Code Geass

[The Sword of Akasha is finally revealed.]

Marianne:
Behold! It's begun! The Sword of Akasha is slaying God!

Charles:
Now, once our marks of Geass become one, the old world will cease and the new world will spring forth. [approaches Lelouch, Suzaku, and C.C.]

Suzaku:
Lelouch... what was your motivation for wanting to control the world?

Lelouch:
Don't waste my time, Suzaku. You know it was Nunnally—

Suzaku:
Or are you just using her as your excuse?

Lelouch:
[scoffs lightly, but smirks] ...Yes, you're right. I am. I have fought to protect everything I thought I wanted to protect.

Suzaku:
If you're going to achieve that end, you need to take action.

Lelouch:
Yes. The means to that end requires me to reject something.

Suzaku:
Which is...?

Lelouch:
That I... [faces the Emperor] I reject you! And I reject everything you believe! Why do people lie? It isn't only because they struggle against each other! It's also because there is something that they're seeking. [C.C. looks down.] You now want a world without change. How stagnant! You can hardly call it life, the same as a world of memories. Just a world that's closed and completed... that's a place I wouldn't want to live in.

Marianne:
But, Lelouch... are you saying you're rejecting me as well?

Lelouch:
That depends. Is your desire the same as His Majesty's, Mother?

Marianne:
It will be so good to rejoin all the people from whom we've been separated. You can be reunited with those who have died, even Euphemia.

[Suzaku narrows his eyes, clearly pained.]

Lelouch:
As I expected. You both believe that this new world you envision would be best for all. But forcing your good intentions on others is no different from an evil act.

Charles:
In time, the people will come to accept it.

Lelouch:
[snapping out] That time will never come! Only one thing is undeniably certain; I understand now that what you did to Nunnally and me may have been done out of good intentions, but... the hard fact remains that you abandoned us in a foreign land!

Marianne:
But we did that to protect you...!

Lelouch:
Then why didn't you stop the war between Japan and Britannia?! [Marianne stops, verbally disarmed.] The plan was such a priority for you both, that it didn't matter to either of you if Nunnally and I were alive or dead! That's why you abandoned us. All you have left are self-serving excuses!

Marianne:
Lelouch, you're wrong!

Lelouch:
You just told me! You said that the dead will rejoin the living! You don't give a damn about the future!

Charles:
The future is the Ragnarök Connection! Once it's finally done, the gentler existence that Nunnally spoke of will—

Lelouch:
[interrupting] Stop it! The world you're speaking of will be kinder and gentler only for you! The world that my sister wished for... is one in which kindness was extended to everyone, even strangers!

Suzaku:
[thinking] He may be right. At the very least, Euphie never said that Lelouch was Zero, even to the very end. Shirley didn't either. That's why I...!

Charles:
Let's say it was true: what of it? There's nothing to be done about it, the Ragnarök Connection has begun!

Lelouch:
You think so? I am Zero! [reveals his Geass] The man who works miracles!

Charles:
Your Geass power will have no effect on me, nor will it on anyone else here!

Lelouch:
No! There's someone else here, isn't there?

[Charles gasps, realizing what he means.]

Lelouch:
That's right! C's World is the will of mankind itself! And "All men are not equal"; remember those words? They're your own! And because of that, I'm sure you realize that my power will work!

Charles:
You're a fool, Lelouch! God cannot be defeated by the Power of the King!

Lelouch:
I don't intend to defeat God! This is a request! Yes... now I know who I really am! God, collective unconscience! PLEASE, DON'T STOP THE MARCH OF TIME!!!

Marianne:
[running toward Lelouch] Lelouch, you ungrateful child!

[Suzaku bars her path, his sword brandished.]

Suzaku:
Nobody would've wanted this! No one, and especially not Euphie!

Marianne:
And I saved you so that you could talk to Euphie again—!

Suzaku:
Meaning you were going to force me to, right?!

Charles:
[to Lelouch] You can't do this, boy! Not against God nor all of humanity itself!

Lelouch:
Regardless, what I want... is TOMORROW!!!

[Lelouch's Geass evolves so that both of his eyes can cast the Geass, as he uses it to bring down the Thought Elevator.]

Marianne:
It can't be!

Charles:
The Thought Elevator is falling! The dream that I, and Marianne, and my brother all shared...

C.C.:
[sitting down and curling up] Charles, just stop already. It was presumptuous to us to even attempt this.

Charles:
C.C., we still bear the marks of Geass; no matter what occurs, we—! [gasps]

[Charles' body is now starting to dissolve into sparkling light.]

Lelouch:
This isn't a falsehood, father. It's reality's response.

Marianne:
Darling, you... [stops short as her body begins to vanish as well]

Charles:
No, it's not possible! I'm supposed to be immortal! We're being absorbed?! Consumed by C's World?!

Marianne:
But what about C.C.? Why isn't she disappearing as well? You supported this plan as much as we did!

C.C.:
Sorry. But I finally realized: the love you have... is only for yourselves.

Marianne:
No, that's not true at all. We love our children very much!

Lelouch:
Do you have any idea what the meaning is behind Nunnally's beautiful smile?

Marianne:
The meaning...?

Lelouch:
[Tears are in his eyes.] Why don't you understand? Nunnally was blinded! My own sister was crippled! She knew... she knew that there were things in this world that she would never be able to do by herself! So her smile... Nunnally's smile... was her way of expressing gratitude!

Charles:
You're laboring under a delusion—!

Lelouch:
[livid, with wide eyes] I will not let you call that a lie! [grits his teeth, tears streaming down his face] Over my dead body! Your refusal to face reality! Content to watch us from afar! Don't make me laugh! There's only one truth here: You, my own parents — YOU ABANDONED US!!!

Charles:
YOU CLEVER LITTLE FOOL!!! [rushes forward — shoving Marianne aside — and grabs Lelouch's neck]

Lelouch:
[before Suzaku can interfere] Suzaku. Stay out of this.

Charles:
Can't you understand that if you refuse me and what I offer, you will inherit his world, Schneizel's world! Do not judge me! Good and evil intentions are on each sides of the same card! Even then, you still have—!

Lelouch:
[interrupting Charles] No matter what, I'll always reject the world you envision. BEGONE NOW!!!

[Charles and Marianne disintegrate, screaming even after their bodies vanish, their voices echoing.]