DLC 3: The Eurasian Affair

Inoue's efforts have paid off in the short term, as it's time for the Black Knights to finally make thier move, before they continue things.

All characters depicted said or otherwise implied to have sexual relations are 18 years and older.

DLC 3: The Eurasian Affair

With Villetta out of the military, it came with the expected confusion and suspicion. Ever since the Pureblood's fall from grace, she had lost much of her old power and influence, and many enemies had been lurking, itching to take her out or use her to their advantage. She was well aware of a fact, particularly after Narita when she was the sole survivor of the Purebloods, and thus, she worked hard. Harder than ever.

No one suspected that the reason she was spending so much time at work, taking overtime, and volunteering for additional tasks was because she was acting as a spy. She was using her access and lack of suspicion of her presence in places to learn whatever she could and pass those secrets along to her new master. So, at the tail end of November, with winter fast approaching, she just quit.

Not only did she quit, but when pressed by her surprised and dumfounded commander why she would just leave the service when she was making headway to recovering some of her lost influence and even had a promotion on the horizon, she kept it simple.

"I'm in a relationship and now pregnant, so I intend to become a housewife."

That was it; she didn't mince her words, and she didn't overstay. She just told the truth as she cleared out her desk and bid farewell, with the rest of her former colleagues only now noticing that she looked bigger, just a little. Those who had noted earlier just assumed she had gained a little weight from stress eating, but not a single person thought she got knocked up. But with no friends to worry about, she didn't need to worry about soldiers finding out that she also moved out of her apartment and into the Lamperouge manner, Lelouch having met her at the gate after sending a car to collect her.

Kaguya arguably caused a bigger stir when she announced she was pregnant to the other heads of Kyoto. While Kirihara merely laughed and joked that she worked fast, the other four members of Kyoto were stunned and appalled, with no so veiled accusations against her integrity and virtue.

"What's the issue? You all approved of my being a game token; I'm merely living up to that as my betrothed wished to have children."

Was her retort when one called her insane for allowing herself to fall pregnant and even decide to keep the child. Lucky for her, she, too, moved in with her lover. She controlled the spy networks, along with help from Shamna's people, ensuring that the rest of Kyoto wouldn't know that she even left her lavish mansion.

Still, such movements were even well hidden and drew some attention. Chantal couldn't hide them moving from Marriane or that her typically slow-to-trust son had brought in even more help. C.C. managed to downplay things well enough, but it was clear Marriane was catching on; now, as to how much she knew, Chantal didn't know. It wasn't like she could ask as that wasn't like her and would only gain more of Marriane and Charle's attention.

Well, more than they already had.

So, Lelouch planned their biggest operation from their new home, all possible thanks to how much time they had spent building up to it. Targets were chosen, supplies tallied and distributed, and additional supply points were secretly set up close to where units were expected to be at varying points of the coming operation. Commanders were brought in and informed of their new orders, and strict orders were given not to speak of it with anyone but other commanders in secure locations.

Urabe, Chiba, and, most importantly, Kallen led their efforts to train their recruits for knightmare combat. Many of those same pilots, often those who came out in the top 40% of their training program, were rewarded for their hard work not with flimsy Burai but the Gekkas, which, thanks to efforts over in India and China, were being produced and shipped into Area 11 by the dozens.

For Tohdoh and his four holy swords, Rakshata delivered something special. For the Miracle worker, his Zangetsu was replaced with a model that could fit Rakshata's recently developed Air Glide System and Radiant shielding. And for his four Holy Swords, they swapped out their Gekkas for a series of prototype Akatsuki Command Models, which were better than the Gekka in just about every way.

It wasn’t just their knightmare corps that was growing, as Tohdoh and Senba had done an exceptional job at training up dozens of foot soldiers; when Zero appeared at one of their training sights, he would leave pleased with the progress they made. Because of that, those who graduated gave their marching orders under the strictest security.

Organizing all of the manpower and resources was tiring work. Not just in Area 11 with the Black Knights, but also their client groups who would play a role in the coming operation, as well as speaking with their allies in the Chinese Federation. With such an indirect line to the Forbidden Palace, it wasn't as if Zero could call up a high-ranking official; he had to leave that to Zhou.

The only time off they got was his 20th birthday, as from when he first woke up that chilly winter morning, he was told by Kaguya, who had shared his bed with him the night prior, that they would be doing nothing but having fun. A fact he couldn't run from when Milly burst in during breakfast, Kallen having let her in, and announced that they'd break into his new residence with a party.

He…wasn't against it, not when being far from Ashford and in a secure estate. So, he smiled and went along with it, as they had invited everyone from the council and most of his harem. Some couldn't attend, as while Milly was cool with Chiba, Suzaku very much would not. It was nice to see everyone having a fun time, relaxed without worry about work or appearance. Cecile challenging Rivalz to a poker match was funny as she cleaned him out.

Shamna, who didn't need a disguise as Suzaku didn't recognize her, also seemed to have fun despite all the hungry looks she sent her master. Still, she was distracted by games and Mao's teasing. Nina sat with Villetta and Kaguya surprisingly for a while, the girl blushing but conversing with the 2 mothers-to-be. Zhou was in attendance, having come up with a story about how she had met Chantal and Kallen at the festival and had been in contact since then.

All in all, with Naomi on his lap, as he blew out his candles and ended up having to share his slice with several women who tried sharing some of theirs with him, he couldn't help but smile. Even as they made a mess, which he knew Milly caught on camera, he laughed.

He hoped that days like this would come again.

Line Break

A week before Christmas, the order was given.

The first stage was a previously announced Chinese Federation naval exercise, which was to take place in the East China Sea. However, what hadn't been announced as the true size. Their allies in the Federation had at first announced that it would be a modest force: 3 destroyers, 5 Frigates, and 8 Corvettes.

