The young Britannian Lelouch possesses two powers.
One of them is Geass,
the absolute power to compel anyone to do anything.
And the other is the Black Knights,
the military force he has assembled...
in order to destroy the Britannian Empire ruled by his father.
Using the code name of Zero, Lelouch has made his move,
seeking to avenge the death of his mother...
and also to create a world in which his younger sister Nunnally can be happy.
What will be the outcome of these actions?
At this time, nobody knows yet.
The moment when I might be able... Jibun wo sekai sae mo
To change myself and even the world Kaete shimae sou na shunkan wa
It's always right there at my side Itsumo sugu soba ni
Even as I stood still, looking at myself Kakusenu iradachi to
With undisguised frustration Tachitsukusu jibun wo mitsume
Feeling lost, feeling anguished Mayoi nagara nayami nagara
Feeling mournful, deciding what to do Kuyami nagara kimereba ii sa
All it took was a single word from you Kimi ga kureta kotoba hitotsu
And my uncertainty vanished Tomadoi wa kiesari
You let the light shine into what was my empty room Karappo datta boku no heya ni hikari ga sashita
The sky I had been looking up at... Miageta oozora ga
Cleared and turned blue Aoku sumikitte yuku
And I decided to throw open... Tozashita mado wo hiraku
The windows that were kept closed Koto kimeta
The moment when I might be able... Jibun wo sekai sae mo
To change myself and even the world Kaete shimae sou na shunkan wa
I feel it right here with me Kanjiru ima koko ni
REFRAIN
And it looks like they're finally beginning to get things cleaned up...
at the Lake Kawaguchi convention center hotel.
It's been over two weeks since! Ero announced the existence of the Black Knights,
and yet they still haven't found any definite evidence on him.
Didn't they track his escape route?
After the release of the hostages, they escaped using a rail line on the opposite shore.
Kallen... I mean, Young Mistress.
Forgive me for awakening you.
Again?
I'm sorry. This time, the step ladder broke.
Clean it up at once! I have to leave for school soon!
You've been attending school a lot, lately. Have you made any friends?
That's hardly any of your business!
Just go away... Please!
I know it's welfare, but it seems like a waste to give it to the Elevens.
Which is why I'm selling it to you, right?
Who cares? It'll be better to cut down the Eleven population a little.
I'll transfer your payment to your wife's account.
Princess Cornelia is a soldier.
This sort of thing doesn't interest her.
Light! Turn on the lights!
What's going on?!
Y- You're!
The Black Knights!
Um...
That's not like you, sleeping in class like that!
Well, you know...
Why not take some lessons from Lelouch?
He's an expert at sleeping in class.
He's asleep right now?
I dunno what he's up to, night after night, but he sleeps through half his classes now!
The E.U.'s starting an offensive along the El Alamein front.
We can't drag our feet here in Area 11 forever.
I want to solidify domestic affairs and then promote this place to a satellite Area.
For that, not only is wiping out terrorist organizations a priority,
but the rampant abuse of the drug Refrain...
among the Elevens is also a serious problem.
It's caused a serious drop in productivity.
We have to stamp out the Chinese Federation's Kyushu drug route here, understand?
Yes. Be careful.
And you, don't leave the settlement, okay?
Sister, about the Black Knights...
I'll let them swim free a bit longer.
I owe them that much for saving you.
But once I return...
Once I've cleaned up this area, I'll give it to you.
So don't think about these dangerous things.
All right, Euphy?
Because he was a child of the Britannian emperor.
That reminds me... You're also one of his children, aren't you?
But right now...
When he was talking to me... Was there more to what! Ero had to say?
Suzaku, what would you think about it?
About what! Ero is doing. And about me...
Man, living a double-life sure is tough.
C'mon, Suzaku! Hold him down!
Dammit, Suzaku! Cut it out!
Stop it! I demand that you stop!
Sorry, Lelouch, it's the president's orders.
I see you laughing at me!
Quit moving!
Morning, meow!
Good... morning.
