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[Kallen comes under attack by Suzaku while Gino duels a Geass-influenced Guilford]
Kallen. So, in the end, you chose the name "Kōzuki" over "Stadtfeld."
That's right, which means you and I do battle once again. So, should I be happy or sad about that, Gino?
[chuckles] Why don't we just enjoy it?
[Lelouch, still in shock over Nunnally's death, goes psychotic upon spotting the locket attached to Rolo's cell phone and snatches it from his hands]
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!
You need to make a choice, Nina. Do you abandon science to preserve your heart, or abandon your heart and sacrifice yourself to science?
How can I do either? Did you make such a choice, Professor Lloyd?
I didn't have to. I'm a sociopath; I was born with an abandoned heart.
Kallen, it's good you made it back. I'm sorry it took so long to get you out.
Lelouch, listen, when I was imprisoned, I happened to talk to Nunnally. She stood up for me and she saved me.
I see.
[The Black Knights put Zero and Kallen at gunpoint]
Surrender, Zero!
How dare you try to run a con game on us?
We know everything about your Geass power!
[Lelouch, under the mask, is horrified about what they know]
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?
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.
Wait a minute! This is all one-sided! Look at how far we've come because of Zero. At least let him answer!
You're in the way, Kallen!
Do you want to die with Zero?
Don't tell me he used his Geass on you, too?
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!
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.
Zero, so you really are...
Zero!
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.
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!
[After Rolo lands the Shinkirō, Lelouch asks him why he did what he did]
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.
[Lelouch places Rolo's cell phone with the attached locket in his now-lifeless hand]
Yes, you got it right. Your big brother…is just a liar.
[within the Sword of Akasha, Emperor Charles starts to set his grand plan into motion]
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.
[Emperor Charles turns around to face his wayward son]
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.
[Emperor Charles grunts in surprise as the Kamine Island Thought Elevator is bombed; the skies of the Sword of Akasha turn dark and flash lightning briefly]
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!
[In C's World, Lelouch finally sees his mother in real form]
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...
[Cut to the Britannian homeland, eight years ago...]
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!
[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.]
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!
IT WAS NECESSARY!!!
NECESSARY FOR WHAT?! What kind of parent does that?!
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?
[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.
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.
[Charles and C.C.'s Geass powers reveal the Sword of Akasha.]
[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?
What the hell?!
WHAT?! It can't be!
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!!!
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"!
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!!!
Ninety-ninth emperor Lelouch, who ascended to the throne only a few days ago, has ordered the destruction of the Imperial Mausoleum, which held the remains of past Britannian emperors. Following his abolition of the aristocracy and breaking up plutocratic cliches, and the liberation of the Numbers, Odysseus and other royals express support the new emperor despite these actions.
[Cornelia is discussing with Schneizel about the destruction of the Britannian capital city Pendragon.]
Yes? What about it?
You mean the people of Pendragon were...
I made them vanish. It was better for them than a life-swearing loyalty to Lelouch, wouldn't you say?
They're our own people! And you told Nunnally...
Lies are expedient. There's no need to tell Nunnally things that would get in the way of her opposition to Lelouch is there? She'll never know the difference.
You use everyone...even your own sister?
Cornelia, what is it that people truly want? Starvation and poverty? Discrimination and corruption? War and terrorism? They want the problems that are flooding the world to go away forever. People can't understand each other under these situations at all.
Your theories don't justify butchering civilians!
Even civilians who have rejected war depend on the police, don't they? Everyone knows, don't they, that people are driven by their own desires. The lust that dwells within the soul of man cannot be denied. [Schneizel pushes three buttons on a panel to have a world map appear on the monitor.] So why win hearts and minds or tout some shining ideology, why not bring peace to the world with system and power? In ten days, Damocles will enter the airspace of the United States of China and then switch over to a secondary acceleration. After that, we're scheduled to ascend three-hundred kilometers above the surface. From there, we will hit every enemy nation with F.L.E.I.J.A.s.
Are you insane?! We only agreed to use them against Lelouch! This will destroy the world! You're trying to control people through fear!
Mankind's history is war. Peace is an illusion. To turn illusion into reality is a arduous task. It requires discipline.
And you plan to discipline the entire human race all by yourself?! Only a god could pull that off!
Then I shall become a god. If that is what it takes to bring peace to the world.
You're deranged...[Diethard and Kanon enter.]
Magnificent! I knew I was right to change sides and support you! Surpassing Zero's chaos with a state of perfect nothingness and a kaleidoscopic transformation!
Prince Scneizel, we've made contact with the Black Knights. They say if you plan to kill Lelouch, they're willing to join immediately.
Thank you, Kanon. [At Cornelia] Those who've experienced Lelouch's tyranny firsthand will have no alternative but to choose the lesser of evils.
Is that why you stayed back and let Lelouch get away with this until now?!
It was a way to minimize the damage. But in the end, if we have to sacrifice one or two billion lives to achieve a state of permanent peace...
You're wrong! Peace obtained by force is not peace! [Draws her sword and charges at Schneizel. Schneizel snaps his fingers which activate a hidden machine gun which guns down Cornelia.]
This is so sad, Cornelia.
Schneizel, You knew but you kept the truth from me all this time, just so you can play this card at the right moment! Still the way that you shuffled the deck was more than artful...it was remarkable, and effective.
[Nunnally is refusing to give Lelouch the key to launch the F.L.E.I.J.A.s.]
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.
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!
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