" and "lieutenant". ↩
5 The first of several things Suzaku appears to be saying to the Lancelot; urging it to hang in there, to go faster, to bring the planes down safely, etc. ↩
6 Specifically, the type of tightness one feels in one's chest, caused by powerful feelings. ↩
7 The furigana here on この機体 (this machine) is for Lancelot Albion, just in case it wasn't clear enough what Suzaku means. More literally, the sentence would be: "This machine is a symbol that reduced the world to fear/dread/horror/etc." ↩
8 Notably not あいつら, which would be "they". ↩
9 Between this statement and the reference last chapter to Kouwa 2's beginning, this chapter should be taking place in early January (say, around January 5th, assuming Kallen's attending a university on the same schedule as real-world Japanese universities). What's less clear is whether the "a.t.b." date here would be 2019 or 2020. If you go by the re;boot movies, it's definitely 2020, but R2 itself was much fuzzier on the exact time of Lelouch's death... we can work backwards from this manga's "half a year" comment to a death in summer, perhaps... oh I don't know... August 10th. (For symmetry.) ↩
Albion Zero, scenario start!1
Eliminate the terrorists' air support, then proceed to phase two.
BLACK KNIGHTS SOLDIER
We haven't yet regained control of the air traffic control system—
BLACK KNIGHTS SOLDIER
—but passenger planes that were waiting to land have begun preparations in accordance with the order of their flight plans.
CHIBA
!
CHIBA
I'm taking over for a sec!
(They're too close together.)
(We knew the RDP2 was down,
but are their TCA Systems3 not functioning either?!)
CHIBA
(They're going to...)
This is terrible, Capt. Toudou4!
CHIBA
A virus that overwrote the planes'
flight plans has been uploaded!
CHIBA
It came from the Shinagawa Seaside Airport control room!
Sir, it was Bandou!
TOUDOU
What?!
Can we contact them...?
CHIBA
Negative! Something's blocking comms.
That, too, might be part of what the virus overwrote...
TOUDOU
(Do we have no choice but to put this all on him...?)
TOUDOU
Contact Zero...!
Lelouch of the Re;surrection
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) 2006-2018 CLAMP-ST
VOICE (Toudou)
<beeeep>
Zero!
TOUDOU
Bandou uploaded a virus from the control room that overwrote its flight plans!
If you don't do something in the next fifty seconds, three passenger plans that were scheduled to land at the Shinagawa Seaside Airport are going to collide in midair!
Damn—
SFX
<whoosh>
<bang>
<zig-zag>
SUZAKU
Display remaining time until the passenger planes' paths collide!
SFX
<rooooar>
SFX
<beep>
SUZAKU
(First...!)
SFX
<beep>
<clash>
SFX
<rwwhhhh>
SUZAKU
Just hang in there a little longer5...!
SFX
<bang>
<thwackoom!>
<bang>
<fwoom>
<screaming>
COPILOT
We've lost our second float!
H, how are we supposed to control the plane?!
VOICE (Chiba, or else the soldier from earlier)
NAL-117 is no longer on a collision course!
(Which still leaves two more planes.)
SUZAKU
Next!
SFX
<swooshummm>
SFX
<whiz—>
<rooooar>
SUZAKU
No good!
It's already too late...
SFX
<beep, beep>
SFX
<whoosh>
SUZAKU
But if I can just alter its trajectory a little—!
SFX
<rooooar>
<krackoom>
SFX
<vrrr>
<bang, bang>
SFX
<rumbling growl>
<bang, bang>
SFX
<beep, beep, beep, beep>
SUZAKU
(Come on, you can take it!)
(If we're off by even a few degrees, these planes are gonna—)
<vroooooom>
SUZAKU
<roaring>
SFX
<beep>
...
VOICE
RDP restored.
Any further flights will be able to land normally.
SUZAKU
Then there's just
one thing left...!
Find me an acceptable place for that first plane —
SFX
<woosh, rooooooar>
SUZAKU
— Flight NAL-117, to make an emergency landing!
SFX
<clang>
Pilot of the NAL-117, do you read me?!
