Lelouch Lamperouge quotes from Code Geass

Cornelia

Now you will suffer for what you did to Euphie…

…the source…

(In unison) …of Geass!

It's been a long time, Lelouch. My prodigal son.

Answer my question about eight years ago! Why you didn't tried to protect Mother? You knew the others were plotting against her! You know everything!

People are not equal!

What?

You have a unique form of Geass! A power that no one else possesses! Use it, to get the answer from me!

[Thinking] He's baiting me, trying to get me to use my Geass on him. But... If I look into his eyes, then he'll look into mine. His Geass requires eye contact just like mine does. So the moment I look, his Geass will take control of me and he'll alter my memories. What will I do?

What's wrong? Are you not my son, a prince of Britannia?

[activating his Geass] I have no time to make the wrong choice!

What is Geass? I wan't the truth.

How strange. A child who's wrapped himself in lies desires the truth from others.

What?

The false name and false mask of Zero - what has it gotten you?

Everything! It's gotten me all of the things that ordinary people can never obtain. Followers. Territory.

You lost Euphemia. Suzaku and Nunally are also lost to your lies.

Shut up! I did what I had to do. People lie to survive. No one is blameless.

You want others to know your true self, yet you only show them a false face. How can anyone know you if you don’t reveal yourself? If you hide behind masks, you are afraid that they’ll find out who you really are.

No!

In the end, your lies serve no purpose because you are me and I am you. All else is illusion. Though there are worlds without end, there is but one being; in the past, in the future, and now, there is only one.

One? What are you saying?

C.C.

Charles. Play time is over now. There's nothing in it for me now, no values in the games anymore.

C.C.?

C.C.

You don't have to cajole him like this to get me here. I already exist in this realm.

True enough, C.C. In that case, I shall grant your wish.

You know what C.C.'s wish is?

C.C.

Lelouch, it's time you know the conditions of our contract and what I desire. My wish is to die; to end my existence in all worlds forever.

But why? Why would you want to die?

C.C.

In the final stage of Geass, the user attains the position of the one who granted them the power. Thus, you have gained the power to kill me.

Kill you? C.C...

C.C.

Of all those I have made contracts with, none has ever reached that point. But now there's Charles. He has done it.

You mean... You made the contract with me so you could cease to exist?

C.C.

Correct.

But why would you want to die?

C.C.

It's providence; a boundary. Only when it's final can we call it life.

That's wrong! We call it life because we feel it.

C.C.

Same thing. There is no life unless there is death.

That's just word play, it's not real!

C.C.

People die, that's real.

Why are we born at all? What's the purpose of it? The meaning?

C.C.

You know the answer. Those things are all just illusions.

No! Living just to die is too sad.

C.C.

Without death, all we have are just random events. Accumulation. You can't call that life. If you have a reason for living, then you have to kill me. Do that and you'll be Charles' equal. You'll finally be able to beat him. So fare thee well, Lelouch. You're too kind to end our contract.

Wait! You're - Aaahhh!

C.C

What should I be doing now?

Let's see now. Sing me a song while hopping on one foot and wearing your clothes inside-out.

C.C.

Uh, Master, I kept this last piece so you could have it. You left without having breakfast and must be hungry. So, please, if you--

BE QUIET!

Hey--

C.C.

[starts cowering, thinking that Lelouch is going to start beating her] Forgive me, Master! I'll clean it up at once!

No! Leave it there! [starts attending to C.C.'s wound] Be careful now. You're bleeding.

C.C.

No, it's fine. I'm okay. I get cut up all the time.

[thinking] All the time?

C.C.

Bleeding feels even better when it's cold. It feels warm on your outside. It stings a bit, but only on the outside, and that's always better than hurt on your inside. It's just, any kind of warmth helps make you try to keep going. [Lelouch is visibly shivering as he holds C.C.'s hand] Oh, lookit, Master, you're shaking. Are you cold now?

Uh, yeah, maybe. Maybe I am. [C.C. starts holding Lelouch's hand as well] And the hurt on the inside…how's it healed?

