Geass, Activate!

Yukiya is knocked out in his Alexander, and there’s no way to reach him, until Anna suggests using the BRS to connect his (unconscious) mind with Akito, Ryo, and Ayano’s. Using the BRS, they successfully manage to deploy the emergency escape pod while Yukiya is still unconscious, thus allowing Akito to rescue Yukiya from his Alexander, and take him back to Weisswolfe Castle where he undergoes surgery.

There’s a bit where Shin shows up, saying that he’s going to kill everything/everyone.

Ashley joins the wZERO troop, and is wolfing down sandwiches during a briefing between him, Leila, Klaus, and Akito.

Leila wants to fight in her Alexander, but Klaus says she shouldn’t; instead, Oscar will pilot Leila’s Alexander, and Ashley will join in the fight against Shin in lieu of Yukiya (and Ayano, who is watching over him).

“So I do I get a Knightmare?” Ashley asks. “If I fight with you, we’ll be really strong. Shin tried to kill me. I have a debt to Akito.”

At some point, Ashley sneaks out and breaks into Jean’s quarters (while he’s brazenly wearing the wZERO uniform, which she notices straight away.) She holds him at gunpoint. Ashley tells her they’re comrades because they were both picked up by Shin when they had been abandoned by their parents and left to die.

“That’s why Lord Shaing is—!”

“He’s changed from then,” Ashley continues without changing his expression. “I don’t really get it, but it’s like he’s been possessed by a death god.

“But you know, my new friend want to try helping him. Because they’re siblings.”

“Hyuga Akito?”

“Jean, you should be helping us. Akito is the only one going to pull out Hyuga Shin from the darkness.”

Ashley leaves Jean’s room, leaving her to think about his words.

Night falls, and Euro-Britannia’s attack on Weisswolfe Castle begins.

“Advance,” Shin orders the troops from his Vercingetorix. “If you back down, I’ll shoot you.”

I think this the moment when his Geass becomes stronger and he obtains the double Geass…?

The Euro-Britannia troops try to climb over the wall, but Leila commands her team to set off bombs in that area of the wall; the enemy KMFs fall, but the rest eventually make it through debris of the wall, and it’s only after the troops that make it past the giant spikes that Akito, Ashley, and Ryo go into the fight in their Alexander KMFs.

“Brother, why are you fighting?”

“I want to destroy this world, Akito. Die, Akito. I’ll destroy this world! Die!”

There’s an exchange of Shin telling Akito to die while Akito keeps saying no.

Leila is back at the command center overseeing the battle and the castle’s defenses, and has a flashback

Before the battle, she and Akito are alone in her office. He cuts off one of his braids and hands it over to her.

“If I die in this fight, and there isn’t anything left of my body…”

Leila takes it, and tells him to make it back at all costs. “Because,” she explains, while blushing, “there’s a lot I still want to talk to you about. So please, come back safely with everyone.”

The flashback ends, and another explosion occurs, waking Yukiya from his sleep in the medical bay.  Ayano is at his bedside, and she wakes, too.

“Where am I? There’s something I have to tell Leila…! We’re the only ones who can save the world!”

It’s dangerous staying in the medical wing, so with Ayano’s help, Yukiya suits up, and both head off to the Knightmare hangar.

Leila asks if they’re okay, and Yukiya replies that he’s realized something.

“There’s no use if you hate the world. If it’s for the sake of your friends, you’ll love the world.”

Yukiya boards the new Alexander Liberte, and heads off to join the battle.

Akito and Shin’s fight continues.

“Brother, are you still trying to kill me?!”

Just then, Akito’s BRS activates.

Ryo and Ashley scream at Akito when the BRS activates because it means Shin will get caught up in it(??).

Sophie explains that the BRS has a capability of creating interference in space-time. The BRS’s operation rate exceeds 300%, and a BRS mirage happens…?? Their brainwave resonance kick starts the space-time interference: Shin and Akito, and their Knightmares, physically disappear from the battle, leaving behind only a blue sparkle.

The scene changes to Jean activating the sakuradite rocket, while reading the instruction manual.  She’s about to press the giant red button when Ayano comes, and commands her to get out of her Knightmare.

Jean hops out, and so does Ayano. Jean has a gun strapped to her back, and she pulls it out on Ayano.

