Chapter 101 ~ Easy to Read
<span style="font-weight:400">The morning light that seeped through the curtains drawn behind therge windows overlooking the left wing courtyard of the Ashford Academy shone upon Yuuji’s face.
<span style="font-weight:400">His eyes twitched for a moment, scrunching up at the bright light. He blinked several times as his eyes adjusted to the light, and slowly opened.
<span style="font-weight:400">He looked down and saw a head with beautiful, long lime-green hairying on his chest. His arm was still wrapped around her shoulder, keeping her close. But unlikest night, her arms and legs were wrapped around him, refusing to let go no matter what…
<span style="font-weight:400">“...C.C. It’s morning.”
<span style="font-weight:400">He hated waking her up like this, but if she didn’t… he wouldn’t be able to move. And he had ns on returning to the ck Knights’ base as soon as possible.
<span style="font-weight:400">But to his dismay, only a sleepy groan answered his plea.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mmm…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...”
<span style="font-weight:400">A sigh escaped his lips, and Yuuji began trying various ways to wake her up; nudging her arms, stroking her head, tapping her soft cheeks gently. But no matter what he did, she kept sleeping.
<span style="font-weight:400">In the end, he had no choice but to wait a bit and let her wake up naturally.
<span style="font-weight:400">And just like that, half an hour passed before she began to be roused awake.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Good morning, sleepy head.”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C groaned and pressed her face to his chest and took a deep breath.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Good morning…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Her arms loosened from around his chest and her legs moved away from around his legs.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Didn’t know you were terrible with mornings.”
<span style="font-weight:400">He smiled helplessly as he began to try and straighten her bed tossed hair with his fingers.
<span style="font-weight:400">But as he did, he felt C.C rxing once again onto his body and returning to sleep.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey… Why are you returning to sleep?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Why? It’s not the first time you’ll be skipping school…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...I need to return to the base. I’ve been leaving things to them for quite a while now. I have a feeling Karen will beat me up if I don’t return today.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hmm~”
<span style="font-weight:400">A yawn escaped her light pink lips as she continued to snuggle against him. Then, she looked up to him with a smirk and a knowing look.
<span style="font-weight:400">“So you like her too, huh?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Eh?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji flinched and looked at her in surprise.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What-”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You don’t need to y dumb. I’ve been watching, you know?”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C adjusted her position and rested her face on her hands as she held herself up with her elbow, overlooking Yuuji from above with a teasing smile.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You two have been awfully close whenever you’re together. Some people in the ck knights already noticed.”
<span style="font-weight:400">She giggled softly before her expression slowly turned serious.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Does she know you’re… Alexander?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...No.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji shook his head as he sighed heavily.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hm… Well, you better tell her soon. Or she’ll blow up at you even more the longer you hold off the truth.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Yes, I know.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“That’s good. Keep that in mind.”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C slowly rose up to sit on the bed and began stretching her arms. A sweet yawn escaped her lips as her figure basked in the radiant morning light of the sun.
<span style="font-weight:400">“And if you decide to take her too, then you better tell her about your “true self” too.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Mm.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji rubbed the bridge of his nose and let out a sigh as C.C got off the bed.
<span style="font-weight:400">She was right… If he really want to pursue a rtionship with Karen, then he’ll not only need to reveal to her that he was “Alexander von Morningstar”, but that he was “Tsubakihara Yuuji” as well.
<span style="font-weight:400">Only then will he be worthy of receiving her love and affection… After all, he didn’t want to build a rtionship based on lies and deceit, even if the truth would sound stranger than fiction.
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, before that, he’ll need to make sure if they share the same feelings first…
<span style="font-weight:400">As he thought deeply about this, the sound of zippers being opened brought him out of his contemtion.
<span style="font-weight:400">He rose up to a seat on the bed, and his eyes widened in shock when he saw C.C standing there in white panties with her skirt down to her ankle and unbuttoning her shirt.
<span style="font-weight:400">“H-Hey, what are you doing?!”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C froze at that moment. Her eyes widened in surprise… Surprise at her own actions…!
<span style="font-weight:400">She… She didn’t think this through when she began stripping. Having lived alone for the longest time, she had developed a habit of simply stripping down to her underwear when she wanted to change clothes. And normally, she would be fine.
<span style="font-weight:400">But now… with her brain still waking up from the most restful sleep she had ever had, her body simply moved automatically and stripped herself down even though her brain knew that Yuuji was there with her…
<span style="font-weight:400">Her face blushed red. But… she kept unbuttoning her shirt.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What are you so worked up about? The only thing I’ve not told you about me is my real name. You might as well have seen me naked. What’s wrong with this?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“T-This and that are two different things!”
<span style="font-weight:400">In truth, she was also incredibly embarrassed. After all, she was showing her skin to a man! And not only any man, the man she had sprouted feelings for!!!