I'm going to guide you to your airstrip!
Begin landing procedures!
COPILOT
Captain,
the plane's stabilizing!
PILOT
Indeed!
I guess we've no choice but to obey that transmission for now!
SUZAKU
(Bring them down safely, Albion Zero!)
<slash, shove, roooooar>
SFX
<beep, beep, beep, beepbeepbeepbeep>
SUZAKU
Just a little further!
<roooooar>
SFX
<squeak>
SFX
<rooooar>
SFX
<sliiide>
SUZAKU
<pant, pant, pant>
SFX
<beep>
SFX
<thump>
<shine...>
<creaking>
ALBION ZERO
<squeeze6>
VOICE (Chiba)
Zero!
Are you all right?!
Zero!!
CHIBA
All three passenger planes have landed safely.
With zero casualties.
(Somehow... we're all safe...)
SUZAKU
(Staking your life to protect peace...)
SUZAKU
It really is heavy, isn't it?
SUZAKU
This mask...
!
SUZAKU
But thankfully...
Wha—
SUZAKU
(...)
SUZAKU
(Isn't it obvious?
This machine is the symbol of a regime that terrorized the world.7)
<squeeze6>
REPORTER
The other day, there was an incident in Shinagawa, where the Seaside Airport was taken hostage by a group of extremists...
REPORTER
...but, after being called in by the UFN, Zero and the Black Knights were able to arrest and subdue the culprits within just three hours.
REPORTER
Recently made into a chaotic crime scene...
REPORTER
...but now, with no flights even needing to be canceled, the airport has returned to normal—
TAMAKI
What'd I tell ya, Zero's awesome~.
Well, sure, he's a big ole hero now.
KALLEN
(A hero, huh...?
Yeah, I guess that's what he8 had in mind.)
—Anyway.
That reminds me, Kallen.
Shouldn't you be on campus right now?
Instead of hanging out with us all the time~.
KALLEN
<sigh!>
Today's my last day of vacation9.
Because yeah, Sugiyama-san, some of us lead busy lives.
VOICE (HINATA)
You tell 'im!
SIGN
cafe
Zero
(Seeking Part-Timers!)
SUGIYAMA
Hey, shut up!
SFX
<ding-dong>
KALLEN
No one likes an aimless guy, you know!
HINATA
No one!
SUGIYAMA
<tch>
GIRL (Benio)
Um...
Are you still looking for part-timers?
TAMAKI
H, hey...
Aren't you...?
KALLEN
(You know what, Lelouch?
This world really has gotten way better.)
(The same drive we all used to put into conflict has now been redirected into tackling things like poverty, education, and just... recovery.)
SIGN
MAHOROBA: Type-01
KALLEN
(Everyone's really doing their best to make the world a better place.)
KALLEN
(Taking advantage of all the opportunities we just didn't have before.)
SIGN
cafe
Zero
(New menu starts today!)
(Opportunities you gave us, I think, by taking on our hatred, our resentment... basically all of our negativity.
Everything bad in the world was the Treacherous Emperor Lelouch's fault... right?
And yet, it's thanks to that same guy that the rest of us might be able to move on, without being bound by the past.)
(...Me, though—
...I don't think I'm there just yet.
But give me a little more time to come to terms with everything, and I'll get moving, too.)
(We're going to make this world a wonderful place, I just know it.)
(If only I could show it to you, too, somehow...)
C.C.
Thank you both
for everything.
JEREMIAH
Oh, no, it was nothing...
More importantly, how are you holding up?
I appreciate the sentiment,
but what's one person compared with the whole world, right?
JEREMIAH
...
ANYA
If you need...
anything else — let us know.
C.C.
Sure.
If that time ever comes, I'll be counting on you.
C.C.
Well, I should get going.
C.C.
Can't keep him waiting, you know?
<creak>
SFX
<whump>
C.C.
This might be a long trip.
I hope you're ready for it...
SFX
<ignition starting>
Lelouch.