“I heard about you from Ashley,” Ayano starts, and she slowly edges her way towards Jean. “Are you really sure you want this? You want to drop a bomb on Pendragon?”

“If Lord Shaing wishes it…!”

“I know what it’s like to not have your feelings reach [the person you love]—”

“My feelings don’t matter!” Jean tells Ayano. “Lord Hyuga’s desires, his hopes, I want to make them come true!”

“Even if everything happens as he wants it to, he won’t be happy…”

Ayano finally reaches where Jean is, and holds her in an embrace. Jean is confused, at a loss for words, and asking what she’s supposed to do…

There’s a flashback; it’s sundown and there’s a lone boy sitting on the grass.  It’s a young Shin, and a man approaches him.

“Congratulations. You have a baby brother.”

Shin returns home, to where his mother is sitting in bed with baby Akito, with Shin’s father at her side. She tells him to come greet his newly born baby brother, but Shin is sour because he knows his mother cheated on his father, and knows who Akito’s real father is (looks like he’s one of the workers at whatever estate they live on).

It looks like Shin’s family is some sort of weird religious cult thing?

Fast forward to another memory; Akito’s real father is dead on the ground, while Akito and Shin’s mother is on her knees next to the body. She’s smiling, telling Shin’s father that she’s okay with him killing her. If she does, he won’t be burdened with her anymore. Shin sees this entire exchange.

“You traitor, you scum of the earth,” replies Shin’s father. “I’ll forgive you. Your punishment is to stay by my side until you die.”

Another memory. Shin’s father is lying on the ground, decapitated. A bloody Shin is standing on the dais, looking down at his handiwork. The room becomes dark, and a floating skull with the Geass sigil emblazoned on its forehead appears before him.

“This power will isolate you, you know.”

“I’m prepared for that. Or rather, that’s what I want.”

Shin receives his Geass.

The space-time whirlpool of Shin and Akito’s memories continues to spread. Because of the BRS, countless people’s minds are also entangled, their subconscious exceeds space-time, and it begins to interfere with the real world.

Euro-Britannia manages to storm the castle and the command room, and before anyone can do anything save for screaming not to shoot, everyone in the command room is shot, save for Leila. Klaus jumps in front of her, taking bullets meant for Leila into his back.

Even the leader of the troop who headed the raid said not to shoot, but it’s too late; everyone is lying in their own pool of blood, and Leila is frozen in her place, with Klaus’ body slumped over her.

At this time, Leila’s Geass activates, and she’s taken into the space-time whirlpool again.

She’s inside a memory, and she meets two people, a man and a woman, walking together.

“Is there something you’re looking for, Miss?” the man asks her.

“Darling,” the lady chides the man, “don’t call her Miss. She’s a member of the military, can’t you see?”

It’s Leila’s parents, but younger.

She’s caught up in the whirlpool again, but this time, she’s back in the command center just before everyone was shot, but no one is moving, save for her.

The mysterious space-time lady appears before Leila.

“Who are you?”

“I’m an existence that doesn’t exist to humans,” the lady replies. “But there are people who can see me.”

“Are you like the witch of the forest?” Leila asks her.

“She’s human, just like you.”

She keeps talking. “I wonder if it’s easy for you to comprehend the collection of consciousness. Or even the interference of the evolution of cosmos.”

The space-time lady keeps talking about humans and the Geass, and alludes to Shin’s twisted Geass. The mysterious lady disappears.

Before she knows it, Leila is back in the command room just before it’s stormed by the Euro-Britannia. She brings Shin and Akito back to reality.

The Vercingetorix and Alexander Liberte fight with increasing intensity.

The two brothers end up fighting in the cemetery; Akito jumps out of his Alexander, wielding Ayano’s nodachi. Shin jumps out with his sword, and they start fighting.

Time slows down? The colors distort, and Shin is crazy; he manages to land some blows on Akito.

Seeing this, Leila runs out of the command center, and out into the field towards Shin and Akito. Either it’s because of Leila’s Geass and/or the remnants of the space-time whirlpool, but another memory comes to surface.

A younger Shin has just finished killing his family. Shin is kneeling beside his mother’s dead body.

