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[TRANSLATED] CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Re;surrection (Chapter 5, Pt 4)
Original Scans: courtesy of Comic NewType
According to the Lizard's intel, Bolvona Forgnar has left Zilkhstan.
SOLDIER 2
If that's true, then tonight really will be our best chance.
If we destabilize the city with a surprise attack, we could—
SOLDIER 1
Hey! Hold up!
SOLDIER 1
Heat signature, coming in fast!
SFX
<high-pitched beeping>
SOLDIER 2
Wha— Such monstrous speed...!!
SFX
<bang, thud>
<rooaaar>
VOICE (SHALIO)
Are you the rats my sister prophesied?
SOLDIER 1
All units, exit stealth mode!
<snap, crack, whoosh, howl>
Deploy and crush the fool who dared show his face here with a single KMF!
SOLDIER 1
Then, onward to the royal castle!
<anger>
SFX
<swish (sword emerging from sheath)>
SHALIO
I knew it! With her prophecies, I'm invincible!1
<gust of wind, intensity>
Everything is just as you prophesied, Mistress Shamna!
But, while I have not been granted the honor of appearing before our sovereign,
if you would but deign to order it of
this unworthy son of Bolvona Forgnar...
SHAMNA
Speak no further, Shesthaal!
For a lizard has crept into my temple.
Must I really deal with this, too, myself?2
BOLVONA
A... lizard,
Your highness?
SFX
<twitch>
SHMANA
Waiting for Forgnar's absence, perhaps — scheming that, in the chaos after a surprise attack...
...they might assassinate Shalio.
Well,
Yupito?
YUPITO
!
SHAMNA
Hmph.
YUPITO
<rushing—>
Damn you—
SFX
<blam>
<fwoosh>
<whomp>
...!
SFX
<curtain rustle>
SFX
<ker-chak>
SFX
<slow kneel>
Please forgive me,
Mistress Shamna.
There was an oversight with one of the guard's background checks.
SHAMNA
It will not happen again.
Now, then, Nadira.
NADIRA
Y— Yes, Highness!
SHAMNA
Yupito was a traitor, and you will be the one
to inform Shalio of that fact as soon as he returns.
NADIRA
But...!
He and Master Shalio were...
(They were such good friends!)
SHAMNA
Shalio isn't so weak a person as to be heartbroken over something so minor.
He wouldn't be fit to rule a nation like Zilkhstan otherwise.
Yes, Your Majesty.3
SHALIO
I see.
So Yupito was...
SHALIO
Owing to its history, our Zilkhstan has incurred a great deal of resentment from other countries.
As its king, it was inevitable that I would would be targeted.
That's why I—
NADIRA
<shudder>
SHALIO
<smiiiiiiile...>
must become the greatest warrior ever.
1 The same word used earlier to describe Zilkhstan itself. While this sentence structure could be saying the prophecies themselves are invincible, given Shalio's later dialogue, it's pretty clear what the は particle is implying. ↩
2 Shamna's language is quite archaic here; せねばなるまい is functionally equivalent to せねばならない, which itself is the formal / literary form of しなければならない. ↩
3 Again, roughly equivalent to this, but in Arabic. See the previous chapter's notes for more details. ↩
According to the Lizard's intel, Bolvona Forgnar has left Zilkhstan.
SOLDIER 2
If that's true, then tonight really will be our best chance.
If we destabilize the city with a surprise attack, we could—
SOLDIER 1
Hey! Hold up!
SOLDIER 1
Heat signature, coming in fast!
SFX
<high-pitched beeping>
SOLDIER 2
Wha— Such monstrous speed...!!
SFX
<bang, thud>
<rooaaar>
VOICE (SHALIO)
Are you the rats my sister prophesied?
SOLDIER 1
All units, exit stealth mode!
<snap, crack, whoosh, howl>
Deploy and crush the fool who dared show his face here with a single KMF!
SOLDIER 1
Then, onward to the royal castle!
<anger>
SFX
<swish (sword emerging from sheath)>
SHALIO
I knew it! With her prophecies, I'm invincible!1
<gust of wind, intensity>
Everything is just as you prophesied, Mistress Shamna!
But, while I have not been granted the honor of appearing before our sovereign,
if you would but deign to order it of
this unworthy son of Bolvona Forgnar...
SHAMNA
Speak no further, Shesthaal!
For a lizard has crept into my temple.
Must I really deal with this, too, myself?2
BOLVONA
A... lizard,
Your highness?
SFX
<twitch>
SHMANA
Waiting for Forgnar's absence, perhaps — scheming that, in the chaos after a surprise attack...
...they might assassinate Shalio.
Well,
Yupito?
YUPITO
!
SHAMNA
Hmph.
YUPITO
<rushing—>
Damn you—
SFX
<blam>
<fwoosh>
<whomp>
...!
SFX
<curtain rustle>
SFX
<ker-chak>
SFX
<slow kneel>
Please forgive me,
Mistress Shamna.
There was an oversight with one of the guard's background checks.
SHAMNA
It will not happen again.
Now, then, Nadira.
NADIRA
Y— Yes, Highness!
SHAMNA
Yupito was a traitor, and you will be the one
to inform Shalio of that fact as soon as he returns.
NADIRA
But...!
He and Master Shalio were...
(They were such good friends!)
SHAMNA
Shalio isn't so weak a person as to be heartbroken over something so minor.
He wouldn't be fit to rule a nation like Zilkhstan otherwise.
Yes, Your Majesty.3
SHALIO
I see.
So Yupito was...
SHALIO
Owing to its history, our Zilkhstan has incurred a great deal of resentment from other countries.
As its king, it was inevitable that I would would be targeted.
That's why I—
NADIRA
<shudder>
SHALIO
<smiiiiiiile...>
must become the greatest warrior ever.
1 The same word used earlier to describe Zilkhstan itself. While this sentence structure could be saying the prophecies themselves are invincible, given Shalio's later dialogue, it's pretty clear what the は particle is implying. ↩
2 Shamna's language is quite archaic here; せねばなるまい is functionally equivalent to せねばならない, which itself is the formal / literary form of しなければならない. ↩
3 Again, roughly equivalent to this, but in Arabic. See the previous chapter's notes for more details. ↩