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During the commemoration ceremony for the Special Administration Region of Japan, Zero and Euphemia privately discuss Japan's future. She convinces him of her views. However, Lelouch suddenly loses control of his Geass while he jokingly tells her to kill the Japanese. The Geass controlled Euphemia orders a massacre of the people attending the ceremony. Blaming himself, a resolute Lelouch decides to salvage the situation by declaring Euphemia's SAR a trap and ordering the Black Knights to engage the Britannian forces, protect the Japanese, and stop Euphemia.