"The commander is in the office, I'll take you and Lelouch with me later." Mariana smiled and said to CC.

"I didn't expect him to actually do it." CC looked at Mariana in front of her and said with some emotion.

"The commander's order, even if it is very difficult, I can only bite the bullet, and I don't know if my role is real or not." Mariana asked with some curiosity.

After all, in terms of understanding Mariana, it is estimated that no one in the whole of Avalon will know better than CC.

"The temperament is very good, the tone and personality are also very close, plus your appearance, if the person standing opposite you is not me, I don't think anyone can tell that you are not the real Mariana." CC looked Mariana in front of her up and down, and shook her head slightly in affirmation.

"That means the commander is well-built." Mariana laughed.

Then there was another slight noise, and Lelouch, who was still wearing Zero's costume but no longer wearing a helmet, got up from Gawain, dragged the improvised lifting rope next to the cockpit, and landed from Gawain.

Expressionless, he walked up to Mariana, was silent for a moment, and then once again pretended to shout at Mariana: "I order you in the name of Lelouch V. Britannia to tell me who you really are, and what is your ultimate purpose!" ”

Mariana blinked and couldn't help laughing.

Yes, she looks exactly like a living person, with a brain, a soul, and even spiritual power, but she is not a living person!

The existence of the brain is even a decoration to a certain extent, her real core is the Eve heart in the body, as for the soul or something, it is completely given to her by the life circuit of the Eve heart as the underlying circuit, including wisdom, senses, knowledge, and behavior patterns, which are also directly added by Liszt when he made Eve's heart.

Therefore, Lelouch's geass is completely playing the piano to the cow to her!

Although her mental power did change slightly under the influence of Geass, as long as it did not affect the core circuits of Eve's heart, it was just air, and for Mariana, it was no different from watching a theatrical performance.

"Lelouch, when did you fall in love with drama? How did I not know? Mariana walked up to Lelouch and touched his forehead with her hand in confusion.

"Why aren't you affected by geass!?" Lelouch took a step back and asked as he looked at Mariana in front of him with some incredulity on his face.

"Who knows." Mariana chuckled.

"Alright, the nonsense is over, and now it's time for me to take you to our commander."

With that, Mariana motioned for Lelouch and CC to follow her.

CC didn't hesitate and immediately followed.

Lelouch hesitated for a moment before he stepped forward to follow the two.

However, this time, Mariana did not take the two of them directly to the central control command room to meet directly with Liszt and Miley, who were from Ashford College, but turned around and went to another office, which should be a special office, where she met Liszt, who had been waiting here.

Next to him was his exclusive maid Sixteen Nightsaki, like a big boss, looking at Lelouch in front of him.

"Who the hell are you!" Lelouch looked at the strange Liszt in front of him and asked in a deep voice.

"Since you asked sincerely, then I will also tell you with great mercy, I am the commander of the GTS Celestial Squad, the direct combat agency of the Planet Defense Organization TPC, Liszt, this is my secretary Sixteen Night Sakuya, and Mariana is the first-level combat executive of the Celestials, it is a pleasure to meet you, Your Excellency Zero of the Black Knights." Liszt got up and handed out his palm in a mouthful of nonsense.

No one can tell the real from the fake anyway......

It's the same with CC.

"Planet Defense?" Lelouch ignored Liszt's palm, but frowned and said, "Listen to the name, you should be an organization dedicated to maintaining the safety of the planet and ensuring the continuation of life on the planet, I should be right to say so." ”

"Yes, as you guessed, the ultimate goal of our TPC is to defend against an unknown enemy arriving from the depths of the starry sky." Liszt withdrew his palms and sat back in his chair.

"If your goal is planetary security, why are you now involved in the war between our Black Knights and Britannia? Or is the planetary defense you are talking about just a concept, and the real purpose is actually to use it as an excuse to gain planetary supremacy? Lelouch asked rhetorically with a little sarcasm on his face.

"Perhaps. However, a stable and peaceful internal environment on the planet is indeed what our TPC is pursuing, so the TPC's high-level officials have always complained about what your Black Knights have done, and some people have even proposed to nip you directly in the bud, but the Supreme Commander said that any human being on the planet may become our partner against foreign enemies in the future, which suppressed those radical voices and gave you the opportunity to develop freely. Liszt replied with a smile.

"So are you holding back now, or are you talking about aliens coming?" Lelouxiu's face sank, and he said.

"Neither."

"So what do you mean now!" Lelouch asked with an unkind face.

"Originally, our intervention was only due to Yufie's request to save her royal sister Cornelia, but you don't seem to be satisfied with this, which led to the current meeting, so if you really want to talk about it, you caused all this, didn't you?"

"Cornelia is an important bargaining chip that I use to occupy Area 11, how could I possibly sit idly by and watch you take her away? And ......" Speaking of this, Lelouch couldn't help but glance at Mariana next to him: "And Yuffie alone is not counting, even she was sent over, I find it hard to believe that you are not doing this on purpose." ”

"It's really hard to fool." Liszt looked at him and sighed with some emotion.

Lelouch didn't speak, just stared at him with an unkind gaze.

"But so what? As you understand, people without power are pathetic, and for us TPC, Celestials, you are now the ordinary person without strength, just like facing the citizens of District 11 of Britannia, so if you don't want to suffer yourself and Nanali is hurt, I advise you to be honest, otherwise, ......" Liszt smiled mysteriously.

"Do you know the brain in the vat?"

Lelouch's face changed.

"Looks like you've heard of it." Liszt laughed.

"That's not an illusory hypothesis, and we celestials also have the ability to make a real brain in a jar, so if you are really disobedient, then for the sake of our celestials, we can only ask you to become that brain."

"What exactly do you want to do?" Lelouch asked with an extremely ugly face.

"Who knows?" Liszt smiled and waved his hand: "Take him down, let 2b arrange for the soldiers to be strictly guarded." ”

"Yes." Mariana responded.

"Let's go." Mariana said to Lelouch.

Lelouch looked at Liszt, then at Marianna next to him, and then at CC, who seemed to be familiar with Liszt and treated him much better, and finally snorted coldly and followed Marianna out of Liszt's office.