When the day came, to what had to be the surprise and anger of Cornelia, the force that took the sea was more than triple that size and included Amphibious assault ships, purpose-built naval ships for landing and supporting an invasion by the sea. If the Chinese had followed their end of the bargain, then Cornelia's scout planes and ships would have confirmed enough transports for hundreds of fighting vehicles, knightmares, and 4800 troops.

The first stage of things went smoothly, as while the concerningly large fleet took to the open sea and got close to Area 11, it remained at least 300km off their western shore. Still, Cornelia, wary after the Federation's veiled attempt to invade not even a month prior, mobilized all coastal forces and had additional units redeployed to several suspected landing spots, determined to remind the Chinese why Britannia ruled Area 11 and not them.

Even the Lancelot was put on high alert, which was exactly what they wanted. Unknown to the Britannians, the transports were empty. They only carried their crews and the commanders, all loyalists to the Empress or paid-off goons to the Eunuchs. They were instructed not to invade, as that wasn't their duty.

Not even two hours after the Britannian military was put on high alert did the attack come, but not from the sea, but from within. All around the old Kanto block, Black Knight cells sprung into action, attacking road and rail, cutting off the region from imperial reinforcements while simultaneously striking military targets.

Upon hearing about the attacks, Cornelia realized that Zero's target had to be the Tokyo Settlement and immediately ordered that the settlement and any nearby forces move into a war footing. She suspected that the Chinese hadn't lied without reason and that Zero didn't pick today of all days to launch an attack like this. Still, while she would leave the diplomatic front to the Prime Minister, who was back in the Homeland, she focused on defense.

A task made harder by the fact that dozens of bases across Area 11 came under attack, either by the Black Knights or other groups who she and her generals realized were Black Knight proxies. Adding to the confusion, with transport links being overtaken if not outright destroyed, any aid would need come via sea or air; the latter would take hours to organize and ship troops into Tokyo, and the latter could only carry piecemeal. They would be under constant threat from the Black Knights, who shot down several transports early on.

With the Black Knights, Zero had split his forces into 3 fronts. The first he led, the second was under Tohdoh's command, and the last under C.C.'s, much to Tamaki's chagrin. Tohdoh came from the northwest via Saitama, absorbing local forces and Black Knight sleeper cells along the way. C.C. struck out from the Southeast, putting Yokoyama under siege where their agents in the city, whether they by Black Knight spies, geassed officials, or Zilkhstani mercenaries, quickly spread chaos, allowing her to take the city in mere hours as the defense crumbled under confusion, explosions, and assassinations.

As the day pressed on, the Black Knights kept the pressure up the entire time, as logistics had painstakingly been planned well in advance. Considerations for expected losses also meant that their forces could switch out with relief units so that those who had been fighting could rest, resupply, and handle whatever maintenance needed to be done.

In contrast, the Britannians were forced to fight throughout the day, and many units, far too used to bursts of violence, were ill-equipped for such prolonged fighting and folded, allowing the Black Knights to advance. The only exception was Tokyo itself, which was garrisoned mainly by troops that were veterans of Cornelia's campaigns or had been drilled to her standards since she arrived. Thus, despite the terrible situation, Cornelia was set to stand her ground and, according to coded messages from Cecile, had already shifted Lancelot's position so that it would be the arrowhead of her counterattack.

When the clock struck 9PM, Zero came onto the airwaves, not just to the Britannian military but across screens in the Tokyo settlement, thanks to Diethard's access and understanding of their procedures. Zero announced himself and his intentions for all to hear. How he and his Black Knights had waited and trained, built and suffered to fight against evil, decrying the Britannian occupation of Japan as nothing but evil before demanding their immediate and unconditional surrender by midnight.

He emphasized that his enemy was not the Britannian people and that he and his forces didn't seek to bring needless death to the people. Still, he couldn't guarantee their safety if his conditions were unmet.

Cornelia didn't buy it, as Zero was nowhere to be seen, and the settlement was a fortress. While the Black Knights had gotten their hands on flying units, as reports of the Zangetsu and Akatsukis had reached her, she was confident in her defenses and manpower.

Zero was confident in her defenses as well. Which was why, when midnight struck with no words of surrender, his geassed pawns in the city carried out their orders, overriding the plate controls of the city's outer reaches and causing them to collapse and Cornelia, who had positioned half her forces there with her at the lead was caught in it.

It was only then that Zero made his move, as having snuck into Tokyo Bay, the Black Knight's Submarine surfaced and immediately launched his complement of knightmares. Led by the Gawain and Guren Flight Enabled, they stormed the city from the waterfront, catching its defenders, already shaken from the perimeter collapsing, while they were shocked.

Kallen, with the ability of flight, was something truly of her own as she didn't fight so much, and she overwhelmed anyone who came her way. Enemies that tried to keep their distance from 'The Devil's Right Hand' found that Kallen no longer needed to get close to kill; thanks to the upgrades that Rakshata had managed to implement, the Guren could fire its RWS as a long-ranged beam, or set it to wide area bursts, roasting entire platoons of Sutherlands.

Any that tried to back up the dwindling numbers facing his greatest soldier were summarily cut down by Zero, using the Gawain's Hadron cannons to near vaporize anything that he could see, including dozens of transports, attack VTOLs, and fighters that tried to take to the air.

Guilford found himself fighting a losing battle against Tohdoh, as while both men held comparable skill, the difference in power between the Zangetsu, one that could fly and came with shields. A mere Gloucester made it impossible for the Spearhead of the Empire to defeat his foe, much less force him back as around him, their lines buckled as the Black Knights fought their way into the settlement, climbing up the ruins remains of the lays that stood not even an hour ago.

To their credit, the Britannians rallied and, under Cornelia's command, fought them every step of the way. They knew reinforcements from the rest of Area 11 and the Homeland wouldn't reach them in time. They knew failure would forever shame the empire, so they fought on. Even against the odds, even as more of them were defeated and killed, they kept on the pressure.

