02x21 - The Ragnarök Connection

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You woke up too soon.

C. C!

What are you doing here?

I get the feeling
it's not to help Charles out.

Anya... What are you?

At the moment, I'm Marianne.
Lelouch and Nunnally's mother.

At the end of the world
Sekai no owari de

The light that's born
Umareta hikari

Now blows in the wind
Ima kaze no naka

Pretty words alone won't sustain you
Kireigoto dake jaa ikirenai

Kindness alone won't heal you
Yasashisa dake jaa iyasenai

What is it that was stolen from you
Ubawareta nowa nanda

In this unchanging world
Kawaranai sekai de

What is it that you hear
Kikoetekita nowa nanda

A song of color
Shikisai no uta

Everything is bright

Let our crumbled dreams resound
Kudakechitta yume wo

At the edge of tomorrow
Asu no hate ni hibikaseru you ni

At the end of the world
Sekai no owari de

The light that's born
Umareta hikari

Becomes one with us
Bokura hitotsu ni

Now blows in the wind
Ima kaze no naka

THE RAGNAROK CONNECTION

Yeah, I'm about to tell Lady Kaguya and
Field Marshal Xing-ke what the situation is.

I don't know if they're
going to understand or not.

The one clear thing
we've got to do is-

I know. Zero can't be
allowed to live now, can he?

I have to find out
for sure from Lelouch.

If I don't, I...
I'll never be able to move on.

Now then, since we
have plenty of time...

Will you answer me?
Who was it that k*lled Mother?

Why didn't you protect her?

How strange.
You seek the truth from someone.

You, who has only
made it this far by lying.

That's true.
I've been lying all along.

Not just my name
and personal history.

I've hidden every aspect
of my true intentions.

But that's common sense, isn't it?

People need to play
along with each other.

We melt into a place.

If you didn't, nations and peoples...
These things called communities wouldn't exist.

Everyone uses lies.

To family, to friends, to society.

Everyone has a different face.

But is that a sin?

What is one's true face?

Even you wear the mask
of being the emperor.

Neither of us can take a step now
without our respective personas.

You're wrong.

When it is understood that lies are
meaningless in the face of eternity,

personas will vanish.

When we understand each other,
conflict will disappear.

That's impractical
metaphysical claptrap.

It will soon be reality.

That is my Ragnarok Connection.

The world will discard these masks
called deceit, revealing the truth.

Cs' World?

To use existing terminology,
it's the collective unconscious.

A collective of peoples'
minds with memories.

The sea of transmigration.
The great consciousness.

Some people refer to it as God.

Was that what I saw
when we met at Narita?

There, it was mixed with your
personal consciousness.

Even saying that,
I don't know what you saw.

How irresponsible.

Do you like letting others
peep into your mind?

What we call people are masks
worn by the collective unconscious.

They're windows which open into the sea of
minds and memories. Peoples' minds are...

Forget it. It's too wrecked for me to do.
C.C., could you please?

You're really going in?

Of course!
Charles is waiting for us, after all.

It would have been so easy
if you'd given your Code to him.

Oh... I'll go first.

What are you doing?!

Suzaku Kururugi...
We're similar, you and I.

Similar?

In the way we both wish to die,
and yet cannot.

Prince Schneizel...
and the Black Knights?!

Stay alive, Lelouch!

There's something
I still need to ask you!

It... It can't be!

You've grown so much, Lelouch!

M-Mother?!

So, you've come, Marianne.

Is this another illusion?!
You'd do this?!

No. It's really me.

Although I can only take my
original appearance in this system.

Really you?

Lelouch, I'll answer your
previous question now.

Half a century ago,
my elder brother and I were in hell.

Our relatives were all rivals
competing for the throne.

Assassinations became a daily occurrence.
Day after day of betrayals spawned by lies.

All of them were dying.

Even my mother fell victim to it.

My brother and I were saddened
and angered by the world.

And so we swore an oath.

To create a world without lies.

Both C.C. And I agreed to that pledge.
V.V., however...

EIGHT YEARS AGO...

EIGHT YEARS AGO...
So, why the urgent call?

So, why the urgent call?

I've cleared everyone out of here.

I've even had Cornelia withdraw.