What's this?
Didn't we mention this?
It's our welcome party for Arthur.
It's so peaceful here...
Enjoy life while we're still free to do it!
We've got your stuff ready, Kallen. Look.
To make up for all that weird stuff I said before. Which would you like?
What? Me, too?!
Kallen doesn't need one.
You already wear a mask.
Why don't you go on TV? I'd bet you'd be popular.
What do you think, Miss TV Star?
Yeah, she'd know best.
Would you quit joking about that?!
It's been a huge pain in the ass since all that!
We get followed around day and night with people asking questions!
Even in the bath, too!
We haven't been able to leave the school in a week.
I don't see why that means we can't leave the school, too!
Hmpf! That's the price of friendship!
"We ask not the same day of birth,
but we seek to die together. From The Romance of the Three Kingdoms."
Is that a proposal?
It's me saying We die together.
Man, she's mean! Don't you think so, Suzaku?
I'm glad.
I'm just glad we could all be together again like this.
What's with you! This place is for laughing, right?!
Still, that's what we like about Suzaku.
Although sometimes we wish he'd get a clue.
S-Sowwy 'bowt dat!
You think it's funny?
That's right. I helped to save everyone.
Ever since our spectacular introduction at the hotel jacking,
the Black Knights have taken the world by storm.
Just as! Ero had said in his proclamation,
the Black Knights have been the allies of the weak.
Terrorists who involve civilians, abusive soldiers, and even corrupt politicians.
Greedy corporations and criminal syndicates.
Evil which wasn't judged by the law was punished by us.
In the blink of an eye, we'd become heroes.
Our supporters have swelled and we've even gotten some Knightmares again.
Of course, this wasn't something people admitted to publically, because...
Stop pretending you're a Black Knight!
Why?!
We mustn't say anything against Britannia! We're Elevens, remember?!
It was because our leader ! ero had killed Prince Clovis.
And there are many among our comrades who want to know who he really is.
Myself included.
But I have a feeling that, if we pushed too hard, he'd disappear.
And without him, I think we'd be powerless.
You know, lately... I've hardly seen you.
Really?
Really.
Are you all right?
Why would the masses help those who saved Euphemia?
Even Kyoto has said they would send the Black Knights the Guren Mk-II.
To those would-be Robin Hoods?
They're not part of the resistance! Their killing Lt. Col. Kusakabe was proof of that!
The colonel killed himself, didn't he?
There are also rumors that they didn't try to stop him.
In any case, Lt. Col. Tohdoh, we can't let things stand.
Mistress Kallen! Mistress Kallen!
Ms. President?
I just wanted to give you something.
Where shall I show her to? The parlor, or perhaps the...
To my room.
As you wish.
Oh. When I heard it was a friend, I was positive it'd be a boy.
You come home in the morning and miss school,
not to mention going out to the ghettos, too.
You're lucky your father is back in the homeland.
There's no fighting one's blood, is there?
You're the one enjoying Dad's absence, aren't you?!
Oh, dear! What have I done? What have I done?!
What is wrong with you?!
Forgive me, milady! Forgive me!
Honestly, you're useless!
Only thing you're good at is selling your body!
You have quite a complicated home life, don't you?
What did you want to give me?
Oh, my granddad asked me to give you this.
The school principal?
Your school transcripts since middle school.
I thought it'd be best not to give them to you at school.
So, you know my secret, then.
That I'm a Britannian-Eleven half-breed.
That woman before was my stepmother.
My real mother was that idiot maid who knocked over the vase.
Your father... Is he the head of the Stadtfeld family?
My mother's such a fool.
In the end, she's just treated as a servant.
She can't do any important jobs,
and no matter how they insult her, all she can do is laugh like it's nothing.
She didn't have to specifically work in this house, did she?
Basically, she's just hanging on to her old lover!
You hate your mother?
She just depresses me.
My, this conversation has turned so heavy!
Imagine, the wife, the daughter, and the "other woman," all living together.
No, it's not like that.