The only area that suffered a stall was the assault from the port, as the Lancelot had been ordered to confront Zero, as the Britannians bet that if he were to be captured or killed, the assault would falter. But he could keep up with the Guren even while in the air and keep tabs on the Gawain, which gave Kallen back-up, but he couldn't defeat either of them.

A fact that was getting to him. Weeks of failures and near captures of Zero made him angry and brutal as he fought against them. Suzaku yelled that he would bring their rebellion to an end, that he would stop Kallen and Zero before they could kill any more people.

He got so angry that he called the Black Knights fools for following Zero all this time—for what? For freedom? For sovereignty? What was any of that worth when fighting only led to death, destruction, and suffering? What did they think they could do against Britannia when reinforcements arrived and torched the entire Area? Was Kallen willing to kill Lelouch? Shirley? Villetta?

That threw her off and damaged Kallen's air glide. But before Lancelot could finish things, the Gawain came in, resulting in what had to be a messy and emotional roller coaster of a fight. During it, Suzaku revealed what Kallen's reaction had only cemented: Zero was Lelouch.

Suzaku had suspected it for a while but chose not to believe it. He hoped his friend had let go of his hate and was moving on, finding other things to live for rather than revenge, but he was wrong. Lelouch admittedly did not take being called a warmonger akin to this father well, nor did Suzaku's assertion that he was so cruel that he would manipulate so many kind-hearted women into dating him just to sell the act.

Naomi, acting as his co-pilot with Chantal busy, got front-row seats to what it looked like when Lelouch's rage burned so hot he lost any restraint or empathy. He slammed into the Lancelot, calling him all manner of words that related to coward and weak-willed. Someone content with a terrible life because he's too afraid to want more or deludes himself into thinking he could ever be anything in the empire that saw him as nothing but a number, nothing more and nothing less. He even went as far as to wonder how such a spineless excuse of a man impressed his sister enough to date him?

At the end of the brutal and explosive falling out between friends, the Gawain was down to 5 minutes of emergency power, missing an arm and Hadron cannon. The Lancelot was trapped in a Gefjun Disturber, its legs both having been blown off earlier in the fight, leaving it face down in the dirt. Cecile sent a coded message again, which saw her and the A.S.E.E.C's unit 'captured'.

Soon after, with the losses mounted, Guilford and the Glaston knights having all been defeated and all but the defenses around the Viceroy's palace still intact, Euphemia broke from tradition and requested a ceasefire, along with the message of surrender.

Line Break

Zero walked through the marble corridors of the former Viceroy’s Palace. He moved with effortless confidence, with a purpose that had seen mountains shaken and cities crumble before his will.

For the Britannian officials and workers still present, his presence always came with an air of fear, as all it would take is but a word from him and they’ll be executed, a fear which had kept them in line despite Zero’s assurances that he wouldn’t be do Britannian about discipline, a blatant insult if there ever was one.

For the Japanese brought in to be trained to take up these soon-to-be-vacated roles, they slid aside upon seeing or hearing his approach, bowing their heads in reverent silence. As they owned everything to him. From the jobs they trained to fully occupy once more to the fact that they could once again proudly call themselves Japanese, for the fact that the building they occupied no longer stood as the bastion of their oppression, but for their liberation as it was the first sight which had flew the Black Knight's flag.

Like the wings of a great bat, his cloak hugged his frame and yet seemed loose on it, revealing nothing that he didn't wish to be known. But beneath his dark mask, Lelouch's mind churned like the waves of a storm hit the sea.

Three months. It had been three months since they had done what all thought impossible: toppling the Britannian government. Euphemia had gone behind her sister's back to issue the immediate surrender that early morning, but as much as Cornelia hated it, they had no other options.

With the skies in Black Knights' hands and naval support over 3 days out, if they tried to hold out till then, they'll be nothing left for their reinforcements to defend, and if the Chinese really were in cohorts with the Black Knights, then that navel force was both a distraction and a buffer against their coming naval squadron. Guilford and Euphemia's knight, Sapphire, agreed with her on that, as while they could attempt to force their way through, should the Chinese take that as an act of war, Area 11 would be lost even faster and possibly at greater cost.

So they met with Zero and discussed terms, which took two days. In the end, Zero wrote that no reprisals would be carried out against Britannians remaining in the newly created United States of Japan, but that they would work with the Britannians to help those who wish to move out.

Prisoners were also released, but they drew a line at Lancelot and the A.S.E.E.C, who were considered valuable captures of war. He didn't like that he had to deny Euphemia that, especially as she looked at him, knowing full well who he was under the mask, but he just couldn't let Suzaku go—not when he would return to the empire and continue to fight for them.

'But it seems like my enemies saw him as a too valuable target.' Lelouch frowned as he recalled that he had gotten word of it not even hours after his final meeting with Cornelia. Somehow, Suzaku had vanished from his cell, 4 of his guards were dead, and they had made off with Lancelot and Lloyd…

And as if to taunt them, Cecile was found half dead, having been shot. The list of suspects who could have carried out the operation was small. Still, Chantal was sure that it was V.V., a fact proven when he got word minutes after that, as he watched the medical team tend to a near-dead Cecile, that their maid staff caught a team of infiltrators trying to break into his residence. Still, they couldn't confirm if they were to plant bugs, kidnap Nunnally, Kaguya, or Villetta, or kill one of them.

All they could confirm was that one of them had a geass before they all took their own lives.

With Suzaku, his machine and its creator all gone, no doubt spirited back to Britannia, he knew that things wouldn't get easier from here. Not when his uncle and, no doubt, parents were realizing just how much of a threat he was to Britannia and, more importantly, to their plans to slay God.

‘One thing at a time, Lelouch…one thing at a time,’ He had to calm himself. Problems they might be, they weren’t the only thing he had. Japan was free once more. Cecile had survived her brush with death. Kaguya and Villetta were as healthy as possible with no issues as they entered their 5th months of pregnancy; China had recently agreed to a new trade treaty, which increased the money coming in.