<clakity clak>
<roar>
1 状況開始, literally "situation" + "start", is a fairly cliched phrase in Japanese media about the military, and is something said at the beginning of any sort of military... situation. (Cecile frequently uses an offshoot of it, "operation start", before the Lancelot joins the fray in R1, to refer to their small piece of the action.) ↩
2 This real-life acronym stands for Radar Data Processing. The RDP system detects and tracks aircraft in-flight. ↩
3 Similarly, a real-life acronym that stands for Traffic Collision Avoidance System, also known as an Aiborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS). TCAS/ACAS in an on-board system that monitors the airspace around a given plane, warning pilots of the presence of other transponder-equipped aircraft. It's no substitute for air traffic control towers, as not all planes have transponders and transponders can also fail (just like any other system or part), but it would help here, were it working. ↩
4 Fun fact: In the first season, Toudou was addressed as 中佐 (lieutenant colonel (army/airforce/marines)); in R2, as 将軍 (general (generic term, not specific to any one branch of the military)). In many ways, 指令 (captain) is a demotion, but it would probably be wrong to think of it that way, since this word for captain is a civilian term — used by, for example, fire departments, where a captain is the rank between "chief" and "lieutenant". ↩
5 The first of several things Suzaku appears to be saying to the Lancelot; urging it to hang in there, to go faster, to bring the planes down safely, etc. ↩
6 Specifically, the type of tightness one feels in one's chest, caused by powerful feelings. ↩
7 The furigana here on この機体 (this machine) is for Lancelot Albion, just in case it wasn't clear enough what Suzaku means. More literally, the sentence would be: "This machine is a symbol that reduced the world to fear/dread/horror/etc." ↩
8 Notably not あいつら, which would be "they". ↩
9 Between this statement and the reference last chapter to Kouwa 2's beginning, this chapter should be taking place in early January (say, around January 5th, assuming Kallen's attending a university on the same schedule as real-world Japanese universities). What's less clear is whether the "a.t.b." date here would be 2019 or 2020. If you go by the re;boot movies, it's definitely 2020, but R2 itself was much fuzzier on the exact time of Lelouch's death... we can work backwards from this manga's "half a year" comment to a death in summer, perhaps... oh I don't know... August 10th. (For symmetry.) ↩
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I'm definitely also quietly hoping this manga will improve on the movie, but I'm trying to keep my own expectations pretty low in the hopes of being pleasantly surprised. :)
It's also worth remembering that the writing on this manga is being done by Koujirou Taniguchi, a long-time producer on CODE GEASS but not one of the TV show's writers, and in the commentary pages of the Re; manga, he expressed, in summary, that he "[hopes] to live up to the expectations of [the original creative team as well as the fans]".
Given that, I think we're unlikely to see dramatic changes to the plot here, and I definitely don't think this writer would feel worthy of a serious, long-time reveal like C.C.'s real name.
(Also, being completely honest, after fourteen years...? I don't know that I actually want that kind of reveal. I know that, in theory, the creative team has always known what C.C.'s real name is, but I'm not sure there's one they could tell us that would actually feel "true" to me. Plus, I really like the mystery behind C.C., and I always have. Which is part of why I've never sought out the Renya manga.)
I think your best bets are probably more detail in the characters' reactions to Lelouch's return and a scene with Lelouch and Kallen. But whatever happens, I hope it'll be something we can all enjoy, at least parts of, regardless of what our headcanons are, or what our ships are.
(The original TV show's ending had at least one significant advantage over the movie in that regard: none of the 'ships "won" in any definitive way, but plenty of people felt like their 'ship had won, which is kind of a neat trick if you can manage it. The fanbase might not have been altogether satisfied, but... well, I think a greater proportion of it was happier, shall we say. Lelouch/C.C. is a ship I really liked in the TV show, and I was pretty dissatisfied with the way the re;boot movies handled it, as I think I've mentioned.)
P.S. — I definitely agree about geass and consistency with the rules of the universe. It just makes it feel like there's something wrong with Lelouch's Code, which I sort of think is intentional, but sort of think might not have been...? Maybe the manga will be more revealing!