[TRANSLATED] Lelouch the Tutor (Chapter 29)

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Original Scans: courtesy of Comic NewType

FINALE: Volume 4 will go on sale November 26th!!

Comic By: Urushidama

Original Story:
based on CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Rebellion
(c) SUNRISE/PROJECT L-GEASS
Character Design (c) 2006-2017 CLAMP-ST

Lelouch the Tutor
Final Chapter

We've been waiting for the Ultimate Pizza, and now it's...?

SIGNS
Super Spicy Pizza
Sweet Pizza
Seafood Pizza

C.C.
Ooh! What is all this?

LELOUCH
It's her doing, of course.

LELOUCH
As soon as she heard about the pizza club, she just had to make an event out of it.

MILLY
All right, everyone! The Ultimate Pizza event has now begun!

MILLY
Whichever pizza everyone eats the most of today will be crowned the Ultimate Pizza!
So I expect you to all do your best, okay?!

CROWD
Yeah!!





MILLY
Huh?
Aren't Lelouch and C.C. with you...?

MILLY
Well, that's just great.

SHIRLEY
Did you need them for something?

RIVALZ
'Course! They were supposed to do the announcing after the fireworks.
Y'know, for the Ultimate Pizza winner.

KALLEN
Knowing those two, they've probably already made their decision.

NINA
They are the head and deputy head of the pizza club, after all.

SUZAKU
What should we do?
Do you want us to look for them?

RIVALZ
Guess we could do that...
I mean, it's not like we'd be interruptin' them doin' anything naughty, right?

SHIRLEY
Wha—?!

LELOUCH
Well, well.
So here you are.

LELOUCH
What's the matter?
Was the pizza not to your satisfaction?

C.C.
Nah.
I think I'm... very satisfied.

C.C.
<shake, shake>
I'll never have enough pizza!!

LELOUCH
Hmm.

C.C.
?

LELOUCH
You know,
you're a little different now.

C.C.
Am I?

LELOUCH
Oh, yes.
When we first met, you were a strange girl.

C.C.
Strange, said the jerk.

LELOUCH
Oh, definitely strange.
A tactless girl with a diet so unbalanced it consisted entirely of pizza,
whose room was a complete disaster — self-absorbed and self-important...
...who never listened to me at all...
Oh, there were so many reasons to call you strange.

C.C.
Why, you...

LELOUCH
But,
then you changed.
Now you're someone who hates to feel like she's squandered her friends' hard work,
someone who works hard for her friends...

LELOUCH
Through meeting so many different people,
you've changed.

C.C.
You've got me all...

LELOUCH
Right.
Besides...

LELOUCH
I've changed, too.
Thanks to your disruptive presence,
I've started thinking more about all the different people in my life.

C.C.
Oh, I see.
Because before you were all about Nunnally.

LELOUCH
Don't even start.
...Say, C.C....

C.C.
Hmm?

LELOUCH
Who on earth...
are you?

LELOUCH
I know 'C.C.' can't be your real name.
And you're one of my mother's 'old friends'...

C.C.
Why wait so long to bring all of that up?

LELOUCH
Because I waited so long.
Look, honestly,
when we first met, I wrote you off as a nuisance.

LELOUCH
Now I know better.
And that's why
I want to know more about you.

C.C.
...Really?

LELOUCH
Yes.

C.C.
Well, it's not like I have anything to hide.
I'm...

SFX
<boom>

MILLY
Aha!
So this is where you've been!

LELOUCH
Oh, right.
After the fireworks finish, we're supposed to announce the winners of the Ultimate Pizza contest?

LELOUCH
Let's get back to our audience, C.C.

C.C.
You're sure?
Even though I...

LELOUCH
You really thought I'd give a damn about that?
You and I are the head and deputy head of the pizza club, remember?
Everyone's waiting for us.

LELOUCH
Besides...

LELOUCH
I'll still be your tutor, right?


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^{1 So, 描き下ろし is a bit ambiguous. This could mean as little as a single new illustration, or as much as an extra chapter of the comic. Given, however, that NewType's website currently claims there will be another chapter on November 20th, I wouldn't necessarily assume that the new content will still be new by the time of the manga's publication. (I think we're probably going to get an epilogue chapter next time, which will also be included in Volume 4.) It's also worth noting that this is the only chapter not to end with "to be continued".↩}

Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

There's something so bittersweet about being able to see characters like C.C. and particularly Lelouch to be able to smile so carefree like, and generally just enjoy themselves in a simple life. Bless.

