Ch 252: Smashing the trap.

Sakura and Anna descended into the dungeon. A dim place lit by torches on the wall, giving an atmosphere very stereotypical of what people would imagine when thinking about a medieval dungeon.

Sakura stopped in front of Ichinon's cell, while Anna continued down the hallway.

"Are you ready for your first training session, my pet?" asked Sakura with a soft smile.

Ichinon glared at her and didn't answer.

Sakura opened the cell and entered.

"Stand up, pet."

Ichinon didn't move.

Sakura created a few shadow tentacles and seized Ichinon's wrists, dragging her up and turning her sideways.

Ichinon gasped, her expression full of indignation, when Sakura started spanking her, once with each word she spoke.

"You belong to this Demon Lord, body and soul. When your Mistress gives you an order, you obey. Understood?"

"F-fine!" gasped Ichinon, her eyes getting teary from both pain and humiliation.

"It is 'Fine, Mistress.', my pet. Although referring to your owner as Rin-sama is also acceptable." smiled Sakura.

"I understand, Rin-sama." muttered Ichinon, lowering her head in shame.

"Better." nodded Sakura in approval, using Hands of Nirvana as she gently kneaded Ichinon's right breasts through her latex bra.

Ichinon gasped and tried to keep a neutral expression, but Sakura could feel the nipple under her fingers quickly growing stiff.

"Obedient pets get rewarded with pleasure. It is better than being spanked, right?"

"…Your answer?"

"…Yes, Rin-sama." said Ichinon with a shudder.

Sakura released Ichinon's limbs as she turned her over, and had Ichinon put her arms behind her back, her palms against the opposite elbows.

Then she took from her inventory one of the items she had bought from the store. It was a set of three black leather cuffs connected by short leather straps.

She wrapped the first two cuffs around Ichinon's arms above her elbows. The cuffs were seven centimeters wide and closed by fastening two belts each close.

Connected to the middle of the strap linking the two cuffs was a third one, much wider, and closing with four belts.

Sakura closed the third cuff around both of Ichinon's forearms, making it snug.

Ichinon's arms were now bound in a box-tie position.

Naru had likely been more obedient, as Medusa was already coming back with her.

Naru had her arms restrained by an identical fashion, and a chain held by Medusa was connected to the harness's collar. She stared at Sakura and Ichinon with a fearful expression.

"Now come along, my pet Ichinon." said Sakura as she left the cell.

After a short hesitation, Ichinon followed, likely thinking that she might escape the humiliation of being leashed if she cooperated. Or maybe not wanting another spanking.

…

Shuuko shifted in her bonds as she tried to get a slightly more comfortable position. Sakura had dressed her in a full black latex catsuit this time, something she was grateful for, as she felt a little less vulnerable with more of her body covered. And, although she was reluctant to admit it, she was starting to love the material.

Sakura's training had seen to that.

She still wore the leather slave harness. Sakura liked how it looked on her and had told her that she didn't intend to let her go without it any time soon, and it didn't matter if she already agreed to cooperate fully with her plan.

In addition to the bodysuit, Sakura had fitted around Shuuko's hips another leather harness that kept a penis-shaped intruder buzzing into her vagina, its vibrations sufficient to keep her hot and bothered, but not enough to get her over the edge.

Black leather cuffs on her wrists and ankles kept her pinned to a metal contraption, her feet spread fifty centimeters apart and her wrists held above her head by a vertical pole running down her back.

She wasn't getting out of this by herself, and Sakura had left to stew while she fetched the captured Heroes to start their training.

Someone knocked on the door.

"Rin-sama, are you there?"

Shuuko recognized the voice. It was Forneus, who likely wanted another reward from her Demon Lord. The Hellzector was well on her way to becoming addicted to the orgasms Sakura gave her with her hands, her tongue, and her strap-on.

Just like Satanachia, Forneus turned into putty after just a few seconds whenever Demon Lord Rin started playing with them.