Sorry to do this
without Charles around.

Is this about the Sword of Akasha?

Hm? Oh, no. It's about Charles.

Charles has changed
ever since he met you.

It's as if you both enjoy learning
more and more about each other.

If this goes on, the contract
we made will never be fulfilled.

I'll be left alone.

Since the days of myth, it's always
the woman who leads the man astray.

Lady Marianne.

I told you to stay out of here!

It's done.

Right. Begin the cover-up.

Maybe we can make Nunnally
out to be the witness.

We have to make it look like
this was the work of t*rrorists.

Anya Alstreim...

The young girl who came here a
week ago to be schooled in etiquette.

My Geass power was to cross
over into another person's mind.

It activated for the first time
as my body was dying.

I hid inside of Anya and
saved myself from V.V.'s plan.

You see, I realized.

Realized that when I surfaced my
consciousness, I could speak to C.C.'s mind.

Once she knew the truth,
C.C. Left the directorship to V. V...

and then disappeared.

I talked to my brother
about it, however...

I heard.
It's too bad about Marianne.

My brother lied to me!

After we had sworn to create
a world without lies!

How dare you! Don't try to pass
off blame for this on the dead!

After you sent Nunnally
and me to Japan as hostages...

It was necessary!

Necessary for what?! What kind of
parent sends his own children away?!

Anyone you really don't want to
lose should be kept at a distance.

Milly, when the sun rises, I'd like to get a
sh*t with ground zero in the background.

Gotcha.

Sorry about this.
We'll have some relief coming...

from Niigata and Nagayo by
afternoon, so hang in there.

I'm okay.

We're suppressing the rebel forces with
the help of the Black Knights, but...

Hm? Is there something else?

Just how much do you know,
Prince Schneizel?

How frightening!
What are you referring to?

I used Lelouch.

Knowing the truth all the time,
I made his survival a priority...

to bring my own death to fruition.

Any regrets?

Hardly. I'm an immortal witch.

I abandoned my
humanity long ago.

We aren't alike at all.

C.C., send me to the otherworld.

Even if you call me a fool,
I can't just stand here doing nothing!

That's right. I sent you both 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 might return to it.

It was necessary to rewrite the
memories of Anya and Nunnally...

to make them false witnesses.

Nunnally? You mean her blindness
isn't psychosomatic, but!

Even as a false witness, there was
still the danger that she'd be k*lled.

To protect Nunnally, proof that was
nowhere close to the truth was necessary.

The original plan only
called for one immortal Code,

but for research to progress,
we needed another Code.

In short, without C.C., we didn't have
a % guarantee that it would work.

When Marianne was unable to persuade
C.C. To help us, we were forced to use you.

Then... What was the point
of me doing this?

Once the Ragnarok Connection is made, there
will be no more need for these sorts of tragedies.

The mask will vanish.
Everyone can be exactly who they are.

I see.

The battle between Britannia
and the Black Knights...

It was all to lure out C.C.

So, from the very beginning, I was just a nuisance.
Meaningless noise in this world.

What do you two think of all this?

So, you noticed I had appeared.

You're back to normal now.
It's necessary for this plan, isn't it?

Exactly. Therefore, there's no sense
in your coming here as well, Kururugi.

I'm sure. I heard you
were already immortal.

That's why there's something
I want to know for sure.

The reason you made this thing.

That's right. It's for what
Euphy and Nunnally want.

A gentle world.

Yes... Now I see.

C.C., now that we are all here,
the plan can commence.

I shall grant your wish
after it's done.

What?!

Where am I?

All over the world?

Yes.

Bismarck?

His Majesty's plan must
be coming to fruition.

If His Majesty's wish comes true, he said you
may govern the world that's left. However...

He'd like you to understand that the
meaning of politics will have changed.

Oh, it's beginning!
The Sword of Akasha is slaying God!

Now, once our marks become one,
the new world will begin!

Lelouch, why did you
want to control the world?

Don't waste my time with obvious
questions. It was for Nunnally.

Are you using
Nunnally as an excuse?

You're right. I've fought to protect
everything I thought I wanted to protect.

To that end,
you need to do something.

The means to that end
require me to reject something.

Which means...

Right. I...

