There was nothing else for it. Suzaku was at least keeping quiet for his sake, but they both knew their chances were slim to none. Maybe - just maybe - if he kept pressed up against this wall and kept his head down low he could stay out of sight, but all it would take is for one of them to turn their head and -

And his phone rang. In that second his ringtone went from being his favourite song to his absolute dead last. Every soldier’s head turned in his direction, one even stepping right in front of him as he fumbled with the off button.

“Find anything over there?”

“No sir,” the soldier said. “I thought I heard it too, but there’s no one here.”

There’s no one here. But that was impossible. Lelouch was standing right in front of him. Nobody that blind could get into the army in any nation, or at least they wouldn’t be given a gun. It wasn’t just that one soldier, though. None of them could see him. Suzaku was just as confused as he was, even signing the universal question code: “What just happened here?”

Lelouch shrugged. But something caught his eye. Something on the ground in front of him. Something that didn’t make any sense at all, yet simultaneously felt like the answer to his most pressing questions.

Though he had shrugged, Lelouch’s shadow didn’t.

-Lulu's Bizarre Rebellion Chapter 1