Since the EU Sixth Army switched from a deep formation to a mobile defense, .

After 16 days of fighting, the Battle of the Baltic finally came to an end at sunset on the 17th.

The Seventh Knight, Suzaku Suzaku, broke through the enemy line alone and cut off the supply lines of the EU Sixth Army, striking a decisive blow to the Empire's victory. Defeated Admiral Balkle, known as the Ice Vulture......

"Miss Cecil, is this report overblown?" Before he could finish reading the battle report written by Cecil, Suzaku showed embarrassment.

"This victory was achieved entirely under the careful planning of His Highness Shunazel, and I am just carrying out His Highness's orders......"

"But if it weren't for Suzaku and your lone army going deeper, Barklai's Sixth Army would not have been caught by the tail, and I don't know how long this battle would last." The sixth knight, Aniah, was indifferently reassuring.

"If you're too modest, you'll be offended!"

Just as Keno finished saying this, Luca, the fifth knight, who had not said a word since just now, suddenly spoke up.

"Know such a story? There was an alternate player in a sports club who had to train very hard to become a full-time player, but even then he couldn't do it because there was an opponent in the club who had extraordinary talent. He put in a lot of sweat and hard work to catch up with this opponent, but in one big competition, his opponent performed exceptionally well and won the championship. When a reporter asks his opponent [You're really doing really well, what's the secret?' ], but the opponent's reply was [just luck.] ]”

Speaking of this, Lukka kicked the charred dirt on the ground with his military boots, and took a deep breath of the air that was still filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood, this is the battlefield after the battle has just ended, and the emperor ** soldiers who escort the prisoners and confirm the results of the battle can be seen in the distance.

"Maybe the opponent was trying to show his modesty, but in the ears of the alternate, it was an extremely bitter mockery."

"This ....." Suzaku immediately understood the meaning of Luca's words.

But just when he wanted to open his mouth, Lukka preemptively gave a conclusion.

"I think everyone should have a correct understanding of themselves and give a fair evaluation. Otherwise, it will only keep making the people around you look stupid. ”

"......" Suzaku took a deep breath, then gave a helpless chuckle.

"I see. It's just that I'm still not used to being praised...."

"Hey~~ Don't say such sad things at such a moment, okay." Keno habitually put his arms around Suzaku's neck.

"Did you hear anything?" At this moment, Suzaku's expression suddenly became serious.

"It's a girl's cry for help!"

Suzaku sped away in the direction he thought the sound was coming from.

"It should be here!"

Under the rubble, a little girl who was not very conscious curled up in a ball, and the brown blood stains on her clothes seemed to be injured somewhere.

Although it was a battlefield, it was always a port city until it became a battlefield, and it was inevitable that there would be casualties among ordinary civilians due to the lack of time to evacuate.

"It's amazing. Suzaku, you should go to the search and rescue team..."Kino said with a sigh.

"Are you alright!?" Suzaku gently shook the little girl awake.

"Well, thank you....." Before the words fell, the little girl who opened her eyes couldn't move away from the uniform of the Imperial Knights of the Round Table after her eyes fell on Suzaku's body.

"Murderer!! Give me back my daddy!! Suddenly, the little girl let out a crazy cry, "Dad is obviously such a good person, my brother and uncle are.... Why kill them!!? You devil! Demons ....."

The shouting was abruptly interrupted ....

"Ania!"

The silenced pistol in Aniah's hand was still emitting traces of gunsmoke.

"It's just a tranquilizer." Ania retracted the pistol from her waist.

"Don't care." Lukka patted Suzaku with a low face.

"It's very common on the battlefield that you don't have to fight everything on yourself, so let's send this girl to the ambulance camp first."

I don't know if the previous comfort was useful, but Luka's last sentence played a considerable role. Suzaku, who had a gloomy face, immediately came back to his senses and picked up the little girl to get ready to board Lancelot.

"It's all here, it's something interesting happening." Just then, an incongruous voice appeared.

"Brandley, isn't it too late for you unsociable fellow to come and make friends now?" Lukka scoffed unceremoniously.

"You really can't get tired of playing friendship games with children." The Tenth Knight, Brand, replied with his usual frivolous attitude, and then turned his head to look at Suzaku.

"Isn't this the betrayal knight, the cardinal Mu Qing of the compatriot killer? I'm still so good at coaxing women! But being merciful is not for you. Why, do you want to leave her to me to dispose of it for you? It will definitely give you a very interesting result.... Hahahaha....." Brandley couldn't help but laugh wildly when he said this.

Lukka suddenly stepped forward and stood in front of Suzaku.

"Keno, you have no reason to stop me this time, do you!?" Throwing the red dagger in his hand to the ground, Lukka pinched his knuckles and "Attack the Knights of the Round Table, even if you are also Knights of the Round Table, you can't just forget it." ”

"Hmm....." Kino looked up and thought for a moment, then let out a long sigh of helplessness.