C.C.

You just think of… [pauses as she tries to think] …some friends.

Huh?

C.C.

I've never actually had one. Not like families. That always comes and goes. I mean, someone special who stands beside you. At least, I guess that's what I've heard that friends do.

Yes, they do.

C.C.

I'm right? A friend will stand by your side?

Exactly right. A friend is always there.

What are you doing with this?! It's Nunnally's! I wanted to give this locket to Nunnally, not to you! To Nunnally! You think you could ever replace Nunnally in my heart?! You're an IMPOSTER! [Lelouch tosses the cell phone to the ground; C.C. cowers in fear as Rolo sits there, despondent] Haven't you figured it out yet?! I hate you! I loathe you! I DESPISE YOU! I've been trying to kill you, but I keep MISSING THE CHANCE!

[still hasn't figured it out yet, even with Lelouch telling it to his face] Big…brother?

GET OUT OF HERE! I never want to see your face again! I said, GET OUT!

Surrender, Zero!

How dare you try to run a con game on us?

Ohgi

We know everything about your Geass power!

Diethard

Zero, the renowned hero, died in battle before he could triumph, but his gallant life and daring deeds will continue to live on in myth and legend.

Is that the script you've written for me, Diethard?

Diethard

Actually, I wanted to film your brilliant campaign and glorious victory over Britannia, but I'm afraid that show's been permanently cancelled.

[thinking] What do I do? Knightmares are beyond my reach, but Ohgi and the others are defenseless. If I can use my Geass secretly...

Everybody trusted you, Zero.

Inoue and Yoshida sacrifice their lives for you.

Kallen

Wait a minute! This is all one-sided! Look at how far we've come because of Zero. At least let him answer!

Tamaki

You're in the way, Kallen!

Do you want to die with Zero?

Don't tell me he used his Geass on you, too?

Kallen

I need an answer, Lelouch. What do I mean to you? I have to know. If I could stay with you, I would. Please.

(thinking) Schneizel! You made your move and now you're calling check. There's no way out of this for me. It's over!

Kallen

Please answer me, Lelouch.

(laughing) Fools! You finally figured it out. That I've been using you all along. That's right. You're all just pawns in my game.

Ohgi

Zero, so you really are...

Tamaki

Zero!

Kallen

Lelouch, no...

Kallen. You were my most useful piece. Much like a well-played knight. This whole world was the board for the game, and all for my entertainment.

Kallen

I see. Goodbye then, Lelouch.

Get ready!

[whispering] Kallen, you have to live.

Fire!

That's enough, Rolo. I don't want to live anymore.

I won't stop, brother, because of this.

Stop doing—

All throughout my life, people have used me like a tool.

—this, Rolo! Why are you still trying—

I was used by the Order.

—to save me?! You know that—

And then you used me, big brother. [clutches his chest as he starts to feel the effects of cardiac failure due to overuse of his Geass] Yeah, maybe you've been using me for your ends right from the very start. But… only the time I spent with you seemed real!

—I was only usi—

It was… those memories… that finally made me… human!

—using you! [sees Rolo's condition] Rolo!

That's why I'm not… [attempts to activate his Geass again but fails to sustain it and starts coughing profusely] I'm not… [summons the effort to activate his Geass one final time]

No, stop using your Geass like that! Do you want to di—

I'm not… a tool! I do this… out of my own… free will… as a human being!

Rolo, why did you save me, after all I've done to you?

Because… you're a liar, big brother. It was… a lie, wasn't it? What you said about trying to kill me, about… hating me and all of that.

Of course, and you saw right through me, didn't you? Just what I'd expect of my little brother.

[weakly; last words] That's right, I thought so, 'cause I know who you really are inside your heart. I know everything about you, big brother.

Yes, you got it right. Your big brother…is just a liar.

God! Hear me now! The time has come to settle this!

You're wrong. You lift your voice to call upon God, but it's not God you need to settle things with, Charles zi Britannia.