We can all have a decent life here for free.
The situation isn't quite... unbearable.
Oh?
Still, while some things you can bear on their own,
when you pile them all up, they eventually break you.
Relax. I know I like to know peoples' secrets,
but I have no interest in telling anyone about this.
CODE GEASS Lelouch of the Rebellion
Crying, like you were before... How embarrassing!
Call it me being honest.
Well, it was a good thing everyone was saved. Thanks to the Black Knights.
If they wanted to catch criminals, they could have joined the police.
Why don't they do that?
Probably because they don't think the police can do it. Cops... Right!
The police may not be effective now, but they could change them from within!
And in the process of changing it, they end up tangled in all sorts of restrictions.
They only get to say that after they at least make the effort to change it!
As long as they don't, all their talk is just being self-righteous!
Self-righteous?
And what exactly are they declaring wrong?
We don't know what standard they base that on!
It's just one-sided self-satisfaction!
Oh? Just you two?
Well then, I've got to go back to the base. See you, Shirley.
See you!
So, Lulu! I was wondering...
I was wondering, if you had the time, maybe we could...
He said he had to go back to the base.
Go back... Implying that's where he thinks he belongs.
Refrain?
It's a narcotic. Specifically, it makes you feel like you've gone back to the past.
Sounds like a hot seller, especially to Japanese people.
Everyone gets nostalgic for the days before Britannia occupied Japan.
It's a drug specifically targeted at the Japanese.
We can't just ignore it.
We'll move as soon as we get the Burais resupplied.
We're getting more supplies and I hear lots of people want to join us.
The Black Knights are popular, aren't they?
Well, we are knights of justice.
I'll contact you again once the ammunition arrives.
C'mon, Eleven! Say something!
C'mon, apologize! Apologize!
Bowing your heads is what you Elevens do best, right?!
Eleven...
Lelouch!
There're five of them. You'd never win.
So I should just ignore it?!
Look carefully at the Eleven they're beating up.
Suppose we help him and he manages to win.
Starting tomorrow, he wouldn't be able to sell anything here.
He decided on his own to be a slave to the Britannians.
That's the price for working in the settlement.
Even so!
You got a problem over there?
Feeling sorry for that Eleven?
Nah, they want to join in, don't they?
Hardly.
But you're tired of bullying Elevens now, aren't you?
Yeah, this sucks.
Wanna go to the arcade?
I got no cash!
Easily bored, aren't they?
Are you all right?
A Britannian student!
Wh-What can I get for you? How about a nice California Dog?
Is this your boyfriend?! I'd be glad to get something for him, too!
I have ice cream, if you like.
In a way, Area 11 is better compared with the old Japan.
Thanks to its being brought into the Britannian colonization areas,
its military and economic affairs have become markedly more stable.
Elevens can even get full citizenship.
If they follow the right legal procedures, they can become honorary Britannians, can't they?
Beyond that, it's just a question of pride.
Well, I can understand why they'd value that feeling.
And?
Hm?
Knowing all that,
what does Lelouch Lamperouge think about it? What do you want to do?
Nothing, really.
You know, you seem smart, but you don't use your brains.
Shirley's always sighing about that.
She says you're so smart, but never make an effort at anything.
That's why I don't do anything.
Even that Eleven we saw before would understand.
How he can live a better life as long as he keeps bowing to the Britannians.
You think you're so damned cool, don't you?!
Just playing critic as you view the world from the side?!
I was a fool to expect anything more from you.
I thought you were a better man than this!
About that Orange thing from before.
Sorry to bring it up.
Is it true you can't remember anything about when Suzaku Kururugi was taken from us?
I don't expect you to believe me.
No, it's just... During the Shinjuku incident,
I also got a blank in my memory.
What?
When I regained my senses, my Sutherland had been stolen.
But right before the hole in my memory, I recall running into a boy wearing a student uniform.
You think the student did it?
I can't remember his face, but it may be worth checking into.
What the hell is that Zero guy thinking?!
