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.
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.