It's me, your son!

And how will you challenge me? Neither gun nor sword will have any effect on me, nor will the power of your Geass! Nothing you can do can kill me!

But I don't need to kill you. By coming to this parallel realm, you've already ensured my victory.

You sealed the exit?!

Yes! You, I, and the power of Geass are now sealed in this space together. And if you can no longer interfere with the real world, then all your plans will be meaningless in the end. You may as well be dead!

Lelouch!

This system, which you created, has become a prison, which now holds your own soul captive. Now, let us repent… suffering together for all eternity!

Mother... It can't be!

My, Lelouch. How you've grown.

Mo-Mother!

Marianne, I see you've come.

Is this an illusion?! You're doing this?

No, it really is me, Lelouch. However, I can only take on my original appearance while I'm present within this system.

It really is...

Lelouch, I will now answer your previous question. Half a century ago, my elder brother and I existed in a Hell on Earth; our family were just rivals competing for the throne. Assassinations occurred with regularity, dealing with betrayal and spawned by lies, killing each other off. My own mother fell victim to it. My brother and I were sick and angered by the world, we therefore both sworn an oath: to create a world without lies.

Both C.C. and I agreed to this as well. V.V., however...

What did you call me for today? I cleared everyone out of here, I even had Cornelia withdraw.

Sorry to do this, especially without Charles around.

Is this about the Sword of Akasha?

Oh, no. This is only about Charles. Ever since he met you, Charles has been acting like a different man. It seems to me that you and he have come to enjoy learning more about one another. You realize if this continues, the contract we made will never be fulfilled. I will be left alone. From the beginning of time, it's always been the woman who led the man astray.

Lady Marianne!

I told you to stay out of here!

[talking on a cellphone] The job is done. Right, Begin the cover-up, maybe we can make Nunnally act to be the witness. It's imperative that this look like the work of terrorists.

Anya Alstreim, the young girl who arrived a week earlier to be schooled in etiquette. [Marianne uses her Geass to transfer her spirit into Anya.] My Geass power enables me to cross over to another person's mind. The power that had been latent for so long activated for the first time as I was dying. I hid inside Anya to save myself from being killed by V.V. and when I realized when my consciousness had surfaced, I could communicate mind to mind with C.C. When she discovered the truth, C.C. left the directorship to V.V. and then disappeared.

I spoke with my brother about it. However...

I heard; what a tragedy. I shall miss Marianne.

[angrily] My brother lied to me! After we'd sworn to create a world without deceit.

How dare you! Don't try to pass off blame for everything on the dead! Nunnally and I... you sent us to Japan as hostages!

IT WAS NECESSARY!!!

NECESSARY FOR WHAT?! What kind of parent does that?!

C.C.

If you have someone you don't want to lose, you should keep them at a distance.

That's right, I sent both you and your sister to Japan to escape my brother's sight. That's also why I had Marianne's body secretly taken away.

As long as my body still exists, there's the possibility that I'll be able to return to it.

Anya and Nunnally became witnesses, therefore it was necessary to rewrite their memories in order to protect everything.

Nunnally?! You mean her blindness wasn't psychosomatic after all?! But—

Even though she was a false witness, there remained a very real danger she would be killed.

To ensure Nunnally's safety, proof was needed that would lead V.V. away from the truth.

The original plan called for only one immortal Code. However, for research to progress we had to have an additional Code. In other words, without C.C., we didn't have an 100% guarantee that it would succeed.

When Marianne was unable to persuade C.C. to help us, we were left with no choice. We were forced to use you, Lelouch.

What was the point of me doing this?

These tragedies will no longer be necessary once the Ragnarok Connection is established.

Masks will vanish, then everyone can be exactly who they're supposed to be.

I see, all the battle and bloodshed between Britannia and the Black Knights was to lure out C.C. Well then, it seems that from the very beginning I was merely a nuisance, just a ruckus in the world. [chuckles] And what do you two think of all this?

C.C.

