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[TRANSLATED] CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Re;surrection (Chapter 9)

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KANON
There's been a communiqué from Schnee.
They're in Zilkhstan, of course.

KANON
According to the records Inspector Shinozaki obtained,
the plain there has been divided into a temple... and their Great Prison.

SCHNEIZEL
Right, then.
Tell Cornelia to prepare her people to for immediate dispatch——

KANON
In addition.

KANON
The Requiem may be in need of... scoring.¹

SCHNEIZEL
Yes,
understood.

CODE GEASS
Lelouch of the Re;surrection

C.C.
It's possible
that Lelouch had already inherited Charles's Code.

KALLEN
Which means, what, immortality?

C.C.
Right.
Any geass user whose power has matured can inherit a Code.
And those who inherit a Code become immortal, in exchange
for losing their geass powers.

C.C.
But Lelouch continued to use his geass even after that...

KALLEN
Then, Lelouch...

KALLEN
(...really did intend to die.)

C.C.
Whatever was wrong with his Code, it persisted through the Zero Requiem.
He most certainly died after being run through the heart.

C.C.
But...

C.C.
His wounds closed up, and his heart began to beat again.
—It's just his spirit that's still missing.²

KALLEN
...

C.C.
Jeremiah was, at least, able to secure a safe place near his hometown...
...to intern Lelouch's body until its regeneration.

C.C.
And I went into the World of C to try to reconstruct him.

KALLEN
Reconstruct?

C.C.
I am 'immortal' because any parts of this fleshy construct that take damage are replaced on the 'C' side of this world.³

LLOYD
Oh, like a mirror backup!⁴

C.C.
Not quite, but you can think of it in those terms.

C.C.
The trouble is, Lelouch killed the gods of the World of C.⁵
And as a result, I can no longer enter that place whenever I please.

KALLEN
Didn't you just come back to life, though?

C.C.
I did.

C.C.
There must be some parts of the World of C that are still intact.
But that doesn't change the fact that Lelouch's spirit is missing.

KALLEN
Then...
What the hell is he?!

C.C.
Lelouch's empty husk.
A regretful shadow of what he once was.

KALLEN
You—

KALLEN
C.C.!
Is this what Lelouch would have wanted?!

C.C.
Well, he did promise me something, a promise
he hadn't yet kept...

KALLEN
How can you even say something so selfish...

KALLEN
Go on, then.
What did he promise you.

C.C.
To make me smile...

KALLEN
Tell me you're not just doing
whatever the hell you feel like for your own gratification?!

C.C.
If I was—

C.C.
If I was, wouldn't I have already discarded
this Lelouch, leaving him as he is?!

C.C.
After all, this is all the result of Lelouch's own actions!

C.C.
The result of his desire to focus
all the world's hatred onto himself!

C.C.
If you reject this... person, aren't you also rejecting everything he did to get to this point?!

KALLEN
...

LELOUCH
Ah—

LELOUCH
Ah—

KALLEN
Lelouch...

KALLEN
I'm sorry, C.C.
I let my emotions get the best of me...

C.C.
No, I was also in the wrong...

LLOYD
Well, anyway!
I don't suppose there's anything we can do?

C.C.
Yes.
I won't leave him like this forever.

C.C.
That's why I came here.

C.C.
Did you notice? That assassin last night...
He used geass.
Here in Zilkhstan,
there's a sect that broke off from the Geass Order, called Farlaf.

C.C.
They control the Aram Gate.
If we can use their system to access the World of C, then reconstructing Lelouch might be possible.

SWAIL
Please forgive me.
The dogs of the UFN would seem to have eluded us.

SHESTHAAL
You can't mean to say they were any real obstacle for you, Qujappat.

SWAIL
Well, after all, I did have to go up against her.

SHESTHAAL
The Order's former leader?

SWAIL
Right,
Lord V.V.'s predecessor...

SHAMNA
C.C.—

SHAMNA
Heehee...
Is her appearance now a divine revelation?
Or perhaps a tribute...?

SHESTHAAL
Even supposing these intruders were spies for the U.N....
As well as part of the geass family⁶...
Our enemies can have only two possible goals.

SWAIL
Either the temple where our princess resides...
Or the Great Wailing Prison on the Gimsula Plains.

SHESTHAAL
Yes.

SHESTHAAL
We are keeping prisoners there.
And if they're able to secure proof of our activities, there is the risk that our entire kingdom will be subject to aerial bombardment.