Not that Shuuko herself was much better. There was just something in Sakura's hungry gaze when she looked at her, in her confident smile, that gave Shuuko an urge to give in and offer Sakura her everything.

The door opened slightly, and Forneus snuck her head in. She looked disappointed that Sakura wasn't there, but smiled when she saw Shuuko, standing on the other side of the room and facing the bed, and entered the room fully.

"Is Rin-sama playing with you, slave?"

"Mmph." nodded Shuuko. She didn't try to give a more detailed answer as her mouth was filled with a red ball gag.

Forneus walked to her and removed Shuuko's gag.

"Do you know where Rin-sama is?"

Shuuko worked her jaw open and close for a second and nodded again.

"Yes, Forneus-sama. Rin-sama went to the dungeon to bring the prisoners here. She will start training them, and she ordered me to watch."

"I understand." smiled Forneus, bringing the rubber ball back in front of Shuuko's face, and she obediently let herself be gagged again.

"Since Rin-sama will be busy with them, I must not bother her. Tell her that I will return tonight."

"Mmph." nodded Shuuko, and Forneus left the room.

She sighed in relief. The Hellzectors still made her nervous, even though they were treating her rather well, as long as Shuuko played the role of the obedient slave. They had given her a few simple tasks to do, but didn't abuse her and let her move around the castle without interrupting her.

She resumed her slow squirming as she pulled on her bonds, an occasional lustful moan escaping her gagged lips. She wished she could increase the vibrator's setting.

After a while, the door opened, and Shuuko saw Sakura in her Demon Lord disguise, followed by a bound Ichinon, Medusa, and a bound and leashed Naru.

Ichinon and Naru both gasped as they saw her, and Shuuko blushed fiercely as their eyes stared at the bottom of the vibrator protruding from her crotch.

"Oh my god." muttered Naru, blushing as well.

"Do not mind Shuuko, my pets." purred Sakura. "Her training is well underway, and she already likes that kind of teasing."

"Mmpho." denied Shuuko, shaking her head, but her denial sounded hollow even to her.

Ichinon and Naru didn't seem to be able to look away from her as Sakura took from her inventory the largest item she had bought from the shop. Two vertical beams of wood, four meters from each other, supporting a horizontal beam at a height of about 2.5 meters, meant for suspension bondage play. Shuuko had experienced it already.

"W-what are you going to do?" nervously asked Ichinon, yelping as she earned herself a spank.

"You may want to reformulate, pet." said the 'Demon Lord' as she looped long black leather straps above the vertical beam of the furniture that had suddenly appeared in the center of the room.

"…Rin-sama, can you please tell me what you intend to do?"

"Better. This Demon Lord and her Knight are using those straps to go under your shoulders and connect them to your arm restraints, so that you will not collapse when you experience too much pleasure."

Shuuko watched as Naru and Ichinon were both forced to face each other, only a meter of distance between them, and with Sakura and Medusa hugging them from behind. And then they started Sakura and Medusa both started using their hands to bring pleasure to the two bound girls, kneading, rubbing, pinching...

Before long, Ichinon and Naru, their faces flushed and whimpering in embarrassment, were forced to watch each other orgasm as they were played like music instruments, over and over.

Shuuko doesn't know how long it lasted. At some point, Sakura had tired of the begging, and red ball gags perforated with holes had joined the girls' bondage. Sakura and Rin regularly switched places.

Later still, Ichinon and Naru had both been hooded with black latex hoods that only had openings for their nostrils and their mouth, leaving only the red perforated rubber balls and their lips and white teeth around them visible.

And as she was watching, Shuuko's last resistance to her own enslavement broke.

It broke as she realized that she was envious of the two girls being tormented before her eyes. That she wanted to feel Sakura's and Anna's hands on her body, bringing her a lot more pleasure than this rubber vibrator did. That she wanted to be the one under the latex hood, her sense of touch amplified by the darkness.

…

When it finally stopped, Naru had never been so exhausted, both physically and mentally.

