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[TRANSLATED] CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Re;surrection (Chapter 7, Pt 1)
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<vroom vroom>
<step>
SFX
<shing>
<bing-bong>
KALLEN
'Morning, Benio!
I'll take the—1
BENIO
Oh—!
BENIO
Kallen-san, it's terrible!
Zero and Nunnally-san have been...!
According to a statement issued by the UFN's Supreme Council,
Nunnally vi Britannia, Honorary Consultant to the WHA, and Zero, Advisor for the Black Knights...
NEWSCASTER
...had just arrived in Hashvess to inspect a refugee camp when they went missing—
TAMAKI
Zero got nabbed?
Who the heck would do that?!
KALLEN
Zero and Nunnally...
SFX
<bzzz, bzzz>
Um...
Kallen-san, your phone...
KALLEN
Huh?
<bzzz>
Oh, yep.
KALLEN
(Our secret line?)
SFX
<beep>
SCHNEIZEL
Young Miss Kouzuki,
I crave a boon2.
KALLEN
...
Understood.
CODE GEASS
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
Volume one, now on sale!!
Well, how nice to see all of you.
It was Zero and Nunnally's plight
that brought us here.
Of course.
KANNON
It's exactly as it was reported.
The incident happened in the Hashvess refugee camp.
According to information from their Black Knights escorts...
KANNON
Our enemy used KMFs from multiple different sources to create an undentifiable combat force.
KALLEN
Unidentifiable?
Initial speculation was that we were dealing with opposing factions from within Hashvess3,
but they're simply too good for that.
SAYOKO
Too good to have been spontaneous4, you mean.
TOUDOU
They had training, in combat strategy as well as tactics.
And to have KMFs from so many countries, thereby obscuring their affiliation with any individual one...
These were no ordinary terrorists.
KALLEN
If they could beat someone like him...
And according to the record, there was also a strange machine, one no one had ever seen before.
LLOYD
A strange machine?!
SAYOKO
—Do we know what the perpetrator was after?
LLOYD
<bwahaha—>
TOUDOU
Not at this time.
There was an abduction, but no one has claimed responsibility for it.5
SCHNEIZEL
However, it would seem they were after Nunnally.
Lady Nunnally?
LLOYD
What makes you say that?
SCHNEIZEL
Hashvess is in a... complicated position, bordered as it is by five other nations.
But none of them are wealthy, by any means — and, in fact, most are in need of the WHA's aid.
SAYOKO
Right, they should realize that the abduction of Lady Nunnally would cut off that aid.
CORNELIA
But nor does it make sense for them to have been after Zero.
If they'd needed the head of the Black Knights for something, they would have issued a statement.
And there would have been no need to take Nunnally.
SCHNEIZEL
In summary: this isn't someone hoping for aid,
but someone who wants Nunnally.
SAYOKO
Lady Nunnally...
So, that's where we are.
SCHNEIZEL
Personally, I suspect a neighboring country — Zilkhstan.
KALLEN
Zilkhstan, huh?
The so-called Land of Warriors...
KANNON
A land in which, approximately three hundred years ago, the original native population blended with migrants from other nations, like Europia and Africa.
KANNON
Its history was one of having to fend off attack after attack from nearby nations for its fertile land...
...but then the once-abundant headwater dried up, and Zilkstan's decline began.
TOUDOU
All of which has led us to the modern-day mercenary nation of Zilkhstan, whose citizenry
boasts so many fighters of such high skill that every other nation kept hiring them as soldiers.
Ooh! So, that's it. That explains everything!
KALLEN
?
LLOYD
Look,
wouldn't you say it's peaceful nowadays?
LLOYD
If mercenary work was what put food on your table, wouldn't you be going hungry right now?
CORNELIA
Indeed.
And yet, Zilkhstan continues to reject overtures for both membership in the UFN and aid from organizations like the WHA.
SCHNEIZEL
All of which could be explained by that same historical context, but...
I'm only more suspicious.
Zilkhstan must think they have some other way out of poverty.
A kingdom in poverty because they're a land of warriors.
Yet they have no need for aid.
And Nunnally went missing after going there—
KALLEN
!
SCHNEIZEL
My intuition is telling me that there must be a connection between this kingdom and Nunnally's abduction.
SAYOKO
(All he needs is proof. The final missing piece...)
SAYOKO
Ah, I see.