SHAMNA
Indeed.
And there's also an old Aram Gate in the Wailing Prison...

SHAMNA
And my little brother?
Where is Shalio?

SHESTHAAL
Still at the Great Prison.
As has been his usual wont.

SHAMNA
Send word for him to return at once
and go to the Great Prison in his place, Shesthaal.

SHESTHAAL
Yes, Your Majesty.

SHESTHAAL
As the son of Forgnar the Great: I, Shesthaal,
will show the U.N. what it means to have battle in your genes!

SHALIO
Hey. Can you see? Zero...
—No,
Suzaku Kururugi.

SHALIO
This move, it's one you've done several times — in Asia, in the E.U., and more...

SHALIO
What was your attitude control⁷ at this time?
It's not part of any prefabricated program, is it?

SHALIO
Also, when you were using the Albion, why did your conduct change halfway through that fight?
That wasn't part of the plan, was it...?

SUZAKU
...

SUZAKU
...Who are you?
Why...
do you know so much about how I move?

SUZAKU
How did you know to set that trap exactly where I was going to retreat...?
Was it geass?

SHALIO
That again?
Come now, answer my questions properly.
Don't forget that we have Nunnally here, too...

SUZAKU
...You're a much more despicable boy than I thought.

SHALIO
Oh, indeed I am!
There's nothing I won't do to become the best warrior in the world.

SUZAKU
?

SHALIO
That's the kind of true strength one needs to protect the things that are important to them.
Like you.
Unadulterated cunning.
Sheer contemptibility.
In order to 'protect'...
And that's why you haven't ended your life yet.

SHALIO
But that's all the data I've gathered so far.

SHALIO
Now, then—
Tell me!

SHALIO
Tell me, if you want to protect Nunnally!⁸

SHALIO
Suzaku Kururugi,
I will have all of your strength!

SUZAKU
Nu...

SUZAKU
(Nunnally...)

^{1 Kanon's grammar makes it clear that this is either part of Shinozaki's information or Schnee's report; he's quoting someone else. The Requiem is in need of a score or sheet music. Clearly speaking in 'code' about the Zero Requiem, likely Lelouch's 'survival'.↩}
^{2 心 is often translated as 'heart', but in Japanese it's always meant heart in the sense of 'heart and soul', 'spirit', 'mind', etc; as opposed to the other word, 心臓, which refers to the anatomical heart. I am avoiding translating it as 'soul' because this is a word without any kind of spiritual connotations; when Japanese media want to invoke soul, the word in use will be 魂.↩}
^{3 What the what?!↩}
^{4 This is a technical term referring to a server mirror.↩}
^{5 This would appear to be a retcon...? In the original TV series, at least, Charles and Marianne (and V.V.) wanted to kill the 'gods' of the World of C, and Lelouch instead used his geass to compel the 'gods' (AKA, collective unconsciousness of humanity) to instead reject Charles and Marianne's plans. If he also killed them, or indeed did anything to impact the World of C, there wasn't any indication of it originally. (And in fact the final shot of the TV series, as well as the Miraculous Birthday illust drama and the final chapter of the Re; comic, would seem to indicate that the World of C is alive and well. So, it may be best to consider these two wholly separate continuities, if you weren't already doing that.)↩}
^{6 Lit. 'dependents/family that ties one down' of geass; I assume this relates to what they might 'owe' C.C. as former leader of the Geass Order.↩}
^{7 A technical term referring to control over the orientation of spacecraft — or, in this case, KMFs.↩}
^{8 Originally translated this as "Tell me why you protect her," which... you know, that COULD be a reasonable interpretation of it, but no. Like Shalio's earlier mention of Nunnally, this is a threat: tell me, if you don't want Nunnally to suffer.↩}

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Thanks for translating! Also the god wasn't dead, like in the movie C.C. will realise that it happened due to Charles's lingering consciousness. C's world became stagnant

I mean, that doesn't really change the fact that it's a very strange thing for her to say. She was right there. She saw Lelouch prevent 'the gods' (神 is usually plural by default in Japanese, as opposed to 神様 which is how they refer to the concept of the Christian God) (but also Code Geass pretty directly said it wasn't what we'd usually think of as a deity or deities of any kind) from being killed. Does she think he doubled back to 殺した them later?

It'd be one thing if she'd said 'perhaps something that happened during his confrontation with Charles caused them to die', but she very much did not; she said Lelouch killed them, with the active form of the verb.