"Ugh...."

This helpless sigh seemed to be a signal for war, and Lukka had rushed in front of Brandley in the blink of an eye.

"Stop both!"

"Suzaku get out of the way, which side are you helping from?" Lukka struggled to break free of Suzaku who was clutching his fist.

"Shu Muqing, if you don't get out of the way, I don't mind doing it with you." Brandley also warned Suzaku with a smirk in the middle.

"They are also Knights of the Round Table, and as an example of the whole army, even if they want to duel, they should not be like ordinary people fighting." The empire, which worships the law of the jungle, does not prohibit dueling, so Suzaku can't say anything to make the two give up dueling.

"There is an important meeting to be held now, and all the generals and Knights of the Round Table are at once in the conference room to report." At this moment, a huge announcement sound came from the air, and the huge shadow projected by the battleship floating in the air covered several people on the ground.

"His Highness Shunazel."

Avalon's white hull represents the presence of Honazel himself.

"Cut~ It's the second time!" Luca, who heard the broadcast, took a sip in displeasure.

"Your little life has been written down for the time being."

"Oh? It's funny how dare you say such a thing in front of me, an expert on killing. Although he was unforgiving, Bradley also withdrew the short sword in his arms.

"Miss Cecil, she'll leave it to you." Suzaku handed the girl into Cecil's hands.

"But, this kid..."

"If she learns that I saved her, she can't hate me anymore. As long as there is hatred, there is still hope for salvation....." Suzaku said these words with his eyes lowered and turned to Lancelot.

"You know what?" Luca, who quietly walked to Suzaku's side, whispered.

"There was a stupid person who innocently did the same thing as you....."

"The same thing?" Suzaku cast a puzzled gaze.

"Yes." A bitter smile tugged at the corners of Luka's mouth, and the true face of the man under the black mask came to his mind.

"As a result, that guy hung up so stupidly....."

Suzaku's footsteps paused slightly, although he didn't know who Lukka was talking about, but he was faintly aware that the protagonist in the words must know himself

...............

"Speaking of Geass, first of all, we must understand what kind of existence Geass is."

The teenager in the picture makes the purple-haired woman look sluggish.

"Kamiyu...", he reached out to touch the person in the frame, but in the end all the cold touch came from his fingertips.

"Geass, a word derived from the Gaelic word in Scotland, is a terrible religious taboo spell in Irish legend, which translates to 'covenant and forbidden'. Therefore, we can roughly conclude that this magical ability should have first appeared in Britain and Ireland. Through limited observation and research, Geass has shown the ability to conform to the meaning of the word itself, i.e., to make a contract and obtain the forbidden power to blend into the spirit of others. ”

"By far the most obvious Geass ability we know of, the power that Zero possesses that can force others and no one can disobey them. There is also the ability to read the minds of others and see through people's hearts. But why is Geass unable to work on non-human beings and machines? Here we have to mention some knowledge in psychology. ”

"In the past, Carl Jung, the founder of modern analytical psychology, said that the human unconscious has two levels: individual and non-individual. The former only reaches the level of the infant's earliest memory, which is the unconscious, which is composed of impulses, desires, vague perceptions, and experiences; The latter, on the other hand, includes the whole time before the actual beginning of the infant, that is, the remnants of the life of the ancestors, and its content can be found in the hearts of all people, with a universal character. It's a kind of encompassing instinct and archetype. It is only a possibility, in the form of an ambiguous memory that accumulates in the structure of the human brain, and this unconsciousness is called the group unconscious. ”

Jung, on the other hand, argued that the roots of man's numerous primordial images can only be found in the realm of the "collective unconscious," which allows people to see or hear the primordial imagery or distant echoes of man's primordial consciousness. In other words, in Jung's theory, the deepest layers of human consciousness are likely to be connected like an ocean. It is only because the layer between the surface consciousness and the subconscious mind seems to be weak, but in fact it is divided and protected by the preconscious like an iron wall, so there is the existence of human consciousness. ”

Geass has the ability to break through this layer of protection and act directly on the human unconscious. Other organisms and machines do not have the unconscious existence of this group, and therefore cannot be effective against non-humans. Through the investigation of people who have studied Geass, it is found that these people all have a clear memory disconnect in common, and this characteristic has become an indirect and effective proof of this theory. ”

Voice, gaze..... The five senses that are human beings perceive the world have the potential to become the medium of Geass..... If Jung's theory is correct, Geass can be countered by his own willpower, but unfortunately there is no chance of experimentation so far...... Date, 2017 ....."

"It turns out that during the time I was the governor of District 11, Kamiyu was actually studying this." Cornelia stared at the boy in the freeze-frame frame, unable to take her eyes off it for a long time.

"Geass, the root of all evil... It's all harmful! Suddenly, Cornelia looked angry.

The screen was slammed off, and the silent hallway echoed with the sound of swift footsteps in the distance.