Lelouch, fearing this would rob him of his revolution, confronts Euphemia. He jokes about his Geass, saying, "What if I told you to kill all the Japanese?"
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Lelouch is horrified. He didn't want this. But he has no choice. To maintain his legend and salvage something , he coldly shoots Euphemia himself, framing her as a tyrant and using her massacre as the catalyst for a full-scale rebellion. Lelouch, fearing this would rob him of his
Lelouch's kind-hearted sister, , proposes the Special Administrative Zone of Japan —a genuine peace offering to restore Japan's name. Suzaku supports her. For one episode, peace seems possible. He didn't want this
A previous Geass user, Mao (a deranged, telepathic child), hunts C.C. and nearly destroys Lelouch by revealing his identity to Shirley. Lelouch is forced to commit his most morally ambiguous act yet: he erases Shirley's memories of him, including their love, to save her life. She looks at him as a stranger. This is the cost of his mask.