[canon] "Does he have a lover?"

[thekingsgambit]

In this part of the Ashford Novel, we have Nunnally and Kallen discussing Lelouch's love life. Someone's jealous! I'm going to go out on a limb and say this happens after Episode 11.



3rd Period Hour
Translated by verity_isle


Kallen: Ughhh~, ah, my stomach is rumbling... It's not even about that 'weak constitution' act. If I just gorge down my lunch carelessly now, everyone would be so, so shocked...

Kallen: Mnnn? Is that the sweet smell of pizza in the air? Aaah, my feet, they're moving on their own~

Nunnally: These footsteps...Kallen-san?

Kallen: Ah, Nunnally. You knew with just footsteps. Are you alone?

Nunnally: Yes, Sayoko-san just went out to buy grocery for dinner. I'm just relaxing in this sun.

Kallen: Eh, but, you're so thin yet you eat pizza and still can eat dinner afterwards!?

Nunnally: Eh?

Kallen: Um, no, see, I smelled something nice, like roasted cheese, so I thought oh wooow can it be? Just like that.

Nunnally: Eek! That's not me. That's...ah, uh, um

Kallen: Hm?

Nunnally: Um, it's something Oniisama picked up...

Kallen: Something Lelouch picked up? A cat, or something else?

Nunnally: Y-yes. A cat, something like that...

Kallen: Cats eat pizza? What a weird kitty...

Nunnally: Yes, well...Oniisama just seems so busy lately, and he doesn't come home very much, and when he's back he's always in his room, with the cat. All night long...

Kallen: I see...

Nunnally: Yes…

Kallen: Well, me, too, I guess...

Nunnally: You, too?

Kallen: Ah, can you just forget about this story when I've left? There's someone I hold in great esteem, see. He's a really incredible person, has the same goals as I do, and he even puts his trust in someone like me, and I think I'd do my best to respond to that trust...

Nunnally: Yes.

Kallen: And somehow, from somewhere, just like he picked her up, and just goes along with him...

Nunnally: Does he have a lover?

Kallen: I still don't know for sure what's up with that, though. She's a really white girl. And then he said stuff like she's my comrade, and then he looks at her and said, l think white snow is beautiful, or something like that, something with deeper meanings...

Nunnally: He's horrible, that person. To hurt Kallen-san like that.

Kallen: No, it's not really 'hurting', not that bad. I was just wondering is all.

Nunnally: No, I really feel he must be a bad person somehow.

Kallen: Well, I suppose his image isn't exactly like a paragon of virtue...Lelouch is pretty bad himself, too, leaving you all lonely like this.

Lelouch: No. Oniisama is not a bad person at all. *matter-of-factly*

Kallen: ...Ah, ah I see.