Well the dialogue is same as the movie and Lelouch never issued the command to kill god in the recaps either. It was same as the series, the collective consciousness split apart when he wished for tomorrow. Perhaps she thinks that killed the god and hence she can't access the C's world

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean, I was being charitable in suggesting that maybe Lelouch's actions were different in this timeline, since the alternative is C.C. forgetting or else badly misinterpreting events she was there to witness, in a realm that she understands better than any other character in the series. She doesn't even say, 'Maybe Lelouch killed the "gods" [supposition], and that's why I can't enter the World of C'; she says, 'But the problem is that Lelouch killed the gods [statement of fact]. Due to that [fact], I became unable to enter the World of C.' Does the movie back down from the idea that Lelouch killed 'the gods' (making it an even weirder thing for C.C. to have thought was the issue)? Or does it only back down from the idea that killing them was what caused the problem (therefore preserving the plot hole)?

Regardless, of course, my note very much stands. In the TV series, there's nothing wrong with the World of C at any point. Even for fans who don't want to believe that C.C. was speaking to Lelouch in the World of C at the end of the final episode, exactly as she used to speak to Marianne in the World of C, Miraculous Birthday and Re; both show a World of C that's intact and functioning just fine as a place from which the dead can watch the world of the living. So, this is still a definite, inarguable split from that universe.

Ah sorry seems like i was confused about that. I rewatched some scenes. The god is the collective consciousness, so when Lelouch split the consciousness by wishing for tomorrow it means he technically killed it(in the movie timeline) but C.C. can't access it due to Charles's remaining consciousness. It returned to normal after that i guess.

Ofc in the series, nothing was changed and that is a different universe.

I was also confused on that part too for awhile,but I have a theory.

I was thinking that maybe Charles was invading countries not only for the elevators but also capturing 'gods' of other countries(the god/gods/goddesses of other religions)to be able to change reality, or something in the lines of taking the belief of humanity.

In a way, when Lelouch requested for the future/tommorow the deities got disintegrated, since religion is like wishing for the past or looking back,so the deities got dispersed along with the sword.Hence, the "killed god" thing.

Considering that it's never been an actual 'god' or 'gods', but rather collective human unconsciousness, as theorized by Jung specifically (the script for Stage 26, predating the timeslot change and therefore the restructuring of the plot for R2, actively cites Jung on the topic of collective unconsciousness, making this even more clearly the creative team's intent), that seems unlikely to me?

But, as I've noted elsewhere, I'm not here to validate or repudiate your headcanons! Please, by all means, continue to view the series, Re;surrection timeline and otherwise, through whichever lens makes the most sense to you.

My intent with the translation note was to basically put something of a [sic] on C.C.'s line, so that readers would know the error here (whether a continuity error or an error on C.C.'s part) is in the text, rather than being introduced by my translation.

Onii-sama always looks sooo good.

Thanks for this chapter~ It was good and interesting.
Especially the translation notes about the "heart" was a good thing to know.

Thank you so much for the translation! *__* you rock!

you know, when you translated that it was just Jeremiah had hid Lelouch's body, part of me thought of what was the point of the Recap movie timeline that kept Shirley alive just so she would of hidden his body if this would of been more simpler.

I mean, I've said before on tumblr: I'm pretty sure Shirley survived the movies not because the writers needed someone to hide Lelouch's body (and frankly, it makes no sense that Shirley, the Penultimate Ordinary Teen Girl of the series, would be the right person for that job), but to save time in a heavily condensed adaptation.

We already know they made several other creative choices for this reason.

("Removing" Kallen's romantic interest in Zero/Lelouch because they wouldn't have the time to "do it justice", though they seem to have forgotten about that decision by the third movie since they still have her kiss him to say goodbye*.) (Having Shirley and Lelouch "casually" dating in the first movie so that she could be the one to notice him acting suspiciously, out of a concern that audiences might think Lelouch was being "too careless" if multiple characters noticed suspicious behavior...)

And, put bluntly, everything that leads to Shirley's death? Would have taken up a lot of screen time. First, she had to learn Lelouch's identity, which involved being mind-read and manipulated by Mao, a character who was cut for time in the re;boot movies; then, she had a dramatic confrontation with Lelouch where, through her emotional turmoil, she convinced him that it would be better to geass her into forgetting his identity; then, in R2, she had to be close enough to Jeremiah to be freed of not only one but two separate geass manipulations of her memory; then she had to panic over her contradictory memories of not only Lelouch and Suzaku but also Nunnally, Rolo, Viletta — a panic that led her to eventually approaching Rolo and asking for his assistance in helping Lelouch and bringing Nunnally back into his life; and then Lelouch has to discover her body, he and Suzaku have to separately grieve her...