She didn't try to struggle when she felt herself being picked up in Anna's arms, the straps keeping her upright unconnected, and was carried to the bed.

The latex hood clinging to her head kept her blind, but she could hear with little impairment, and her sense of touch felt more alive than ever.

She heard and felt Ichinon being placed on the bed beside her, and blushed as she wondered how their relationship would be from now on. Would they ever be able to look at each other again without remembering seeing each other in the middle of an orgasm?

'Awkward' would be an understatement.

She could hear Demon Lord Rin and Black Knight Anna play with Shuuko Aikawa next. That gave her a little time to think about what she had just experienced. With her arms still bound and the gag and hood, it wasn't like she could do anything else anyway.

Ever since she had been a little girl, she had been fascinated with magical girl animes. The double lives of seemingly normal girls turning into humanity's protectors when danger appeared. In many episodes she watched, those magical girls were captured by the enemy.

Naru's lips twitched into a mirthless smile around the rubber ball still filling her mouth. Now, she knew exactly how being bound against her will felt like.

But her fleeting amusement didn't last, as she felt fear. Fear at herself, because of how pleasant being molested by those villains had been. Even the occasional spanks she had received when she struggled too much had turned into pleasant warmth after a minute.

It made her wonder. If she was subjected to this kind of pleasure over and over, how long would she endure before she decided to embrace the role of a sex pet, and started to see the Demon Lord as her mistress?

After a while, Naru heard the Demon Lord, and the Black Knight come closer, and what she thought was Shuuko was placed on the bed on Naru's other side. At least she assumed from the sudden feeling of warm latex pressing against her exposed skin.

From the noise, and slight shifts of the mattress, she concluded that Rin and Anna were now sandwiching the three bound girls, and she felt a hand gently patting her bed.

"Being trained as one of the Demon Lord's pets isn't so bad, now is it?" softly asked Demon Lord Rin.

Naru nodded instinctively before she could control herself.

She felt too tired to even try denying it, her body still tingly in the afterglow of so many orgasms.

For now, she just wanted to doze off and resume her resistance later.

…

When Akeno finally reached Tokyo, she still had about eight hours to save Kaguya, if Cornelia kept her word. She didn't head for the prison directly, and instead visited the Chinese Federation's consulate. Not wanting for Britannia to learn about her visit, she chose to infiltrate her way in using Shunpo, and entered one of the main buildings before the guards could react to her sudden appearance.

"Who are you?" asked the guards who followed her in, one of them pressing a button to his belt to trigger some kind of silent alarm.

"Apologies for entering without permission." smiled Akeno, keeping her empty hands in sight. She still wore her Kyuubi outfit, but without the helmet. "I am Akeno Himejima, and I wish to speak to the consul. This is urgent."

More and more guards rushed in the hall, followed by two individuals who were clearly different.

One was a tall, thin man dressed in an elaborate, mostly yellow outfit, with heavy white make up on his face and red marks on his nose and forehead. One of the Eunuchs Noah had mentioned who held true political power in the Chinese Federation.

The other was tall, with the solid build of a martial artist, and had long black hair and eyes. He wore a blue, white and black outfit that were clearly Chinese in inspiration. He held in his left hand a sheathed Chinese sword.

"Who are you?" suddenly asked the martial artist.

"My name is Akeno Himejima." smiled Akeno. "Apologies for the intrusion, but Britannia would have learned of my visit if I used the front door. I came in peace."

"Akeno Himejima, you say?" asked the Eunuch, his eyes narrowing. "I heard of that name. Weren't you in Paris recently?"

"That's me." nodded Akeno. "And I am also the one who forced Britannia to release the Imperial Princess Sakuya Sumeragi and Tohdoh Kyoshiro of the Japanese Liberation Front. You may have heard of it."

"We have. Britannia would be willing to offer a significant reward for your capture."

"Who am I speaking to?" asked Akeno with a sigh.

