Code : Geass – Nunnaly Against The World

Move 0.80 : Enter The Knights (Part Two)

Another week has passed since Nunnaly decided that she will take the throne. It's still quite a while until the coronation, so she has a lot of free time. As suggested by Nemo, she decided to explore her power condition and its limitations. Apparently, her Geass allowing her to see how future will branch based on her choice, which means exploring future possibilities before actually executing the action. Even her decision of taking the throne is also due the influence of her Geass, as she knows that is the best thing to do if she wanted to meet her brother.

Even still, preventing Suzaku's interference is quite tasking. She saw that she was successful at that for almost a year, which is very reassuring, but she did not know the detail, especially how she managed to do that. Apparently divulging for the details of future is quite costly to her body, thus she no longer attempt to do it anymore. Not anytime soon.

Regardless, she knows the basic scenario now. In order to fulfill her own prophecy and to meet her brother, she has to wage war against the world, just like what her brother did. This time though, it's a war of revenge, to make the world knows the meaning of despair and suffering… to make the world understand how pointless and horrible a war is that they will come to hate it for many generations…

She also knows that she must die by Suzaku's hand in order to achieve her goal…

How is that possible? How could she meet her brother if she's dead? Even Nunnaly didn't know the answer. Even Nemo, whether she knows or not, never give her answer and only smiled and answered with reassuring yet ambiguous words.

"I am certain that you will know it in time..."

And Nunnaly never asks again. She knows Nemo didn't lie. She never lies, not to her. She adores her so much that it's almost like Nemo worships Nunnaly as goddess. So much that when Nunnaly once asked the possibility of Nemo lying or disobeying her, Nemo was actually going panic.

'She's not lying... And if she didn't tell, she had the reason...' Nunnaly decided.

The other problem is her ally. No matter how powerful Nemo or how useful her Geass is, she need a 'human', real person allies, preferably someone close to her other than Zero, and they must be quite powerful as well as trustworthy. And indeed, there is one candidate that fit all those categories perfectly.

Jeremiah Gottwald. A man that sworn himself to be loyal to his brother and his ideas to his very last breath.

Nunnaly smiled. Now all she needs is the reason for a visit.

(A few days later, at someone's orange farm, somewhere…)

Oranges… a lot of oranges… Anyone who sees this farm could easily tell that the farmer is very successful in tending his oranges and can expect a very excellent harvest. True enough, as Jeremiah Gottwald inspecting his plants and smiled as he found nothing but top grade oranges that ready to be picked soon.

It's rather funny considering that he nicknamed himself 'Orange' though…

Jeremiah Gottwald is a hard working person. That... if not workaholic... During the time he worked under Emperor Lelouch, he happily obliges to any task given to him. He found satisfaction and knows that he is serving the greatness. It will forever be his treasured memory. He missed those days so much.

Jeremiah's face suddenly becomes grim.

He has already found his true master. Now his true master has gone after he deliver salvation to the world and no one will ever realized what he actually did. It's all going according to his master's wish. Lelouch Lamperouge is truly a man with no equal.

Jeremiah's thought suddenly interrupted with the ringing of his cell phone in his pocket. Grumbling, he picked it up and read the caller ID, Anya.

'…. Now what?' he thought.

It is true that he and Anya are living together in their Orange farm in this pretty much isolated place. After all, Jeremiah is already well known during his service to Emperor Lelouch vi Brittania. Plus, his cybernetic enhancement, especially his Geass Canceller, is way too obvious already.

"… What is it Anya?" asked Jeremiah over the phone.

"Come now, Jeremiah. You have a visitor…" Anya replied with her usual monotonous tone and ends the call before Jeremiah even able to ask anything.

Shaking his head in disbelief, Jeremiah closed the phone. Anya's general attitudes still remain unchanged, and Jeremiah feels that it will be a very difficult task just to teach her a proper way to communicate. He has decided that he will took care of her since the day he defeated her and again the day his master died. He cannot bear the idea of letting her alone on her own. Even so, he himself wonders whether or not he will up for such a task.

Sighing again, he walked back to his cottage, where he found Anya strangely waiting outside. Raising his eyebrow, Jeremiah trying to ask her what happened.

"She is inside, waiting for you…" said Anya before focusing her attention back to her diary. Jeremiah was about to open her mouth to protest, but decided that it would be utterly pointless. Therefore, he did what he always did, shut his mouth for good and going inside the cottage.

Inside Jeremiah saw all too familiar mechanical wheelchair, facing the open window. The occupant of the chair, a young lady easily identified as Princess Nunnaly vi Britannia, turned to face him and smiled. However, what surprised Jeremiah beyond belief was not that…

Princess Nunnaly is standing and walking toward him, with Geass sigil flaring on her right eye, smiling to him…

"Hello, Sir Jeremiah Gottwald…"

When Anya returned inside a moment after Nunnaly saying goodbye to her, she found Jeremiah stood motionless. Anya, sensed the gravity of their previous conversation, asked Jeremiah the obvious words…

"What are you going to do now, Jeremiah Gottwald?"

Jeremiah didn't respond at first, then he shuddered. Before long the shudder turned into a burst of laughter. He turned to face Anya, his happy grin clearly plastered to his face.

"Anya! Will you come with me to the New Pendragon?" he said, grabbing her shoulders with both hands in excitement. "Will you join me to serve Queen Nunnaly?"

Anya returned Jeremiah over enthusiasm with her own carefree reply, albeit it's a bit different than usual, but Jeremiah knows that she mean it.

"I will go with you, Jeremiah"

His feeling was indescribable. He now finally hand the chance not only to serve someone who uphold the ideal he swore to protect, but also a chance to regain his honor and once again dedicated his life in the way of chivalry. To say that he is overjoyed is such an understatement.

"After we harvested those oranges and bring it to New Pendragon…" said Anya, back to his diary. "Queen Nunnaly will love it."

"…"

Jeremiah suddenly froze, and finally, after struggling with himself, managed to reply with somewhat mixed expression.

"…Uh…Sure…"

Author's note :

I truly cant believe I'm going to say this, but I have been ridiculously very busy this last months. Getting job, and all things that follows are quite...overwhelming (yeah... a new recruit tasked with a marketing campaign covering an entire prefecture, or states for you American fellow, while I myself is a fresh graduate? on his first week?). Well, I didn't complain the facilities though... and I swear that I will never stop writing in my life, ever! This story WILL continue!