Their spies in the Forbidden Palace kept them up to date on most happenings at court, so he was already preparing for when the Eunuchs decided that the deal they hadn't brokered yet taken credit for was no longer the best option.

Hence, he was heading out of the palace and towards the lower floors, where Rakshata had set up shop.

Line Break

Stepping off the elevator, Zero approached his destination, where he found two guards outside. The masked man noted that both were women whose faces went red when they saw him.

Well, at this point, it hardly even was news that he was, in fact, not a machine, not when Kaguya happily walked about, having ditched her otherwise rigid obi for a broad cotton sash that supported her growing and easy-to-notice belly.

It made it hard for people to now ignore her 'jokes' about how ravenous he could be and how he kept a harem to satiate his extraordinary lust.

Part of him was worried that his men might grow ill-disciplined over it, choosing to chase women as well or otherwise start acting snippy with him because he was regularly getting action not just with their ace but also with their finance director and one of Tohdoh's swords.

Turns out that worries never materialized. Outside some terrible jokes from Tamaki, Ohgi trying and failing to be threatening about their boss sleeping with his dead best friend's sister, and Tohdoh laughing about it and muttering like father, like son-nothing came of it. Certainly, no one cared when Kaguya brought their newest member and Zero's secretary, Villetta, into things while she was also pregnant.

Again, there was no hiding who the father was. Already, he had heard a few jokes about what he and his secretary got up to behind closed doors. A few see him as a demi-human because, quote, 'No man could get that much sex and still functions as such a level as Zero.'

So yes, when he saw the two fairly attractive guards blush at the mere sight of him, he could imagine that they were fantasizing about him deciding to show them a good time.

Shame for them, as he gave them a nod and nothing more as he entered their R&D section, the blast doors sealing behind him.

Despite being built in the Viceroy's palace, or perhaps because of it, the former knightmare hanger was a vast, reinforced square room with a ceiling 8m high and from one end to another being 40 meters, more than tall enough to fit what had been the knightmares it was built for, along with overhead cranes for carrying things. Such things no longer existed in the space as bright overhead lights illuminated rows of workbenches and modular tools. At the same time, projects of various completion sat around.

Some were Rakshata's brainchild, others Cecile's. As with the woman marked as a traitor, there was no point in hiding her cooperation. Especially when the two genius women could openly work together on some of the projects that had been stolen from Lloyd's computers for a few days before he and his people were rescued.

A lot was happening in the space, but one couldn't say that it was unorganized. Despite how much was about the place, there seemed to be an order to it.

But what seemed to be the main thing in the space was the 'small' floating airship hovering about 3 meters off the ground, with Rakshata standing to the side, observing its performance.

“It’s still operating below the estimated specs…” Rakshata mused, having not noticed his arrival.

"The scale model looks as impressive as the specs." Zero spoke up, drawing her attention off the boat-sized float ship.

 She turned her gaze to him before letting out an annoying huff. "Looks perhaps, but its performance is still atrocious. It’s already burning 1.3% more power and is underperforming. A full-sized would burn through its fuel reserves far too fast to be anything but a giant waste of money fit for a dick-measuring contest."

“Pardon?” That…was colourful language coming from Rakshata. She must have been more stressed than he thought. Glancing to the side, he saw Cecile offering a look that seemed to confirm that.

"Because it'll be nothing but flash but have little use other than making it seem capable, though," Rakshata turned back to him, this time with a smirk as she looked him over as if she could peer through his mask and cloak to the man beneath. "I doubt you need to worry about that."

"I'll take that as a compliment, considering you've seen it,” Zero dryly retorted. “But other than the propulsion, how have the tests gone for shielding and weapons?”

She waved her pipe around. “So so, I’ve seen some good results, but if it’s all the same to you, I would prefer to ensure this child is as healthy as it can be before it leaves the hospital.”

“The Guren? Zangetsu? Shinkiro?”

“Oh, you love making women work, don’t you? Have you no shame?” She teased him, getting a blush out of the eavesdropping Cecile, who tried to focus on her work. "Luckily for you, I enjoy child rearing and child care. The first two have cleared their lab trials for my desired upgrade packages. Tohdoh and Kallen can run through some tests with them later so we can get a feel for any possible issues now."

Zero nodded, as it would be good news indeed for their best to get units that remained at the height of development. While their successful rebellion had thrown the empire into chaos, where Schneizel couldn't appease, manipulate, or deceive rebels to lay down their arms, Marrybell would crucify them by the thousands.

Throw in that Shamna's people had already caught his uncle making three more attempts to have his assassins undermine his control. It was only a matter of time before his father decided to use full force against them, Chinese support or not.

"The Shinkiro is proving to be a difficult one, but I expected such when you requested it be unique even among my other children." Zero hummed at that, as he had expected that considering the specs he had seen for it and the requests he had made for it to have.

"I won't rush you in your process, but I would remind you that the sooner, the better, " Zero said.

"Yes, yes. I know we're dancing on a tightrope, and our enemies are standing at either hand with torches." For a woman who understood more than most just how dangerous their position was, she was quite unflappable. But then again, Rakshata could be described as calm and collected in the same way Chantal was.

They discussed the issue for a little longer, from their knightmares to the soon-to-be-built floating flagship, one which Cecile had plans to give a radically different float system than what she could theorize Lloyd and others would be working on in Britannia. If successful, they'll have a vessel that, despite its size, would be far nimbler than a ship half its size and be capable of a greater service altitude and speeds.

They also had plans to include the same on the Guren. However, they were still running tests to minimize the technology enough to fit into a knightmare.

“By the way, how is your sister doing?” Zero asked, the mood shifts to a more casual one.

"She's still studying back home, but she's cleared high school already." Rakshata replied, a rare smile on her face when she thought of her 9-year-old sister, a prodigy much like Rakshata, if not more so, as she had graduated at the top of her class and already had offers to study at top universities across the Federation and Europe.

