Blood and Pain.

That was the coin, Lelouch Vi Britannia had to pay for his crimes and to create the world his sister Nunnaly wanted, a kind world, a world were all of them could live with a smile, the price of such Utopia was none other than to create a monster so big, that the world would cower at his mere presence.

The Demon Emperor Lelouch, was exactly what the doctor recommended.

Of course, the public and spectacular assassination of such Emperor was in the script too, that his best friend Suzaku will kill him in front of the cameras of all the world, dressed and acting like the same legend Lelouch created in the first place.

Zero, the masked knight of Justice, the leader of the Black Knights and the worlds Hero.

It was so tragic that it was not even funny.

He has to die at the hands of his best friend, masked for the rest of his life under the same disguise Lelouch used to finally vanquish Britannia and unite the world under the banner of the Black knights.

That was Zero requiem in a handful of words.

All will hate Lelouch.

He will act as the monster everyone thought he was.

Zero will kill him, in front of all the world.

All crimes and hate will be blamed on him.

The gentle world of Nunnaly could commence.

Only a crazy bastard like Lelouch would be able to pull that out of his hat and what was best, make it work.

Oh, of course he had his doubts, specially when he discovered that his sister, Nunnaly had recovered her sight and was showing the iron Lelouch always know she had on her soul. She was worthy of being the Empress, more than Schneizel or any other of their brothers and sisters, except perhaps Cornelia or Euphy. To be honest, Lelouch always thought that the majority of the Imperial Family was nothing but a waste of space.

Euphemia, that was a bleeding wound in the heart of Lelouch, no matter how much time has pass and how much he has suffered for what he has done to one of few really pure souls in this rotten world created by the Britannian Empire. One just ponders if the poor bastard of Pendragon had all this shit in mind when he created the Empire, but alas, everything decays, everything corrupts and its needed a revolution to get things straight to the right path.

Lelouch was that fire, he accepted that role gladly but as all fires, the closer you get, the worst burn you get, and Lelouch hate and anger was a raging sun that burned everything in his path, despite his real intentions; the words of Kirihara Taizo were the truth.

He walked the path of Carnage, his way was covered with the blood, flesh and bones of his enemies and for Lelouch eternal regret, the blood, flesh and bones of some of his dearest friends. Lelouch had a shit ton of things to atone, oh, yes, he had a shit ton of sins burdening his soul, and to be completely honest, he just waited patiently when his eyes closed, when death reclaimed him, that if there is truly existed a hell of some kind, they will have and entire burning theme park just for him.

He deserved it, no fucking doubt about it, he deserved it by far...

His soul remembered the day of the epilogue of his actions, the day of the Zero Requiem, the day he planned his own assassination at the hands of his best friend, the one that he forever branded with a Geass damming to him to "Live on" no matter what he wanted and to be forever engraved with the mask of Zero.

The parade was the most disgusting thing he has ever done, all his friend and allies, people that bleed and suffer along him, show to the populace as they were nothing but pets, chained and beaten into metal poles. Even Nunnaly was chained to the floor of the rolling throne and execution platform, all in one, chained like a slave to the feet of his own brother.

Dear God, how nauseous he felt during all that charade.

One could argue that all of them betrayed him, when the battle for Japan was in their climax and Zero was ready for make his appearance, they ambushed him in the Knightframe hangar, gun pointing and accusations flying; all orchestrated by Schneizel, Lelouchs "dearest" big brother.

Ironically, they paid him with his own coin, he has used, slaved, forced and blackmailed a lot of people into servitude, by geass or words or just acting like the miracle worker they needed in their time of crisis. However, he had never done anything like that to any of them, none of the Black Knights was forced to do anything under geass coercion.

And Kallen, sweet, fierce and wonderful Kallen, his queen, his best pilot, one of the most fascinating beings he has ever meet, she defended him, but the charade was over and Lelouch, once more paid the price of his own greed, ambition and evilness.

He should have known better, the fruits of the devil tree will be evil, no matter what our true intentions are. For an hour, he paraded in the middle of the biggest avenue in Tokyo, showing to the people, the people that feared and hated him, with good reasons, the same people he has free to just slave them again, this time to him.

