"What do you know about Gilkestan?"
Ask pulled C.C into his arms. A witch who had lived so long ought to have seen just about everything.
She slipped her arms around his neck and said:
"I remember the Geass Order having a branch in Gilkestan called FARLAF."
"I see. That explains everything."
Ask nodded, then continued:
"They most likely abducted Nunnally to conduct some Geass experiments. Could this be connected to the experiments Marianne performed on us? Lelouch has always been declared dead to the outside world, and they aren't capable of abducting me, so they targeted Nunnally..."
"Nunnally was abducted?"
C.C suddenly cried out, interrupting Ask.
"I remember that they manage the Gate of Aramu, a system that connects to 'C's World.' But you sealed off 'C's World'..."
Her words cut off abruptly. Suddenly, her eyes widened as she stared straight at Ask, as though something dreadful had occurred to her:
"Although you sealed the entrance to the 'Sword of Akasha' and the related systems Charles left behind, they are essentially data within 'C's World.' If Charles left a back door, its key would have to be his Geass."
At that point, Ask understood.
"In other words, they want to use the traces of Charles's Geass left in Nunnally, or her blood relation to Charles, to enter 'C's World' through the connection between the 'Sword of Akasha' and the 'Thought Elevator System,' right?"
Before Ask ascended the throne, Nunnally had broken through the Geass Charles had placed on her through her own willpower.
She had not removed it, but "broken through" it.
Thus, traces of the Geass remained in Nunnally's mind. It had merely become "inactive."
As it happened, Nunnally also carried Charles's blood. Whether the "key" was Geass or blood ties, she was the ideal candidate.
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