A vine reached around Lelouch's throat and began to squeeze, tightly.

"I'll break your neck," Kirihara cackled. "That way you will die and anything you have made invisible with your Stand, will become visible again. Then I shall raise you from the dead as my zombie servant! Together, we shall obliterate Britannia and seize control over the Chinese Federation from within! Fufufu! Nothing shall stop us!"

"You... Idiot!" Lelouch gurgled. It was starting to wrap around his head really tightly. Any moment now it would have enough of a grip to snap his neck, and then that would be the end of it. "I'm not a monster!"

Suddenly something cut clean through the wall behind Lelouch, and also through the plants holding him in place. It was quickly followed one after the other by nine similar cuts, creating a clean hole around his entire body. Lelouch fell, but was quickly caught in a large metal hand, which lifted him high above the garden where he put his left hand across his waist and flicked back his hair with his right.

"I'm so much worse than that," he announced, as Gawain pulled back its finger harkens and began to lift off into the air.

"Whoever is piloting that, you will soon regret interfering!" Kirihara yelled.

Lelouch smirked. On the one hand he would enjoy gloating about how he was able to use Painted Black to manipulate the modified Druid System, but on the other why show his hand to his opponent? Instead of responding, he turned around and opened the cockpit.

Lulu's Bizarre Rebellion Chapter 48