After all that talk about bringing down Britannia,
all we do now is help the cops out!
Still, it doesn't feel bad having people being grateful to us.
Yeah, yeah. We're heroes on the Net, you know.
We're doing the right thing, aren't we?
Kallen...
There's the signal from Zero!
How'd he get in?
Using whatever trick he always uses.
You finished packing the stuff for Nagoya?
It's so safe here inside the settlement, huh?
The Black Knights have arrived!
Intruders!
A Knightmare!
Aw, hell no!
Are you kidding me?!
These Knightmares really are amazing. Even one is practically unstoppable!
Japan! Japan!
Yes! I'm getting married next month!
I've been promoted! I'm going to the Paris office!
You'll go with me to see the fireworks next week, won't you?!
Leave it to me! Japan's technology is the best in the world, isn't it?!
Refrain...
It's all set! I'm studying abroad! I did it!
When you pile them all up, they eventually break you.
That's right, which is why I'm!
Careful! Careful! It's dangerous to run like that!
Mother?!
Naoto, really! You have to keep an eye on Kallen!
How weak a woman are you?!
You gave in to the Britannians, to a man, now to drugs?!
Big brother's gone! Just stop this!
A Knight police?!
Isn't that a police unit?!
Working with them?! Tamaki!
I dunno! When I checked things out, I was sure that...
So corrupt!
You're in the way!
Why?! I don't want you, but!
I don't want you, but!
Kallen... Naoto...
Against a Knightmare!
Run for it...
Run, you idiot!
I'm here for you.
Kallen, I'll always be here for you!
That's why... That's why you stayed working in that house?!
For that?! Oh, you idiot!
The real idiot... was me.
Kallen!
I'm so happy for you, Kallen. You can be a Britannian now.
Now no one will ever hurt you.
You're free to use the phone and even travel.
That was... her mother?
False tears bring pain to others.
A false smile brings pain to yourself.
It's an aftereffect of the drug. She can't talk much.
She'll recover eventually, but she needs time.
They sentenced you. 20 years...
Just wait! I'll try to change it all for when you come back!
I'll make a world where you and I can live together normally...
So, please... Please!
Hang in there...
Hang in there, Kallen... My daughter...
I will!
I'll do my best!
Walking along the animal path Yukedomo kemonomichi
Roaring with the lions and tigers Shishi yo tora yo to hoe
Paradise lying far across a sky dyed red Akane sasu sora no kanata ni mahoroba
To a youth wandering, imprisoned in loneliness Yuushuu no kodoku ni samayou seishun wa
Are weakness and hatred shapeless enemies? Yowasa to ikari ga sugata naki teki desu ka
Oh father, I am still... Chichi yo mada ware wa
Learning who I am Onore wo shirigatashi
As I pursue the backs I no longer see Sakidatsu anira no
Of the elder brothers who have gone before me Mienai senaka wo oeba
In the night I spend lost Mayoi no hitoyo ni
The morning star beckons to me Myoujou wa izanau
This will not end in my death Shi shite owaranu
I long for my dream Yume wo kogaredomo
My faith in you sustains my life Tashika na kimi koso waga inochi
In the windswept wilderness Reppu no kouya de
Living with the butterflies and flowers Chou yo hana yo to iki
Blooming together in a mirage of eternal Spring Tokoshie no haru ni sakisou maboroshi
If my purity seems muddied Kondaku no junketsu
And my body seems filthy Kono mi wa yogoretemo
Please believe in the finery within my heart Kokoro no nishiki wo shinjiteite kudasai
Oh mother, I will show no tears Haha yo kesshite ware wa namida wo misene domo
They vanish like... Ashimoto no
The dew in the grass beneath my feet Kusa ni tsuyu wa kiemosede
Memories of the past?
Those who can indulge in them are happy.
Because they believe that tomorrow will definitely come.
But who promised that?
If Kallen is trying to move beyond that, then it's right to believe in her.
That's right. All we can do is live for the moment.
GUREN DANCES That's right. All we can do is live for the moment.