“Goodbye, mother. You don’t need to suffer anymore.”

He stands, and is about to turn away when baby Akito stands and reaches his arms out to Shin.

“Why… Why aren’t you dead…?”

Back to the present.

SOME WEIRD GHOST SHIT HAPPENS?? Their mother’s ghost appears, trying to protect Akito.

“You loved Akito more than you loved me, that’s why you didn’t kill him!”

“No, I loved you just the same,” replies his mother’s ghost(?).

Shin doesn’t listen and runs his sword through the ghost. She disappears.

The ghost of Manfredi, his adopted mother Maria, and little Alice also show up.

“Your wish to free your loved ones from this curse is…”

“Your kindness will be known, but you may be wrong [about the world].”

“This world might have more possibilities than you think, Brother…”

He goes batshit, and is about to attack Akito again when Leila’s Geass (?????) summons even an image/ghost of the rest of the wZERO troop (including Ashley and the other soldiers that died in Chapter 1), who protect Akito and cause Shin to go even crazier. (I think it’s also here that even Sophie’s comatose husband(?) wakes from his coma.)

Just as Shin is about to deliver the final blow to a wounded Akito, Jean jumps between them.

There’s a gunshot. The blade pierces right through her chest.

“Don’t suffer anymore…” Jean says weakly.

“Jean, what do you know?!”

“I… love you…”

Jean falls down dead, sword still in her chest.

Shin is bleeding from the gun Jean pulled on him when she went to stop him from killing Akito, and he collapses.

Akito rushes over to his brother, who vehemently tells him not to touch him.

Akito’s eyes glow blue with Leila’s Geass (????), which in turn also affect Shin since Akito is still holding on to him.

Another memory:

Shin is walking down an avenue in the countryside, having just finished killing everyone in his family/clan. Little Akito is toddling after him.

Shin tears up, stops walking. Akito catches up to him, and clings to his leg.

“Brother, let’s go home.”

Shin moves away, causing Akito to fall over. He starts crying, and Shin is about to leave him, when he walks back to Akito.

“Stop crying.”

Akito keeps crying.

“Stop crying!”

He turns around, showing his back to Akito as he crouches down.

“Get on.”

He carries Akito on his back as he continues walking.

“Brother, I love you.”

Back to the present, Shin has stopped struggling. He tells Akito to let him go, but this time he says it much more gently.

“Akito, let me go. It’s okay. You’re not alone anymore, so please…”

Shin drags himself over to Jean’s body.

We see Jean standing, and rushing over to hug Shin, and he holds her tightly in an embrace.

“I missed you!”

Shin dies next to Jean, holding her hand.

--

In a fight against the EU (Smilas) and Euro-Britannia, a wormhole opens above the battlefield. Through it, comes Ashley. The Michael Knights are ecstatic to see Ashley again, and they go into battle.

The space-time lady shows up before Smilas.

“You’re the one who is going to die.”

She disappears, leaving Smilas to be killed by Ashley.

--

The caravans of the old Romani ladies are seen travelling through the countryside… It turns out the Michael Knights have abandoned the military life to live with the Romani ladies.

Yukiya is back in the clothes the ladies gave to him, and they’re admiring his new scar.

“Hey, don’t cling to Yukiya!” Ryo tells the ladies.

They come over to him, patting his cheeks. “Your skin is so nice, and as firm as ever.”

Even Ashley is there… He says something, and even the other ladies say hi. He blushes, and stammers out a quiet, “H-hi.” (oh whyyy)

Leila is off to the side, overlooking the beautiful countryside. Akito joins her.

“Are you really sure about this?” he asks her.

“Why do you ask? I’m really enjoying myself living here. Because… What about you, Akito?”

“Of course,” he replies, “after all, I’ve got a big family [now]. Let’s go back to where everyone is, Commander.”

Leila frowns, a slight blush on her cheeks.

“Let’s go, Leila.”

She smiles again, taking his hand, and they walk towards where everyone is.  She pauses in front of Akito, kisses him on the lips, and he drops the firewood he’s holding.

--

There’s a visitor for Julius and Suzaku, come to fetch them and take them home back to Britannia.

“Now, let’s go,” Rolo says, extending his arm towards Suzaku, “Lord Kururugi.”