Zero hadn’t met the girl, but he had nothing but good things from Rakshata and her stuff about Shanti. "Well, let's hope that when we're done, she won't need to enter the weapons research and development field. I loath it as much as I loath the act of using them."

"And yet, one could say you're a master of mayhem, a grand dealer in death," Rakshata stated, a look passing through a face, one which was easy to miss and hard to read if one did see it.

But Zero both saw it and understood. "I could say the same to you, as if not for your creations, I would be stuck with inferior tools."

She huffed half-heartedly, but his gaze had already shifted. Rakshata was a woman who turned hard regardless of what she did. Whether that be her blasé yet down-to-earth demeanor, seemingly uninterested in most things yet specific in others, or the fact that she was a certified genius in her field and stood head and shoulders above most competition without much effort.

But at the moment, his eye was taking in the fact that she was a beauty. She was a tall woman, slightly taller than him, with bright blonde hair she kept nearly as long as Chantal did. Her fair brown skin was without marks or blemishes, and he knew that it was soft and smooth to the touch. Her purple bindi atop her forehead drew one's eye almost as much as those laidback yet perceptive and intelligent turquoise eyes.

Her choice of clothing didn’t hide anything as under her white lab coat, she wore a light pink tank top, having only done two buttons, exposing her smooth, enticing belly while the top of her breasts also left out, enough so that one could spot purple lace bra that hugged her breasts, puffing them up and all but daring anyone to try something.

Deciding that he would be the one who dared, Zero reached for his mask, removed it with a hiss of hair, and let the symbol of his resistance drop to the floor with a clang. Cecile noticed and looked over, but Rakshata seemed to be lost in thought.

'I know that look,' Cecile thought as she looked at her boss and lover's eyes and where he was looking.

Having discarded his cape as well, Lelouch approached Rakshata, who had her back to him and pressed up against her back. His hands slipped around her, and he grabbed onto her bountiful bosom, which wasn't the largest he had felt but was more than enough to fill his hands.

Startled enough to drop her pipe, Rakshata's gasp turned into a moan as Lelouch started to gently massage her breasts. Relaxing into his care, she turned her head and spied the hungry look in his gaze, with Rakshata griming at him like a lazy shark as she ground her ass against him, already feeling his cock rising to the task through their pants.

"You seemed stressed, and I can't have my best researcher off her game or feeling like she can't take time to relax," Lelouch whispered into her ear, nipping at it, which only made her shiver as she felt her arousal rising with her nipples hardening under his touch.

"I have been stressed. You work me like a dog with all these projects and deadlines. It's a lot for a mother to handle, you know." She told him, pressing harder against him as Lelouch effortlessly undid the 2 buttons she had bothered to do that morning. She opened her chest up to his hands, which pulled on her bra, revealing her plump breasts.

He smirked as she winced as he captured her nipples and started to lightly twist and pull on them. “Then let me pay it up to you. You seem like you could use the break.” He whispered into her ear, a hand shifted off her breast, playfully tapping as it went south towards her crotch.

Rakshata let out a pleased, earthy breath when his hand reached its mark and worked its way into her moistening panties, 2 fingers playing with the lips of her pussy. At the same time, his thumb paid her clit some much-needed attention. Lelouch showed off what having so many lovers did for a man's skill, putting him well above the rare partner or one-night stand she indulged in.

"Well, I tend to have better ideas these days after I've…unwind." With her permission to take this further, Lelouch picked her up, holding her close as he carried her to a free seat before sitting in it, with Rakshata placed in his lap, facing away from him as his hand returned to the important job of groping her as he played with her pussy.

Feeling him add more power to both tasks, Rakshata moaned before turning her head to face him, her face flushed as he worked his magic. "I would have thought you'd want the couch." She moaned as she shifted her ass around, pressing it against his cock and rubbing it, pleased when she got a grunt out of him.

"You didn't like me laying you out on it and fucking you last time; too much mess," Lelouch turned his gaze towards the other occupant of the lab space. "Besides, this means we can give Cecile a show."

Cecile yelped at being called out, but it wasn’t as if she was hiding, not when she was already on her knees, her top of her Black Knight uniform undone so she could play with her breast while her other was already in her panties, fingering herself.

Rakshata smiled at the sight, raising herself a little so that she wasn't pressing her plump butt into his cock so much. "Care to join us, Cecile? You and I know that he has the stuff to leave us thoroughly happy." She offered; her hand had gone down, past where Lelouch was still teasing her pussy to his pants, and in full sight of Cecile, she undid his zipper and pulled his pants down. His underwear joined it as his cock came out.

“I…” Cecile’s mouth watered as she laid eyes on Lelouch's cock, and could see just how large it was as Rakshata simmered out of her own pants, and she pressed against it. Cecile wondered how something that thick and long could fit in a woman. Shaking her head out of those thoughts, though they continued to linger, she finished her statement. "I'll wait; you needed to destress."

“And you want to see me get my brains fucked out by this beast of a man we call our boss.” Rakshata ground against his cock, Cecile letting out a flustered whine as Lelouch continued to play with Rakshata, 2 fingers having slowly made their way past her pussy lips and curled as he took things further. “Oh, no need to hide it. Anyone who’s indulged in his cock is some level of freak.”

Lelouch laughed from the chest at that; his lips, which were pressing into Rakshata's neck, only made her moan as she felt the sound reverberate against her. "Oh, she knows; you heard her, right?" Lelouch mused, Rakshata smiling along with him as she had fucked Lelouch a few times, mainly with Cecile, who let it slip she had a crush on Rakshata back in college.

“Cecile, why don’t you say it.” Lelouch suddenly asked.

“What?” Cecile asked in toe, dumbfounded by the request as Lelouch continued to please Rakshata, working her up to that climax she knew he could deliver.

"Say what you tell me; how do I make love to you?" Lelouch smirked at how embarrassed Cecile looked at being put on the spot. It might have made him feel bad, but Cecile was the one who started masturbating at the sight of her current lover and old crush getting it on. As Rakshata said, everyone in the harem was a freak.