"Ah, where are my manners? I am the High Eunuch Gao Hai. It is a pleasure to meet the infamous Kyuubi."

Akeno turned her head to the man with long black hair, who made a courteous nod.

"I am Li Xingke, his attendant."

"Nice to meet you." nodded Akeno. "Now, to demonstrate why trying to deliver me to Britannia wouldn't be a great idea…"

Akeno used Shunpo to reappear between Li Xingke and the High Eunuch, slipping a thin smartphone in one of the pockets of Li Xinkge's pants before anyone could notice, and drew one Eclipse, stopping the black blade two centimeters short of Gao Hai's throat.

As the High Eunuch flinched but didn't dare move, Li Xingke drew his sword in a flash, and Akeno stopped the blade between her thumb and her index.

"Freeze!" barked Akeno.

The guards aimed their rifles at her in a panic, but no one dared to open fire.

"…Now where was I… Ah, yes. You can see badly that would turn out for you. Hard to threaten someone who can move faster than bullets."

Akeno put her Eclipse back into her inventory and let go of Li Xingke's blade. The high Eunuch took a step away from her, scared.

"W-What do you want?" gasped Gao Hai.

"For us to negotiate a mutually profitable agreement, between my faction and the Chinese Federation. We can do it right now in this hall with all your soldiers listening, or in a more private setting, that is up to you. But I already demonstrated that their number doesn't actually improve your safety, so I suggest we talk somewhere else."

Akeno saw from the corner of her eyes Li Xingke discreetly pat his pant pocket as he kept his sword pointed in her direction, his eyes narrowing. He had noticed.

"That would be a sensible idea. Follow me, then." said Gao Hai.

…

Li Xingke sighed when Akeno Himejima disappeared in a rush of displaced air. The negotiation had only lasted a few minutes, and boiled down to the Chinese Federation agreeing to supply the Black Knights in equipment, in return for the design for a better Knightmare.

"Are we really going to support the Black Knights, Consul?" asked Li Xingke in a low voice.

"We will do what is required to keep that murderous beast off our backs." snorted the consul with that high-pitched voice Xingke had learned to hate. "And we will provide military assistance to Atsushi Sawasaki's claim."

Xingke nodded dubiously. Atsushi Sawasaki was the former Chief Cabinet Secretary of the former Japanese government. Hardly a top-level minister, but still someone whose name was still known by a few Japanese. He had fled his country during the invasion by Britannia and was now a somewhat usable pawn for the Federation to invade Japan.

Xingke didn't think that plan would work, as the Federation wouldn't be willing to commit the number of troops it would require if Britannia fought back as hard as he thought they would.

The whole plan was more of a bet, assuming that Britannia was too busty elsewhere to mount effective resistance and that the Japanese population would support a Japanese figurehead over a Britannian Viceroy despite the Chinese backing.

And if it didn't work, the Federation would lose some troops and a pawn, but the High Eunuchs were confident that it wouldn't result in an all-out war between the Federation and the Holy Empire.

Half an hour later, Li Xingke's daily shift ended, and he retired to his quarters. He finally took from his pocket the hard object he had felt her slip into, and wasn't surprised that it was a small phone. There was only one contact on it, named "Akeno."

He called the number, and she quickly replied.

"You didn't tell the Eunuch about it, right?" asked Akeno without preamble.

"No. Why do you want to talk to me without him knowing?"

"Because I know about you, Li Xingke. Someone who was almost condemned to death for giving medicine to a wounded prisoner, but was saved by the young Empress. Unlike that self-serving, corrupt scum, you truly care about the Federation, and you are loyal to Empress Tianzi. So it is time to have the real talk."

"Are you suggesting the previous one was fake?"

"Partially. I will respect my part of the deal, but… Did you know that the Federation intends to use some Japanese politician turned wannabe tyrant to try to invade part of Japan? And that when that fails, the Eunuchs will enter negotiations to arrange Empress Tianzi's marriage to some Britannian noble in return for some noble titles for themselves? They'll become Britannian Nobles, and the Chinese Federation will be renamed into Area 19, or maybe Area 20 if Europia falls first."

