[Lelouch appears at the ceremonies that were for the opening of the Special Administrative Zone of Japan]
I do not wish to be in your debt. However, I have a question. What does it mean to Japanese? A nation.
SuzakuWhat?
It is language, territory, bloodlines?
Suzaku
No, that is not it. It is in the heart.
Then we are in agreement. A feeling within, of belonging, dignity, pride, the culture is carried in the heart. You are Japanese no matter where you are.
ZERO! Princess Euphemia will be AVENGED!!!
Suzaku
(holding her arm) Stop it, Nina! Drop the knife!
Aah!! Why are you stopping me? You all people should've understand since you were Princess Euphemia's knight!
Suzaku
That's right. But why...?
You were just an Eleven after all! I give you... (Kallen stopped Nina before she's about to kill Zero) Why, Kallen? You're half-Britannian and yet you choose to protect that monster!
No, that's incorrect. I'm Japanese, Nina.
No, you're not. You're an Eleven! You're an Eleven and you pretended to be my FRIEND?!! GIVE HER BACK TO ME!!! GIVE BACK PRINCESS EUPHEMIA!!! I NEEDED HER, SHE WAS A GODDESS TO ME!!!
XWXia Wang
Well, our wedding present has arrived on its own accord. My, this worked out wonderfully.
TTianzi
You're giving them Kaguya too?!
ZHZhao Hao
Put that girl out of your mind, her crimes warrant of the death penalty.
TTianzi
No you can't! That's wrong! This isn't Britannia!
XWXia Wang
Your Majesty, the Black Knights are the ones who killed Gao Hai. Please don't get involved and leave the politics to us. Isn't that what you always done? Let's us handle things our way.
TTianzi
But... She's a friend.
Can we please stop this quarreling now? Today's the day of celebration, it is not?
Miss Sumeragi, would you refrain of having Zero accompanying me to the wedding tomorrow?
KSKaguya Sumeragi
I suppose... I don't have much of a choice, do I?
CLCai Lishi
If that is the wish of the Prime Minister of Britannia. Then, withdraw!
So Schneizel, you appeared right before me. (Suzaku is protecting Prince Schneizel) Hmph, as watchful as ever I see.
Suzaku Kururugi, do you remember me? We're cousins you and I.
Suzaku
Of course, I do.
We're the last remaining survivors of the Six Houses of Kyoto, aren't we?
Suzaku
Taizō Kirihara and the others supported terrorists. Nothing could've stay their executions.
But this is different. Cousin, did you forget that Master Zero once saved your life. Do you plan to execute someone you own your life to?
Suzaku
There's no comparison.
Oh, how sad! It's a good thing we're not able to kill anybody nearly of the words we say.
Prince Schneizel, would you care for a game of chess?
If I win, I like to have Sir Kururugi.
Suzaku
Huh?
I want to give him to you, Lady Kaguya.
KSKaguya Sumeragi
Oh! How it will be a absolutely marvelous present!
Enjoy your anticipation of it. (Thinking) If I can get Suzaku out of here, I can use my Geass on all the others. A checkmate that will turn everything around.
I'll agreed to you on terms. However, If you lose, I want you to remove your mask and show your face.
What a fine evening of entertainment this has turned into.
[Suzaku attempts to apologize to Kallen for his mistreatment of her]
Suzaku
I'm sorry!
[Kallen assaults Suzaku, her words punctuated by punches and slaps]
What the hell does that mean?! There's no need to apologize! It's either right or wrong! You think you can flip on the good-guy routine whenever you like?! Not when I'm this pissed off! Kallen Kōzuki's a soldier, not a sideshow! [scoffs at Suzaku as she sits back down] I'm mostly pissed off because you're not resisting. [pauses for a moment as Suzaku groans in agony] There. Put me to death. An inmate assaulting a Knight of the Round should be good reason enough for anyone.
Suzaku
No, I won't, because I'm the one who did wrong.
[mockingly] "No, I won't." I HATE YOU!
[Lloyd, Cécile, Nina, Suzaku, and Anya are discussing plans for an impending attack on Tokyo]
Huh? Mount the F.L.E.I.J.A. onto the Lancelot?
Well, the intention was for Suzaku to pilot the Guren, but…
Suzaku
[surprised] The Guren?
Sorry, he's right. I got so carried away I forgot. It's just, Lloyd and I got so wrapped up in our little hobby that we--
Suzaku
Hobby?
Rakshata's mechanisms are quite easy to tinker with. Now it's so souped up it can't be flown! End result, you're our little devicer again!
Excuse me, Professor Lloyd? Now that you've mentioned the Lancelot--
You wouldn't mix up a strategic weapon with a tactical one, would you?
I have thought it through. Any matter caught in the primary effect field will be annihilated by the F.L.E.I.J.A.s rapid sphere collapse.
Hold on! You want Suzaku to fire a weapon like that?!
He'll kill his own people. A massacre.
Suzaku, you don't consider yourself an Eleven anymore, right? That's why I want to entrust the F.L.E.I.J.A. to you.
Suzaku
You'd give me…that burden?
You were Princess Euphemia's knight, so naturally.
[spins in a circle before facing Nina] Nina, darling, a fine quandary. Might just kill Suzaku…and take you along as well.
[Gino Weinberg joins the fray above Tokyo, just in time to save Suzaku from Jeremiah]
No one can defeat a Knight of the Round. No one!
