Suppression

"See Your Majesty."

"No gift." Charles slowly walked down from the high platform, walked majestically to Xiao Ran, placed his deep eyes on Xiao Ran, and said deeply, "Knight Lelouch, welcome back."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xiao Ran bowed his head slightly and expressed his gratitude with a faint smile. As if he did not see the deep meaning in Charles's eyes, he said calmly, "Although the final result has come out A little accident did not complete the work, but fortunately, they stabilized Area 19 and regained all the lost territory. They repelled Rebel Army and completely drove their core force out of the continent."

"Accident?" Charles raised his voice slightly and emphasized. "What kind of accident can make all my Area 19 soldiers almost annihilated."

Xiao Ran smiled and said nothing. This was Charles's intention. How could Charles not know what happened to Area 19? The purpose of saying these words was more or less deliberately embarrassing, but it was definitely not to continue to make things difficult for Xiao Ran., the reason for taking down Xiao Ran, because Charles, as the emperor of Britannia, holds all the rights of this country, does not need any reason to make things difficult for Xiao Ran, just one sentence can take down Xiao Ran without any reason, there is no need to find any reason.

Of course, this is what Charles thinks so, so these words are just the beginning. Charles continues to use his own pressure to oppress Xiao Ran: "In that battle, why do you have such a powerful person?" With your great strength, you didn't play any role, and you didn't even have a direct encounter with the machine called Pendragon. What was the reason that made you, Knights of the Round, choose to retreat when faced with such a powerful force? Tell me, Knight Lelouch."

Xiao Ran shook his head. "Because that makes no sense. I can't gain any advantage over Pendragon by driving such a machine. At that time, I must exercise restraint to avoid irritating the opponent, and show respect for the strong with actions. Only by fear of power can our people have more chances to survive, and prevent those who have lost the machine. The excellent pilots were affected by the battle. After all, the opponent's target is not only us Britannia, but also the EU. It can preserve a certain strength, at least it can preserve my strength, and it can also make the EU maintain a certain degree of awe towards us in the future and not dare to attack again."

"Is this your reason? If you haven't tried, if you haven't worked hard, if you haven't fought, you know you will fail. Then can I also think that Area 19's final failure is because of your deliberate indulgence?" When Charles spoke, Xiao Ran nodded, and he glanced at indifferently. Xiao Ran glanced at it and said, "An organization that emerged from Area 11 actually had such power under the nose of Euphemia. It caused the empire to suffer huge losses and lost the opportunity to directly take over the EU. The empire invested countless energy, manpower, and resources in a war that ultimately ended in failure."

"Knight Lelouch, as Knights of the Round, what do you think of Euphemia's dereliction of duty? What do you think of your own dereliction of duty?"

Bismark was silent, with a pair of eyes also staring at Xiao Ran. Luciano's eyes were wandering around, like a fly flying around in front of his eyes and falling into his own world., and Schneizel, with his hands behind his back, showed a calm smile, and his eyes moved back and forth between Charles and Xiao Ran, but it was impossible to see his true psychological condition.

"What do you think?" Xiao Ran smiled slightly, "I don't think I have any dereliction of duty, because I, Area 19, was able to persevere and regain the lost territory, and also occupied more territory, to the extent that the Africa continent was almost divided equally with the EU, and Princess Euphemia did not have any dereliction of duty, Since Black Knights can have such a powerful machine, it is either because they are powerful themselves or they have the same organization as Crimson Knights joining them. No matter what it is, it is not something that Area 11 can handle. How could they, who have hidden it from even the empire and the entire world, reveal their flaws so easily for Princess Euphemia to catch them."

"But if Your Majesty insists on letting me express my opinion, I have some ideas." Xiao Ran chuckled and said, "The whole world has now fallen into absolute chaos. Inexplicable and mysterious organizations suddenly appear and plan goals unknown to others, possessing powerful abilities beyond ordinary Military Strength."

"But because of the ambition of some people, those who have no ability to resist or resist are forced to stand on the front line of chaos, waiting helplessly for death and sacrifice that will come at any time. If this continues, because more and more weak people are sacrificed, hatred, hatred, and various emotions will be completely entangled in this world, making the world full of more contradictions, and world war will be about to break out."

"Whether it is Britannia or the EU, or any country in the world, the final result in this world war will only be failure and endless pain, putting countless people in danger and sorrow, turning the world into a world where only hatred remains. In the end of hatred and war, the people who can laugh last in this environment will only be those with the most powerful power, but you are definitely not included among these people. Your Majesty, you have status and identity but no ability to match it. You will only become a bargaining chip and a puppet in the hands of these powerful people."

"So if we want to avoid things like this, and prevent the world from falling into endless wars and countless sacrifices, we must restrain all battles from now on, buy more time to develop more powerful forces, put aside prejudices and unite all forces that can be united, so that Britannia no longer becomes the most threatening enemy in the eyes of other forces but a friend. Only then can we ensure that Britannia can last long and become stronger and stronger."

"But I want to do this, I want to change everything..." The corners of Xiao Ran's mouth raised. Schneizel on the side narrowed his eyes. Luciano's eyes also stayed on Xiao Ran. Bismark just frowned and tensed his body reflexively.

"Then we can only fundamentally change the most critical point of this country, which is you... Your Majesty, you can only change the leader of this country to another person, let Britannia now accumulate the contradictions with your departure, let the original development track of this country change because of your departure, let your departure replace Another person makes those NUMBER truly agree with Britannia. Let another person completely change the core and philosophy of Britannia. Then at least the country can continue to be peaceful for a long time, and it can also buy more time for development after the mutation before gaining real power."

