Xiao Ran slowly put down the cup in his hand, looked at Cornelia sitting firmly on her chair and shook her head gently: "I'm sorry, I don't have much familiarity with District 19, the only knowledge I have is I know this place is currently experiencing a very dangerous situation.”
"The entire Nineteenth District has always been dominated by Your Highness Cornelia, who controls everything as the governor, and commands the soldiers of the empire to resist the war from EU and resistance organizations in this bad situation. Pressure, I think you have done a good job, Your Highness Cornelia. If you replace it with most other people with excellent abilities, you may not be able to maintain the current situation. Although it seems to be a disadvantage, it also restrains eu. More The energy here will more or less bring some help to the military strength of the entire empire, and the longer it persists, the more it can reduce the military pressure on other places bordering EU. From this point of view, Conet Her Highness Leah is a meritorious person, and she can’t find any fault with the management of the entire 19th District. Maybe even I may not be able to do a better job than you, Your Highness Cornelia.”
"I don't have any idea about the position of governor of the 19th district. I might as well say it bluntly. Rather than becoming the governor of the 19th district, I would rather return to the 11th district and stay with Her Highness Euphilia. The war has no effect on me. It is not something I want to happen and carry out. I am even more opposed to inflicting violence on those who have no power to resist. Just like a number, in your eyes, Your Highness Cornelia, a number will always be just a number, but in In my eyes, they are relatively equal people like us, not inferior people with only numbers. Her Highness Euphilia agrees with me on this point. But Her Highness Cornelia, you are not a person who has many things and can do them at any time. The position of Governor, who may have problems, is not more attractive to me than changing District 11 with Her Highness Euphilia, so I’m sorry.”
Cornelia took a deep look at Xiao Ran, but she was very surprised in her heart at Xiao Ran's answer. She never expected that Xiao Ran would say such words, and even put the governor of a district in charge of military and political life and death. He is so indifferent, but it seems that all this is taken for granted. It seems that a person with great power should be so indifferent to rights.
The entire restaurant was silent for a while, and Cornelia suddenly said in a deep voice: "What if His Majesty insists on letting you become the Governor of District 19?"
"I guess this is unlikely. The main reason why I will tour various districts this time is to thank His Majesty and Knight Bimax for their appreciation and for making me a Knight of the Round Table. I am also willing to do this. The empire has dedicated some of its own strength to use this opportunity to stabilize the anxious situation in the empire's border areas, and to slightly suppress the growing reputation of the Scarlet Knights in the border areas."
"However, this does not mean that I will do something I am not willing to do. Becoming the Governor of District 19 does not make sense to me. So far, becoming a Knight of the Round Table and me coming here, this is more like A transaction between the empire and me, you repay me, not because I am truly loyal to the empire and the emperor. On the contrary, the party who is really being used should be me, whether it is His Majesty or Bimax, they are right Isn't my attitude just about taking advantage? It's just because my strength forces them to pay enough attention to me on the premise of using it. You should be able to see it more or less, Your Highness Cornelia."
"The only person I am willing to follow is Euphilia, because only Her Highness Euphelia treats each other sincerely and has the same dream as me. I am very happy to stay with Her Highness Euphelia. If I have to become the Governor of District 19, and I am unwilling to do something like this, then I would rather leave the Knights of the Round Table and guard Her Highness Euphilia as a civilian."
"Euphilia..." Cornelia suddenly smiled and looked at Xiao Ran: "On behalf of Euphilia, I would like to thank you, Knight Lelouch, for being so fond of Euphilia, but, If you become the Governor of the Nineteenth District...then don't you think it would be more beneficial to you to have a military force that fully obeys your orders?"
Xiao Ran tilted his head slightly, raised his head and looked at Cornelia with squinted eyes: "I don't quite understand what you are talking about, Your Highness Cornelia."
"Lelouch, the girl I'm borrowing from Euphilia is called Nunnally, right?" Cornelia stood up, took out a pistol from under the table and pointed it at Xiao Ran, saying with a stern face: "Lelouch, Nunnally, I happen to have a pair of exiled brothers and sisters who became hostages in District 11 a long time ago, but disappeared for unknown reasons, and now Euphilia has become the governor of District 11, a A man named Lelouch suddenly appeared and brought a girl named Nunally into the Governor's Mansion. It happened that Lelouch wore a mask every day and did not dare to see people with his true face. The girl named Nunally The girl is the same age as my sister, don’t you think it’s a bit of a coincidence!”
Hearing Cornelia's words, Xiao Ran's mood did not change much, nor did he show any surprise. He smiled leisurely and said: "Your Highness Cornelia, do you think I am the Lelouch you are talking about? Is that Nunnally also the Nunnally you talk about?"
Cornelia didn't speak, but her eyes were fixed on Xiao Ran, and the trigger of the weapon she was holding was pressed tightly with her index finger.
Xiao Ran smiled, slowly took off his mask, and faced Cornelia with his eyes closed: "How are you, Your Highness Cornelia? Am I the Lelouch you are talking about?"
"Lelouch may not be Lelouch, but Nunnally must be Nunnally." Cornelia raised her gun and walked away from the table, slowly walking towards Xiao Ran: "I never thought you were the real one. Lelouch, but you must have a very close relationship with the real Lelouch, otherwise my sister Nunnally would not be able to stay in the Governor's Mansion because of your relationship, and Lelouch would not be so relieved to keep Nana. Li is entrusted to your hands."
Xiao Ran put on the mask again, wondering where the problem was, but he didn't want to deny it all the time, and just asked: "Why?"
