Chapter 109 ~ Stirring the Pot
<span style="font-weight:400">After doing their daily maintenance to keep Excalibur and Guren on top fighting form, Mordred and C.C sat down together on the couch within the empty living area of ck Knight’smand vehicle, resting.
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, at least one of them.
<span style="font-weight:400">Karen was leaning back on the couch, ying with her phone as she rested her crossed leg on the coffee table. She had taken off her ck Knight’s uniform and was currently in her tank top and hot pants with a towel around her neck. She had also taken off herte brother’s headband to let her hair loose to dry out the perspiration she had sweated out while doing the maintenance.
<span style="font-weight:400">On the other hand, Mordred, still in his full suit, was sitting with aptop on hisp, typing and clicking away.
<span style="font-weight:400">And at this point, she didn’t need to peek at his screen to know what he’s doing, because he’s most likely making a ridiculous amount of money with every click he’s making…
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Trading huh…? “He”… also traded…</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">Karen nced at the man with the devil’s mask and down to hisptop. And she recalled when Alexander’s “hobby” was revealed in the student council’s office.
<span style="font-weight:400">They werepletely different people. One was a Britannian elite who had everything, from looks, character, poprity, riches, and fame. While the other, aplete mystery with a devilish skill in piloting a knightmare and swordsmanship, as she just found out.
<span style="font-weight:400">But, they were both trading geniuses. And… she couldn’t help but associate these twopletely different people in her mind, for some reason…
<span style="font-weight:400">Perhaps… it was the way they’d mess with her?
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Hm… That might be it… They both can be insufferable bastards…</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">Karen began ring at Mordred. And Mordred, who noticed it, began to look at her weirdly and tilted his head towards her.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">…Why is she looking at me like that?</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">She was ring at him, for no apparent reason…He was just here, sitting, casually robbing some Britannian conglomerate off their treasury. But she suddenly began ring at him.
<span style="font-weight:400">But just as he was about to ask her why, the door into themand vehicle of the ck Knights opened.
<span style="font-weight:400">And entering the wide, living space of themand vehicle was C.C, dressed in a shoulderless ck dress with the symbol of the ck knights across her chest. The dress cascaded down to her ankles with slits on both sides, revealing her long, white legs and tall, white and gold heel boots.
<span style="font-weight:400">Karen and Mordred both turned to look at the new addition to the space, surprised.
<span style="font-weight:400">Normally, C.C would always stay wherever Zero was. If Zero was there, then C.C would most of the time be by his side.
<span style="font-weight:400">But now, Zero had gone off somewhere after his meeting with Tohdoh and the four holy swords, yet here she was…
<span style="font-weight:400">“C.C? Why are you-”
<span style="font-weight:400">Just as Karen was about to ask why she was here, words got stuck in her throat when C.C suddenly made her way towards Mordred, sat down by his side, and leaned her head against his shoulder,pletely resting her body against him.
<span style="font-weight:400">Her eyes widened in pure shock as her jaws ckened into the shape of an O.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Wha- You- W-Why are you…”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.Czily closed her eyes and nuzzled her face to his neck a bit, trying to find afortable position for her to take a nap, and began falling asleep.
<span style="font-weight:400">And seeing her actions, Karen rose to her feet in a panic and pointed at C.C.
<span style="font-weight:400">“W-What are you doing?!?!?!”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C’s beautiful face scrunched up before slowly opening her eyes and looked at Karen in annoyance.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What does it look like to you? I’m trying to rest. Now can you be quiet?”
<span style="font-weight:400">She began closing her eyes again. And this time, she slithered her arm around Mordred’s and hugged it close to her chest, using it as a pillow.
<span style="font-weight:400">“!!!”<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">Karen’s mouth opened and closed repeatedly like a guppy, unable to believe what she was seeing.
<span style="font-weight:400">Her head slowly turned towards Mordred, who was simrly speechless by C.C’s action, and looking at her in shock.
<span style="font-weight:400">Sensing her stare, Mordred slowly turned towards the crimson haired beauty, who seemed to be emanating raging mes behind her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...I can exin.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Go on.”<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">Mordred spent the rest of his time there exining to Karen who he became close to C.C…
<span style="font-weight:400">Meanwhile, C.C was quietly snickering at his “excuses” and “stories” while pretending to sleep.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji sighed tiredly as C.C sat behind him on her bed, leaning back onto his back, rxing.
<span style="font-weight:400">After finishing their businesses in the ck Knight’s base, the two returned to C.C’s room in Ashford Academy.
<span style="font-weight:400">Needless to say, they didn’t leave together, or Karen would’ve be even more shocked by the sudden closeness they disyed to her out of nowhere.
<span style="font-weight:400">So, C.C left first, and Yuuji followed afterwards to meet back up with her in her room, as they’ve promised.
