elia shot up to his feet as the sound of explosion, screams, and firearms echoed from the stadium.

  “What is happening?!”

  Kanon and Suzaku immediately went into a defeance before their respective master in a protective.

  Oher hand, Darlton immediately turowards Zero, pulled his gun from within his suit, and aimed it at him.

  “Is this your doing, Zero?! Did you keep us here to distract us- Aah!!”

  A bck blur swatted away the gun in Darlton’s hand, causing him to shout from the sudden striking pain.

  And in a blink of ahey all looked in shock to see Mordred suddenly standing before Darlton, shielding Zero from him.

  “Is this how a Britannian General acts in the midst of a crisis? Panic? Try and utilize your mind for a moment, and you’ll uand that we gain nothing from causing such a thing with so many Japanese people in this stadium?”

  He held his hand in pain as he gred at the man in the devil's mask. A raging fury brewing within his heart.

  “Why you-”

  “Darlton!”

  Darlton snapped out of his fury and turowards the fuschia-haired princess at the sound of her beautiful, yet stern, voibsp;

  “Y-Yes, my princess!”

  “Check the situation outside! Make sure of the security of this venue first!”

  “Y-Yes!”

  Darlton immediately began reag out to his subordihrough his earpiece. And as he did, elia stood up from her chair and aimed her own gun at Mordred’s head, who stood between her and Zero.

  “If he tells me that your Bights are the one behind this… Then I will pull the trigger.”

  “Go ahead.”

  elia narrowed her eyes and instinctively ched ontun tighter, taken aback by the fidence Mordred exuded even before her muzzle.

  And soon, Darlton received some answers, and his usually stern, scarred face, ashened.

  “What…? Are you serious…? But why…?”

  “General Darlton, what happened?

  Standing up from his seat, Seizel asked in a cold, steely tohat belied his usual gentle impression.

  “The purist fa… had begun shooting the elevens… in the name of the “Mstar”.”

  Euphemia and Suzaku gasped in shod horror, while the rest wideheir eyes in shock at his words and the name he uttered.

  The name “Mstar”... The utterance of that name alone was enough to send shivers down their spine.

  The symbol edy, cruelty, aremist belief that even Britannia was ashamed of aowledging. The name of the devil himself who became the father of the on that brought upon war of immense destru onto the world.

  The purist fa they thought had been reformed and no longer held the same extreme belief of the “Mstar”, nor the same influend power... They didn’t think they would show their fangs in such a moment.

  “Mordred, go and assess the situation! Use the Excalibur if need be!”

  “Yes!”

  In a shog speed, Mordred ran out of the room in a blink of an eye while Zero turowards Euphemia, who was still in a state of pure shobsp;

  “Princess Euphemia, please grant the Bights access into the stadium to help with the situation.”

  Euphemia snapped out of her shod turowards Zero. Her whole body trembled and shook at the sheer thought of the tragedy that was currently happening iadium.

  But despite the fear, she steeled her heart and raised up from her seat.

  “Granted. General Darlton, inform your subordio not attack members of the Bights! Focus oralizing the purist fa and prevent them from harming the people of Japan!

  Darlton looked at the pink-haired princess for a moment, and g his princess and the prinbsp;

  “Do it. Do not let the purist fa harm the citizens of the special zone!”

  Both of them him, and the general salute to the third princess.

  “Yes, yhness!”

  Darlton immediately ran out of the meeting room and began taking charge in the field, while Zero used his unication device to issue his orders to the Bights.

  “Tohdoh! Q-1! There has been a situation! Protect the Japanese people from the purist fa! The Britannians will be assisting us! Remember, only target the ones who are trying to harm the Japanese!”

  [“We’ve already sortied! And thank you for the warning. Or else, we would’ve massacred all the Brittanians in this stadium.”]

  Zero Tohdoh’s response and turowards the three Britannian royal family members.

  “I will be heading out to assess the situation as well.”

  “So do I. I will have my army protect… the citizens of the special zone.”

  elia stepped forward, her hands ched into a tight fist.

  She didn’t expect such a thing to happen… Not from Britannia…! Those extremist fools!

  “Suzaku! Go and protect the Japanese people too!”

  “Yes, my princess!”

  The moment he was given permission, Suzaku saluted and immediately run out of the room.

  And as Zero and elia were about to follow, Seizel’s voice stopped them iracks.

  “Zero… I apologize for this mishap…”

  Zero gnced back at the sed prince. He could see the genuine shod disbelief in his eyes… And a look of pure horror at the thought of what could be happening outside right now.

  As someone who preferred things to be settled through politistead of a bloody war, Lelouch could imagihe sheer turmoil his half elder brother must be feeling now.

  “Save your apologies for ter, yhness. Though depending on the scale of this attack… we might be on different sides of the battlefield once more. I hope you uand.”

  “...”

