After ten years it was finally time.
The world was united; people had come together not as separate nations but as one body of people who share the same world. When one nation suffered the UN, which now included members from every nation, pooled their resources and ended the suffering.
The world was not perfect, I don't think it ever will be, but the rare fight or two we have now are just simple fights, isolated battles lasting no longer than a week. There are no longer any wars; people have learned to settle problems without subjecting innocents to the horror of war.
I am content… and yet I cannot be happy.
My brother…
He died ten years ago, perhaps died is not the right word. He sacrificed himself so that I, the world, and the future could live in peace.
That is why I cannot be happy. I live in a world that I have dreamed of since I was a child, but it is a world without my brother, my support, my one constant.
That is why I can only be content. To live in a world that is only peaceful because of the hatred directed towards the one person that was willing to give everything up for this serenity; it is so very painful.
That is why after ten years it is time.
Enough time has passed that the world is ready for the truth.
Today I will finally reveal the plot behind the visage of the Demon Emperor and shed the hatred and anger that my brother's memory holds.
It has been ten years since he died and it has been ten years since I started to collect the evidence - the memories, photos, eye witness', anything I could in order to clear his name.
"Lelouch" I whisper as I turn toward the stage where the world is waiting to hear what the Empress of Britannia has to say "It begins today."