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[TRANSLATED] CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Re;surrection (Chapter 14, Pt 2)
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kattkriss — because WHOOPS AGAIN, I missed this one, and it's long gone!
Yep, just like you thought, it's a no-go.
"Don't leave your hotel!"
Talk about a broken record1...
MILLY
We are so screwed2.
I don't know how we're supposed to report on the state of the city from in here...
SFX
<bzz bzz bzz>
MILLY
<!>
SFX
<slide—>
MILLY
Huh? Kallen's calling?
?
SUZAKU
<march, march...>
SFX
<suddenly>
SFX
<typity-type type>
SUZAKU
!
Lelouch?
So this is where you've been...
LELOUCH
Yeah.
I wanted to give this intel my undivided attention.
SUZAKU
I see.
SUZAKU
Do you...
...have a moment?
LELOUCH
I'd say sure, but
I think perhaps you'd better talk to him first.
SUZAKU
!
<march, march>
SUZAKU
Schnee!
SCHNEE
Pardon me, sir, but — I saw you'd gone this way, so...
Am I interrupting?
LELOUCH
<close!>
Not at all.
SFX
<slide>
SCHNEE
Actually, I was hoping to speak with both of you, sir.
LELOUCH
!
I've read the notes Ledo left behind about his investigation,
so I believe I know most of what I need to about the two of you.
In fact, that's why I volunteered for this operation.
SCHNEE
Two years ago3, during the Second Tokyo Settlement Battle,
when I lost Ledo to that FLEIJA explosion, I blamed you.
SCHNEE
I resented you.
I looked down on you.
I rejected you—
SCHNEE
All of that, neither knowing nor caring why you had actually done it.
Now that I do know, I regret
all the cruel things I said to you....
SCHNEE
So, when I learned you might still be alive...
...I was happy to hear it — but this anger, too, bubbled up inside of me.
SCHNEE
As I wondered why you hadn't told me about any of this!
<march>
When I heard from Miss Kallen that your rescue operation had been successful,
I considered punching you as hard as I could.
SCHNEE
But,
when you're...
SCHNEE
When you're already this injured... there's no way I could punch you.
SUZAKU
Schnee...
SCHNEE
So, in lieu of that, I've brought you something.
SFX
<click, whoosh>
SUZAKU
That's...
Are you telling me to... take on
that burden again?
SCHNEE
Oh, no.
Suzaku, Lelouch...
...this mask is for the both of you—
—sirs.
SCHNEE
Zero is the hero borne4 from both of you.
LELOUCH
<heh>
SCHNEE
And as Zero, you should be able to master this challenge — and save Lady Nunnally.
Schnee, I...
SCHNEE
Suzaku. You are... someone I still admire, even now.
SCHNEE
So, the gratitude I was unable to express back then — after this matter is concluded, I...
Well, if it's all right with you, I would like another chance to say it properly.
SCHNEE
Now, Miss Kallen asked a favor of me,
so I'll be returning to Britannia shortly.
Good fortune to you, sir.
Heh.
As I'd expect, of a subordinate of yours.
He's just as high-handed as you are.
SUZAKU
Yeah.
But it's not like we didn't do this to ourselves, is it.
LELOUCH
...Indeed.
So it's true?
Nunnally really did get snatched away by Zilkhstan?
SCHNEIZEL
Well, according to the reports from our friend Lloyd and Agent Shinozaki.
RAKSHATA
Hmph.
If only someone had thought
to bring me in on this, someone who actually knows the area, instead of someone like that pudding...
SCHNEIZEL
Oh, I would love to have you sit in on this as an expert advisor.
Hm.
RAKSHATA
I really don't get it, though.
Such a small country should know better than to think they can take on the rest of the world and win...
SCHNEIZEL
<swallow>
(Well, that's...
probably because they have some sort of connection with geass.)
RAKSHATA
Does all of this have anything to do with why you called Shanti and the others here, too?