“You…” Cecile started but gasped, as she might have been embarrassed by the request, but fuck did it make her feel so hot. “You strip me naked, sometimes in this room, or in your office, or living room.”

Oh, Lelouch had taken her in other spots. Once to be a little daring, they had even done it in the Gawain’s cockpit. “And then?” He pinched Rakshata’s nipple harder, the dark brown bud lighting up in pleasure for the Indian scientist.

Cecile was fingering herself even faster, having shoved a third finger into her as she tried to chase that orgasm that seemed so close and yet so far. "And then I get on my knees and suck on your thick throbbing cock; I show it the affection that it's owed till you cum down my throat." She moaned out.

“No, I don’t,” Lelouch shot back, biting onto Rakshata's neck, getting her to grasp and cry out. Still, she only ground against his cock harder, feeling just how hot it was, how imposing and eager to fuck her. “Be honest, Cecile. We won’t judge.”

Cecile let out a whimper, tearing off her blue lacy bra to give herself better access to her tingling breasts as she remembered how their sexual encounters went. "I beg you to cum all over me, to shower me in your thick, hot cum. I lap some of it up but leave the rest up."

“And then?” Lelouch could feel it. Rakshata was getting close as she listened to the story, and he fingered her. He could also see that Cecile was getting desperate.

Not caring that all heard her, Cecile cried out. “Then you throw me down and fuck me till I scream and cum all over your cock, but you don't stop! I don't want you to stop; even when you finally fill my guts up with your cum, I beg you to keep going!"

Rakshata climaxed there and there, letting out a long, relieved cry as her pussy messaged his fingers as if it was a cock it wished to milk. Lelouch turned to Cecile, a hungry gleam in his eye as he pulled his fingers out from Rakshata's pussy. With her still in the thralls of an orgasm, he pressed his cock's head to her pussy, parting her lips before he pulled her down on his cock, sending half of it in.

"Oh fuck!" Rakshata's demeanor crashed as his cock pierced deep into her, the rebel wrapping his arms around her legs, and before she knew it, she was bent in a full nelson, his cock still docked in her pussy.

Panting, she could still feel the last vestiges of her climax as she turned to him. “You’re kidding.” She asked, to which Lelouch gave her a smile that was enough of an answer.

And to make that clear, he started to bounce her on his cock, Rakshata letting out a yelp and moan as he worked more of his throbbing, thick cock into her depths. As Lelouch had his way with women, Cecile watched, flushed and incredibly horny as she witnessed her fellow scientist shiver and shake through from pleasure; the woman had turned her head just enough that Lelouch could capture her lips as they engaged in a heated, sloppy kiss as they worked his thick shaft into her wet, dripping cunt.

Cecile continued to masturbate, her breaths coming out in short, heated gasps as she watched the two people she desired most, two people who exuded such control and poise, two people who could keep their cool even if a volcano erupted in the background.

They threw all of that away as they fucked like animals. Lelouch showed off why his men believed he was a demi-God and Rakshata, his buxom, beautiful consort. Their bodies were made for sex and very compatible. Cecile felt her pussy gush when she heard Lelouch grunt like a total beast as he reached his hands for Rakshata's breasts, keeping her folded on his lap as he bounced her away on his cock.

“You…you want to hear something, Lelouch?” Rakshata moaned through her kiss. "I'm not on my period," Lelouch's eye twitched at that, but Rakshata could feel how his cock throbbed at that and seemed to grow larger, hotter-as if bulking up, and she knew why.

"You like that, don't you? You like the idea of your women swelling up after you fuck your kids into us, but you can't do it; we're all so busy that you can't afford it, though I know you want it." She teased him. Kallen, Chantal, Naomi, and Nagisa were soldiers. They couldn't afford to get pregnant now. Shirley wasn't ready to be a mother just yet, and Zhou and Shamna couldn't for the sake of their cover.

Lelouch respected that and never pressured them for it, but she could tell that he wanted it. She could see that under all the lies, charm, intellect, and inhuman willpower, he was just a beast that wished to fertilize his lovers and pass on his genes.

She whispered into his eye. "But you can do it for us. We don't fight on the front lines. So you can knock us up again and again.”

Cecile sniveled when she saw him snort out a bull in heat. His hold on Rakshata shifted, tightening as he started to drive her down on his cock so hard that he drove the entire thing into her, so much so that he got cervix, his cock's head, and then some coming to rest in her womb.

Rakshata's eyes rolled backward as she screamed in ecstasy, coming instantly, but Lelouch didn't stop as he started really fuck her, bouncing her on his cock like a jackhammer; his cock would be pulled back just enough that just the tip would remain inside, only for him to slam her right back down on his lap, piercing right to her deepest core.

“Oh fuck, oh God, you’re a beast, a carnal vigorous monster! You want me to mother your babies? You want the Guren and the rest to have a flesh and blood sibling? Then go ahead, great Zero. Fuck me till I’m as fat as Kaguya and that whore, Villetta." She gasped and squealed as she was fucked through an orgasm, her pussy growing tight around his cock, but it didn't slow her down.

This went on for what felt like an eternity and yet no time at all, Lelouch fucking her so hard that she went through another orgasm while still twitching from the last as his cock seemed to hit every sensitive spot she hard with each pull and push. She cried when he forced her against his body and rolled his hips about, his cock smacking and grazing entirely different spots which had her seeing stars.

He could have kept on fucking her like this, but that wouldn’t be fair to Cecile. So, with a smirk, he stood with Rakshata still in his hands, the woman letting out a weak moan as she had climaxed so many times she was too weak to stand, much less fight him as he walked over to where Cecile remained on the floor.

“Don’t you want a taste? Want to see what my cock tastes like covered in her slick, sweet cum?” Lelouch didn’t need to tease her anymore as Cecile dived into their groin, Rakshata crying out, her back bending and toes curling as she felt Cecile target her clitoris.

