"Suzaku?"
"Uh!"
Looking at Euphemia sitting in front of him, Suzaku was still in a trance for a moment.
That girl who should have died long ago, causing his mind to waver...
"Do you still feel it's unbelievable?"
"Actually, me too..."
"To think His Maj... Lelouch could do such a thing..."
Swinging her legs in the water, Euphemia looked somewhat overwhelmed.
"To be honest, I'm a bit confused myself."
"I feel like I've been dragged into an unknown world."
"It's a bit unfamiliar and scary."
Clearly, she had been "resurrected", but for Euphemia, it was still very unsettling.
"But, seeing that you are still here, it is really great."
"You haven't changed at all."
But being with Suzaku, that uneasiness dissipated.
"Ah..."
Hearing this, he responded silently. Suzaku couldn't speak of too much sadness; those bitter and painful memories still existed.
But now that Euphemia was alive and well, he seemed able to take a new step forward.
There was no need to cling tightly to the heavy past.
'Euphemia... I will bring her back to life, including those who were sacrificed.'
'Of course, to avoid causing panic, I will appropriately change people's cognition.'
'But only for you guys, I won't do that, unless you request it yourselves.'
Never had they thought of such ridiculous things. Those were words that stunned Suzaku, C.C., Kallen, and the others.
Ruling the world alone, and changing the world with one person's methods.
"Although I don't know what exactly happened to Lelouch..."
"But..."
Looking down at that peaceful smile, Suzaku could accept it calmly.
After all, she was "resurrected" with great difficulty; he couldn't possibly tell someone to go die again, right?
It seemed like a dream, but it wasn't a dream...
It was true reality!
...
"Tsk..."
Kallen headed to the academy with bread in her mouth out of habit, her emotions complicated as she looked at the surrounding environment that had changed somewhat.
A month ago, she and the members of the Black Knights were following Schneizel's instructions to fight against the Holy Britannian Empire led by Lelouch.
But in the end, it ended in failure with Schneizel being rushed by Lelouch leading the army and using "Geass".
'I just gave him a chance to challenge me.'
'After all, the difficulty of challenging "God" and challenging an "Emperor" is different.'
'Winning against him with the skills of a "human" can also be counted as a wish I really wanted to realize.'
She could feel the huge change in Lelouch at that time; he was even a bit unfamiliar.
But Kallen knew clearly that Zero had never changed from beginning to end.
And precisely because of this, having encountered such a "drastic change", she could calmly accept the other party's arrangement.
"Good morning! Kallen!"
"Oh... Good morning."
Watching the orange-haired girl greeting her from the front, Kallen had already begun to "obey" such a life.
Those people who died because of the war came back to life one after another. Except for a very few individuals who knew the truth, everyone else was unaware of the problem.
It wasn't a dream...
Those chains causing hatred and disputes were personally "corrected" by Lelouch.
The source of turmoil... was severed!
Nation and nation were "well" with each other; she no longer witnessed fierce conflicts.
"Next, I will report to everyone, the Empress Tianzi, Jiang Lihua, and the Emperor of the Britannian Empire, Nunnally..."
Looking at the images playing on the school screen, Kallen and Shirley stopped in their tracks.
Two small figures were holding hands, followed by various familiar figures beside them.
Jiang Lihua and Nunnally...
'Li Xingke's illness...'
When she saw the tall figure behind Jiang Lihua, Kallen knew the other party had survived his "death calamity".
No, rather, with Lelouch present, it would be strange if Li Xingke still died of illness.
That power, more magical and excessive than "Geass", was still confusing to this day.
"Although it's a bit dreamlike... it's not bad."
Holding such thoughts, Kallen finally returned to being an ordinary person today, instead of a member piloting a mecha to fight.
...
"What's wrong? You've been liberated but can't find a goal?"
In a certain countryside courtyard, Lelouch sat on a chair, holding coffee in one hand and a book in the other, and spoke suddenly.
And on his other side was C.C., who was hugging a large yellow doll and had been spacing out.
"This is all your fault, right?"
"Erasing my CODE, and fixing Geass fragments all over the world in one breath."
"Of course I have nothing left to do."
Tilting her head to look at Lelouch, C.C. spoke bluntly.
It was all this man who made her "unemployed".
"If you're bored, you can try reading more books."
"How boring. You're already like this; is there any need to read books?"
"Clearly, whatever you want, you can get it instantly."
That indifferent and calm attitude was still the familiar and confident Lelouch in her memories.
"I'm not using that world-changing power all the time."
"Normally, naturally, I am living with the identity of an ordinary person."
"The world changed with great difficulty; of course, one must learn to enjoy it."
Answering leisurely, Lelouch spoke softly.
In the cognition of outsiders, "Lelouch" was just a former "Emperor" who abdicated early from the throne.
Changing his name to "L.L." and burying his identity, it was even less likely for him to be recognized.
"Clearly you spoke shamelessly to others saying you are 'God'."
"And forcibly made people accept the world you changed..."
"Simply more excessive than a Demon King."
That was also a familiar retorted tone, making Lelouch laugh.
"I changed the world; as for accepting it or not, it lies with themselves."
"If they feel unhappy, they can kill the people who came back to life again."
"Or provoke meaningless wars to sacrifice others again."
Hearing Lelouch's "domineering" words, C.C. gazed at the sky.
To this day, Lelouch's changes were that mysterious.
He never talked about how he did it; he only lived with the attitude of the past.
"You're still the same as always..."
"However, this time I finally don't have to wear a mask to deceive anyone."
Sighing with emotion, C.C. didn't hate her current life. Turning from a "Witch" back into a human, no longer having to accept the curse of "immortality"—that was something she once hoped extravagantly for, and now it had come true.
But the price was... there was an extra idiot beside her who also disguised himself from "God" to human.
'Who was pestering me relentlessly at the beginning, and now you want to disdain me?'
'There is no such good thing in the world...'
'Maybe in the future, you will take back the power of CODE from me.'
'You actually planned it long ago, right? Even if I refuse, it's useless.'
'Hoh, as expected of you, discovered it, huh.'
That dishonest "confession" made C.C. very dissatisfied instead.
Is there any man who pesters a woman like this?
But whether with the identity of "human and human", "Demon King and Witch", or "God and human"...
Being "loved" like this was also another kind of novel experience for C.C., right?