Bang!
A gunshot rang out.
Yet by the time Origami turned and fired, the man had already vanished.
"He hid in advance? Did he anticipate that I'd shoot without hesitation?"
A flicker of doubt rose in her mind, but her body instinctively ducked back behind the pillar.
Her eyes darted around, searching for the man.
Then his voice came from the side.
"Just as Lady Shamna said, Geass doesn't work on you. And once the Geass fails, you shoot without hesitation."
"Lady Shamna?"
Origami silently repeated the name.
He had known her actions in advance, and he knew she was immune to Geass. Could the other person's Geass grant foresight?
With an ability to foresee the future like Bismarck's, predicting Kallen's actions would make it easy to deduce her own.
But judging by Kallen's behavior just now, that didn't quite seem to fit.
In other words...
Someone else possessed a Geass that granted foresight...
Origami promptly relayed her theory in a hushed voice through her wireless earpiece.
Still hiding in the shadows, the man continued boasting:
"Hmph, confused? If you surrender quietly, perhaps I'll take you to see Lady Shamna and let her decide what to do with you."
"..."
"What do we do? Their Geass ability sounds like bad news."
Kallen cast Origami a questioning look.
Listening to the orders coming through her earpiece, Origami gave Kallen a mischievous, impish grin:
"Are you afraid to die?"
"Huh? What are you talking about..."
"Find a way to keep him here. As for the rest..."
Origami pulled the machine gun from her back and fired indiscriminately toward the outside as she said confidently:
"Leave it to Lord Ask."
An S-class prison in Britannia's homeland.
Those held here were nobles of the Imperial Family who had resisted.
Although Ask had