Xingke's hand trembled as he gripped the phone, his heart filled with sudden rage. He wanted to deny her words, but he could see it happening all too well. Gao Hai was only loyal to himself, he knew from ample experience, and the other High Eunuchs were no better.

"…I wasn't aware of the latter." finally said Xingke with gritted teeth. "What are you suggesting?"

"I want for Empress Tianzi to be the ruler of the Chinese Federation in more than name only, with you standing by her side. She will need people who are truly loyal to her. I want the Federation to have a friendly relationship with the upcoming Japanese government. No more invasion attempts once Britannia is gone. I will deal with the Eunuchs myself. Aside from supporting the Black Knights during the liberation as previously agreed, I do not require anything from the Federation."

"Is that really all?"

"Yes."

"I… wouldn't mind that future happening. I will prepare for it."

"I am glad to hear that. How long would you need for a smooth transition?"

"…Six to eight weeks."

"Very well. I will plan on dealing with the Eunuchs in eight weeks then, unless you send me a message to tell me you wish for another date. Now please excuse me, I have a damsel in distress to rescue, and another demonstration to make."

Akeno ended the call, and Xingke frowned, thinking hard. After a few minutes, he turned the phone off, forcibly removed a plank of the wooden board in a corner of the room, dug up a space in the floor's sound and thermal insulating layer, and hid the phone inside before putting the plank back in place.

His stay as Goa Hai's attendant was about to end. Then he would return to the homeland and resume his tenure as a general. He had preparations to make to prevent any overambitious officers from trying to exploit a sudden vacuum, and to protect the Empress.

…

The night had fallen, and Akeno was floating high in the air above the prison as she considered her options. She still had about one hour to play with, if Cornelia held to her word.

At this altitude, the infantry patrolling the perimeters only appeared a miniscule dots. Knightmares were easier to see, and there were a lot of them.

Cornelia must be aware of her ability to move at lightning-fast speed, create light blades, and put objects in and out of existence. And, maybe, aware that she could fly, although she had yet to see any sign that she had been spotted.

But maybe she was, and Cornelia was bidding her time for the perfect opportunity.

After careful consideration, she activated the Ghost Walker ability she had gotten with her Phantom Mistress class, becoming invisible. She wasn't sure if she would appear on thermal sensors, but it was much better than nothing.

She let herself fall, only slowly and correcting her trajectory to land on the main building rooftop.

Akeno neglected the obvious entry points like the ventilation shaft and instead followed down one of the outer walls, seeking a room whose windows weren't lit.

She found one, although it was framed by a cover with steel bars.

Akeno used very small light blades to cut the bolts holding the frame in place, and cut an opening through the reinforced glass of the window. She put the cut part inside her inventory before it could fall and shatter.

Seconds later, she was inside the room ,and had replaced the steel bar. Anyone looking from the outside wouldn't notice anything strange.

The door leading further into the building was locked, but this wasn't anything another light blade couldn't solve. She carefully opened the door, looking up and down a deserted hallway. She was in the administrative building of the prison.

Without a noise, Akeno went to the top floor, avoiding a few people by flattening herself again the walls as they passed. She had seen through the windows that the top floor held the command room where the camera feeds were watched by a dozen officers.

Akeno entered the room by slipping behind an officer, thankful that the presence of automatic self-closing door mechanism everywhere stopped people from closing the doors behind them by themselves, and quietly walked closer to the screens, careful not to touch anyone.

From their behavior, it seemed like they didn't suspect she was there, as they all focused on watching the screen. They looked tense and focused, but not particularly worried for their immediate safety.

Akeno saw that one of the cameras was pointed straight at Kaguya's cell, and at least three soldiers were standing guard around it. Kaguya herself was lying on the cell's floor, dressed in one of those black and white prisoner uniforms Britannia favored, that could be turned into full-body straightjackets simply by closing a few zippers and fastening a few belts.

