Chapter 5:
"Well... it's been about an hour. Roman is a very gentle and considerate person. Although he has lost his memory, he doesn't look like a bad person."
"yes?"
Lelouch didn't think it was very correct for Nanali's evaluation. After all, it is impossible to be the same person before and after amnesia, because memory is the main component of personality. But it doesn't matter, as long as Nanali likes it, as long as Rome doesn't hurt Nanali, it's enough.
"By the way, brother, can you think of a name that sounds close to 'Roma'?"
"'Roma'? Did Roma complain to you?"
While speaking, Lelouch's eyes turned to Saki Shiko, and he shook his head as an answer.
"No, I just think this name is too casual. If possible, it's better to find a name seriously."
"So...I'll check it out."
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After leaving the courtyard, Rome became idle again, but he had nothing to do.
As Mi Lei said, restoring memory is not something that can be forced. Instead of constantly retrieving memories, it is better to enjoy such a life.
Roman's mentality is not at all like a person who has lost his memory should have, as if he doesn't care about past memories at all.
It was not until the afternoon that Rome met Mi Lei, who had come downstairs, on the stairs.
"Roma... Interested in walking with me?"
"Now?"
Although there are no classes at this time, most of the students are still staying at the school, and if they show up outside, they will definitely be found.
"It doesn't matter, even if you see it, you won't be entangled. After all, the student council president is here. And everyone is very busy recently, so there will be no free time to chase stars."
"Star chasing or something... It feels more and more excessive, obviously I'm just an ordinary person."
"Don't pay attention to these details, let's go, you don't want to give face to the student council president, right?"
What else can I say? Rome can only be respectful rather than obedient.
As Mi Lei said, everyone was very busy at this time and seemed to be running around for some event.
But no matter how busy you are, you can hear voices like "Hello, President" one after another on the way. It seems that Mi Lei is still very dignified in everyone's heart.
"Because the college festival is approaching, everyone has to step up their schedules. The workload recently is heavier than usual. There is basically no time to do it in the morning, so everyone will stay in the school longer. Rome will meet students this morning. Maybe it's because someone works before class."
Actually not, because no one will work in the swimming pool, the green-haired girl is just swimming. These words are just in my heart, and Rome didn't plan to say them, because this is the same as what Lelouch said, and it will be endless after Mi Lei finds out.
"Good afternoon, President, this is..."
There were people saying hello along the way, but everyone was busy with work, and it was the first time that they encountered crisis in Rome.
"This one is a prince from Arabia. I'm going to participate in this academy festival, and I'll be living in the school before that."
"W-what? Prince?!"
The girl in front of her, her eyes became sparkling in an instant, and her eyes looked at Rome with a strange light.
"President!"
"Ahahaha, just kidding, it's actually my friend who just wanted to visit the academy festival, but came a little earlier."
But Mi Lei's explanation didn't seem to be heard.
"Prince, prince, prince... Well, not even a prince. The only one I like is His Royal Highness Lelouch."
Huh? Sounds like you heard something interesting? Is Lelouch the real prince?
"Yeah, then come on."
Then, Mi Lei took Rome away. Although it doesn't seem to cause chaos, Rome always feels that tomorrow will be a big news.
Chapter 10 Chapter 9 Impulsive (500 recommended votes plus more)
Today is the fourth day of being at Ashford College, and philosophically speaking, the fourth day that Rome is in the world. It was only when I woke up that this strange thought appeared in Roman's mind, but it quickly disappeared.
He was not a philosopher at all, perhaps a philologist or a linguist, and a philosopher was still a little too far from Rome.
Turning his head to look at the robe on the stool, he felt a little regretful, because he still didn't get the school uniform in the end. The school uniform that suits him may not be available until later. The school uniforms in Rome need to be re-customized, but everyone is busy at this time, and there is no free time until the college festival. According to Mi Lei, yesterday's appearance was to make it easier for Rome to walk around the campus in the following days, at least to let everyone know that there is such a person in the school.
"Even so, I will only go out to visit when there are few people... Forget it, let it be."
After getting dressed is a wash, but the next thing should be more time-consuming work - grooming your hair. Unlike other boys with short hair, Roma's hair is too long, it is cumbersome to organize, and it is difficult to do it on your own, which is why modern people cut their hair short. It's not that there are no people with long hair, there are many girls with long hair, but there are very few boys with long hair, and most of them are nobles, and there are special servants to take care of their hair.
