Yet it seemed as though Lelouch was truly desperate, or more likely exhausted. Rather than trying to flee he pulled back his fist a second time, telegraphing his attack rather blatantly. It would be a trivial matter for Kirihara to calculate the input to block that attack.

The old man's eyes suddenly went wide open, and his fingers froze over the druid system interface. His limbs began to tremble. "No!" he hissed, and then Gawain's fist struck Shinkiro on the side of its cockpit, sending the smaller Knightmare reeling backwards and shaking Kirihara out of his distraction.

"Lelouch!" he growled like an animal. No, he could hardly believe it but it had to be. Lelouch had figured it out! There was no other explanation. "What have you done?! This is your doing is it not?"

"Not my doing," Lelouch said. "For this you can thank Jeremiah Gottwald. Jeremiah, how much of his garden is left?"

"I have torn up about half of it underneath Bedivere's feet," Gottwald's voice came across, broadcast freely from Gawain. Kirihara grit his teeth. He had figured it out! "As for the rest, Agent Orange is starting fires that should destroy much of the plants. This Stand will be utterly destroyed within two minutes at the utmost."

"Lelooooouuuch!" Kirihara yelled. "How dare you destroy my garden paradise!" He opened Shinkiro's chest cannon. He did not need to use the prism to make this a powerful weapon!

"It was more than a garden though," Lelouch observed, moving his Knightmare in close and tripping up Shinkiro. "A lot more. It was your Stand, and I must congratulate you Taizo Kirihara. You found a most superbly unique way to make use of it. You tried to trick me into thinking this was a Knightmare battle, when it was still in fact a Stand battle."

By the time Shinkiro had righted itself again Gawain had vanished back into the shadows. Where was he? Where was he hiding?! Too many possibilities! If only there was more light... Yes, that's it! If he could get high enough he could illuminate the mall and make it obvious where to attack!

"You made it into more than just a garden," Lelouch continued. A harken cable fired out of the shadows just as Shinkiro took off, dragging it back down to earth. "Every blade of grass, every flower, every petal, every branch and every root could act as an 'electronic bit'."

Shinkiro grabbed hold of the harken cable and tried to pull Gawain in, but the bigger Knightmare was already moving closer to kick the better model.

Lelouch continued. "It's quite astounding you know, even being able to control all those plants to such a degree. I should have seen it sooner. If you could control them to the point you could make blades of grass and flowers turn towards me on an individual basis, why not make it into a living computer?"

Shinkiro pounced, but Gawain shoved him aside with little trouble. Like a child dealing with a rambunctious younger sibling. That kind of treatment made Kirihara seethe in disgust, and he fired Shinkiro's slash harkens at close range. They were knocked aside with frightening precision by a single kick.

This way you could bypass Moravec's Paradox completely! Instant computation while retaining a human's ability to recognise and reason about the world around them. Kirihara the Living Calculator. How correct they were, yet never even knew it. The hard problems were easy... And so were the easy problems."

-Lulu's Bizarre Rebellion Chapter 49