Feeling her cum on his cock, which Cecile also lapped up, Lelouch only bit into her neck, and when she turned her head, the woman was trapped by the bright, intense look in his eye.

“I’m going to cum, and you’re going to take it. I won’t pull out, and you don’t get to complain when you got me into such a mood.” Lelouch growled like a beast, his cock already throbbing as his balls worked up a nice load of cum for her.

“I won’t!” Rakshata cried as Cecile's tongue only added to the overload of pleasure she was being subjected to.

“Good, now enjoy your last few minutes before I make you a mother to my spawn!” They were forced out of her mind if she had any protests as Lelouch increased the intensity. It wasn't as fast, but now he would slowly withdraw his cock, twisting and shifting her as he did so before he would rocket right back in, her sweaty butt hitting his hips with a wet slap. His hands continued to toy with her breasts, not giving them any rest as he started to fondle, twist, and pull on all of them, cupping them only to end up on her nipples, which seemed to get the most attention out of him.

Cecile didn't make things any easy, even when she would focus more on his thundering cock as it fucked Rakshata. But all the talk of baby-making was getting to him, as it tended to as he felt himself growing close, his thrusts slowing even further, hitting even harder before, at last, without warning, he let out a deep-throated grunt into her neck, bit down hard enough to leave a mark and thrust into her, balls deep.

His cock entered her womb, and as she cried in the climax, so did his cock shoot out a blast of his cum, hosing down her womb. With each throb, another shot was fired into her. When it started to leak out of her pussy, Cecile squealed as she pressed her mouth right into Rakshata's cum filled pussy, licking up any cum that leaked out, which only made Lelouch grunt as he cum even more from it.

By the time he had finally settled, his still raging erection was buried in Rakshata, who had a fucked stupid expression, breathing heavily as the only sounds she could make were giggles and light whimpers.

Pulling out of her, Cecile was quick to move in, eating out the exhausted woman who let out a tired moan and some version of the word 'no', but Cecile was too deep in her cum filled pussy to care. Only pulling out when she saw that her fellow scientist wouldn't start leaking out the semen that had been deposited deep into her.

“I would say she’s real relaxed.” Cecile, too horny for manners, joked as she looked at her friend’s condition.

Lelouch shared in that amusement as he gently carried Rakshata to her couch and laid her out. Using her lap coat as a blanket so she could rest. The one must not built for him to take her more than once at a time.

"She does feel relaxed but don't think I forgot about you. I need to keep you all nice and happy," Lelouch smirked as he pounced on Cecile, turning her around, forcing her to the floor, and getting on her back, the woman feeling his still-hard cock resting between her butt cheeks.  “And last I checked, you love it when I force you under me and fuck you till you can’t walk.”

He didn’t waste time, pulling back and thrusting right into her pussy.

It was good that he didn't have anything planned for the rest of the morning, as he wouldn't leave the R&D space for another 1 hour. When he did, both guards would suffer nose bleeds when they saw the cum stained, naked, exhausted, and yet pleased conditions he left the two women in.

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"Zero," the masked man, now at his desk in what had been Cornelia's office, glanced towards Diethard, who seemed angry, though he was doing a good job of hiding it.

Zero didn't pay it much mind, as while he knew the man could be…eccentric and, at times, fanatical to his ideal of what Zero was, he wasn't angry with him because of some slight, real or otherwise. He was annoyed that despite the open secret, he couldn't cast Zero as, among all the other things he and their propaganda team had done, as great a lover as a commander and warrior.

Truthfully, that was one of the strangest arguments he's ever had as the man believed that showing his sexual prowess could benefit them…which, with how his life had been doing, he wouldn't be surprised by it. Perhaps the sisters, daughters, and even wives of his enemies would side with him, if not outright, and throw their weight behind their cause if they had power. All for the vain hope of gaining his attention.

“You wished to see me about an update in Euro Britannia?” Zero focused on the important things.

"That's right, we've been monitoring them the most, considering they share a massive land border with our Federation allies and would be an ideal invasion point should Britannia wish to retake Japan." Diethard started, which was things Zero already knew. "However, the former had proven increasingly unlikely with their ever-deepening commitment to overrunning the E.U’s eastern border.”

“They were stalled out Siedlce front if I recall correctly.” Zero stated. Poland's open and flat fields didn't lend well to knightmare combat, which greatly limited Britannia's greatest strength.

"Yes, and intelligence points to the campaign has concluded. Heavy causalities on both sides." Diethard passed the report to Villetta, who then handed it to Zero. The man opened it up, seeing an estimated total casualty rate of over three hundred thousand dead and over one hundred thirty thousand wounded or captured.

"I would assume that a suspected goal of the operation is to bleed the Euros of man and resources and launch attacks through other new fronts." Zero placed the report down, turned on a screen, and focused on a map of Europe, focusing on the battlefield. The Euro Britannian troop builds up on the Euro Britannian-Sweden borders up north and the Euro Britannian-Moldava.

“That was the belief, but there was an…shift in things.” Diethard made a face he rarely did, which meant he had been blindsided. And a blindsided Diethard typically didn't bring good news. “From what we believed, there was to a major operation carried out by the Holy Order of Michael, but with the recent suicide of its grandmaster, its new grandmaster, one Shin Hyuga Shaing, has caused some discontent."

Yes, Zero knew of Michele Manfredi and had found his suicide to be odd, considering there wasn't anything that would explain such. Still, he also knew how much could be hidden. However, he focused on the second part of Diethard's report.

“That name, don’t tell me.” He didn't recognize the family name, but those two first names couldn't be Britannian or Euro Britannian.

Diethard confirmed it. "He's of Japanese birth but was adopted by a noble house within Euro Britannia and raised as their eldest son. He's proven to be quite the capable commander and soldier, which, if one looks at that, would explain how he was chosen as the successor to the position of the Order of Michael’s grandmaster.” Diethard brought up reports they had gained on the man, detailing his appearance and victories in several smaller battles that had been fought around Siedlce.