99th Emperor of Britannia.

Fuck that title, he hated it with a passion.

When the parade was on the move, he knew about the witness in the nearby building, in fact he was the one that has orchestrated their presence.

Poor Cornelia, she was a mother hen, she was a wonderful woman, she was the goddess of victory but she was horrible, at the Game of Thrones that Schneizel and him were playing, the one that ended in his coronation as the supreme ruler of earth.

She should have look out for geass scars in the brain tissue of her spies or to double check why that brunette spy was so familiar to her...Sayoko was the best Kunoichi in the fucking world, but at that point that was irrelevant, he wanted them there, he need them to pick up his legacy and make it right.

The worst hour of Lelouchs life, chain his most trusted allies and friends, his own little sister and parade them all over the city, flaunting his power. He had to discretely take some pills before the event, so he will not throw up his soul at the sight of the platform and throne.

The hateful and sorrowed glares of all of them were like daggers at his heart, but alas, it was too late, the last melody, the Requiem, has begun and he will play his role to the last note without a hitch.

That was the last he can do after all the suffering and pain that he has caused to the world and to the people who was dearest to him. Still, he couldn't even glare in the direction of Nunnaly, to see his sister like that and to know that HE was the one that has chained like a pet and dress her with a rag red dress like some slave was too much for Lelouch, oh, he really hoped Hell had a roller coaster of pain waiting for him, just for this shit.

With a smug smile in his face and always protected by Jeremiah Gottwald, the Knight of Orange, Lelouch take a seat in the throne and ordered his geassed troops to start this horrendous show of arrogance and tyranny.

Jeremiah, he really didn't deserve the loyalty of the man, and much less after the hell he put him into, completely destroying his career, almost destroying his mind, slowly making him go crazy thanks to the influence of the geass and finally becoming a living experiment for the order with a geass canceller in his right eye.

And then, he learn that Jeremiah has been always looking for Nunnaly and him, that he was loyal to the fault to his mother, that crazy bitch, and that he wanted to atone himself for not being able to protect none of them during the abominations that took place in Aries Villa.

The most loyal of the knights and Lelouch almost destroyed him with his own hands.

Another nick to the side of the rifle. Lelouch, fucking great boyo, what's next, uh?, kicking puppies?, assaulting old ladies?.

The Longest hour in his life.

One by one they resigned to their fate, knowing that no miracle will save them this time, Zero was sitting in the throne of a madman, and there will not be a last second miracle.

Chigusa, Stubbornness made woman, never let his hate left her eyes looking at him.

Ohgi, the kind professor turn rebel and future father of Villetas children, oh, Lelouch know, and he has already detested himself more than enough for what he done to the couple; even if both of them had their own share of sins to carry.

Kaguya, the last of the six families, a brilliant girl whose energy and antics had always brightened Lelouchs day.

Tamaki, loud mouth, noisy and scandalous Tamaki but loyal to the fault; it was like kicking a puppy, a loud puppy but a puppy nonetheless.

Xingke, how, in the name of sanity could he still stand despite his sickness was something that amazed Lelouch to no end, Lelouch allow him to save his love, Tianzi, and then he put him in chains.

Todoh, his old sensei, a master of war who Lelouch has betrayed and burn his most sacred principles in front of his face.

Kallen...he didn't even want to look at her, her red haired ace, the strongest queen he could ever pray for, good God, he couldn't even look at her without being about to thrown up for what he has done to the beautiful girl.

In the end, you were right C.C, The power of the Kings is a way of solitude.

By the heavens, did he felt lonely then...not lonely, but utterly disgusted and nauseated with himself.

Behold what your hate has brought to you Lelouch Vi Britannia, see what your underhanded tricks, your hate and your manipulations has brought to you.

Well, at last he would die, impaled by a sword, leaving a world that would carve for the peace and kindness Nunnaly could provide them in spades, and in the case that some fucker wanted to say something, Suzaku, or better said Zero, will kick his or her ass ten ways to Sunday.

His last hour on earth was so full of regrets and recriminations, that Lelouch surprised himself that he didn't break and just cry his soul out for what he has done.

