"500)}Holy Britannian Empire" " Homeland" "The..." "The capital Pendragon's been annihilated?" "!" "Is it really true?" "!" "Looks like it was a F.L.E.I.J.A. warhead." "The thing that wiped out the Tokyo settlement?" "Was it an accident?" "But I've heard all the F.L.E.I.J.A. s they manufactured are gone." "Stop spreading wild stories!" "it's imprudent to discuss the capital's destruction!" "I'm afraid it's true." "What?" "!" "You!" "Please..." "Take me to Master Lelouch!" "Sekai no owari de {\cH00FF00}At the end of the world" "Umareta hikari {\cH00FF00}The light that's born" "Ima kaze no naka {\cH00FF00}Now blows in the wind" "Kireigoto dake jaa ikirenai {\cH00FF00}Pretty words alone won't sustain you" "Yasashisa dake jaa iyasenai {\cH00FF00}Kindness alone won't heal you" "Ubawareta nowa nanda {\cH00FF00}What is it that was stolen from you" "Kawaranai sekai de {\cH00FF00}In this unchanging world" "Kikoetekita nowa nanda {\cH00FF00}What is it that you hear" "Shikisai no uta {\cH00FF00}A song of color" "{\cH00FF00\fs85}Everything is bright..." "Kudakechitta yume wo {\cH00FF00}Let our crumbled dreams resound" "Asu no hate ni hibikaseru you ni {\cH00FF00}At the edge of tomorrow" "Sekai no owari de {\cH00FF00}At the end of the world" "Umareta hikari {\cH00FF00}The light that's born" "Bokura hitotsu ni {\cH00FF00}Becomes one with us" "Ima kaze no naka {\cH00FF00}Now blows in the wind" "768)}SCHNEIZEL'S GUISE" "N-Nunnally..." "You're still alive!" "thanks to Brother Schneizel." "Schneizel..." "Nunnally..." "Do you understand what Schneizel has done?" "with a F.L.E.I.J.A. warhead." "then why?" "!" "Are you saying using Geass is better?" "!" "haven't you?" "You've kept the truth from me all this time." "But I found out." "weren't you?" "then I..." "For your sake?" "I see my little sister is as presumptuous as ever!" "Do you think it's natural for people to always help you out of pity?" "All you do is criticize the actions of others while your own hands remain undirtied." "You are the very embodiment of the aristocracy which I have rejected." "You... don't..." "I do this for no one!" "It is for my own benefit that I take the world! I have no choice but to crush you without mercy!" "Big brother!" "Nunnally?" "That must have been hard for you." "I thought showing him the power of the F.L.E.I.J.A. would lead him to surrender." "Schneizel..." "Are the people of Pendragon really all right?" "You needn't worry." "We gave warning for them to evacuate beforehand." "but we tried to minimize it." "right?" "we will." "Brother Schneizel... please?" "I can't fight or protect anything myself." "at the very least..." "I want this sin to be on my shoulders." "may I have a word with you?" "why didn't you know about Nunnally?" "!" "I'm not a god." "I can't know about anyone unconnected to Geass." "Schneizel!" "You kept the truth from me all this time!" "Just so you could play this card when the time was right!" "the way you shuffled your deck was extraordinary!" "So masterfully..." "So masterfully!" "Lelouch." "Our strategic objective remains unchanged." "We can't stop this just because Nunnally is still alive!" "then?" "!" "Remember your promise!" "Suzaku!" "I am his sword." "I rid him of his enemies and his own weakness." "you must become his shield!" "Protecting him is your duty." "That's only what you think." "isn't he?" "huh? the one used on Pendragon had ten times the effective range." "then..." "They've removed the limiter from it." "I'm sure of it." "Removing the effective range and detonation time limiter... how could you?" "What about it?" "You mean the people of Pendragon were!" "I made them vanish." "isn't it?" "you told Nunnally..." "Lies are expedient." "No need to tell Nunnally anything... is there?" "Brother?" "what is it that people wish for?" "Starvation and poverty." "Discrimination and corruption." "War and terrorism." "They wish for the problems flooding the world to go away." "People desperately cannot understand each other." "And so... but to do this to the civilians!" "Yes... don't they?" "Everyone understands that crime cannot be stopped... because people can't help the desires they have." "That's why we don't need to win hearts or use ideology." "Why not bring peace to the world using a system backed by force?" "Damocles will enter the airspace of the United States of China... and then switch over to secondary acceleration." "we're scheduled to ascend to 300 kilometers above the surface." "we will hit every warmongering nation with F.L.E.I.J.A.s." "Wait!" "Shouldn't they be used to defeat Lelouch?" "!" "This will devastate the world!" "You're going to control people through fear?" "!" "Peace is an illusion." "Mankind's history is one