I reject you and your ideas!

Why do people lie?

It's not just to struggle
against each other!

It's because they seek something!

A world where it's all right for
everything to stay as it is will stagnate!

You can't call that life!

It's the equivalent of
a world of memories!

A closed and completed world.
One I wouldn't want to live in!

Lelouch, are you saying
you reject me, as well?

Is your wish the same as
the emperor's, Mother?

It will be good to rejoin all the
people who have been split apart.

You can be reunited with those
who have d*ed. Even Euphemia.

Just as I thought.

You both think that will be a good thing.

But you're forcing those
good intentions on others!

And that's no different
than evil intentions!

People will come
to accept it in time.

That time will never come!

Only one thing is certain.

Perhaps what you did to Nunnally
and me was out of good intentions,

but the fact remains
that you abandoned us!

It was to protect you!

Then why didn't you stop the w*r
between Japan and Britannia?!

You both put such a priority on the plan that
it didn't matter if we were alive or dead.

That's why you abandoned us!
All you have left are self-serving excuses!

That's not true!

You just said it!
The dead will rejoin the living!

You don't care
about the future!

The future is
the Ragnarok Connection!

Once it's done, the gentle world
Nunnally spoke of will be...

No! The world you spoke of
will be gentle only for you!

But the world Nunnally wants is one where
even strangers can be kind to each other!

He may be right.

At the very least, Euphy never said that
Lelouch was Zero, right up to the end.

Even Shirley didn't!
That's why I!

Even if that's true,
what of it?

The Ragnarok Connection
has already begun!

You think so? I am Zero!

The man who works miracles!

Your Geass won't work on me,
nor on anyone else here!

No, there's someone
else here, isn't there?

That's right! Cs' World is the
consciousness of mankind!

And all men are not equal!
Both statements are your words!

And you know my power works
because of that inequality!

Lelouch, you're a fool!

The power of the king
cannot defeat God!

I don't intend to defeat God!
This is a request!

That's right!
Now, I know who I really am!

God! Collective unconscious!

Please, don't stop the march of time!

Lelouch, you ungrateful child...

Nobody wanted this!
Not even Euphy!

I saved you so that you
could talk to Euphy again!

Meaning you were
going to force me to!

You can't do it! Not God!
Not all of humanity itself!

Even so, what I want...
IS THE FUTURE!

It can't be!

The Thought Elevator!

It's crumbling... The dream I shared
with Marianne and my brother!

Charles, just stop already.

It was presumptuous
for us to try this.

C. C! As long as we
have our marks, then...

This is no lie.
This is reality's answer to you.

Darling!

Impossible...
I thought I was immortal!

We're being swallowed?
By Cs' World?

But what about C. C?
Why isn't she disappearing, too?

You approved of this plan, too!

I'm sorry. I finally realized.

The only people you love are yourselves.

You're wrong!
We love Lelouch and Nunnally!

Do you know?
The meaning of Nunnally's smile?

Her smile?

Why don't you understand?!

Nunnally was blind and crippled!

So she knew there were things in
this world she couldn't do by herself!

Nunnally's smile... Nunnally's smile was the
least she could do to express her gratitude!

Even now,
you spout that nonsense?

I won't let you call it nonsense!
You will over my dead body!

Not looking at reality!
Happy to be watching us from afar!

Don't make me laugh!
There's only one truth here!

You, my own parents,
abandoned us!

You pathetic fool!

Suzaku! Stay out of this!

Refuse me and you will
inherit his world!

Schneizel's world!

Good and evil intentions are just two
sides of the same card, in the end!

Even so, you!

Even so, I reject the world
you propose. NOW BEGONE!

It can't be!

Can I assume that?

Yes. His Majesty...
His Majesty is!

C.C., are you going, too?

You want to at least
smile when you die, right?

What do you two
plan to do now?

You rejected Charles's plan.

You chose reality and
the forward march of time. But...

That's right.
Lelouch m*rder*d Euphy.

And so?

TOKYO, ONE MONTH LATER...

One month has passed since the destruction
caused by the F.L.E.I.J.A. Warhead.
TOKYO, ONE MONTH LATER...

