Turning her own tactics against him.
Shamna wanted to use Nunnally to threaten Ask, too. At the very least, she wanted to make him think twice.
The moment an opportunity arose, she would kill herself to escape her current predicament.
Yet she could not see the slightest flicker of emotion on Ask's face.
This man...
Did he not care whether Nunnally lived or died?
That was what she had initially thought.
But when she felt Monica's two fingers pressing firmly against her eye sockets, preventing her from closing her eyes, she understood instantly.
It was Geass!
This man! Not only had he taken Code, he also possessed Geass!
That meant the conjecture their leader, V.V, had made back then was correct...
Code and Geass from different systems could coexist!
And Code could evolve even further!
"I can see that you're confused."
The sudden voice interrupted her shock.
Ask smiled as he looked down at her and said:
"If you hadn't been scheming against C's World, then no matter what wars you started in the real world, you would have been nothing more than a little entertainment in my boring life."
"I wouldn't even have intervened myself. I would have watched from the sidelines instead. Schneizel's talents would have been more than enough to deal with your country."
"But the collective human consciousness has too much influence on the real world. I can't let you do whatever you please."
"Besides, Nunnally is still my little sister. I ought to fulfill my duties as her older brother."
"And here I thought you'd have some novel way of killing yourself, like hiding poison in your mouth, or that you might be concealing some part of your Geass's power."
"But you resorted to the same old trick."
Ask lightly lifted the finger in which