"Why did you discover this problem, or why do you want to expose this?" Cornelia smiled without any surprise and said: "It's just some intuition and some investigation. I often communicate with Euphilia. , she told me about you. A man named Lelouch actually had a girl named Nunnally beside him. This made her feel that the world would really be full of coincidences, but Euphilia never doubted it. You, but I am different, I will investigate anyone who has doubts around Euphilia."
"Your appearance is too coincidental, and the appearance of Nunnally and Lelouch at the same time is also too coincidental. It makes me have to doubt something. I originally just doubted it, but now you have given me a definite answer. Is not it."
Xiao Ran raised his eyebrows and laughed. Indeed, now he has given Cornelia the most direct answer, but the process is completely unimportant.
Cornelia said in a deep voice: "Tell me, Knight Lelouch, why did you use this name? What is your relationship with him? Is it you who caused Kurovese's death?"
Xiao Ran shrugged his shoulders and did not answer Cornelia's question. Instead, he asked with some interest: "I find it very strange. Why do you want to point this matter out? If you pretend not to know, I will treat you badly." Is the current situation the most helpful?”
"If it were you, would you be willing to have someone with an unknown purpose lurking next to you?" Cornelia raised the muzzle of her gun, completely threatening Xiao Ran, and then said: "Tell me, your answer What is it, I have no intention of continuing to mess around with you."
"Okay." Xiao Ran stood up. This action also made Cornelia immediately take two steps back to maintain the distance from Xiao Ran. Her eyes were fixed on Xiao Ran, and she was ready to pull the trigger at any time. .
"As for the name, because my name in this world is originally called Lelouch, I don't want to use his name. Of course, Lelouch and I do know each other, and we still have a very close cooperative relationship. As for Ku Of course Lovis’ death has nothing to do with me, as for the purpose, haha.”
"Our goal is to make Nunnally or Euphilia the emperor of Butaria, end the endless battles in Butaria, and allow this decadent Butaria to be truly reborn. In addition, Lu Lu Xiu also has some goals that need to be achieved and some questions that need to be resolved. Are you satisfied with these answers, Your Highness Cornelia?"
Cornelia was stunned for a moment, then took a step back again and asked with a little bit of disbelief: "What did you say? You want Nunnally and Euphilia to become emperors!?"
Xiao Ran relaxedly spread his hands: "Yes, according to our ideas, Nunnally and Euphilia may become the queen of Butaria at the same time, or maybe only one of them will become the queen. Of course, what to do now? There is no clear idea yet, but at least what is certain is that Charles must die and the country must change. The first step is to let Lelouch become the emperor of Butaria first and let him turn this decadent country First, change completely, attract all hatred and conflicts to yourself, and finally pass on the position of emperor to the two of them and disappear forever. Those hatreds and conflicts will also disappear with the disappearance of Lelouch."
"I might as well tell you more. The real purpose of why I agreed to Charles' visit to various border areas is to achieve complete control of all the border areas I visited through this mission. District 19 was an accident. I never thought I would come to District 19, but now that I am here, of course District 19 will also be among my goals."
"Do you want to know what method I will use to achieve my goal?" Xiao Ran slowly took off his mask and showed his completely non-human eyes to Cornelia without any cover-up. In front of her, when Cornelia saw Xiao Ran's eyes, her breathing suddenly stagnated. Her eyes were completely in disbelief, and the expression on her face was even more complicated, with shock, panic, and fear mixed together.
The next second, Cornelia wanted to pull the trigger and shoot the guy in front of her who didn't look like a human being. But what made Cornelia even more terrified was that she wanted to pull the trigger with her finger and press the button. The trigger seemed to be blocked by something and could not be pulled, and along with it, her body was completely out of his control.
"Can't move?" Xiao Ran smiled slightly and put the mask on the dining table, then walked to Cornelia and raised his hand to take down the pistol in Cornelia's hand: "It's okay if you can't move, because this is I can control the abilities of others, and although this toy does not pose any threat to me, it would be troublesome to make any noise in this situation."
As he said that, Xiao Ran looked at Cornelia's horrified eyes and laughed again: "What are you thinking about? Are you thinking why you can't make a sound? So what if you can make a sound? There is no ambush outside. Anyone, only the maid guarding the door, why would I not mind saying these words? Isn't it because you just want to threaten me, so you just prepared a message in this room that has no communication function at all. A recorder?"
Xiao Ran returned to the dining table again, took out a small recorder from the vase on the table, and crushed the recorder into pieces with a gentle squeeze.
"It's strange why I know this. It's nothing, because the moment I came in, everything in this entire building was hidden from me. A special power was used to conduct a thorough scan of the building. , clearer than an x-ray machine."
Xiao Ran walked up to Cornelia again, sighed lightly and shook his head and said, "Actually, I didn't originally want to use this special method to control you to achieve my goal, because after all, you are Euphilia's sister. But I want to use other methods, preferably a method that can achieve cooperation, even if I agree to some conditions to ensure your status and rights, it will be no problem."
"It's just that I'm not impulsive, but you, who should be more prudent, chose a way that I shouldn't have chosen. To be honest, it did make me a little embarrassed."
Xiao Ran was really helpless. He didn't want to use this method to forcibly control Cornelia. What he said about wanting to cooperate was also his real idea. After all, once he and Lelouch achieved their goals, Euphilia, whom Cornelia cares about most, will also be the most direct beneficiary. If they can have a good talk, Cornelia may not refuse, but the current problem is a bit troublesome.
(End of chapter)