[Gino manages to score a hit on the Sutherland Sieg, freeing Suzaku in the process]
Suzaku
Gino, thank you.
Can't you look a bit happier when someone saves your life? [beat] Lord Jeremiah! So, what they said about Orange was true, huh?
Orange, you say? [chuckles] That is the name of my loyalty!
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.
MMarianne
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—
MMarianne
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.
MMarianne
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.
MMarianne
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?
[Suzaku and C.C. approach, having arrived in C's World.]
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.
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.
[Charles and C.C.'s Geass powers reveal the Sword of Akasha.]
[Kallen has just exhausted her Guren S.E.I.T.E.N.'s last Radiant Wave Surger blast in her final fight against Suzaku.]
The Radiant Wave Surger's out of ammo...!
[The Lancelot Albion's Blaze Luminous shields also power down.]
Suzaku
Now my shield energy is exhausted, too?
[Kallen chases after Suzaku; the Lancelot uses its Landspinners to scale the Damocles to gain some ground, but the Guren catches him as he reaches footing. The Guren jumps over the Lancelot and fires its Slash Harkens at the Lancelot. which dodges narrowly only for the Harkens to anchor on the Lancelot's back. The Guren then launches itself forward and swipes its Radiant Wave Surger claw at the Lancelot; Lancelot redirects the strike and throws a punch, only for Guren to block it with its forearm. The punch causes the Guren to roll back as its Harkens reel back into its shoulders. The Lancelot is pushing it back due to the force of the punch, but the Guren proceeds to lock its hands with the Lancelot's, struggling against it.]
Suzaku
I can't beat her! Even using the Geass I'm cursed with... your strength is unimaginable, Kallen.
My machine has better specs than yours, yet... why? While you're this strong... do the right thing!
[This time, the Guren uses the same trick Suzaku did to get some space. Ending up on another platform, the Guren dodges the Lancelot as it whirls at it with a kick. Face-to-face, the Guren and the Lancelot throw furious, rapid-fire strikes at each other before the Guren flips over the Lancelot, launching its Slash Harkens yet again only for the Lancelot to jump over them as they hook into the wall behind it.]
Suzaku
LET'S END THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL!
[Kicking one of the Guren's Harkens aside, breaking it, the Lancelot latches to the wall with its own wrist-mounted Harken, then jumps off the wall at the Guren for Suzaku's signature kick.]
IF ONLY... YOU HAD JUSTICE ON YOUR SIDE!
[Kallen has the Guren draw its arm back, retracting the claw to reveal the Radiant Wave Surger apparatus underneath, before thrusting it at the Lancelot's leg as it gets in range; the claw arm stabs into the Lancelot's leg and splinters it into fragments, causing it to grind to a screeching halt. As the Guren lunges yet again, Suzaku has the Lancelot fire its waist-mounted Harkens to fire at the Guren; they succeed in slicing off the claw arm and decapitating the Guren. As a result, the Guren glitches and shuts down.]
KKallen (shocked and upset)
What happened...? You mean I didn't get him, then?
SSuzaku (quietly, defeated)
You're wrong... you got me alright... Kallen.
[The Guren's claw arm is revealed to have lodged itself in the Lancelot's chest, impaling it. Both Knightmares are critically damaged and deactivated. Kallen gives an exhausted smile before fainting, and the Guren falls, leaving its severed claw arm lodged in the Lancelot. The Guren is caught by Gino and his badly damaged Tristan Divider, while the Lancelot crackles with electricity before violently exploding, presumably killing Suzaku.]
You won. You beat him, Kallen.
[Kallen is resting inside the cockpit of her Guren, completely drained and unconscious.]
[Mao's plan to blow up Nunnally has been thwarted by Lelouch and Suzaku's combined efforts]
You think you've beat me, huh?!
Suzaku
[grabs Mao] Stop it!
Get your hands off of me, father-killer!
[Suzaku is paralyzed in shock]
You killed your father seven years ago. Heh. He called for do-or-die resistance, and you thought stopping him would end the war. What a childish idea. The fact is, you're a murderer!
Suzaku
That's not true! I just-- I--
How lucky for you that no one ever found out. All the adults lied to protect you.
But all the reports said his suicide was a protest against the military actions.
A big, fat lie, all of it!
Suzaku
I didn't have any choice! If I didn't, Japan would have--
That's how you justify it in retrospect? Well, it explains your death wish! [Suzaku gasps] You want to save people's lives? It's your own wretched soul you're trying to save! That's why you're always charging into danger, placing yourself on the edge of death!
[Suzaku falls to his knees and wails in anguish]
You're no hero! You're just trying to wash the blood off your hands! A little brat begging to be punished!
MAO!!! [activates Geass] NEVER SPEAK AGAIN!!!
[Mao is overcome by Lelouch's command and is reduced to unintelligible babbling; Lelouch charges towards Mao and attempts to punch him, only to miss as Mao starts walking away]
[Mao exits the church and catches sight of C.C. standing in the courtyard]
[Mao babbles as he walks towards C.C.]
Mao, I want you to go and wait for me…in C's World. [puts a silenced pistol to Mao's neck and fires, killing him]
[Mao's corpse drops to the ground right before the church doors close; Lelouch looks back at a catatonic Suzaku]
Suzaku
I just… I just…
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