Chapter 100 - 98 ~ Haunting Past
Bored after staying inside her room for a few days, C.C decided to walk around the campus area of Ashford Academy in disguise.
Her beautiful, long, li-green hair had been tied into a bun and stuffed into a sun hat that she wore to hide her face not only from the sun, but from others' eyes.
She wore a white, long-sleeved, lacy shirt with a brown leather corset that hugged her slim waist and cupped her sizable breasts perfectly, and a long checkered skirt. She had also worn a pair of beautiful, white heels and a golden necklace with a diamond-shaped erald jewel that she normally wouldn't wear. But today was an exception.
This would be the first ti C.C would be wearing the gifts Alexander gave her a few days ago.
She hesitated wearing such beautiful and heartfelt gifts from Alexander for the longest ti, undeserving as she was. But his words finally pushed her into making the decision to wear them.
I hope you like them, and wear them from ti to ti.
The gifts she received... They were all things that Alexander had chosen carefully after thinking about her.
Gifts given to her purely out of his generosity, without any ulterior motives or being compelled by anything.
Gifts given to her in hopes for her happiness.
To have received such a thing... There was no way C.C could not wear them.
So, after a few days of deliberation, she decided to wear them and breathe in so fresh air.
And for the first ti in a long ti, she felt like the world had gotten brighter in her eyes.
She looked up into the sky, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath as she felt the breeze blow past her.
"What a clear day..."
She began walking around the academy, making sure to take a quiet path and being careful of walking into anyone else during her outing. She was lucky that the one who saw her was Alexander, but she knew such luck won't co to her twice. So, she beca extra cautious.
After a while, however, the comfortable silence and peace she hadn't been able to experience for so long made her daydream about her past.
She had been running away for so long. Running away from conflicts in this war-torn world. From people in fear of the betrayal and pain they would inevitably cause her. And from life that seed to love her suffering.
But now... such things seed so far away. Although she was still unable to escape conflict, she found herself feeling at peace at last.
The world, that seed so bleak before, had now beco brighter.
And before she knew it, she found herself standing behind a tree in the courtyard, staring up towards a classroom window from below.
She couldn't see anyone on the other side due to the light reflecting off it, but she knew which class it was, as she had caught herself staring at the sa window recently before realizing it.
Alexander's class.
C.C dazedly stared at it as a warmth filled her chest. She then looked down and held up the diamon-shaped erald jewel from her necklace to look at it. The beautiful jewel shimring so brilliantly under the light of the sun, and she looked back up at the window.
She couldn't see his figure, but in her mind, she could imagine his handso visage sitting in class, listening to the lesson seriously just like when he listened to her story.
And the thought alone was enough to bring a smile to her face.
Unfortunately, the peace and warmth she had long sought suddenly vanished as a pair of arms slithered around her from the back.
"Ah... My C.C...! I've finally found you!"
"!!!"
A chill went down her spine as the familiar voice and heavy breathing resounded right beside her ear.
She instinctively turned around and pushed the man away in fear as cold sweat began dripping down her back.
And in that mont, her eyes went wide in shock as a wave of mories rushed into her.
"M-Mao...?!"
Her breathings turned ragged as she looked at the tall, silver-haired, lanky figure of Mao, clad in a light blue short jacket with symtrical gold and blue designs and a chinese linen shirt with maroon sleeves.
He wore a black and purple headphones, from which C.C could hear her own voice from it when he was hugging her from behind, a pair of golden earrings, and purple sunglasses that covered his eyes, which were both encompassed with geass.
There was a wide grin of pure happiness on his face. But it quickly turned into a frown the mont C.C pushed him away.
He tilted his head to the side, seemingly unable to understand her actions.
"C.C...? Why did you push
away...? It's ... Mao. Your Mao..."
"S-Stay away!"
Mao froze mid step when he was about to approach her as his mind struggled to comprehend what was happening.
Why did C.C pushed him away...? The C.C he knew was loving, gentle, and caring. She would've never pushed him away.
And instead of shock, caution, and fear, she would be looking at him with eyes filled with love and affection.
So why...? Why did she change...? She even told him to stay away...?
"Oh... I see... It's because of them, isn't it...? They changed you...!"
A look of realization appeared on his countenance. Mao looked up towards the window to the class where he knew Lelouch and Alexander were in. And his expression quickly turned from that of confusion and sadness, into a pure, deep seethed anger.
"What...?"
C.C followed the direction of his gaze, and her eyes imdiately widened in shock upon realizing what he ant.
"Lelouch and... Alexander. They're the ones who changed you...!"
"No, Mao-"
"Don't lie to !!!"
Mao raised his voice. His shout freezing C.C in her place.
"...I've been watching you from afar, my dear C.C. And I've seen it all with my own eyes... you've changed. You've changed after you et them. Especially Alexander...!"
Mao let out a soft, pained laughter that began to turn into a chuckle that sent chills down her spine.
"How strange though... I couldn't read their minds... Not only Lelouch... But that Alexander as well... But no matter... I'm sure I can if I get close to them. I won't let anyone get in between you and ."
"Mao! Stop that! What are you say-"
"Don't worry, C.C... When I'm done with them, we'll be together forever, just like before... We can travel the world together... And spend the rest of our lives together...!"
C.C froze mid sentence when she saw a wide grin form on his countenance as he began to laugh. A grin so different from the innocent, pure smile she had seen from him in her mories.
"Please wait for , my C.C... I promise you, it won't be long..."
Mao stood before her for a mont, burning her beautiful figure into his mind, and left, leaving C.C alone, standing frozen in shock and disbelief...
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In the midst of theorizing and coming up with ways to improve upon the new weapon he and Tatsuya were designing for his Excalibur, Yuuji was pulled out of his thoughts when he felt a killing intent directed at him.
He glanced out towards the window ever so slightly as to not alert his classmates and the teacher. But his eyes widened in shock the mont he saw C.C as well as Mao in the courtyard, facing off each other.
That bastard...! I didn't expect them to et right now!!!
Since C.C hadn't been going out often, they didn't have any of Satoru's phantom to guard and shadow C.C. Although he could summon all 40 of his guild mbers, Satoru had only ever summoned "Ainz
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