<span style="font-weight:400">Although she had lived for more than a century, she was still a woman who would be embarrassed to show her skin to the opposite sex. Especially when that person was the one she fell in love with.
<span style="font-weight:400">But… Seeing him acting flustered, C.C couldn’t help but be surprised.
<span style="font-weight:400">This was the first time she had ever seen him act this way. He looked quite cute when he’s flustered like this.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh~ What’s this~ Don’t tell me mister casanova here is so easily flustered by just seeing a girl’s skin~? You’re not that much of a virgin, are you~?”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C teased him with a smirk as she stood before him in just her pure white underwear, leaning slightly towards him and giving him a view of her beautiful, white valley.
<span style="font-weight:400">He was silent and was averting his eyes from her as he clenched his teeth, which C.C took as him being embarrassed.
<span style="font-weight:400">But in reality… he was trying his best to hold back his libido.
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C was extremely beautiful. While she was not as curvaceous as Aika, C.C had a beautiful, white skin, a slim figure, and perfectly sized bosom. In addition to her beautiful golden eyes, charming and seductive countenance, and his feelings for her, he was just like a fish on a hot dessert yearning for water.
<span style="font-weight:400">Try as he may, he couldn’t help but take a peek at her breast, which C.C noticed and made her blush even more.
<span style="font-weight:400">And yet, despite her embarrassment, there was a sense of happiness and pride when she noticed that he was looking at her.
<span style="font-weight:400">She put her arms together in front of her, pushing her breasts together and deepening her cleavage. C.C would’ve never have done such a thing. But Yuuji’s reactions and her feelings for him made her forget about anything else but to see more of his cute reactions.
<span style="font-weight:400">But suddenly, she was pulled into a tight hug by him and felt him burying his face in her neck and breathing in deeply.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hya-!”
<span style="font-weight:400">She struggled out of shock for a moment. But soon… She began to enjoy it and began smelling in his scent too as she wrapped her arms around him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m sorry… I couldn’t hold it back… You’re too beautiful, C.C…”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C felt a shiver of pleasure go down her spin when his husky voice, filled with desire and love, whispered right into her ears. She clenched onto his shirt tighter as she looked down to the ground, embarrassed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Seems like you’re not entirely a virgin if you can say that much.”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C snuggled even more into his embrace, rubbing her face against his chest. But as she was enjoying their embrace, Yuuji held her shoulders and pushed her back slightly.
<span style="font-weight:400">“C.C, there’s something I need to tell you about my… constitution…”
<span style="font-weight:400">She looked up to him confusedly.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Constitution…?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji nodded, and he began telling her about the side effects of his [Divine Physique].
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C looked at him with eyes slightly widened in surprise at his story. She would’ve thought he was kidding, but having felt his body and seeing his physical capabilitiesst evening during their confrontation with Mao, she couldn’t not believe him.
<span style="font-weight:400">She looked at him up and down, patted his chest, arms, shoulders, and abs, and felt the warm, rock hard, chiseled muscle underneath his jet-ck shirt, brimming with vitality and power.
<span style="font-weight:400">She fell into a daze for a moment, before quickly shaking her head and looked up at him with a slight blush.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...So your body is much stronger than normal humans. But in exchange… your libido is also much higher than normal?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Yes.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji nodded softly, his eyes dewed as he looked at her beautiful eyes with gentleness, love, and desire. He lifted up his hand towards her cheek and caressed it.
<span style="font-weight:400">“That’s why, you shouldn’t tempt me like this… Otherwise, I might not be able to hold back.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...I-I see. I guess it’s my fault…”
<span style="font-weight:400">A moment of silence passed as C.C blushed and looked down to her feet shyly.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I-I might not be ready now… But… I’m not entirely… against it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">She whispered softly, but Yuuji could hear it clearly, which made him blush.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Y-You… That’s unfair, C.C… If you say it so cutely like that… It’d just make it harder for me to hold back.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji wrapped his arms around her once more, and this time, he did so as if he was afraid that she would disappear and, at the same time, ever so gently as if he was afraid he would break her.
<span style="font-weight:400">But as if to refute her fragility in his mind, C.C hugged him just as hard.
<span style="font-weight:400">The two stayed in each other''s embrace for a while before Yuuji reluctantly separated himself from her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sorry… I need to return now… There’s a lot of things I need to do. See you at the base.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mm…”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C nodded shyly, still averting her gaze from him, and Yuuji quickly made his way out of Lelouch’s home.
<span style="font-weight:400">But now, instead of going straight to ck Knights’ base as he nned, he returned to his mansion first to take a cold bath to calm himself.
<span style="font-weight:400">Meanwhile, C.Cid back down to her bed, trying her best to calm herself down.