Rome asked Mi Lei if she should get a haircut, but it was denied in the end, because the long white hair and the Arab-style robe on her body were both important symbols of Roman identity. Meet him for the first time.
If it wasn't for Mi Lei's reminder, Roma wouldn't know that her hair had lost its luster, but taking care of her hair... It's still difficult, after all, I just listened to Mi Lei's explanation, and I have no experience in this area at all. Self-care is simply a matter of impossible things. By the time Rome walked out the door, it was already late.
According to the usual habits, the first stop of the day is the student union, but there is no one in the student union.
As expected, Rome did not intend to see anyone like this, not because it was too late, but because today was the weekend.
And he also had something important today - speculation about his identity.
Although there are no clues to be found in the shape and clothing, don't forget that there is a short sword on Rome as a token.
Because the first two days were class time, Rome did not choose to ask for help (actually, she forgot), and it happened to be the weekend, so everyone should have free time.
Rome went to Lelouch's house. He didn't know many people, but Livaru once said that Lelouch was the smartest person in the student council, so of course he was the priority for those who asked for help. Recalling that during his time with Lelouch, many of the clues in Rome seemed to be excavated by Lelouch, and Rome had seen Mi Lei consult Lelouch several times about the affairs of the student union.
However, Lelouch was not notified in advance, hoping that he would be at his residence at this time.
Came to the door of the dormitory, and then pressed the doorbell, and then felt the vibration of the ground, it seemed that someone came out to open the door.
It's strange, can I feel the vibration of people walking? —This question arises in my mind, but now is not the time to think about it.
Then the door opened. But the person who opened the door was not Prince Saki, nor Lelouch and Nanali, but someone whom Rome had seen but did not know.
"Too slow, my pizza was ordered half an hour ago."
With the sound of complaining, the green-haired girl appeared in front of her eyes, and her amber eyes revealed a touch of impatience, but she disappeared the moment she saw Rome.
The girl was the girl Roma saw in the early morning yesterday, when she was swimming in the swimming pool and Roma was found peeping at the door.
Why was she at Lelouch's house? And listening to her words seems to be very familiar with Lelouch, but I have never heard of it from the student union.
The girl is not wearing a school uniform, but today is the weekend, so it is normal to wear casual clothes. But the clothes she was wearing were so strange.
Wearing a pure white tights, it doesn't seem to be fabric, but more like a specially tailored material. On the limbs and joints of the leotard, black leather straps were tied, which seemed to Rome to have no other meaning than decoration. The tights that are completely attached to the skin highlight the girl's exquisite figure. The slender limbs and flat belly make the girl look very fragile, and the right chest and abdomen do not give people a feeling of cumbersomeness. It is not a hot body. But because of this tights, it became attractive, and her figure can be described as "proportioned".
"It was you."
After seeing that the person at the door was Roman, the green-haired girl said this, and then moved her body back without a trace, her muscles were already tensing.
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Rome's body froze, approaching the green-haired girl face to face, his body has lost control.
As if I heard the heart beating "dong dong dong", and I can no longer hear the sound, the body seems to have lost touch, only the visual function of the eyes still exists.
But it wasn't much better, because there was nothing else in the field of vision except the green-haired and white-clothed girl in front of her.
The blood in the body suddenly rushed like a flood, and people came to the boiling hot water first. Nerves and muscles are aching, feeling squeezed by something, and the body seems to explode at any moment.
Rome's will began to fade, and consciousness began to blur. The blood on his body suddenly went to nowhere, and his whole body was so cold that he began to tremble.
The girl in front of her is a rare and beautiful girl, and a suffocating smell is constantly coming from her body, I don't know if it smells too good or too bad. But the smell made Rome gradually lose its ability to breathe.
The throat began to dry up, and it was as hot as being roasted by a fire, and it made an inexplicable sound like "gulugulu".
I-
I want-
I'll take her-
What am I going to do with her? The first official meeting, should we say hello? Or ask her name? Then figure out how to get along?
Do not make jokes? How is it possible to do such a boring thing?
I'm going to... kill her? No, I'm going to destroy her! !
Rome took out the short sword hidden under his robe, the token that was supposed to represent his past, and held it up.
Then, his whole body tensed up, like a beast of prey, rushing towards the girl in front of him.
Chapter 11 Chapter 10 Accident?
Like a beast, Rome's body suddenly rushed towards C.C.
In C.C's vision, Roma's body is as fast as a top sprinter, coming to her in the blink of an eye.
The short sword in his hand has been raised, and the next moment is to stab C.C's throat.