of war." "Is not discipline what is needed to make an illusion reality?" "And you plan to teach that lesson to the entire human race?" "!" "Only God can get away with something like that!" "Then I shall become a God." "If that is what people want me to become to give them peace." "You..." "Magnificent!" "I knew I was right to come with you! followed by a kaleidoscopic transformation!" "we've made contact with the Black Knights." "they're willing to help." "Thank you." "The masses who suffer Lelouch's tyranny will have no choice... but to cling to something slightly better." "Are you saying that's why you've let Lelouch get away with this until now?" "!" "It was the way to minimize the damage." "for a permanent peace..." "You're wrong!" "Peace given by force is no peace!" "Cornelia." "Schneizel had another escape plane as a decoy during the battle for Tokyo." "And so..." "Then the plane destroyed by the F.L.E.I.J.A. was the decoy." "He's trying to use Miss Nunnally to control Master Lelouch!" "aren't you?" "Why come to Master Lelouch instead of the Black Knights?" "don't you?" "Perhaps you're right." "even in front of Nunnally." "the answer is always the same." "That the conclusion I made then wasn't wrong." "haven't you done enough?" "You've done well." "don't you?" "people will become lifeless symbols." "But Nunnally is aboard Damocles." "All you've done has been for her sake." "I can't treat her differently anymore." "for the sake of all those who have died." "C.C.?" "Lelouch." "You sure you want to be fighting with us?" "you know." "Right now..." "I understand your feelings just a little bit." "Um..." "You're welcome." "I beg your pardon? their internal administration has been paralyzed. they can't make any false moves." "the only force Lelouch can send against us here... is just the division he brought to reoccupy Japan." "this balance of power can collapse at any time." "the time to confront him is now!" "our forces are evenly matched. but uniting the world has priority here." "This battle..." "This battle is a showdown with control of the world at stake!" "then there will be none left to stand in our way!" "The world shall be destroyed... true emperor of Britannia!" "Smash them!" "Smash Schneizel!" "Smash the enemy!" "Smash the sky fortress Damocles!" "We have nothing to fear!" "My name is the future of this world!" "All hail Lelouch!" "Lelouch spreads malice over the entire world." "he must be wiped out." "I want us and the Black Knights to throw off the fetters of the past and join forces here!" "The people of the world are waiting!" "For our song of victory!" "And I pray that this is the last war that mankind need ever fight!" "Lelouch..." "I'll make both of you into recordings." "Are you sure Anya will be all right?" "but..." "We need every bit of battle strength we have." "So... too." "Schneizel." "now is the time." "ready to use." "F.L.E.I.J.A.s?" "I wonder if you'd dare to fire them." "Considering I have the U.F.N. representatives aboard the Avalon with me." "He's hiding behind the hostages?" "!" "I can't believe he'd go this far!" "however..." "Lelouch." "They're a small price to pay for world peace." "Schneizel!" "I heard the U.F.N. members have elected substitute representatives." "We're ready for the worst." "But that doesn't mean their lives are to be thrown away!" "the only power we have aside from Damocles is a single Mordred." "please." "We're facing Lelouch!" "Have no fear." "I've never lost to Lelouch even once." "Understood." "Deploy the Shen Hu." "Transmit the command structure to all forces!" "sir!" "Then shall we have at each other?" "Indeed." "just as you predicted." "Yes." "Now the Black Knights are yours to command." "Transmit pattern Sigma to all forces." "Enemy forces deploying into a wide-field aerial formation." "He's coming at me with conventional tactics?" "Good." "Stretch our left wing!" "Assume Half-Moon Arhat formation!" "Your Majesty!" "The enemy's main unit is undermanned." "Have Gino's unit advance." "Keep the enemy's left wing from extending!" "Your Highness!" "huh?" "Move our left wing back!" "That will break our formation!" "Very well!" "halt your advance!" "Why?" "We should strike now while their formation is breaking." "He's baiting us with an opening." "I'm not taking it." "huh?" "Switch main battle plan to Big Dipper formation!" "elevation 40 degrees!" "prep for anti-air combat!" "stop there and climb 200 meters!" "What the hell!" "Nobody's fighting at all!" "You're wrong." "A battle between two masters is decided in an instant." "An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." "We have to hurry." "The battle's already begun." "They're surrounding us!" "Counterattack!" "Reinforce