"Bold."

Before Charles could speak, Bismark roared with a huge change of expression. In addition to the nearby guards, a group of soldiers who had not been in sight before all rushed out with weapons raised, and immediately surrounded Xiao Ran.

Luciano's face looked a little confused. He looked at Xiao Ran with a question mark face, but his body movements consciously blocked the front of Charles. He looked at Xiao Ran blankly and never thought about how the situation suddenly became like this, and Xiao Ran actually said such treasonous words.

Luciano really didn't know why it happened like this. Bismark didn't tell him this when he was in the car, but his loyalty to Britannia and the emperor made him act reflexively, but he was still full of confusion in his heart.

Schneizel stepped aside with a smile, raising his hands to show that this had nothing to do with him, although even if he didn't do this, there wouldn't be a gun aimed at him.

Xiao Ran was very calm. Seeing the countless soldiers who appeared pointing guns at him, he didn't react or fluctuate at all. He just kept smiling and looked at Charles, and the atmosphere became quite weird.

Luciano was still a little hard to accept Xiao Ran's transformation. When Area 19 was around, he had already regarded Xiao Ran as his idol. After he came back to his senses, he looked at Xiao Ran with a complicated face. "Knight Lelouch, do you know what you are talking about? Please tell His Majesty that you don't mean that."

"Little guy." Xiao Ran laughed and said to Luciano, "There is no need to make such a disguise in front of me. The fear of powerful power can make you maintain awe and respect for me. However, it is a bit unexpected that you can say such things at this time. I always thought that you were just a 'vampire', but vampires are not so emotionless."

"I hope that one day, as a knight, you can have the faith that truly belongs to the knight."

Xiao Ran looked at Charles and said with a faint smile, "Your Majesty, you can't bear it anymore. When we first met, it was like using GEASS to modify my memory. From that time on, you have always been suspicious and dissatisfied with me. Is that true? It's just that your ability can modify other people's memories, but you don't know if you can check other people's memories. Maybe you can't do that much. That's why you didn't attack me in the first place. In addition to using me, you also wanted to see if you could find more secrets from me?"

"Now that Crimson Knights has been disabled, the EU did not dare to start a war because of Black Knights, and the whole world fell into peace for a short time. This is a good opportunity for you to try to accept what has been seen in your eyes. Crimson Knights has no ability to resist, so I, who you knew from the beginning, is not loyal to you at all, will lose the use value. Next, you will choose to capture me, and then try to use Euphemia to blackmail me, right?"

"Innocent." Xiao Ran waved his hand gently. Following Xiao Ran's wave, all the people holding weapons present seemed to be slapped from the front by a huge force, and flew back screaming from where they were standing. And that All the weapons were separated from their hands and floated in the air without anyone holding them. The guns were turned and aimed at Charles, Bismark and Luciano.

Bismark's eyes stared, both eyes widened, with a look of disbelief on his face. He couldn't believe it. Not only him, but everyone present also showed similar expressions, but it was more prominent on Bismark's face.

"Surprised? Because you can't predict any of my actions?" Xiao Ran glanced at Bismark and said with a smile, "GEASS's ability to predict is indeed an excellent ability, but you are not a real god, so how can you predict everything. There are many things in this world that are beyond your ability. Even if you can predict it, it does not mean that you have the ability to deal with it."

"GEASS." The surprise on Charles's face quickly disappeared, and he calmed down again. "You are actually a GAESS user."

"Yes, but there should be some differences from what you expected. GEASS abilities generally target the spirit or soul. Soul-related abilities are extremely rare. That Imperial Consort is a rare soul-ability user, although his ability is a bit useless."

Xiao Ran raised his hand and pointed at the floating weapons with a smile, and said, "But this ability is not GEASS but another ability. Compared with your ability to modify other people's memories, my ability is more qualified than yours to be a king. It is a kind of ability that allows others to do it without violating themselves. The inner will, the ability to maintain oneself and be loyal to me at the same time, and even if the GEASS ability is erased for a certain period of time, there is no way to change their loyalty to me, because at that time their loyalty to me is no longer the result of GEASS, but their own wishes."

"I should be pretty good with this ability. By the way, I don't know about other people, but if it were me, my ability can also be used on people with GEASS ability. Do you want to give it a try?"

Xiao Ran lowered his head and smiled softly, shook his head and said, "I promised some people to let you live, as long as you can live comfortably, so I will not kill you, but using my ability on you should not be within the scope of my promise. Your Majesty, your noble Emperor Charles, do you also want to try the feeling of having your mind controlled by others, knowing that we are enemies but being unable to do anything but being loyal to me?"

Charles took a deep breath, and wanted to open his mouth to speak, but was shocked to find that his mouth was held down by some force and could not open it at all. How could he speak clearly if he couldn't even open his mouth? Charles couldn't ventriloquism, so he could only frown and stare at Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran waved his hand indifferently. "Don't look at it. I am basically immune to all GEASS abilities. Even if I look at it for a hundred years, it will be useless."

"Bah bang bang." Applause suddenly rang out. Schneizel, who had stepped aside, clapped his hands and slowly walked to Xiao Ran, saying in a complimentary tone, "So this is your confidence besides those powers. It's interesting, but if you want to control this country, just controlling him may not be enough."

Xiao Ran nodded, and after calculating the time, he smiled slightly, "It's not just that. By this time, all the important facilities in the capital should have been under my control. The palace is probably only a few minutes away. Your Highness Schneizel, now that things have reached this point, I think you won't have any hesitation, right?"

"To be honest, although a game like this is fun to play, the opponent is so bad that I really can't muster the energy to continue playing tricks."