A twist with C.C.'s real name tho, that's interesting. I'm assuming she told Lelouch her real name and he recognized who she was? Though as to WHO she could be... in the spirit of keeping as close to the source material as possible, maybe something like she's an orphan and it's a girl that Marianne fostered when she was younger? Lelouch had such a serious expression though, and went as far as to say he "wouldn't care about that", who knows. Hopefully it'll be revealed by next chapter (which I can't believe it's finally ending!! This manga had so much potential to do a lot more fun things...)

Thank you so much for translating as always!!

P.S. I wonder who the man Charles is having a staring contest with is. Genbu? Darlton?

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It's definitely Genbu though the artist has rendered them both more clearly before. :) (Darlton's eyebrows are very distinctly wild at the ends, and not nearly as thick; Genbu is one of the only men in the series with such thick blunt eyebrows.)

I think the scene is meant to evoke Lelouch learning C.C.'s name in the original canon, but it isn't his primary focus here. Here, he asks her who she is (いったい何者, which I think I undersold somewhat in my translation... I thought maybe the italics would help enough, but it's "who on earth" or "who the heck").

As a reminder, C.C. isn't only an "old friend" of Marianne in this canon who claims to have no memory of her schooling prior to Ashford; during some of her study sessions with Lelouch, she's professed eerie familiarity with history, similar to the DVD specials "History with Professor Lelouch", where she at one point talks about "Washington's Rebellion" as if she was there...... because she probably was.

I mean, I'm not sure how much of this sort of thing the mangaka meant to expound upon, and how much of it was just winking knowingly to the readers. :) Especially considering that this was the "final" chapter but not quite the end...

From presumably Urushidama's official twitter account (Ogasawara, the artist behind Re; and Re;surrection retweeted it):

"Thank you so much for reading the final chapter! ...Although not the last. I would appreciate it if you would check out Volume 4 for the very end."

(So, this tweet is having some fun with different ways of saying 'last'; 最終話, 'final chapter'; ラスト, 'not the last'; and 最後, the 'very end' contained within Volume 4. One of the differences between 最終 and 最後 is that one is an adjective and the other is a noun (最終バス but 最後のバス), but the way Urushidama is using it takes more advantage of the slight difference in nuance, where 最終 might refer to the last chapter of a book or the last episode of a season, but 最後 would be the end after which there was no more content — like, the very end of the very last book in a series, or the movie that wraps up loose ends after a popular TV show gets cancelled.)

TL;DR: I'd expect an epilogue. Either the epilogue in its entirety will be on NewType's website on November 20th (the "next chapter" date now on the site for Lelouch the Tutor), or some sort of tease / preview for it. This is likely also what the text on the last page of the chapter refers to.

[(Anonymous)]

gotcha, so not really a name that he would recognize, but a "revelation" that might shock him. This would give more credence to my orphan theory haha.

Thank you for the context on the final chapter!!

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[(Anonymous)]

i am sad and happy sad because his would be the ending😭😭 im gonna miss this😭😭 Happy because lelouch and cc are smiling to each other i hope another chapter please😃 I hope this would be an Anime😍😍

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[(Anonymous)]

so it seems a special chapter is out now, as well as part 1 of Ch 5 of Re;surrection is out with that part 2 of it will be out on 11/27/20.

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[koenigbuuhuu]

So thats really ending.
Thank you so much for translating this manga and giving all that interesting translation notes~

I´d like to try some of these different kind of pizzas too. :)

[tzerah14]

Thank you very much man, this truly means alot to me. Hope you have a great day love your work dont let any one rush you or tell what to do man. Cause its not like you r being paid to do this for us but its just because u love the show like. Again thank you very much hope great day again

[love_psycho]

Finished re-reading and thanks ever so much for translating it! I really enjoy this manga; it's a silly, comedic high school au! And everyone feels more in-character especially in comparison to the movies (yes shade for this here lmao).

This is so peak

[(Anonymous)]

Peak manga 10/10

Great translations too

I love C.C. and Lelouch so much lol