"Strange that he was considered considering his racial background." Ever since their victory, any Elevens who remained in the empire had been viewed with higher suspicion than ever. They were considered to be sleeper agents or the ones most likely to undermine imperial control.

He knew Euro Britannia was largely separate from Britannia proper and thus had been more accepting of Japanese and non-Britannians. Still, to allow one to be elevated to such a position of power at a time like this…“But the empire is desperate. However, I doubt you’ll bring this up to me if it was only his race that was causing discontent.”

"We confirmed it, but Grand Duke Velaines isn't in control." Zero leaned forward at Diethard’s words. Had Shiang instigated a coup? "It's being kept secret, but the Homeland had sent a military advisor who all but taken control of the affairs of the state and their way with the E.U. He carried with him the Imperial Spector."

“The Imperial Spectr-” For one, Zero lost his cool, same as his pregnant assistant, though Diehtard didn’t blame him. To carry the Imperial Spectre meant one carried the authority of the emperor and no one but the emperor could command whoever held it, moreover they could use that power to take command over anything.

For Charles to just…hand it over to some military advisor to effectively take over their tributary state…"The emperor would not grant such power without serious consideration." Zero wished to add that his father was too disinterested in state affairs to even do it, but with his father knowing that C.C. had turned on them but not to what extent, he couldn't predict what went through the old lion's head.

"Agreed; however, they've proven effective in combat as they've already led Euro Britannian forces to victories in Romania and Bulgaria. In the last 3 weeks, they've marched further than Grand Duke Velaines could lead them to in 3 months.” Diethard shifted the map of Europe further south, showing with arrows that in what seemed to be no time at all, Euro Britannia had advanced 60ks from Anatolia into Bulgaria, capturing the city of Burgas and its ports and over 100km into Romania from Ukrainian Euro Britannia, taking the town of Năvodari.

It seemed that their plan was to cut off the Euro's access to the Black Sea but also torch everything in their way if the pictures of burned-out villages and destroyed infrastructure were anything to go by.

“Reports indicate that the military advisor is close to Lord Shiang and could be working to hand even more power to him once he’s recalled to the Homeland. Having aided Lord Shiang in handling some of his enemies at court, including fellow grandmaster Andrea Farnese of the Holy Order of Raphael.” Diethard added.

“I can see how that would cause issues…” Euro Britannia's government and military were based around its Knight Orders, which carried significant power. For none to be arrested or killed because they were an enemy of another was a serious shake-up. “Has he made moves against the Grand Duke?”

“Aside from what seems to be house arrest, no.” Diethard shook his head, but he also carried with him another report on things, which he again passed to Zero's assistant. "There's more: They were escorted to Euro Britannia by two Knights of Round: The Knight of 5 and…The Knight of 7."

He couldn’t tell, but Lelouch’s face hardened at the news. The Knight of 5, Norland von Lunebelg was a monster. Not in the means of his skills in battle, for he was skilled, but in his orders and demeanor. The man seemed to have no heart and ordered cruelties as easily as one ordered a cup of tea. A man who wore a mask but, from what he knew of him, seemed emotionless. At least with Bradley, he enjoyed the brutality of war; he was a bloodthirsty beast and little else.

But Norland? Norland was something else entirely, and Lelouch was grateful he never visited Aries as he seemed like the sort that could kill a child without warning or reason.

But for as much trouble as the man with no face or heart was, the Knight of 7 gave him pause. He had seen the announcement; the entire world had seen it. Suzaku, in recognition of his service to Britannia and the defense of Area 11, was elevated to one of the highest ranks in the empire.

Zero took a deep breath and let it go. He couldn't do anything for his friend, for he had chosen his fate; now, he could only fight for what he had chosen. “Do we have a name for this military advisor?”

“Just a last name,” Diethard started as he presented a picture of the man. “Kingsley.”

Villetta gasped while Lelouch went wide-eyed as he took in the man's figure, from his build to his dark hair and purple eyes. Even that condescending smirk ‘What the…’

Why did his father have a perfect clone of him?!

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I thought it wasn't possible, but then I went and outdid myself with that last chapter with how spicy things got. Still, I was able to also give some exposition as this entire thing is just…well, it's running on eroge logic, so it was funny to make it that 'Oh, in-game, you can upgrade your physical stats, which can also make you a sex god' and the little dig that in the beginning, Kallen was top because Lelouch lacked the physicality to be a good one. She's just…kept that spot over him and the growing harem.

This chapter—well, this one has a time skip, so I had to speed-run a lot of things that happened to get to where the meat of the story takes place. After all, I couldn't stay on the Area 11 bio forever planning. The game needed to progress into new maps, no quests, and, more importantly, more 'plot'. That said, it came out a little late on the ole schedule, and the opening stuff…well, I'll let you read it.

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Lelouch: Wait, I’m 20? At this point?

Author: For legal reasons, you best believe you’re 20.

Kallen: I'm more focused on the fact Charles had a fucking clone of his son just lying around! What the hell?

Inoue: And where was the extra sauce? Only one smut scene?

Author: To Kallen, cloning is a thing in C.G. Don't ask me why or when; it's just been around long enough that Norland, a clone of Charles, could have been a knight of Round since R2 in the movie timeline. As for Inoue's question, the last two chapters were far too spicy, and this one had a lot of non-smut-related stuff to cover, including setting up the game heading to Euro Britannia.

Oh, and I looked up the CG girl’s breast size(because that was a thing, but because things have been altered and some characters weren’t listed, I made a list here along with the harem rankings, enjoy

Ranking in cup size

Lovers: Kallen(3rd); Chantal(12th); Kaguya(16th. Was 18th but pregnancy bumped up numbers); Shirley(10th)

Concubine: Naomi(4th); Nagisa(11th); Cecile(7th); Zhou(13th); Rakshata(8th)

Cumdump: Villetta(3rd. Was 6th, being an expecting mom boasted their size); Mao(1st); Shamna(2nd)