Shirley: How did you get Lelouch to co-operate with you?
Milly: I threatened to reveal his dark secret.
Shirley: Which is what?
Milly: I have no idea, I was bluffing, but it must be something horrible.
Milly: Wear the cat cosplay, Lelouch!
Lelouch: Hell no!
Milly: I am your Student Council President.
Lelouch: I don't care. I refuse.
Milly: You must participate. All the Student Council is doing it.
Lelouch: Good thing I don't care about peer pressure.
Milly: I'll pay you.
Lelouch: I'll pay double to opt out.
Suzaku: Wow, I can't wait for the cat cosplay event. I just love cats!!! They're so cute! I would totally go for someone who looked adorable as a cat.
Lelouch: ...Milly, what are you waiting for? I command you...put the cutest damn cat ears on me!
I got 2024 New Year's Lelouch because, after watching the event, I suspected he might mention Rolo in his lines, and he does indeed!
Lelouch: Tomorrow, Nunnally, Rolo, and I are planning to spend time together as siblings, just the three of us. It feels like a dream to be able to spend time peacefully like this...
As you might guess, the story of the New Year's event (not voiced, so I'll post screenshots from here on) is in fact a dream that Mario/Maya has, where, among other things, Nunnally and Rolo are both siblings to Lelouch. Although Mario/Maya's brain didn't fix Rolo's antagonistic attitude towards him/her...
Rolo (to Mario): You are inconveniencing others by standing in the middle of the path like this. How about being a little more considerate?
Nunnally: Oh, Rolo, come on, speaking like that again... I always tell you you shouldn't do that.
Rolo: But Nunnally, this guy is the one who...
Like in every other instance where Rolo and Nunnally have interacted, they address each other without suffixes, so they seem to treat each other as equals rather than one of them clearly being the older sibling. Also, Rolo referred to Mario as "koitsu", which is openly disrespectful, especially since Mario is older...
The reason Mario is standing there dumbfounded is that he still hasn't realized that he's dreaming. He is confused after seeing Britannians and the Black Knights working together, and also when he meets Rolo and Nunnally with one another:
Lelouch: Mm? They are my little sister and my little brother. Isn't it obvious for them to be together?
Mario: Your little sister and little brother... I guess there's nothing wrong, right... Why did I think it was strange...? Sorry for saying something weird all of a sudden...
Nunnally: Fufu, you're an odd one, Mario-san. (TN: Uses my username rather than Mario)
Rolo: He was already odd before...
Lelouch: Hahaha, you're being called out, Mario.
Mario: Ahaha... You got me.
Then Mario wants to understand what's going on with some new event at Ashford, but the bell indicates that they need to go to class.
Lelouch (to Mario): I'll explain later. Rolo, take Nunnally to the classroom.
Rolo: Yeah, got it, Brother. Let's go, Nunnally.
Nunnally: Yes, please, Rolo. Brother, Mario-san, see you later.
Lelouch: Yeah. See you later, you two.
After this scene, the characters teach Mario about the event. It seems that there's going to be a competition to decide the future of Ashford Academy. And there are three teams, each with different members and intentions for the kind of school life Ashford Academy should promote:
・Suzaku's WHITE team (Suzaku, Nunnally, Savitri, Anya, Schnee): "Disciplined school life with a focus on morals"
・Kallen's CRIMSOM team (Kallen, Rivalz, Benio, Gino, Shirley): "Energetic school life with a focus on passion"
・Lelouch's BLACK team (Lelouch, Rolo, Ledo, Milly, Nina,): "A free school life with a focus on individuality"
They will play different games, and Mario will join a different team each round.
The first round is a karuta game where you need to guess a country after hearing a hint. At first, it seems like Nunnally's team will win (but Kallen's, the team Mario is part of this round, does):
Rolo: They are strong, huh? Nunnally and the others.
Lelouch: As expected of my little sister. To think that she would remember all the kaminoku... (TN: A karuta term)
The next game is hagoita doubles, which is more or less similar to badminton, and where Suzaku's physical strength makes his team win (Mario was also part of the winning team this time). Rolo has to make his snarky comment against Suzaku too:
Ledo: One more point and it will be match point. What could we do?
Rolo: There's no point in asking. Nothing can be done against that monster.
So they apologize to Lelouch for losing, but he understands the situation:
Ledo: My apologies. We couldn't win against Lord Kururugi after all.
Rolo: Sorry, brother.
Lelouch: It can't be helped. Kallen is about the only one who could compete head to head against Suzaku.
The next game is about flying kites, and Lelouch asks Mario, who is on his team now, to control the kite.
Lelouch: So I leave the 3rd event, High Altitude Kite Battle, to you.
Mario: But I'm lost… What even is that? The "High Altitude Something"…
Rolo: It's the High Altitude Kite Battle. You don't even know something like that?
Mario: I don't think you'd usually know, though...
Milly and Ledo explain that the objective is to cut the opponent's kite string.
Mario: Ah, so it's fighting kites. (TN: "Kenkadako," which is an exist word, unlike the fancy term Lelouch used)
Rolo: No. It's High Altitude Kite Battle.
Mario: Why is Rolo so fixated on such a strange thing... A-anyway, in a nutshell, I have to win at the fighting kites, right?
I think Rolo is being pedantic about the term just to go against Mario or maybe to defend the term Lelouch used. Maybe he's jealous because Lelouch entrusted the game to Mario? The dialogues don't point the reason out explicitly, though!
By the way, it's mentioned that Milly drew the design of the kite, which is Zero's mask, and Rolo says "I also helped paint it".
Well, since Mario wins, there's yet another tiebreaker round which involves KMFs and where everyone ends up having to work together, until Mario wakes up from the dream. I don't think the rest of Rolo's lines are all that interesting, so I'll stop the translation here. You can probably find videos of the whole event if you search for its name: 三色志開幕!~新しい朝に願いを新たに~
As I mentioned last time, Turns 12&13 should arrive in a couple weeks, and I assume that, afterwards, together with Turns 14&15, it will be the moment to release a new Rolo alt with his plugsuit version (other characters have their plugsuit version as separate units too). Hope my sakuradite is enough for then...
Guys should I post my epic mastercomic wherein Milly and Rivalz discuss topics such as lesbianism, high school nostalgia, and immortality while their one-time besties conquer the world outside the window? It is 10 sketchy unpolished pages long, plus a lil epilogue, and was drawn entirely without references in a kind of fugue state that spanned multiple airplane rides
early morning
Milly: (runs into Lelouch’s room and turns on the light and radio at full blast, camera recording) Wake up sleepyhead!
Lelouch: (wakes up) Milly!
Milly: (cackles)
Suzaku: (sits up from where he was sleeping behind Lelouch) What the fuck, Milly?
Milly: (covers mouth with hand and runs out giggling in shock)