But the play must continue to the bitter end, the sweet release of death was not what he deserved, but was the only way on what the kind world of Nunnaly could start.

His dammed blood was a little price, enough blood has he spilled already.

In all honesty, seeing Zero was the best fucking thing that could have happened to him at that moment, no matter if it means that he was about to be slain, in fact, the drugs were starting to lose his effect and he was starting to feel like the shit he knows he was.

However, it was hilarious to see the faces of all the people around at the presence of the purple dressed Zero standing in the middle of the road. Still, he had to remember to put a face of horror and surprise at the image, so he will not cry on relief for the end of this travesty of victory parade that was costing the little sanity remain that he had.

Lelouch remembered to shout inside of his mind to Suzuky for being a moron and appearing in a fashionably late time. That was one of the oddest moments in his life, to be glad to see the one that was about to put a sword through his chest and welcome it with joy. Damn twisted world, well, Nunnaly will set it rights, he has made sure of it, oh, hell yes, he has made sure of it.

The knightmares acting as escort, open fire to the lone figure and Lelouch found himself blinking in amazement to the speed and skill of Suzaku, who was dodging bullets as he runs in a zig zag pattern, covering hundreds of meters in seconds.

Wow...he really was an exercise nut job, but now Lelouch was starting to see that he should have build some more muscles, it sure would have come handy at some times, specially all that hunt the cat debacle that had almost unmasked him at the beginning of the rebellion.

Arthur the cat, was more dangerous that any of his previous rivals combined, thrice dammed hellish spawn of a cat.

Suzaku was a purple blur, that pass under the legs of the knightmares before they could react to his speed and movement pattern, still there was too much security to dodge them all, and a few of them had their factspheres looking for the target that was Suzaku. Fortunately, Jeremiah saw this and with an order and a challenge for a duel, almost offered free pass to Suzaku, even after all the sadness and grief, Lelouch has caused the knight and knowing that he was helping the assassin of his lord, Jeremiah fulfilled his role without fault.

Lelouch could only pray for the knight to found happiness along Sayoko, it was a rumor that he listened by chance, that the ninja maid and the cyborg knight has kind of clicked, as both had a high sense of honor and were totally devoted to Lelouch.

Hope, when he was out of the question, they could finally have a shot at happiness, god knows they had it more than deserved.

Suzaku take the chance that Jeremiah was offering and run to the cyborg, that already had his wrist blade extended and ready to battle, however, "Zero" jumped and using Jeremiah shoulders as jumping point, jumped again, passing right over the edge of the platform, landing in front of a stunned and confused Nunnaly.

God lord Suzaku, remembered Lelouch to thought in that moment, anyone with half a brain and training in hand to hand combat would see that Jeremiah has just offer you a pull!, well, it didn't matter then, everybody was still stunned for the sudden appearance of the Knight of Justice.

"Zero" jumped a second time and landed in front of Lelouch, who once again marveled of the strength and skill of his friend, and took good note, in the few seconds left of his life, that he should have exercise more, this displays of power and skill would have been a hide saver...useless now but he just wanted to focus in little things.

It was that or seeing the terrified face of Kallen or the confused and scared face of Nunnaly, yes, much better to focus on those things, ah, yes, he had to make it convincing, so he just pick up a little pistol from his white and golden cape and pointed it at Suzaku with some ridiculous threat forming in his lips.

What he really wanted to say was:

"Hurry up, you moron, end this charade already, I can hold it no longer".

The purple and baroque sword send the pistol flying in the air and with a flourish swipe, Suzaku pointed to tip to his chest and pull forward.

The time stop then for Lelouch.

Ok, he has been a coward and has taken some drugs that would lessen the pain of being skewered like a damn kebab but still, the damn thing hurt like a bitch, specially when it pierced right through his heart in a single and precise stab. Damn it hurts, not even a tenth of what it has pained him to chain Nunnaly to the platform but still, it hurt like a bitch.

Sweet, sweet pain that end all suffering and takes all the hate of the world with him.

Whispering, so only Suzaku could ear him, Lelouch pick a little of his own blood, red blood; to the hell with all that foolishness about blue blood; and trace his fingers over Suzaku mask of Zero.