SCHNEIZEL
It does, yes.
Hey, Big Sis.
We've already sent two Frame Coats over Pudding's way.
KANNON
Containing the Lancelot and the Guren?
Is it not a concern that their machines might become symbols of tyrannical overreach...?
SCHNEIZEL
Are you saying we shouldn't have done that?
I just thought it might be necessary...
SCHNEIZEL
For Zero's safety.
Well, there's your mistake.
If it's for Zero's safety, they'll be needing more than just those two.
SCHNEIZEL
Heh.
There's no helping it, is there.
Shanti?
SHANTI
I thought she might say that, so everything's already set.
VOICE
Approaching air drop coordinates...
<plunk! plunk! plunk!>
SFX
<crash! boom!>
SFX
<loud dramatic skidding>
VOICE
Misson complete! Return to base!
SFX
<roar...>
With that, then, they should have everything they need.
The rest is up to them.
(The only ones who should ever pull the trigger...
...are those who are prepared to be shot themselves.)
<swish>
<clack>
(Which is why I shouldn't interfere with this world.)
<whoosh>
(And besides, Lelouch vi Britannia...)
<shing>
(...was a person who abandoned both the world and his own existence.)
(So, just for a little while, as Lelouch Lamperouge...)
(I'll return to being Zero.)
1 Lit. stuck on just one point, contextually repeatedly insisting the same thing over and over to Rivalz. ↩
2 Extremely funny to me personally that 参る is both the humble verb for to go/to come and means to be defeated/to collapse/to die. Past-tense like this? "Oh shit" and "Well, you've got me there" and the like. ↩
3 Throwing up my hands in frustration. Koujirou, buddy, you said it had been one year since Lelouch's death. The Second Tokyo Settlement Battle only happens three months before then. I know nobody at Sunrise can do math, but please. Please. ↩
4 創り出す is more commonly written with 作, but with the kanji the meaning shifts from a neutral 'created by' to something more organic: a focus on being the origin of something, potentially genetically, rather than just having manufactured it. ↩
Yep, just like you thought, it's a no-go.
"Don't leave your hotel!"
Talk about a broken record1...
MILLY
We are so screwed2.
I don't know how we're supposed to report on the state of the city from in here...
SFX
<bzz bzz bzz>
MILLY
<!>
SFX
<slide—>
MILLY
Huh? Kallen's calling?
?
SUZAKU
<march, march...>
SFX
<suddenly>
SFX
<typity-type type>
SUZAKU
!
Lelouch?
So this is where you've been...
LELOUCH
Yeah.
I wanted to give this intel my undivided attention.
SUZAKU
I see.
SUZAKU
Do you...
...have a moment?
LELOUCH
I'd say sure, but
I think perhaps you'd better talk to him first.
SUZAKU
!
<march, march>
SUZAKU
Schnee!
SCHNEE
Pardon me, sir, but — I saw you'd gone this way, so...
Am I interrupting?
LELOUCH
<close!>
Not at all.
SFX
<slide>
SCHNEE
Actually, I was hoping to speak with both of you, sir.
LELOUCH
!
I've read the notes Ledo left behind about his investigation,
so I believe I know most of what I need to about the two of you.
In fact, that's why I volunteered for this operation.
SCHNEE
Two years ago3, during the Second Tokyo Settlement Battle,
when I lost Ledo to that FLEIJA explosion, I blamed you.
SCHNEE
I resented you.
I looked down on you.
I rejected you—
SCHNEE
All of that, neither knowing nor caring why you had actually done it.
Now that I do know, I regret
all the cruel things I said to you....
SCHNEE
So, when I learned you might still be alive...
...I was happy to hear it — but this anger, too, bubbled up inside of me.
SCHNEE
As I wondered why you hadn't told me about any of this!
<march>
When I heard from Miss Kallen that your rescue operation had been successful,
I considered punching you as hard as I could.
