[ Gino grimaced at the man's words, and he didn't want to stop to replying to them. Of course he had no interest in displeasing Empress Nunnally. If anyone deserved the utmost respect in the world, it was her.

His eyes narrowed as he watched after the man who'd turned away from him. ]

You really are different. Not Lelouch. [ Of course. Lelouch had been the one to get stabbed. Even if he somehow managed to escape that (and Gino had no clue how that could even be possible), why would he go back to being Zero after having been the Emperor of the whole world? ]

But it's like you know everything he'd say just to get under someone's skin. It kind of pisses me off. [ Maybe someone had been spending too much time around Kallen and her friends lately. ]