She rolled her eyes as she saw a thick metal collar around Kaguya's throat, probably equipped with real explosives.

Clearly, Cornelia was salty about their previous encounter.

There was also something else of interest. A few guards were standing around a contraption on wheels, that was clearly designed to hold a person captive with heavy steel restraints, and the contraption had on the side some pockets of fluids connected to thin, flexible tubes. Akeno couldn’t see due to the camera's resolution, but she assumed those tubes ended with needles.

It seems Cornelia intended for Akeno to be using that contraption, and for an undetermined duration. She probably intended to use Kaguya as a hostage to force Akeno into compliance.

That wasn't going to happen, of course. At worst, Kaguya would meet Noah sooner than anticipated.

Still, under the screen was an indication of the camera's location, and there was a plan of the prison on one of the walls. Akeno studied it for a minute, spent a few more observing the officers at work, then left the room when one of them decided to fetch everyone some coffee.

What she heard and seen confirmed to her that they weren't using thermal sensors, that the command room staffers contacted every guard every three minutes to confirm their status, and that Cornelia was in her Knightmare, ready to burst inside the prison's perimeter with her Knights at the slightest alarm.

Akeno quietly walked to the entrance of the penitentiary block where Kaguya was held, and seeing no easy way in, decided to trade stealth for speed. Four large light swords pierced a hole through the heavy reinforced steel doors. She was already inside before the guards on both sides of the door could do more than flinch.

When the first panicked radio reached the control room, Akeno had already descended to the second basement where Kaguya was held, and used Shunpo and light blades to burst through all locked doors.

The three guards before her cell were only meant to make her pause while Cornelia used the prison's speaker to propose her deal, let herself be captured, or see Kaguya lose her head, but Akeno didn't even slow down, beheading them with more light swords and carving a huge hole through the thick Plexiglas of the prison cell. Akeno used Shunpo again to stop by Kaguya's side and immediately transferred the collar into her inventory.

"Mmph?!" gasped Kaguya, shocked by the sudden violence.

Akeno crouched beside her, deactivating her Ghost Walker ability. Now that Kaguya was free of any immediate threat, it was time to make a statement.

She unfastened the straps keeping the uniform's fabric pressed against the lower half of Kaguya's face, effectively gagging her.

"Akeno, stop right there! There is an explosive collar around Kaguya's neck, and this one is real. If… what?"

I seemed that Cornelia didn't have a direct feed on the prison's cameras and had just been made aware that her threat was already moot.

"I'm getting you out of here, Kaguya."

"That would be much appreciated, but my people…"

"I'll do what I can. Now hang on tight."

"Hard to do with my arms bound behind my back, you know?"

"That's true, chuckled Akeno, unbuckling a few straps to free Kaguya's arms.

Akeno carried Kaguya in her arms and left the cell. Rather than take the long way out and go through a lot of guards, Akeno used a few light blades to carve a hole in an upward diagonal, materialized her fallen-angel wings, and flew upward, maintaining about two gravities of acceleration. She kept a hand under Kaguya's head to support her as she did.

Their exit was anything but discreet, and a hail of bullets followed them, but most missed by a rather wide margin, and those who didn't were blocked by light shields. In barely two seconds, Akeno was over the outer wall and out of their sight.

Akeno flew some distance away, then stopped on the rooftop of a building.

"Please wait here, Kaguya. I will be back in a few minutes, and then we will fly for a few hours."

"Hum." nodded Kaguya. "Be careful, Akeno."

Akeno nodded, put on the Kyuubi helmet, and flew back toward the prison.

It was still a beehive of activity.

They spotted her when she was about two hundred meters from the prison, wings gently flapping, making enough noise for the civilians down in the street to lift their heads, gasp in disbelief and point fingers.

And as the many Knightmares in front of the prison started opening fire, Akeno suddenly accelerated upward as she prepared a Magecraft spell. A dozen volleyball-sized balls of bright red light grew around her as she weaved between the enemy shells, and after about two seconds, each of those light spheres fired a finger-sized beam of red light.