  Zero turned around once more a.

  elia stood frozen as the implication of this tragedy set in… She ched her hands, and walked out of the room as well to and her army, leaving Prince Seizel and his aide alone…

  The automatic door opened and closed as the Chief ander of the Britannian army and princess left the room.

  And immediately, a loud, heavy bang echoed throughout the room as Seizel smmed his fist onto the table.

  “Damn it!!!”

  “M-My prince…”

  Kanon came closer to his prince, worried.

  This… This was the first time he had ever seen suger ing from the calm, gentle, ever-smiling prince. Aainly the first time he had ever seen him sm a table that hard.

  “Find out who’s responsible for this… And execute all of them uhe crime of killing i citizens, endangering multiple members of the royal family, going against the direand of the royal family, provoking war, and any other crime you pin them for! No matter their background!”

  “Yes, yhness!!!”

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  Yuuji ran to his Excalibur as fast as he could.

  And immediately upoering into the open space of the stadium field, a se of absolute age weled him.

  Crimson red blood colored the green grass and lifeless bodies, all strewn about the field.

  There were some Britannian soldiers who had fallen by stray bullets and became part of colteral damage.

  But almost every single dead body was the Japanese, who came in hopes of starting over and living peacefully.

  Those who chose to trust the princess and Britannia to live a life of pead happihat they stole from them.

  And now… These people, who simply yearned for peace, were mowed down by the merciless gunshots of the Britannian Knightmare Frames.

  “Dammit all!!!”

  Two Suthernds, who noticed a figure in bck running at shog speed, immediately turowards him, and readied their rifles.

  “Hah! There he is! The filthy devil who protected the scums!!!”

  “Taste these bullets, you filthy eleven!!! In the name of Mstar, die!!!”

  A hail of massive, pierg bullets desigo pierce through steel armor rained upon Yuuji.

  But, with an immense speed that shocked them, the bck figure weaved and dodged through the hail of bullets, letting it pierce the ground, creating tiny craters in its wake.

  “What the-?!”

  “Don’t stop shooting!!!”

  They tio press the trigger, but not a single one mao hit Mordred. And when they finally emptied their magazine, Mordred had passed through them and reached the Excalibur.

  “R-Reload!!! Quick!!!”

  The two pilots of the purist fa began fumbling as panic began to eat away at their hearts.

  They had never expected the lowly eleven to do such a ridiculous thing as to avoid every single bullet they sprayed onto him.

  And although they looked down upon him… They had see-bightmare tore through even the most elite pilots under Princess elia.

  They khey would not stand a ce he got into the Excalibur.”

  Yuuji leaped up onto the knees of the kneeling Excalibur, then to its shoulder, and into the cockpit. And the momeered, he activated the Excalibur, and lights began alight around him.

  The terrible se of age appeared on all of his monitors as it dispyed the outside world iime. The sharp details of bloody corpses, lifeless, pained expressions of the dead, and the despair of those who still lived yet stand before death were too clearly dispyed.

  It was at moments like this that he hated the fact that the Excalibur was extremely teologically advanced.

  “Yes! It finally worked! Now time to- Eh?”

  The two purist pilots finally mao reload their guns. But the moment they looked up to shoot, they saw the jet-bck figure of the infamous “Devil” right in front of them, before disappearing just as quickly.

  They both froze in sheer fear and shobsp;

  Was it… Was it just their imagination…? Were they scared enough to the point that they began halluating…?

  No… That’s just ridiculous… There’s no way they’d be this scared of an Eleven.

  But just then, four crashing sounds shem out of their daze.

  *Crash* *Crash* *Crash* *Crash*

  “Huh?”

  “W-What happened…?”

  They looked down through their Suthernds, and saw both of their arms on the ground, disected from their torso.

  They could see the inner maeries on the shoulder part of their arms on the ground. But… It shouldn’t look like that. This looks more like… a cross se of what they’re supposed to be.

  It was as if… they were cut so perfectly.

  Then, they felt their knightmare moving… But they weren’t moving it themselves.

  And in the moment, the world began to spin and the sky quickly filled their monitors before a heavy crash rocked their entire body.

  “Arrgh!”

  “Kuhh!”

  The torso of the two suthernds crashed onto the ground, having “slid off” their legs that remaianding on the ground before them.

  And before they could process what just happehey saw the jet-bight above them, looking dht at them.

  It raised its legs, letting it see the underh of its foot, before all their s went dark, and their cockpit alight with red, warning lights.

  Yuuji smashed both of the Suthernd’s heads and cut both of their Ssh Harkens. And after finishing them off, Yuuji immediately rushed to hunt down the rest of the purist fa withiadium.

  “I swear… I swear I will not let a single one of you go…!”

  He vowed with a growl under his breath as anger… and guilt g his heart.

  He truly didn’t expect that the “background” the Group Chat gave him… would lead to such a tragedy.

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