<span style="font-weight:400">In the room, Yuuji had changed into a casual outfit, consisting of a ck t-shirt and long pants, and C.C had also taken off her ck dress. She was now dressed solely in her white tank top that fitted her chest, and white hot pants, the things she wore under her dress before.
<span style="font-weight:400">And right after arriving, C.C had him sit on her bed, sat behind him, and started leaning back on him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Why did you do that?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hm? What do you mean?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Don’t y stupid. I know you’re giggling when you were pretending to sleep as I try to cover up for your little prank.”<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C snorted softly and looked up to the ceiling of her room.
<span style="font-weight:400">“We both know that she has feelings for you, but she doesn’t realize it yet. She’s naive, innocent, and everything that has been happening around her didn’t let her explore the feeling of “love”. I’m just stirring the pot a little so that she’d realize her own feelings.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji nced back towards C.C before sighing once again.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...I might not be the best person to say this, but isn’t it weird that you’re trying to get me closer with another girl.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s weird that I can still feel love in the first ce.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji froze for a moment as he recalled C.C’s past and her experience with “love”.
<span style="font-weight:400">From the moment she received a “geass” thatpelled other people to “love” her, losing it, and all the pain and suffering she had experienced that came with immortality.
<span style="font-weight:400">To be able to still “love” someone and acknowledge it, for C.C, was a miracle in itself.
<span style="font-weight:400">“C.C…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t think about it too much. This is just… something I’m doing for myself… And you.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji turned around and surprised her by pulling her into an embrace.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I love you, C.C. And thank you… for loving me as well.”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C smiled softly and leaned back even more towards him, making herselffortable in his embrace.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You better tell me everything soon. I’d like to know everything about the man I’vee to love after centuries.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...I promise. Soon.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Good.”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C slowly turned around to face him and pushed him down onto her bed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You’ll spend the night here, right?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji smiled helplessly and nodded.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s not like you’ll let me go even if I were to say no.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s good that you know.”
<span style="font-weight:400">She smiled triumphantly andid down beside him, resting her head on his chest. She hugged his body and ced a hand on his chest, feeling the steady, powerful beating of his heart.
<span style="font-weight:400">And Yuuji also wrapped his arm around her and began stroking her beautiful, lime green hair softly as they stayed in a peaceful silence.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey… How did you and Lelouch meet…?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji’s eyes widened slightly and turned his head down slightly to look at C.C. She was stillying her head on his chest with her eyes closed, not looking up to him to try and force out an answer.
<span style="font-weight:400">However, Yuuji could tell how much C.C wanted to know more about him… Despite everything she had said about waiting for him to be ready.
<span style="font-weight:400">So… he made his decision.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...I can’t tell you how we met yet. But… We did only get to… “know each other” fairly recently. And we met for the first time in person even more recently.”
<span style="font-weight:400">This time, C.C raised her head up and looked at him with widened eyes, surprised.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Really? But… You seem like you knew each other for so long.”<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">Every member of the ck Knights could tell how much Zero and Mordred trusted in each other. And they all assumed that Mordred must be Zero’s closest confidant and someone he had known for his entire life.
<span style="font-weight:400">Even C.C thought they must’ve shared a past with each other that allowed them to create such a powerful bond.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji smiled softly and shook his head.
<span style="font-weight:400">“No. We really just got to know each other fairly recently. In fact, it hasn’t even been a year since I first talked to him.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Then… how…?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s not hard topletely trust in someone and be extremely close to them once you know about their “story”.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...I see.”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.Cid her head back down onto his chest and let his words sink in.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Does this include Ainz and Silver, or Tatsuya, as well?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Having observed them since they joined the ck Knights, C.C had noticed the closeness between the four that didn’t stem from simply having the same goal of liberating Japan or defeating Britannia.
<span style="font-weight:400">There was absolute trust between them, like close friends who had shared with each other all their secrets and had known each other for their entire lives.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji nodded once again and began stroking her hair once more.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. We… Well, it’s a bit hard to exin now. But just know that they’re trustworthy and kind people.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, if you say so. I mean, I’ve never really interacted with them much after our first meeting… but they do seem like nice people.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji smiled wryly and let out a softugh.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ahahaha… Well they’re both pretty… awkward to people they’ve just met. But they’re very nice once you get to know them better. That I can guarantee.”<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mm.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Silence fell between them for a moment before C.C started to speak again.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey… Do you really have to leave tomorrow?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hm?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Yuuji looked down and saw C.C looking up to him with a neutral, nk expression. But he could see longing and a twinge of sadness in her eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">“There’s still school, tomorrow. So yes… Also, I should also return to my home once in a while.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...”
<span style="font-weight:400">C.C thought for a moment before her eyes widened in a sh of realization, and a thin smile appeared on her face.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh? Then how about I move into your home~?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...”