SCHNEE
But,
when you're...
SCHNEE
When you're already this injured... there's no way I could punch you.
SUZAKU
Schnee...
SCHNEE
So, in lieu of that, I've brought you something.
SFX
<click, whoosh>
SUZAKU
That's...
Are you telling me to... take on
that burden again?
SCHNEE
Oh, no.
Suzaku, Lelouch...
...this mask is for the both of you—
—sirs.
SCHNEE
Zero is the hero borne4 from both of you.
LELOUCH
<heh>
SCHNEE
And as Zero, you should be able to master this challenge — and save Lady Nunnally.
Schnee, I...
SCHNEE
Suzaku. You are... someone I still admire, even now.
SCHNEE
So, the gratitude I was unable to express back then — after this matter is concluded, I...
Well, if it's all right with you, I would like another chance to say it properly.
SCHNEE
Now, Miss Kallen asked a favor of me,
so I'll be returning to Britannia shortly.
Good fortune to you, sir.
Heh.
As I'd expect, of a subordinate of yours.
He's just as high-handed as you are.
SUZAKU
Yeah.
But it's not like we didn't do this to ourselves, is it.
LELOUCH
...Indeed.
So it's true?
Nunnally really did get snatched away by Zilkhstan?
SCHNEIZEL
Well, according to the reports from our friend Lloyd and Agent Shinozaki.
RAKSHATA
Hmph.
If only someone had thought
to bring me in on this, someone who actually knows the area, instead of someone like that pudding...
SCHNEIZEL
Oh, I would love to have you sit in on this as an expert advisor.
Hm.
RAKSHATA
I really don't get it, though.
Such a small country should know better than to think they can take on the rest of the world and win...
SCHNEIZEL
<swallow>
(Well, that's...
probably because they have some sort of connection with geass.)
RAKSHATA
Does all of this have anything to do with why you called Shanti and the others here, too?
SCHNEIZEL
It does, yes.
Hey, Big Sis.
We've already sent two Frame Coats over Pudding's way.
KANNON
Containing the Lancelot and the Guren?
Is it not a concern that their machines might become symbols of tyrannical overreach...?
SCHNEIZEL
Are you saying we shouldn't have done that?
I just thought it might be necessary...
SCHNEIZEL
For Zero's safety.
Well, there's your mistake.
If it's for Zero's safety, they'll be needing more than just those two.
SCHNEIZEL
Heh.
There's no helping it, is there.
Shanti?
SHANTI
I thought she might say that, so everything's already set.
VOICE
Approaching air drop coordinates...
<plunk! plunk! plunk!>
SFX
<crash! boom!>
SFX
<loud dramatic skidding>
VOICE
Misson complete! Return to base!
SFX
<roar...>
With that, then, they should have everything they need.
The rest is up to them.
(The only ones who should ever pull the trigger...
...are those who are prepared to be shot themselves.)
<swish>
<clack>
(Which is why I shouldn't interfere with this world.)
<whoosh>
(And besides, Lelouch vi Britannia...)
<shing>
(...was a person who abandoned both the world and his own existence.)
(So, just for a little while, as Lelouch Lamperouge...)
(I'll return to being Zero.)
1 Lit. stuck on just one point, contextually repeatedly insisting the same thing over and over to Rivalz. ↩
2 Extremely funny to me personally that 参る is both the humble verb for to go/to come and means to be defeated/to collapse/to die. Past-tense like this? "Oh shit" and "Well, you've got me there" and the like. ↩
3 Throwing up my hands in frustration. Koujirou, buddy, you said it had been one year since Lelouch's death. The Second Tokyo Settlement Battle only happens three months before then. I know nobody at Sunrise can do math, but please. Please. ↩
4 創り出す is more commonly written with 作, but with the kanji the meaning shifts from a neutral 'created by' to something more organic: a focus on being the origin of something, potentially genetically, rather than just having manufactured it. ↩