So that's why you summoned us.
LLOYD
Can't just poke around without proof, after all~.
Might cause an international incident!
KALLEN
But if a few civilians, posing as tourists, were to go there... we could get that proof.
Precisely.
TOUDOU
I could never bring myself to turn to ordinary civilians, but—
TOUDOU
...if it's a special agent, a brilliant scientist,
TOUDOU
and the Ace of the Black Knights—
TOUDOU
—then there's no one more reliable.
Should your investigative team uncover proof, a second team is being put together to extract Nunnally and Zero.
Cornelia will spearhead it.
CORNELIA
I, after all, can always claim to have been working alone if anything goes wrong.
<step!>
But more than that—
<clench>
CORNELIA
I want to save my sister—
To save Nunnally... with my own two hands!
You got it.
Let's do this!
SCHNEIZEL
Thank you. You have my gratitude.
Departure's in three days.
All arrangements should be made by then.
SCHNEIZEL
Come in, please.
SFX
<whoosh>
SFX
<step, step, step>
<fwsh6>
1 モーニング in this context is a breakfast special. ↩
2 If this is weird in English, good, because it's also sort of weird in Japanese; Schneizel describes the request he has for her (頼みがある) as beseechingly (折り入って), but also uses 君 (rude, if not directed at a friend) and くん (perhaps more familiar than Kallen would like). ↩
3 The implication here is that the rest of the KMFs were standard models, and only Shalio's machine was unique.↩
4 らしすぎる here as in らしい — too much like something else — and 不自然 is more literally 'unnatural', but in context Cornelia, Sayoko, Toudou, and Kallen are all in agreement here: this isn't the work of local rabble who just happened to grab Nunnally and Zero because they're famous and they were vulnerable, it was an organized assault by a group that had planned for such a thing. ↩
5 Specifically, the type of claiming-responsibility that is done after a crime, such as a bombing. ↩
6 Standing at attention sharply. ↩
<vroom vroom>
<step>
SFX
<shing>
<bing-bong>
KALLEN
'Morning, Benio!
I'll take the—1
BENIO
Oh—!
BENIO
Kallen-san, it's terrible!
Zero and Nunnally-san have been...!
According to a statement issued by the UFN's Supreme Council,
Nunnally vi Britannia, Honorary Consultant to the WHA, and Zero, Advisor for the Black Knights...
NEWSCASTER
...had just arrived in Hashvess to inspect a refugee camp when they went missing—
TAMAKI
Zero got nabbed?
Who the heck would do that?!
KALLEN
Zero and Nunnally...
SFX
<bzzz, bzzz>
Um...
Kallen-san, your phone...
KALLEN
Huh?
<bzzz>
Oh, yep.
KALLEN
(Our secret line?)
SFX
<beep>
SCHNEIZEL
Young Miss Kouzuki,
I crave a boon2.
KALLEN
...
Understood.
CODE GEASS
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
Volume one, now on sale!!
Well, how nice to see all of you.
It was Zero and Nunnally's plight
that brought us here.
Of course.
KANNON
It's exactly as it was reported.
The incident happened in the Hashvess refugee camp.
According to information from their Black Knights escorts...
KANNON
Our enemy used KMFs from multiple different sources to create an undentifiable combat force.
KALLEN
Unidentifiable?
Initial speculation was that we were dealing with opposing factions from within Hashvess3,
but they're simply too good for that.
SAYOKO
Too good to have been spontaneous4, you mean.
TOUDOU
They had training, in combat strategy as well as tactics.
And to have KMFs from so many countries, thereby obscuring their affiliation with any individual one...
These were no ordinary terrorists.
KALLEN
If they could beat someone like him...
And according to the record, there was also a strange machine, one no one had ever seen before.
LLOYD
A strange machine?!
SAYOKO
—Do we know what the perpetrator was after?
LLOYD
<bwahaha—>
TOUDOU
Not at this time.
There was an abduction, but no one has claimed responsibility for it.5
SCHNEIZEL
However, it would seem they were after Nunnally.
Lady Nunnally?
LLOYD
What makes you say that?
SCHNEIZEL
Hashvess is in a... complicated position, bordered as it is by five other nations.
But none of them are wealthy, by any means — and, in fact, most are in need of the WHA's aid.
SAYOKO
Right, they should realize that the abduction of Lady Nunnally would cut off that aid.