I think the fandom wanted to see Shirley's survival in the re;boot movies as some sort of grand realization on the part of the creative team that her original death had been a "fridging" and that she deserved better (both technically true), but I sincerely doubt it's what actually happened, since saving Shirley's life also coincided with cutting almost all of her screen time. Is she happier in this timeline? Probably. But she also has no impact on the story to speak of, apart from possible implications of her weird phone call with C.C.; it feels particularly insulting to Lelouch/Shirley shippers that either Lelouch or the writers were so completely indifferent to her being his girlfriend that it doesn't even get a cursory mention in a scene where Lelouch is explicitly saying that he didn't want to wind up kissing C.C. twice......... because of C.C.'s association with his father. Ouch, boy.

(Did this timeline involve both Lelouch and Shirley forgetting about their casual dating in R1? I can't see why Charles would have bothered, but even if he had it wouldn't matter, both because Lelouch has all his memories back in the scene I just mentioned and because it takes place after Milly's farewell event; Lelouch and Shirley are definitely supposed to be dating again.)

* It's not that such a kiss couldn't, conceivably, be motivated for some other reason; it's that Taniguchi explicitly told Kallen's voice actress, back when R2 was wrapping, that she was kissing Lelouch out of romantic interest.

Edited 2021-11-11 21:26 (UTC)

The C.C. in this adaptation seems to display considerably more emotion than her movie counterpart... I'm really looking forward to her interactions with Lelouch after he comes back now.

Thank you so much for translating!

oh, it seems they uploaded the first part of ch 10, with the 2nd one on the 24th, though if they will have it by then is still debatable.

thank you for the lovely translations!!!

well, the 2nd part is out now. Hopefully you could post the parts of ch 10 by New Years if you have time. Happy Holidays.

We'll see! Like many other people, I have a lot of family stuff going on. Prior to this it's been a ton of work. :) Sorry that they chose to drop the previous chapter with 0 warning and that they chose to drop this one on Christmas Eve!

so, how is everything so far? You think you may translate the first part of ch 10 this weekend?

Currently out of state!

When I do get started, I'll want to do them fairly contiguously, but that's all I can say at the moment.

well, at least you may have some time if you didn't get the images yet, since the next chapter won't be out until February now.

Oh, I saved the images immediately, no need to worry there.

so how goes the process then, you think you can post ch 10 part 1 before February?

Hello. Hope you're doing well. Any updates on chapter 10? When can we expect it, or have you dropped the translation?

RL continues to be kind of nuts, sorry. I will have an update when I can be confident on the dates, but I'm continuing to download the chapters off Comic Newtype in the meantime.

well, with the way things are we are still waiting for when ch 11 will be release so before the end of February, hopefully you will have some time to get as least the first part of ch 10 translated.

Hope you can at last recover here and there a bit for yourself, in such a persisting stressfull time.
I´ll keep my fingers crossed that it´ll be soon be better at your end. ;)

Thank you!

I did, for the record, download the new chapter, so as soon as life lets up I can translate things and won't be missing any chapters.

well, it seems the 1st part of ch 11 is out, while in the 2nd part is set for in March.

Something I was a little disappointed by in the movie was that I wish there had been just a little more time spent on the scenes about C.C. bringing Lelouch back and him being alive and the angst of him being a shell of his former self before he was truly brought back fully. Glad to see this manga extends those scenes more and that you're translating it.

Thanks for translation!

Chapter 11 part 2 is out now too. It's a good chapter,hope you didn't drop the translation

oh it seems the new one in May was part 3 for chapter 11

Any update on translation?

hi there

can you give us the link for the raw not translated yet please?

can't download on website :'(

thakns!:

Sounds like you're asking for me to host downloads of previous chapters that are no longer on NewType's site! No. I have them downloaded for when I can resume translating, but I will not be uploading the images before that point. The image hosting has always been precarious, which is part of why I'm not scanlating these chapters.

well, when will we get to see the translations for ch 10 then?

Hope this clears things up for you.

okay, I hope you'll resume this when you're okay, take your time and thanks for all!

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