"Trust you?" Shirley repeated back to him. "I mean, well… I suppose it might make people wonder why you were really doing all of this, but - But I know you too well! You really do care about justice and helping the powerless. After all, that's why I… I…"

"Oh? I care about that sort of thing?" Lelouch interrupted. "Are you sure? Maybe it was all a cunning ploy to gain your trust. Your connection to the Speedwagon Foundation could have been useful to an ambitious Prince in exile. Resources and wealth that I might not otherwise be able to reach. You know how intelligent and manipulative I am. How easy would it be for me to do something like this?"

"Easy," Shirley admitted. "But… You're not clairvoyant, Lelouch. Not even you.. Without something like Hey Jude to make it easier for you? Besides, if you were really that kind of person you wouldn't be admitting it like that."

"Unless I expected you to think that way," Lelouch observed, as he brought their modified Burai part-way around the lake. "That is the trouble with peering into the darkness. Is a trick of your eyes making you see something that isn't there? Or is it the outline of something dangerous lurking and waiting to strike."

"Hmph!" Shirley sulked. "You're starting to sound like C.C."

"I am?" Lelouch asked. "In that case, I'd better tell you everything."

"Because you know how annoying it is, and you don't want to wind up like her?"

"That," Lelouch chuckled and shrugged. "Also that I'm impressed you were able to come up with a valid strategic move to make me want to talk. You're learning faster than I was expecting."

She laughed a little bit, and it must have been infectious. Yes, of course. Remember that, Lelouch. You are using her, and she is using you. A mutually parasitic friendship and partnership. Ultimately, it might end up destroying them both. Then again. If they were to take any other path at this point it would destroy them that much faster and much more surely.

-Lulu's Bizarre Rebellion Chapter 33