the front line with Suzaku's Lancelot!" "Hold at combat speed 4!" "Send Ward's unit out as well!" "Lelouch." "You like to attack more than defend." "Which leaves me a small window of opportunity." "Xing-ke?" "has he?" "advancing!" "Give no quarter!" "Live up to His Majesty's confidence in us!" "this all will end!" "If we break the line here and turn this into a free-for-all!" "They're breaking through!" "We're being cut up..." "Shall I recall Suzaku?" "that's what Schneizel wants us to do." "Withdraw the battle line!" "Regroup our forces!" "Enemy fleet falling back." "Don't lose this chance!" "Press the attack!" "you're too far out!" "Match pace with us and we'll surround them!" "but!" "the Avalon will be left isolated!" "destroyed!" "They're breaking through!" "are they?" "as for my own troops..." "For His Majesty!" "It's heartbreaking." "Seeing soldiers controlled by Geass." "Therefore!" "I suppose now is the time." "Smash both wings." "set!" "Move squad 7 out of the firing angle!" "synched." "Ready to fire!" "Target both enemy wings." "Fire!" "we can defeat you!" "It seems Lelouch underestimated the Black Knights." "Lelouch!" "now." "Dammit!" "right below us!" "What?" "!" "Impossible..." "He timed this to?" "!" "All forces!" "Raise radiant shields!" "Zero!" "I was the one who first recognized Zero's..." "Lelouch's leadership." "That's why this is my responsibility." "But I don't want a new life caught up in this. but I want you stay here on Horai Island." "please respond!" "Minami!" "Rakshata!" "It..." "It can't be!" "He used the sakuradite in the mine?" "This has destroyed Lelouch's ground forces as well." "I was careless!" "That's Lelouch's basic tactic." "But how can he sacrifice his own forces?" "!" "This has left the enemy's strength nearly depleted." "That leaves Damocles..." "For us to hit!" "it's you who have been checked here." "targeting is complete." "we must use F.L.E.I.J.A.'s power." "Y-Yes..." "I will wipe away big brother's sins!" "Incoming!" "It's a F.L.E.I.J.A.!" "here's where he's fired it." "Special equipment division 3!" "Your Majesty!" "It's useless." "The F.L.E.I.J.A. went critical the moment it was fired from Damocles." "charge at Damocles." "Make them keep firing F.L.E.I.J.A. s until they exhaust their stock!" "Ohgi!" "Ohgi!" "Ohgi!" "Is this any time to be playing dead?" "!" "I..." "I don't believe it." "You two shielded us?" "though." "You're on your own now." "Kallen!" "look who's giving orders now." "I calculate his remaining F.L.E.I.J.A.s... put me at a one-move disadvantage." "Meaning I have to depend on Nina now." "Can she do it?" "I know she hates me." "Euphy's murderer." "to defeat Schneizel... you've reached the end of the line." "For a man who has not mastered the use of a mask can never prevail." "Dakuse wa oni {\cH00FF00}This corrupt world is filled with demons" "Seigi wa nanzo to {\cH00FF00}What is justice?" "don't just question" "Akutoku no hana {\cH00FF00}The flower of evil" "Gizen no yume {\cH00FF00}Dreams of hypocrisy" "Mishi me niwa me wo sashi {\cH00FF00}Give your gaze to the eyes that see them" "Sei mo ja mo wakatareru koto nashi {\cH00FF00}The line between right and wrong cannot be known" "and you slumber" "Kimi wa nemuru yami no shikyuu {\cH00FF00}Like an unborn child in the womb of darkness" "Kodoku koso itooshii {\cH00FF00}Isolation is what you love" "Yui-itsu no mikata to naru darou {\cH00FF00}It will probably be your only ally stained with the tide of blood" "Kono jidai ni umare ochita {\cH00FF00}You were born into this era chosen princes" "Tatakai koso shukuen {\cH00FF00}Battle shall be your banquet" "I am graceful omniscience" "Ai no haha {\cH00FF00}The loving mother" "Kimi wo umu {\cH00FF00}Who bore you" "Kono chichi ni hagukumishi mono wa {\cH00FF00}The ones who were raised on my breast" "Jigoku no harakara {\cH00FF00}Are your brethren in hell" "Mokushi no in {\cH00FF00}The mark of apocalypse" "Shinri wa nanzo to {\cH00FF00}What is truth" "Shirimosezu uzumoreshi intoku no tane {\cH00FF00}A seed of secrecy buried where no one knows" "Moroha no ken {\cH00FF00}A double-edged sword" "Nuku ha niwa ha wo muke {\cH00FF00}Turn its blade upon the unsheathed blade" "Mamorubeki mono dake wo shinjite {\cH00FF00}Believe only in what you must protect" "Aru ga mama ni kimi wa {\cH00FF00}And in your own way" "Kimi wo hanate {\cH00FF00}You'll set yourself free" "there's nothing we can't accomplish." "but now..." "The fearsomeness of Schneizel." "it's his lack of personal desires. and is determined to achieve his goal?" "Can no tactic work now on a battlefield dominated by F.L.E.I.J.A.?" "one final card to play." "And it lies within Schneizel's own heart." "650)}THE GRIP OF DAMOCLES"