CORNELIA
But nor does it make sense for them to have been after Zero.
If they'd needed the head of the Black Knights for something, they would have issued a statement.
And there would have been no need to take Nunnally.
SCHNEIZEL
In summary: this isn't someone hoping for aid,
but someone who wants Nunnally.
SAYOKO
Lady Nunnally...
So, that's where we are.
SCHNEIZEL
Personally, I suspect a neighboring country — Zilkhstan.
KALLEN
Zilkhstan, huh?
The so-called Land of Warriors...
KANNON
A land in which, approximately three hundred years ago, the original native population blended with migrants from other nations, like Europia and Africa.
KANNON
Its history was one of having to fend off attack after attack from nearby nations for its fertile land...
...but then the once-abundant headwater dried up, and Zilkstan's decline began.
TOUDOU
All of which has led us to the modern-day mercenary nation of Zilkhstan, whose citizenry
boasts so many fighters of such high skill that every other nation kept hiring them as soldiers.
Ooh! So, that's it. That explains everything!
KALLEN
?
LLOYD
Look,
wouldn't you say it's peaceful nowadays?
LLOYD
If mercenary work was what put food on your table, wouldn't you be going hungry right now?
CORNELIA
Indeed.
And yet, Zilkhstan continues to reject overtures for both membership in the UFN and aid from organizations like the WHA.
SCHNEIZEL
All of which could be explained by that same historical context, but...
I'm only more suspicious.
Zilkhstan must think they have some other way out of poverty.
A kingdom in poverty because they're a land of warriors.
Yet they have no need for aid.
And Nunnally went missing after going there—
KALLEN
!
SCHNEIZEL
My intuition is telling me that there must be a connection between this kingdom and Nunnally's abduction.
SAYOKO
(All he needs is proof. The final missing piece...)
SAYOKO
Ah, I see.
So that's why you summoned us.
LLOYD
Can't just poke around without proof, after all~.
Might cause an international incident!
KALLEN
But if a few civilians, posing as tourists, were to go there... we could get that proof.
Precisely.
TOUDOU
I could never bring myself to turn to ordinary civilians, but—
TOUDOU
...if it's a special agent, a brilliant scientist,
TOUDOU
and the Ace of the Black Knights—
TOUDOU
—then there's no one more reliable.
Should your investigative team uncover proof, a second team is being put together to extract Nunnally and Zero.
Cornelia will spearhead it.
CORNELIA
I, after all, can always claim to have been working alone if anything goes wrong.
<step!>
But more than that—
<clench>
CORNELIA
I want to save my sister—
To save Nunnally... with my own two hands!
You got it.
Let's do this!
SCHNEIZEL
Thank you. You have my gratitude.
Departure's in three days.
All arrangements should be made by then.
SCHNEIZEL
Come in, please.
SFX
<whoosh>
SFX
<step, step, step>
<fwsh6>
1 モーニング in this context is a breakfast special. ↩
2 If this is weird in English, good, because it's also sort of weird in Japanese; Schneizel describes the request he has for her (頼みがある) as beseechingly (折り入って), but also uses 君 (rude, if not directed at a friend) and くん (perhaps more familiar than Kallen would like). ↩
3 The implication here is that the rest of the KMFs were standard models, and only Shalio's machine was unique.↩
4 らしすぎる here as in らしい — too much like something else — and 不自然 is more literally 'unnatural', but in context Cornelia, Sayoko, Toudou, and Kallen are all in agreement here: this isn't the work of local rabble who just happened to grab Nunnally and Zero because they're famous and they were vulnerable, it was an organized assault by a group that had planned for such a thing. ↩
5 Specifically, the type of claiming-responsibility that is done after a crime, such as a bombing. ↩
6 Standing at attention sharply. ↩
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(Anonymous) 2021-05-08 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)Also, we gotten some more history of the kingdom's background in which it was a lush land before attacks by neighbors and its main river dried up.
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(Anonymous) 2021-05-17 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)Re: L&G
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I finally managed reading this chapter. :) First it took some time till this chapter was released in Japan. Then I forgot a few times to read your translation. Last, I wanted to read it last week, then on monday. Today it was successful.
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(Anonymous) 2021-06-19 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)Thanks for this!
(Anonymous) 2021-06-20 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)part 2
(Anonymous) 2021-06-27 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)