If it was someone else, he might have died, but he was not among the "others".
In the long years, she has experienced countless battles, whether it is a frontal fight or an assassination from behind, it has long been impossible to count with accurate numbers. Faced with such a clumsy assault on the opposite side, C.C hardly needed a conscious response, instinctively stretched out his hand and grabbed Roma's wrist, then twisted his wrist, only to hear a "click", and Roma's wrist was dislocated.
C.C stretched out his long legs and kicked Rome's abdomen. The slender legs actually kicked Rome away, and then opened the distance between the two again.
But Roman seems to have learned a lesson, or at this time he has lost consciousness, and once again pounces on C.C.
There was no fluctuation in the amber eyes, and C.C, who was ready, would not take such a clumsy attack into his eyes at all. She grabbed Roma's right hand holding the dagger with both hands, and a perfect over-the-shoulder throw threw him away. At the moment of landing, Rome completely fainted.
"What a terrible assassination, there is nothing to praise, who sent you here?"
Her questions would not be answered because the attacker in front of her had passed out.
C.C, the immortal witch, the owner of GODE, who did she offend?
If you really want to count them, it may be impossible to count them today. After all, she is a witch who has lived in several worlds. She knows a lot of people and offends a lot of people, but it can be inferred from the nearest person.
The first is Clovis LA Britannia who caught himself some time ago. He seems to want to know the secret of GODE's immortality, but he has been killed by Lelouch, so he is excluded. Then there's Mao, who recently appeared in District 11 and seems to have messed up Lelouch. But Mao didn't know where C.C was hiding, otherwise with Mao's infatuation with C.C, he would definitely appear in person. The last possibility is the Order, but this possibility is even smaller, because it is impossible for the Order to send a person who does not even have the ability to GEASS to assassinate the witch who has GODE.
In addition, there are many unexplained doubts about the assassination. Lelouch once said that he had used GEASS on this boy, confirming that the boy had indeed lost all his memories, and that C.C had no memory of his meeting with Rome, it meant that it was not a personal grievance between the two, because they never contacted.
It can't be because of the reason I saw it in the swimming pool, right? Lelouch once said that Rome was trying its best to avoid being discovered by outsiders. Could it be that it was because they were seen that they chose to assassinate Lelouch when Lelouch was not around? Even lack of common sense should have a limit, this possibility is impossible no matter how you think about it.
Moreover, the stabbing method just now was an outsider no matter how you looked at it, and it was simply a pounce made by someone who didn't even know how to fight.
Shouldn't it be an "accident"?
C.C has come to a conclusion that even after living for centuries, it seems bizarre.
Forget it, it's useless to think about anything now, the most important thing is how to deal with this person, because Nanali is coming back soon.
C.C walked towards the fainted Roma and was thinking about what to do with him when he saw the dagger that fell from Roma's hand.
She picked up the dagger and noticed the writing on the dagger.
"This is…"
C.C's lips moved slightly, and the word was pronounced silently. At this moment, she felt as if she was cut into pieces by a sharp blade, and her body was torn apart.
Consciousness is gradually disappearing, finally falling into darkness completely, and then waking up from the darkness and returning to reality.
Rich experience told her that just now, she had already died once.
Different from death in the past, whether it is death by suffocation, drowning or blood loss, death is an existential process. The state of being alive gradually moves towards death, perhaps because of the loss of consciousness, you may not feel the coming of death, but the transition from birth to death will not happen overnight. But the death just now was an instant death, and she also recovered from death in an instant, from birth to death, from death to life, the two processes did not even take half a minute.
"I understand, you are indeed the killer sent here."
C.C looked at the dagger in his hand, and then turned to look at Rome, who was in a drowsy state. His calm eyes were startled with endless waves, and complex emotions emerged from it.
"Has the death and tranquility I've been looking for finally come? Although I've been looking for death, it's really complicated when death does come."
This is human beings. Knowing that he is standing on the guillotine, he is also afraid of the blade falling. Even if he knows that death is unavoidable, he still pursues the hope of life.
The long years have made C.C tired. Survival is a kind of torture for her, but being able to meet death is a kind of happiness. But knowing that the dagger in his hand can bring her to eternal tranquility, C.C hesitated, and even refused death in the end.
She twisted Roman's wrist back into place and hid the dagger in her robe. After making sure that the dagger won't fall, Roma is placed on the sofa.
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Rome is immersed in a dream. In fact, he didn't know if it was a dream or a hallucination. Everything here was incredible.