"This is your punishment" said Lelouch, feeling surprisingly calm, despite the fact that he was dying " do you accept this geass?, this curse?".

"I accept it" there was a sad and sorrow tone in his voice and Lelouch was a bit surprise, there was the unmistakeable sound of a voice grip by tears.

Tears?, how come?, Suzaku has promised him that he will kill him no matter the cost at the end of the Zero Requiem, and now he was crying?, not the best timing pal, not the best timing at all.

Ouch, the sword plunged out of his chest and Lelouch cringed, that was worst, he barely registered how Suzaku swipe the purple and golden sword, tracing a line of Lelouch blood over the carpet of the throne.

He barely registered it, because he was very busy, painfully skidding all the way down the throne, leaving a very wide and fresh trail of blood all over the red carpet, pity, he always like tidy things, and the blood was so difficult to clean.

Sarcasm, Lelouch?, really?.

Well, no matter, he could finally go now, he has done it, Zero Requiem was complete and now, the new era could begin.

Ah, Nunnaly, the sweet and lovely Nunnaly, the angel he has left on earth, the sister he was going to abandon in the name of his own stupidity, one of his multiple and very long list of sins and idiocies that he has done in his so called glorious revolution.

In hindsight, he has been a childish moron and the bigger genius of history, but that is irrelevant now; uh, who would have known?, there is a fine line between madness and genius.

"Brother?" whispered Nunnaly taking his hand and with the last strength of a dying Geass, Nunnaly could see in the eyes of his brother, the truth, what Zero requiem was and why.

"Brother, oh Brother, I love you, please don't leave me!" screamed Nunnaly.

Ah, so she has discovered it...

"I destroy the world...and make it...anew" whispered Lelouch with his last breath.

Lingering in the edges of his consciousness the soul rendering cries of her sister and the contained tears of Kallen and the few that really has discovered what was all of this about. He has to admit that they were the best wild bunch he could ever asked for leading a rebellion; even if at the end, he botched it badly with all of them.

99th Emperor Lelouch Vi Britannia was dead, killed by the Knight of Justice Zero, killed in his own victorious parade over his enemies, the Demon Emperor was dead.

Not a second too soon if Lelouch had a say in it.

Heaven, Hell or whatever the shit is waiting for the bastards like him, there he goes, it was about damn time...ah, so many regrets, so many complications, so many sins to atone in the after world, and if the after world result to be complete darkness, all for the better.

He was way tired of all, even his own stupidity, and a little and delicious nap will be more than welcome. He should have known better, there was a little flaw in his plans, something that he did not consider, something that was hidden in plain sight.

Geass has an expiring date.

At the beginning he didn't notice it, after all, he had a ton of things to do the second time he put the mask on, when C.C got his sorry ass out from the amnesia that fucker of father that he had, put him in.

It has taken several years, but Schneizel finally broke free from his Geass and turn his thrice dammed intellect back to square one, recreating FREYJA and starting a campaign of wars against the United Federation that Nunnaly as Empress of Britannia has created.

They fought, they indeed fought and bravely but Schneizel was out of their league, it has only Lelouch the one who has bested the blond heir of the throne of Britannia, whose strategies and mind was as brilliant as Lelouch but twice the ruthless.

In less that half a decade, Schneizel did rule over an empire that covered all the globe, ruling with peace and fear in equal measure, the world will obey him and if don't, they will perish in a pink explosion of devastating strength.

One that made the one that vaporized Pendragon, look like a firework.

Those who obey find themselves in a peaceful world, totally submitted to the rules and ethics of the Emperor and those who resist or dared to confront his mandate, soon found themselves in the wrong side of a firing squad.

Of course, those who had the power to oppose him, soon found themselves under the menace of having a FREYJA served directly at their houses, right at the head of their loved ones or in the middle of their most populated city. Oh, there do exist some resistance movements and terrorism but with Geass destroyed, Schneizel hunt every single geass user in existence to extermination and after he found C.C; he permanently froze her in a capsule in the middle of the reactor of his flagship, he made sure no one will ever awoke a Geass again.

Alas, the Schneizel Emperor did commit the same mistake that Lelouch at some point, he failed to ask himself a question, a very single and valid question.