<span style="font-weight:400">She… She couldn’t remember how long it has been since she felt… so in love and… aroused.
<span style="font-weight:400">She buried her face on the pillow Yuuji used and took a deep breath.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alex…”<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">She spent her time leisurely on her bed, enjoying the remaining scent of her beloved on her pillow. And only after she was satisfied did she showered, changed into a dress Yuuji bought for her, and met up with Lelouch to head together to the ck Knights’ base.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Having changed into his full body suit and mask, Yuuji arrived at the ck Knights’ base as “Mordred” where he was immediately weed by a lot of the members.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ahahaha, it’s nice to see you guys again too. It’s been a few days, huh? How’s everything going?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuujiro Kenji, an energetic man in his early twenties with sharp, spiky hair and thin eyes, answered first and loudly, drowning the others’ voices with his.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s been going great! But we sure are d to have you back, boss! We’ve been worried!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji simply smiled helplessly and ced a hand on his shoulder.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Zero’s your boss, not me. But thanks for worrying. Well, I better head inside. I need to make up for my absence. You guys go back to work too!”
<span style="font-weight:400">““Yes!””
<span style="font-weight:400">He waved his hand and headed inside. As he did, he met with Ohgi, Tamaki, Yoshitaka, Inoue, and the other older members of the ck knights and shared a word or two.
<span style="font-weight:400">Just like the others, they were worried for him during his absence. After all, despite their post and being one of the oldest members of the ck Knights, Zero never told them what Mordred’s secret mission was, which could only mean one thing. It was either extremely confidential, extremely dangerous, or worse… both.
<span style="font-weight:400">And for a group like them, who was going against a world superpower, the risk of undergoing such a mission was something they didn’t even dare imagine…
<span style="font-weight:400">Thankfully, he had returned, and in one piece.
<span style="font-weight:400">After exchanging a few words, Yuuji excused himself and made his way inside theirpound. He wanted to find either Tatsuya or Satoru first and tell them about what happened.
<span style="font-weight:400">But since he didn’t know where Satoru was, he decided to make his way to the hanger, where he knew Tatsuya would be in.
<span style="font-weight:400">Although he called it a hangar, it was simply a small, empty warehouse which had been retrofitted to be a hangar with heavy duty machines, workbenches, tools, and knightmare frames. It was essentially a ce for Tatsuya and the other mechanics and engineers in ck Knights to tinker, fix, and maintain their knightmare frames.
<span style="font-weight:400">But before he could reach it, a familiar voice called out his name and made him turn.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mordred!”
<span style="font-weight:400">He stopped and turned to look, and the figure he hadn’t seen and unknowingly missed was there before him.
<span style="font-weight:400">She was dressed sloppily in a super short tank top that revealed his slim, tight waist, a pair of hot pants, and a towel around her neck. Her beautiful crimson hair and white, healthy skin glistened from the sweat as she panted, having run around looking for him upon hearing of his return.
<span style="font-weight:400">A smile appeared on his face, though it was unseen by her due to his devil’s mask, and he waved a hand.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey, long time no see.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Karen didn’t even wait for him to finish before she made her way towards him in a slight jog, which caused her chest to bounce around… A detail that wasn’t that easy to miss, especially with her size and Yuuji’s ever rising libido.
<span style="font-weight:400">And as soon as she reached an arm’s length before him, she stopped and looked up at him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...You’re back.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji nodded.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Are you hurt?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“No.”
<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">“I see…”
<span style="font-weight:400">There was a look of relief that immediately appeared on Karens’ face as soon as she heard his words. Although she couldn’t rify the truth in his words since his body was fully covered with his suit, she was still relieved to at least hear that he’s doing fine from his own mouth.
<span style="font-weight:400">Meanwhile, Yuuji couldn''t help but be reminded of his conversation with C.C this morning, about his feelings for Karen.
<span style="font-weight:400">He let out a sigh inwardly, and smiled helplessly.
<span style="font-weight:400">Before he knew it, this sexy tomboy before him had somehow made her way into his heart…
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m d… So, what kind of things did you do in your mission?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh, would you like to know~? But I’m sorry. It’s a secret mission from Zero. And you don’t have the credentials to know about it, Ms. Second Ace~”<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">“Y-You-! H-Hey, get back here!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ahahaha!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji continued to dodge her punch and run away as she tried to catch him.
<span style="font-weight:400">And from a few distance away, slightly hiding herself behind arge container, C.C watched the two y around with a smirk present on her face.
<span style="font-weight:400">“As expected. He’s really easy to read after all.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Her eyes narrowed with a teasing smile before turning, and began making her way into the trailer, where there was AC and a couch she could lie on.
<span style="font-weight:400">Perhapster, after Yuuji had done his job and spent some time with Karen, she could have him be her pillow again, just likest night.