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.
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.