Suzaku let his silent tears flow unbidden under the heavy mask of Zero. This was the final step in Zero Reqiem. Suzaku had prepared himself endlessly for this moment, but the mixed emotions inside him still tore him apart. It seemed as if the world was bent on having him kill the people closest to him. But he slid the sword of Zero out of the original Zero, knowing that this was atonement and punishment, as Lelouch had said before. He could no longer show his face as Kururugi Suzaku. He was Zero.
Nunally, shackled by her brother, gaped as said brother slid ungracefully down the rampart. And she couldn't help but remember the compassionate brother that protected her everytime. And she reached out, to touch him one more time, and she discovered how everything in Zero Requiem was for a better world, and that her brother had shouldered the greatest burden known as the world's haterd without relenting. And she was mad, that Lelouch couldn't realize that she would have been happy with just him, that the world would forever deface Lelouch's name, that ... She screamed with all she could, trying to prevent Lelouch to go to the other side. But Lelouch had, with his last breath, ushered in a new world.
Kallen didn't understand how there was a Zero when Lelouch was on the throne, bu she knew it was planned. And as Zero's sword pierced Lelouch, she understood what had happened. Besides her were similarly devastated prisoners, comprehending that it was, after all, just another act. And that was the moment she vowed to remember Lelouch as everything he had been, not just as the Demon King. For his greatest achievement was his death, and she would simply not allow herself to forget what the man who died had been.
Princess Cornelia watched through the shutter of the window, and as she realized, a second after her half-brother had died, she knew that she would mourn him later. After she freed the prisoners.
C.C. let the tears flow, her emotions truly show after a millennium. She had prayed desperately, but to no avail. Zero Requiem's conditions had been fulfilled. She noted, with sorrow, that Lelouch had been the only one to finish his mission, and that he had accepted her without prejudice, and she forgave him for not fulfilling the contract. She no longer wished to end her 'life', her accumulation of experiences. She wished to find some else, perhaps another in a century from now, with the same abilities, and spur on another revolution. But first, she had to get over this revolution. And all the spectators cheered, and all those who knew the truth fell silent. And a peace of a thousand years fell upon the world, later referred as the Liberated age.