As there will be an important announcement
from His Majesty Emperor Charles today,

Holy Britannian Empire
IMPERIAL PALACE PENDRAGON

we will be bringing you a live international
broadcast from Pendragon imperial palace.
Holy Britannian Empire
IMPERIAL PALACE PENDRAGON

While His Majesty has not made any
public appearances in the past month...
Holy Britannian Empire
IMPERIAL PALACE PENDRAGON

While His Majesty has not made any
public appearances in the past month...

Didn't they say the emperor
had gone missing?

Bismarck was the one who
reported that, and he's gone now.

Aside from that,
where are Schneizel and the others?

I don't know.
There's been no word from Cambodia.

Presenting, His Imperial Majesty!

Where's His Majesty?

Why is?

It can't be.

Wha?! That can't be!

No way. How?!

I am Lelouch vi Britannia,
the th emperor of Britannia.

My God.

Lelouch!

What? Is it really?!

You're alive?

Yes, Sister. I have returned
from the depths of hell.

Lelouch,
how good to see you!

I thought you might also be alive
when we found Nunnally,

but don't you think you're carrying
this joke a bit too far? That's Father's...

Charles zi Britannia, the th emperor,
was k*lled. By me.

Huh?

Which makes me the next emperor!

What are you talking about?!
There's no way!

Get rid of that fool!
He's guilty of k*lling our emperor!

Suzaku? Why?!

Allow me to introduce
Suzaku Kururugi, my knight.

He is the Round beyond
the other Rounds.

I grant him the title
of Knight of Zero.

Suzaku is working with him?!

Lelouch, Sir Kururugi,
this just won't do.

Pulling this bad joke on
an international broadcast!

Well then, why don't I make this
easy for you all to understand?

Acknowledge me!

I'm saying you really have
to stop joking around like...

Yes, Your Majesty!

All hail Lelouch!

All hail Lelouch! All hail Lelouch!

Thank you, Lelouch. Now that you've appeared,
there's no longer any problem.

But why would Kururugi
be helping him, too?

Because he's a man who's advanced
by continually betraying others.

It doesn't matter.
Let Lelouch have it all.

The entire nation of Britannia.

The question is what comes next.

Which will control the world?
Lelouch's Geass, or else...

This corrupt world is filled with demons
Dakuse wa oni

What is justice?
Seigi wa nanzo to

Resist, don't just question
Tou mae ni aragae yo

The flower of evil
Akutoku no hana

Dreams of hypocrisy
Gizen no yume

Give your gaze to the eyes that see them
Mishi me niwa me wo sashi

The line between right and wrong cannot be known
Sei mo ja mo wakatareru koto nashi

Light is gone, and you slumber
Hikari wa tae taiji no you ni

Like an unborn child in the womb of darkness
Kimi wa nemuru yami no shikyuu

Isolation is what you love
Kodoku koso itooshii

It will probably be your only ally
Yui-itsu no mikata to naru darou

One by one, stained with the tide of blood
Hitori hitori chishio ni mamire

You were born into this era
Kono jidai ni umare ochita

Oh, chosen princes
Erabareshi oujira yo

Battle shall be your banquet
Tatakai koso shukuen

Oh, I am graceful omniscience
Aa ware wa uruwashii zenchi

The loving mother
Ai no haha

Who bore you
Kimi wo umu

The ones who were raised on my breast
Kono chichi ni hagukumishi mono wa

Are your brethren in hell
Jigoku no harakara

The mark of apocalypse
Mokushi no in

What is truth
Shinri wa nanzo to

A seed of secrecy buried where no one knows
Shirimosezu uzumoreshi intoku no tane

A double-edged sword
Moroha no ken

Turn its blade upon the unsheathed blade
Nuku ha niwa ha wo muke

Believe only in what you must protect
Mamorubeki mono dake wo shinjite

And in your own way
Aru ga mama ni kimi wa

You'll set yourself free
Kimi wo hanate

There's nothing that is unforgivable.
You just don't want to forgive.

That was something
Shirley once told Suzaku.

That was the starting point in the
conversation I had with Suzaku.

And, facing reality, we began this.

There's nothing Suzaku and
I can't accomplish together.

How ironic.

I, the one who has
continually rejected Britannia...

EMPEROR LELOUCH