Now, what?.

He ruled over a stagnant world, ruled by fear and a forced peace that only embittered all the living beings, forced to wear a leash they hate and what is worst, he had no heirs. Oh, yeah, same fucking mistake as Lelouch, he was so busy playing King of the World that he forgot that he was the last of a Dynasty, appart of Nunnaly and Cornelia that were hiding somewhere and whose children could call the right at the throne as soon as he kicks the bucket.

Schneizel was a very lonely man, who hides his miseries over his eternal and cocky smile and his genius level mind, he did try to find a queen, or even a blood damn mistress, but his court was full of flatterers and stupid nobles with half the brain of a concussed cow.

He planned to clone himself but at the end, he simply took C.C geass and became the immortal Emperor of Britannia. It was not until the second century of his mandate, that he realized that the immortality was not as cool as it appears to be, specially when everything and everyone that you did ever love was dead as dust and he was still alone in a throne build over fear and bitterness.

Such was the destiny of the Zero Requiem.

It was the best plan at the time, well, one can argue that, but the result, spoke for themselves, the world experimented a Utopia for a lot of years, however, the Utopia soon became the opposite and now, the Earth was a miserable ball of mud, fear and regret, waiting for the mercy of the swift death, anything was for the better, instead this long stagnation at the hands of an Emperor that has lost any hope in living but was incapable of end to it.

Not the best of the outcomes, in games, this would be called the Worst Ending.

It´s an ending, everything has to come to an end, all tales had a finale and for this Lelouch, this was his.

But one could think...

It is truly and end?.

Lets review that statement for a second.

No matter how static do you want to be, the earth keeps twirling, the seasons come and go, babies born, people die, plants grow..., the time is constant, even if you wanted to stop it or make it backwards.

Then, lets review that second statement.

Review backwards.

Any sane mind out there, will consider this an absolute stupidity, an impossibility, time is a river that only flow forward.

Yes and no.

You see, that could be true in other universes, but in this one, one where things called Geass granted superpowers to the people, Geass that allow immortals to build a sword capable of killing an existence that they did not understand at all; in this crazy and wonderful universe, impossible could be possible.

And there was a little loophole; well, make it two not so little loopholes.

First of all, god exists, call him subconscious, call it god, call it karma, Satan, Shiva or tax collectors, it matters not, the fact is that gods exist, forgotten and altered so they are barely recognizable but they exist.

Second, there was one purple eyed possessor of Geass, that prayed to them, that in a sense, slay them and force them to do their bidding, that, as irrational as that could appear to be, usurp their authority and use it to prevent a calamity and to start the steps that culminated of what one day will be called, Zero Requiem.

Start to see a pattern?.

Now, what was the pray of the boy with violent eyes full of tears?, what did the boy forced upon the gods, armed with a sliver of their own power?.

Ah, yes, you do start to see...

"Do not stop the time".

And, now the final clue about what is happening right now on earth, what is exactly, what Schneizel has done?.

Stagnant the world, in other words, stop the evolution, stop the progress, keep it forever locked under his own standards and desires.

Or better said, he stopped the time.

Geass has an expiring date, but gods memories are not that swallow, they own the boyo a big one, and despite they denied what should have been Lelouchs since that sorrowful day, now there was two very pissed off, very angered travelers in the C world; better called as the boundary between worlds, that screamed bloody vengeance for the idiocy that the gods of this realm has done to a kid that did something that no one has done since the foundations of the bleeding Albion.

After all, not everyday born a new Campione in the world.

And speaking of our little star of the show.

When Lelouch thought the things couldn't turn to the worst; he really should have thought better, after all, they were talking about Lelouch; he just awoke in the C world, unable to do anything but to witness how all what he loved and died for was devastated in front of his eyes.

He saw, with a smile in his face, how Nunnaly brings the world to an epoch of prosperity and peace, a world worth living for, however, and much for his horror, saw how Schneizel betrayed that same world and turn it into a demented nightmare, even more corrupt and stagnated that the Britannia that Lelouch burn to the ground.

