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Zero appears to save them in a custom Knightmare built from the wreckage of the Gawain.
Xing Ke asks if he thinks one Knightmare will turn the tide of battle.
No. War is won through strategy, not tactics.
Meanwhile, rebellious uprisings break out in 14 different cities.
Xing Ke has captured Kallen and has Zero trapped. Unfortunately for him, the Eunuchs use their international relations to call in a favor from the Knights of the Round: destroy both the rebels and the Japanese!
Xing Ke is drawn into a hopeless position when the empress gets out.
Xing Ke is the official who granted the Knights amnesty in the Chinese embassy. He also promised to get the empress out of the forbidden city.
His coup d'etat failed when Zero showed up, but the eunuchs are willing to use him.
His tactical genius forces Zero onto his back foot.
The Japanese escape to an island off the coast of China.
However, they have already been outmaneuvered. The high eunuchs have arranged a marriage between the Empress and the first prince of Britannia.
Zero interferes and kidnaps the child empress.
Zero agrees.
But it's a trick! Fog is released and when it clears, there are a million Zeros!
Now Suzaku is left with this choice: let them depart into exile peacefully, or crack down and prove Zero's rebellion right again.
He lets them go.
Conveniently, a ship is waiting.
Zero arranges for a million people to come to the SAZ. In exchange, he will be exiled.
Appearing on the big screen at the ceremony, he asks Suzaku what it means to be Japanese. Is it blood? History? Land?
Suzaku says it's if you hold Japanese culture in your heart.
Lelouch has a crisis of confidence: with Nunnaly doing the SAZ, his campaign directly opposes her. But she's the reason he became Zero in the first place!
Strong words from Kallen and Rolo help him reorient.
He bails out the Knights, then orders them to cooperate with the SAZ.
She's going to reopen the special administrative zone and everything.
Suzaku rescues her and she isn't captured.
Rolo's geass buys him a few seconds to explain before he has to pretend not to know her.
Zero has the Knights attack to capture her as she approaches. But when he confronts her, she says she's not a pawn, but a volunteer. She wants to follow in Euphemia's footsteps.
Suzaku tells Lelouch his plan: to become top knight. The top knight is given rule of an area of his choice, and Suzaku aims to pick Japan.
He'll be able to work well with then new viceroy, who is arriving soon.
In fact, she's on the phone right now.
It's Nunnaly.
Suzaku returns to school. Two other Knights of the Round, Gino and Anya also arrive, with their custom Knightmares.
When Villetta was amnesiac, she stayed with Ohgi, the second-in-command of the Black Knights. Lelouch learns this and blackmails her into working with him.
Zero stages an answer to Guilford's challenge that frees his companions.
If Rolo doesn't stop him.
But Rolo has no family. Lelouch tells him that even if the memories are fake, the last year they spent together was real. He turns his loyalty.
It's all a lie, of course.
Lelouch throws off his tail and gets the drop on Rolo. But before he can geass him, he himself is geassed.
Rolo's geass is either a time stop or induces amnesia. I'll bet that's how his Knightmare teleports too.
Everyone else has forgotten Nunnaly as well.
Rolo's geass is a mass paralysis. Everyone within range is immobilized.
Guilford (Cornelia's Knight) is acting head of Tokyo right now. To draw out Zero, the threatens to execute the captured Black Knights.
Roll comes to the embassy as Zero is broadcasting. But right then, he gets a call from Lelouch! How?
In fact Lelouch is back at school.
The Office of Secret Intelligence can't detect Lelouch behaving any differently, not even with 180 hidden cameras and 47 undercover observers.
Nunnaly is missing, of course. In her place, Lelouch has a brother, Rolo. He's obviously a spy of some sort.
He is the pilot of the experimental Knightmare. And he has a geass of his own.
Meanwhile, the Emperor shows Suzaku his secret: the Sword of Akasha: a weapon to kill God.
The Knights are bedeviled by a Knightmare built on the same technology as Lancelot, but with a short-range teleport. But they fight it off in time to collapse the building on their enemies.
Zero again declares the United States of Japan, even though it's just one room.
Currently, Lelouch is up to his old tricks: using his geass to steal an enemy Knightmare, directing his forces with inside intelligence, and pulling off miracles.
Kallen wants answers though: did Lelouch use his geass on her, or did she follow on her own.
(It was her choice.)
Here's what happened: Lelouch and Suzaku both missed, but Suzaku rushed Lelouch, removed the bomb and captured him.
Then he traded him to the Emperor for membership in the Knights of the Round.
The emperor has his own geass: to rewrite memories. He used it on Lelouch.
But C.C. springs the trap on the trapmakers, unlocking Lelouch's true memories.
The small handful of the Black Knights that are still free ask Zero what he would have them do.
