[TRANSLATED] CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Re;surrection (Chapter 5, Part 3)

[rainfall]

Original Scans: courtesy of Comic NewType

C.C.
I'll be right back, okay?
So just wait there for me, Lelouch.

<Volume 1 was so popular that we're getting a second printing!!>

SFX
<step, step>

C.C.
...

C.C.
Damn—

SFX
<thump>

C.C.
(Another useless site¹...?)

SFX
<slip>
<crumble>
<stagger>

C.C.
!
<thud>

C.C.
...

C.C.
<heavier steps>
Sorry for the wait, Lelouch.

C.C.
This site isn't any—

C.C.
Lelouch?

C.C.
(!!)
(Where did he go?!)

C.C.
<pant, pant>
(Lelouch!)
<pant>

C.C.
<pant>
Lelouch...

C.C.
Lelou—...
?!

SFX
<vanishing²>

C.C.
Lelouch!!!

SFX
<skid—>

C.C.
<land, jump, jump>

C.C.
Lelouch!

C.C.
(His wounds are already healing...)

C.C.
(A body that repairs itself, no matter how badly damaged.)
(This isn't what Lelouch wants!)

C.C.
(It's such a... betrayal of his will and his resolve. To leave him like this—)

LELOUCH
Ugh...

C.C.
And what have we learned, Lelouch?
Not to wander off on our own, I hope?³

LELOUCH
...
<sink⁴>

C.C.
<sigh>

C.C.
Well, this place was a bust, too.
We're just going to have to go to Zilkhstan.

C.C.
If we can get to the Aram Gate,
I just know it'll work...

SHAMNA
...

SHAMNA
Gather everyone.
I have a prophecy to impart.

<TO BE CONTINUED in PART 4>



^{1 Specifically an archaeological site, the location of ruins, etc.↩
2 Obviously Lelouch isn't literally disappearing, this sound effect is just trying to convey that he's dropping out of view.↩
3 C.C.'s wording here is, I think, meant to sound rather like a parent chiding a child.↩
4 シュン is a sound effect for looking (emotionally) wounded. When you sink in on yourself and feel bad. Usually the result of being talked down to or hurt by someone else's words.↩}

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the translation!

I'm not sure what they're doing with the schedule though it has been nice having it be somewhat regular if with shorter chapters.

I'll fully admit I was completely caught off guard going through the raw when Lelouch fell. I thought it was just a small tumble or something then scrolled to the next page and there's this huge drop and a blood splatter.

This does confirm, in the continuity at least I guess, that Lelouch's body is immortal and heals. I feel like they were never exactly clear whether he had the benefit at all, though given how screwed up C's World is I suppose the main risk is there may come a time when it doesn't work anymore. It's definitely interesting seeing C.C. here compared to how she was at the start of the series.

Is this also the first time they've actually depicted the healing process at all? I feel like anytime it happened it always was offscreen or we just saw them get back up a bit later. Never actually seeing the wounds closing up.

[rainfall]

- You're welcome!

- Heh, I kind of agree. Also, this is going to be an absolute monster of a chapter when it's finished, I think we're already in excess of 40 pages here.

- Yeah, I've heard a variety of theories, including that one: that his Code is messed up in some way, and might just stop working at any point without warning. We'll see if the manga addresses that at all. (Also maybe it moves on his body as the movie goes on? But that might also have been inconsistent animation? I honestly haven't seen the movie and wasn't inclined to, whoops haha.)

- I think you may be right about that. CG has a fair amount of on-screen injury and blood, but it's never been especially graphic about it, more the same sort of way that the Joker's "magic trick" was filmed in The Dark Knight; sound effects, musical stings, but the camera cuts away, and the resulting bloody mess on an immortal is mostly covered by hair or clothing. I believe the wound C.C. exposes on Lelouch's head here is meant to be showing skull, which is definitely not something the show ever did. (Otherwise it would be dark, like the blood in the panel.)

[(Anonymous)]

I was surprised to see this was another Part as well as that next chapter is one as well. I'm not sure if this is going to be the norm then or if this is just an oddity given the scheduling for this one especially has seemed a bit weird.

The location looks about right from the glimpse here compared to the movie. It's always around that location and doesn't really change to another spot of the body at all.

Yeah, I can't recall it ever really showing gore or anything like that. It was always just lots of blood and sometimes a hole if someone was shot in the head or something but never super detailed.

[shanoawarrior]

I saw the movie before reading this manga and was under the impression that Lelouch was somewhat of an incomplete immortal, meaning that he won't age but can still die if he's injured severely enough since the fact that he still can use his geass must mean he's not exactly like CC. But in this chapter, Lelouch has been shown to survive a fall that would have easily killed a normal person so I'm guessing he must be a special case.

CC certainly has changed a lot from how she was at the beginning of the series. She goes from being lazy, aloof, and selfish, not even willing to cook for herself. Now she takes care of Lelouch as tenderly as if he were a baby, even cooks for him everyday like it was Christmas.