He lost his mind from the suffering, he screamed and cried and cursed and lamented and regretted and so went the list on. Lelouch saw how all of those he called friends died at the hands of Schneizel troops, how only Nunnaly and Cornelia survived, hidden and protected for the few survivors of the Black Knight after the first betrayal of the Nobles and those who aligned themselves under the banner of Schneizel.

This was his worst nightmare made flesh, there was nothing worst that seen that all he has done was for nothing, all the sacrifices and the blood, all the suffering was for nothing, as all his plans, all the world of Nunnaly was swept off by the ambitions of an arrogant asshole who at the end just discovered that he was a lonely, goalless idiot with too much blood in his hands.

More or less what Lelouch discovered during the agonizing hour he suffered as he paraded down the main avenue of Tokyo, not much before Zero kill him for good.

In a very, strange, and painful way of things, it was almost amazing how both brothers were so similar, both genius, both so driven by their goals that at the end, they just found themselves alone and without anything to live for. Well, at last Lelouch was the one that was lucky enough to die, now Schneizel was the one divided by the thought of reaching a contractor and start all the madness again or keep living an eternal empty life.

However, for Lelouch this was the worst agonizing torture that he has suffered in all his life, the beating his own father give him in front of all the court was nothing but love taps, seeing Nunnaly blind and crippled was a walk from the park in compassion to see her die, old and consumed, broken and blind again, slowly and sadly crying in grief for the lives of those murdered in the name of Schneizel ambitions.

Oh, the irony of the situation did not scape him, how many times has done exactly the same?, how many times has he sacrificed good people to fuel his rage and hate, to fuel his vengeance against his mad parents?.

He saw Kallen die, he saw her amazonian red queen of the battlefield, falling in glorious combat against an impossible odds and yet laughing at them, he felt head over hells for her in that moment, how come he has never sawn this fierce queen before?.

Good job you idiot, now you have lost her, forever, excelsior pal.

That was just the beginning of the deaths, everyone of them left a bigger scar in the heart and soul of Lelouch.

Xingke, falling defending her beloved Tianzi against Schneizel, the sick swordsman showing a lesson in martial skills that will be forever remembered.

Todoh, Chigusa,Villeta, Jeremiah, Sayoko, for fuck sakes, even Tamaki felt in battle, with honor and against insurmountable odds, they fought for Nunnaly and she hated every death in her name, every single casualty of this bloody useless war.

Ohgi, ambushed and killed during a diplomatic event, Milly, Rivalz, executed for aiding the Black Knights, Nina, even the timid Nina, who despises him with passion, prefer to blow the hell up before serve Schneizel after seeing what the Emperor has done with her dearest friends.

Kaguya, brave, vibrant Kaguya, forever defiant in front of the reaper, smiling in defiance to the Knightmares that hunted her, playing a lethal game of tag for decades, making a fool of the emperor, and in the end, she got the last laugh, when she blew up the biggest sakuradite reserve of the Empire with a smile on her lips and a defiant shout of victory.

Only Cornelia and Guilford survived, she was pregnant at that time, a worthy lineage, a hope for the future...squashed when Schneizel made himself immortal.

He saw C.C finally get what she desired, she finally died when Schneizel stole her code, not contract, not pact, just forcefully stole her code, something way worst that rape her, he profaned her body and soul, destroying the immortal witch, leaving her to die alone in a gray cell.

Her last words almost broke Lelouch mind.

"I will finally reunite with you, my warlock".

Crying for the green haired witch, his best partner, his most trusted adviser, the voice of the reason that had pulled him out of his stupidity, time and time again, was dead.

Lelouch mind crumbled under the horror, this was his worst nightmare made flesh, and for his dear life, he could not understand, why in the bloody hell was he still conscious and witnessing such horrors, was this some kind of punishment?.

Then he was indeed punished, but one thing was to punish him, he deserved it, but these horrors, this terrific future was not just a punishment for him, it was punishment for all of he once called out friends and precious people. Oh, the regrets he felt, how he has isolated himself, hid in his fear and greed from the rest of the world, his hate, source of his strength and his most blatant weakness, has guided all his life, bringing the change but at the same time twisting a great future into a Distopic horror.

And it was all his fault.