The beams lasted less than a second, but Akeno directed them to moves as they fired, like miniature versions of the Lord's statue in the previous timeline. The Knightmares in front of the prison all collapsed, losing their legs and, in many cases, one arm as well. Akeno had deliberately avoided their torsos and cockpits.

Thin furrows of molten stone on the ground bore testimony of the beams' power. As if the molten metal on the edges of the severed Knightmare limbs wasn't enough.

More Knightmares came from the prison's perimeter, and they, too, suffered the same fate after Akeno created another group of light balls.

Akeno flew over the wall, and was welcomed by several dozen missiles fired from pod mounted on the shoulders of a dozen Knightmares. Akeno recognized them as the Glaston Knights. Their hulls were painted purple, and they were all armed with a cavalry spear in addition to their Knightmare rifles.

And apparently, missile launchers for some of them. The one leading them had small wings on its head, and Akeno recognized the one belonging to Cornelia.

Akeno lifted a hand at the missiles and generated a strong directed EMP in their direction, frying their electronics and causing them to explode half-way to their target. The EMP also caused the Knightmares to shut down, which surprised Akeno.

…

Cornelia slammed her fist against a panel in anger. What was nothing working against this demon spawn?

She tried to reboot her Knightmare, but it was completely unresponsive.

The feeling of powerlessness wasn't something she was used to, and she really didn't like it.

Since she couldn't do anything else, Cornelia opened her cockpit. The opening mechanism was purely mechanical. The access panel behind her opened, then her seat slid back into the open.

Kyuubi was sitting less than two meters from her, her butt resting on the head of her own Knightmare, surrounded by screens of rippling yellow light that intercepted the bullets fired by the Glaston Knights who had already opened their cockpits. Cornelia immediately drew her own firearm and joined her fire to their own, with the same lack of result.

When her gun and those of her knights clicked empty, Cornelia gave up and started laughing at the absurdity, expecting Akeno to just kill her now.

"Now that all of you have gotten that out of your system, can we talk like adults?"

"What do you want?" asked Cornelia.

"I was careful not to kill any more than strictly necessary, you will notice. In return for my leniency, I want those you captured when you raided the Kyoto House to be released and left alone."

"…Just what are you?"

"The Agent of a deity. The Sword of a Goddess. You never really stood a chance." shrugged Akeno. "I won't kill you, Cornelia. You and Schneizel and Euphemia are suited to rule Britannia after I deal with your father. Just make sure you aren't in Japan when I and my followers come to liberate it.

"Are you going to kill the Emperor?" angrily called out Darlton from his opened cockpit, about ten meters from them, and Akeno nodded at him.

"Emperor Charles is playing with forces he doesn't really understand. He is trying to use something called the Sword of Akasha to merge all of humanity's individual consciousnesses into some kind of artificial hivemind. Something like this is not allowed to happen."

They obviously didn't really believe her, but Akeno didn't really care. Charles would hear of it, hear that his secret plan wasn't that secret, and there was a very small chance that he would take her seriously and give up on conquering the world to get his hands on more ancient ruins of that Geass-using civilization.

Akeno looked back at Cornelia.

"I have demonstrated why it would be unwise for you to mess with me any further. I hope another demonstration will not be necessary."

"Ah! What can we even do?" snorted Carnelia, giving up.

"Nothing but increase the number of needless deaths." nodded Akeno. "Do not leak my identity more than it already is. I like being able to walk down a street without people screaming and running, or worse, worshipping me. And you might see me at Ashford Academy on occasion. That's a neutral ground as far as I am concerned, and I made a few friends over there. Do not mess with them, either."

Cornelia made an exhausted nod.

"I am glad we could come to an understanding." nodded Akeno before flying away. She hadn't confirmed that the employees of Kyoto House would be released, but Cornelia would have to be an utter fool to harm them after this.