Did you already know that I was going to come here, Lelouch?

And that you regained your memories too. It was necessary for this plan, wasn't it?

Precisely. Therefore I cannot see any sense in you coming here as well, Kururugi.

Suzaku

I'm sure you can't. I'd heard that you're already immortal, that's why there something that I want to know for certain. Why did you make this thing? For what reason?

Why? Because it's what Nunnally and Euphie both desired: they wanted a gentler world.

Now I see. It's obvious.

The time is here. C.C., since we are all assembled, the plan can commence now. I will grant your wish after everything has been completed.

Milly

[broadcasting] It has been one month since the destruction caused by the F.L.E.I.J.A. warhead. Today His Majesty, Emperor Charles will make an important announcement to the entire nation. We will bringing you live international coverage of this from Pendragon Imperial Palace. Even though His Majesty had not made any public appearances in the past month.

Didn't somebody say that the emperor was missing?

Bismarck was the one who reported that and he is gone.

As for Schneizel and the others, where are they?

Don't know, there's been no word from Cambodia yet.

Presenting His Imperial Majesty!

Huh?

But that's not...

Where's His Majesty?

Milly

What the hell?!

Rivalz

WHAT?! It can't be!

Kallen

But how...? There's no way!

Greetings, I'm Lelouch vi Britannia of the Royal Family, 99th Emperor of the Realm.

Good Lord!

How could this be?

It's really you?!

You're alive?!

Yes, sister, I am. I've returned from the depths of hell intact.

Lelouch, how good to see you! When Nunnally was located, I figured that you would be found alive too. But now, aren't you carrying this joke a bit too far? That's the throne of our father...

Charles zi Britannia, the 98th Emperor, no longer lives, and I'm the one who took his life. [Everyone gasps] Therefore, that makes me the next emperor!

What are you saying?! Are you nuts?!

Guards! Take that fool and execute him! He's guilty of murdering our emperor!!!

Kallen

Suzaku! But why?!

May I introduce, Suzaku Kururugi, my knight! A knight of the realm above all others! I granted him a title the "Knight of Zero"!

Kaguya

Suzaku?! They're working together?!

Lelouch, Sir Kururugi. This just won't do, pulling a bad stunt like this on an international broadcast...

Do you think so? Then let me make this easy for you all to understand... [activates his Geass on everyone] Acknowledge me as your emperor!

Lelouch, I insist that you stop joking around like that... [Everyone is now under the control of his Geass] We hear and obey, Your Majesty!

All Hail Emperor Lelouch!!!

ALL HAIL LELOUCH!!! ALL HAIL LELOUCH!!! ALL HAIL LELOUCH!!! ALL HAIL LELOUCH!!! ALL HAIL LELOUCH!!! ALL HAIL LELOUCH!!! ALL HAIL LELOUCH!!!

Nunnally

Lelouch, you have no right to seize control of the world. You of all people, who took the name Zero then bent the will of so many in order to serve your own.

Are you saying we would have been better off to remain in hiding? Did you want a future of living in constant fear of assassination? This was for your future too, Nunnally.

Nunnally

My future?! When did I ever say I wanted this? Lelouch, I would have been completely satisfied by just living with you!

Don't you see? Our reality is restricted by all sorts of things! Our whole history is struggle!

Attention, entire world! Hear my proclamation! I am Lelouch vi Britannia, Emperor of the Holy Britannian Empire and your only ruler! Schneizel has surrendered to me. As a result of this, I am in control of both the Damocles and the F.L.E.I.J.A. weapons, and not even the Black Knights have the strength to oppose me now. If anyone dares to resist my supreme authority, they shall know the devastating powers of the F.L.E.I.J.A.s! Those who could challenge my military eule no longer exist. Yes, from this day, from this moment forward, the world belongs to me! Lelouch vi Britannia commands you: Obey me, subjects! Obey me, world!

Jeremiah

All hail Lelouch!

All hail Lelouch! All hail Lelouch! All hail Lelouch!