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Today’s line The strongest objection, answered

“The one time a man never lies is when he makes a vow in his own heart.”

C.C. Code Geass

The strongest objection to this comes from her own biography. She has taken vows from contract partners for centuries, and the evidence she carries around is that they end badly: Mao, the last one before Lelouch, wanted her so completely that she had to shoot him in a Tokyo church, and Charles kept his to the letter and built a plan to end human individuality out of it.

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