The most unexpected calm came from Area 11.
The longer the ceasefire lasted, the more Clovis discovered that he seemed to have chosen the wrong governance method in the past.
After the formal establishment of Goryeo Special Settlement and Area 11 Exiled Administratum, those willing to continue armed resistance were given a clear channel to leave the country. Urban underground organizations, radical students, former soldiers, and some families who could no longer live under the rule of the empire, successively went to Goryeo through the Great Han consular system and the East China Sea ceasefire channel.
The days of Six Kyoto Houses are even more delicate than before the war. While they continue to pay Sakuradite quotas to Britannia, they also sign new Common Defense contracts through Great Han and Area 11 Government-in-Exile.
Sakuradite can be sold to anyone who needs it. As long as the price, transportation and political guarantee are suitable, the restoration plan has not been cancelled, but has been temporarily put in the background by Human Common Defense.
From the perspective of Six Kyoto Houses, Area 11 has re-existed in a very strange way.
The mainland is still under the rule of Britannia, but they have been recognized by Great Han on the land of Goryeo.
And Clovis also discovered that it is actually more economical to let the enemy have a piece of land that they can legally leave than to force every dissatisfied person underground to resist.
At the Governor-General's Residence meeting, the colonial officer still insisted that schools and local newspapers should continue to be prohibited from using the name Japan.
Clovis was revising a sketch of Kyoto's urban restoration, and didn't even look up after listening.
"Why? Tell me your opinion."
The official was startled for a moment. "Your Highness, in the official administrative system of the empire, this place is Area 11."
"So the tax documents say Area 11, and the military region documents say Area 11." Clovis erased an overcrowded road from the map, "Teahouses, schools and Shrines and Temples are willing to write Japan, so let them write it. A name that won't blow up Governor-General's Residence."
"Your Highness, this will encourage the revival of national identity!!"
"The old country has already re-registered at Goryeo and does not need our encouragement."
The conference room became quiet, and Clovis was finally willing to put down his paintbrush.
"Area 11 Most of those who are willing to take up guns to resist the empire have already gone to Goryeo; those who are willing to stay, as long as they don't kill the police and pay taxes as required, what does it have to do with Governor-General's Residence how they want to call their hometown?"
"His Majesty the Emperor's numbered area system--"
"Father didn't ask me to check the menu of every noodle restaurant."
Clovis's tone was not intense, but rather conveyed the tiredness of an artist faced with poor composition.
His past cruelty to Area 11 was not just for the order of the empire. Lelouch and Nunnally were recorded as dying in the war, and he once believed that what killed them was the resistance, chaos and hatred in this land. The pain of being unable to admit that he was unable to protect his younger siblings could easily be turned into revenge against the entire region.
Now he knows that both people are alive, Nunnally is receiving treatment, and Lelouch has even entered Great Han's Common Defense staff system.
So the personal hatred in the past suddenly lost its foundation. Area 11 people did not kill his younger brothers and sisters, at least not successfully.
Clovis This even resulted in a very relaxed governance philosophy.
You can call him whatever you want, just don't plant bombs in the neighborhood he just renovated.
It was during this period that Jeremiah learned that Lelouch was still alive.
That day, Clovis asked everyone else in the conference room to leave, leaving only Jeremiah alone. He directly placed Nunnally's transfer record and Goryeo's medical confirmation on the table.
He only read the first page before his expression changed. His Highness Lelouch... is still alive?! And His Highness Nunnally!
Marianne Imperial Consort's two children are still alive!
The name that he once thought had disappeared with the flames of war in Area 11, and he did not even dare to mention it to anyone anymore, now unexpectedly reappeared from the mouth of Prince Clovis.
Jeremiah suddenly remembered the night when Marianne was assassinated. It was a shame that he could not forget to this day.
He failed to protect Marianne Imperial Consort, not even the two children she left behind.
After so many years, he pinned his loyalty to Imperial Consort almost paranoidly on the honor of the imperial soldiers, Royal Family order and Pureblood Faction concepts.
He desperately maintained the dignity of Britannia soldiers and hated any behavior that undermined Royal Family's prestige, as if as long as he always stood on the firmest side of the imperial order, he could still prove that--
Back then, Jeremiah Gottwald did not completely live up to the Imperial Consort known as "Marianne the Flash".
But...
What now?
Lelouch His Highness is still alive.
That His Highness is at Goryeo, near Area 11 Government-in-Exile protected by Great Han!
"... Your Highness."
Jeremiah's voice suddenly became hoarse, and Clovis raised his head.
"Jeremiah?"
"Please forgive me... I'm rude."
He took a step back, and then knelt down heavily on one knee!
"Clovis Your Highness!!"
"Your Majesty...Jeremiah Gottwald, I have something to ask for your permission!"
"What are you doing? Get up first--"
"Please allow me to resign from all military positions directly under Area 11 Governor-General's Office!!"
"... what?"
"I am fully aware that this move violates His Highness's trust over the years! Your Highness has treated me well, but I have submitted my resignation at this time... No matter how His Highness punishes me, I will never complain!"
His voice trembled slightly.
"But... but, Your Highness!!"
Jeremiah raised his head suddenly, his eyes already bloodshot.
"Marianne Imperial Consort's orphan is still alive! I once vowed to dedicate my life to Marianne Imperial Consort! But when Imperial Consort was assassinated, I couldn't do anything! When His Highness Lelouch and His Highness Nunnally were sent to Area 11, I couldn't do anything either!"
He gritted his teeth and finally said what he wanted to say.
"I have already failed once... no, twice! Now God has given me a third chance. Do I still want to stay here and pretend not to know anything?!"
Clovis looked at him quietly.
After a long time, the young imperial prince sighed softly.
"You, you obviously only need to stay here, you can still have honor and future, but when you heard that Lelouch is still alive, you don't even want these?"
Jeremiah didn't answer, but Clovis suddenly smiled.
"Really... no wonder she trusted someone like you back then."
Jeremiah raised his head suddenly.
"Your Highness...?!"
Clovis has turned around and taken out the personal letter that he had prepared.
"Go ahead, Jeremiah."