The Geass on Schneizel was his, he was the one that allow the snake to live in the garden of Eden and now, as God experimented, the snake has ruined it all, and for what?, what was the objective of all this?, what good has come from all those deaths?.

Easy answer.

None. At. All.

Lelouch has made that same questions himself, about two thousand, four hundred and sixty-three millions times, but who´s counting?.

Ironically, now he would love to bitch slap Schneizel with that same question again, and again and again, until the immortal start trying to commit suicide in the most imaginative and original ways. After all he was a genius and an immortal, that sure ensures some odd and imaginative ways to die.

So, that's it Lelouch?, now you hide behind sarcasm and vengeance, that's all you have learned in your miserable life?.

See?.

Madness.

It comes and goes, honestly it was kind of relief, the form on where the mind prevents himself from collapsing by simply hide itself under wraps of irrationality and oddities.

Like speaking to himself and just berate himself again and again with his worst failures and regrets, just to be sure he didn't forget a single thing, that none of his screw ups ever left his mind, that was the last he can do, to never forget what has he done.

Now, after all the fall of the world he worked so hard to create, that list was so big, that even his prodigious mind was starting to feel a bit pressed just to keep up with all the shit listed on it; it was indeed a big list.

You see, something people forgot that a war is more than just a series of battles.

Lets take and example.

His little stunt with Guilford when he released his Black Knights in front of the Chinesse Embassy. A hundred of persons die that day. Soldiers die that day, oh sure, and they do die in battle, is their job and duty, it comes with the side letters of the contract. But those were not soldiers, those were civilians casualties. An entire sector raise, hundreds of meters of metallic surface went up and there was the civilians techs that he geassed and forced to kill his workmates and after activating the system, blow their heads up.

Shirley; sweet, airhead, kind, fun and lovely Shirley; show him what his actions cost when the landslide he provoked in Narita, killed the father of the girl who loved him deeply, and a year later, he did exactly the same, killing people like they were ants, they were logs in the blazing inferno of his vengeance and he didn't even think twice about the consequences, happily and proud on his arrogant wits that had won the day.

Without his friends and comrades, the rest of the world could have gone to hell for what he cared, C.C was the last to die, tortured permanently until Schneizel ravaged her body and soul and extract the code for her before leaving her old and wrecked body to die in darkness and solitude.

Nunnaly, his little sister, the one for whom he did all, cried alone in her cell; she had sacrificed herself so Cornelia and her family could scape and hide from the hands of Schneizel

Now, aged and tired, she just cried in sadness and for the first time in decades, whispered the name of his brother, one of the few men she has ever loved and who sacrifice himself so the world could reach a glorious era of peace and prosperity.

In the end, Britannian blood has been the one that has turned paradise into a living hell, and she could only saw it happen, she could only saw the world his brother give his life for, perish and consume in the wake of the ambitions of one, that in the past, has been her most loyal adviser and friend, another person that she called brother.

"I'm sorry, brother, I'm sorry Lelouch, I am not strong enough, I failed you".

Lelouch wanted to die, oh brother, he wanted to die, he just wanted to vanish, to finish all his existence, to end this torture. Crying as he has never cried before, Lelouch whispered back, speaking in rasp voice for all the shouting and crying he has been doing during all the horror show he has been forced to witness.

"It´s ok Nunnaly, you are going to be ok, I promise...".

"She is not going to be ok, and neither are you".

A new voice interrupted Lelouch and he just moved in the emptiness on where he was floating, to just fall face front into a gray floor of some kind.

Oh, physical pain, old friend, how I had missed you, you are ten thousands better than mental pain, believe me.

"We have to fix this, quickly, this could not end like this, you know?" keep saying the voice.

Grunting, Lelouch raise to see the one that had spoke to him, and when his eyes saw the figure, he slammed back into the floor, as his arms lose all strength they had, it was a surprise he could even move.

Massaging his sore face after the second stomping, he raises his face and just look to the owner of the voice. He blinked a pair of times. Ok, it was official, he was totally out of his mind.

Santa Claus was right in front of him.

Yeah, exactly, The fucking Santa Claus, and the old white bearded man was riding a ridiculous deer with a glowing red nose that seems as mortified as Lelouch.

"So, tell me boyo, What do you want for Christmas?"