[Lelouch and Guilford are about to start their Knightmare Frame duel while C.C. and Xingke observe from the Chinese Federation consulate]
I have a question for you, Lord Guilford. What do you do when there is an evil you cannot defeat by just means? Do you stain your hands with evil to destroy evil, or do you remain steadfastly just and righteous even if it means surrendering to evil?
C.C.In either case, evil remains.
A paradox. Is it merely wordplay?
GGuilford
In the name of Cornelia, I choose justice! [charges at Lelouch's Burai with his Gloucester]
I understand. In my case, I commit evil to destroy the greater evil!
What is Geass? I wan't the truth.
How strange. A child who's wrapped himself in lies desires the truth from others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[Lelouch, shaken significantly by the reappearance of Emperor Charles, returns to his quarters, where C.C. attempts to offer him one last slice of pizza]
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--
[Lelouch attacks C.C. in a fit of rage, shattering the plate she's carrying and sending her to the floor; he then relents as he sees her bleeding from a large cut on her finger]
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.
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.
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.
C.C.
I'm right? A friend will stand by your side?
Exactly right. A friend is always there.
[In C's World, Lelouch finally sees his mother in real form]
MMarianne
My, Lelouch. How you've grown.
Marianne, I see you've come.
Is this an illusion?! You're doing this?
MMarianne
No, it really is me, Lelouch. However, I can only take on my original appearance while I'm present within this system.
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.
MMarianne
Both C.C. and I agreed to this as well. V.V., however...
[Cut to the Britannian homeland, eight years ago...]
MMarianne
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.
MMarianne
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.
PGPersonal Guard
Lady Marianne!
MMarianne
I told you to stay out of here!
[V.V. pulls out a rifle and shoots Marianne and the guards repeatedly, killing them all.]
[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.
[A young Anya Alstreim hides behind the pillar, staring at the wounded Marianne.]
MMarianne
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.
[Back to the present...]
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!
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.
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.]
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.
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.]
[Mao's plan to blow up Nunnally has been thwarted by Lelouch and Suzaku's combined efforts]
You think you've beat me, huh?!
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!
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!
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]
C.C.
I did love you, Mao.
[Mao babbles as he walks towards C.C.]
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]
[Lelouch arrives where Princess Cornelia is badly injured]
So, you were Zero... The entire time. Darlton was right, he said it was someone with a grudge against the Britannian Imperial Family. You... You did this.. For Nunnally?
Correct. I will demolish the present world and build a new and better one in its place.
You killed them all for the sake of that madness?! Clovis?! Even Euphie?!
You're one to talk, my dear sister. Considering how you idolized my mother, Marianne the Flash.
It would seem that talking with you further... would approve to be utterly pointless.
Indeed? Well then, Lelouch vi Britannia orders you to answer him.
[Lelouch used his Geass on Cornelia]
Sister, are you the one who killed my mother?
But you were put in charge of her personal guard, were you not?
Then why did you withdraw her escort?
Mother did... That's impossible! My mother knew she will be attacked that day?! No, that can't! She did. She would've got us out of there! What really happened back then?! Who killed her?! Who killed my mother, damn it?!
[Cornelia doesn't answer]
You don't know the truth?! Then who does?! Someone must know, you yourself investigated of what occurred that day!
I remembered His Majesty, the emperor, ordered Schneizel to transport the body out of there.
The body? You mean there are others? Then what was in that coffin?
C.C.
Hey! Get back in here!
I know, the Government Bureau Defense Forces will be here soon.
C.C.
No! Your little sister's been kidnapped!
Hmm? C.C., this is not the time for jokes. We'll take Cornelia back to the command center as our hostage.
C.C.
She's been taken! I just know because she's the reason you live! She's on Kamine Island!
[Lelouch is preparing to take Cornelia prisoner and leave with C.C. when Jeremiah barges in with the Siegfried]
ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!!! Mister Zero, can it really be?! What?! Oh, what luck, what fate, what evil fortune!
Is that you, Orange Boy?!
[stammers] Oh, I beseech you! I'm begging you, please die.
C.C.
I'm already on it!
Zero! I…must rid the world of the Empire's enemies! Yes, and so…ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!!!
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