Chapter Summaries

At the Ashford Academy party, Mahiro explained his role as Lelouch’s teacher and later reunited with Nunnally, who was blind and unable to walk. Nunnally recognized him by his voice and wept as he comforted her.

• Mahiro told the students that he was Lelouch’s teacher and that his rough treatment had been meant to correct Lelouch’s shortcomings.
• Milly revived the party and led Est away to find more tofu dishes.
• Lelouch asked Mahiro to meet Nunnally, and Mahiro brought Alpha along while Nu stayed behind with Old Ashford.
• Mahiro found Nunnally in a wheelchair in the student council activity room and greeted her.
• Nunnally recognized Mahiro’s voice, cried with emotion, and told him how glad she was to see him again.

Mahiro reunited with Nunnally and introduced Alpha, then faced Lelouch’s suspicions about why he had returned. He urged Lelouch to embrace his desire for revenge and promised help, before mysteriously disappearing.

• Nunnally recognized Alpha by her footsteps and scent, and Alpha joined her while Mahiro revealed he would teach at Ashford Academy.
• Mahiro and Lelouch went to the rooftop, where Lelouch challenged Mahiro’s claim that he had come to see Nunnally.
• Lelouch accused Mahiro of knowing about Marianne’s murder and the siblings’ exile, but Mahiro insisted he was not Lelouch’s enemy.
• Mahiro asked whether Lelouch wanted revenge, and Lelouch admitted he did but lacked the power to oppose Britannia.
• Mahiro promised Lelouch would gain power and offered to help him, then vanished before Lelouch could question him.

Mahiro settled at Ashford Academy, monitored Lelouch in hopes of finding C.C., and secretly used magic to restore Nunnally’s legs. The chapter ended with Nunnally asking whether Lelouch had a girlfriend, and Mahiro confirming that girls at school liked him.

• Mahiro confirmed that Lelouch had not yet gained Geass and told Alpha to keep following him to locate C.C.
• Alpha reported that Shadow Garden had established bases in the slums, but Mahiro rejected Gamma’s plan to procure Sakuradite and Knightmares.
• Mahiro treated Nunnally’s legs with magic power, bringing them close to recovery, then helped dry her hair.
• Nunnally told Mahiro that Lelouch had been going out often and asked whether he had a girlfriend.
• Mahiro said girls at school liked Lelouch, and Nunnally asked whether he meant Shirley.

Mahiro prepared Shadow Garden to intervene in the Shinjuku incident after C.C. was captured and the truck carrying her was hijacked. As the resistance operation collapsed, Lelouch gained a power to command others after C.C. appeared to die saving him.

• Mahiro teased Nunnally about his feelings for Alpha before Beta reported that C.C. had been captured and the truck carrying her hijacked.
• Mahiro predicted the Shinjuku crisis and ordered Beta to prepare an operation there as Britannian forces pursued the truck.
• Kallen Stadtfeld, also known as Kallen Kouzuki, rode in the hijacked truck as the resistance tried to escape into the Shinjuku ghetto.
• Mahiro assembled 114 Shadow Garden members and prepared to target C.C. and a Knightmare.
• Lelouch found C.C. apparently dead after she took a bullet saving him, then realized he had gained the power to command others.

Yotsuba Mahiro found Lelouch in the abandoned factory, treated him, and explained the nature and cost of Geass. Lelouch chose to use his Absolute Obedience to begin his revenge against Britannia, and Mahiro announced that his first battle had arrived as engines roared outside.

• Mahiro arrived at the factory, examined the wounded green-haired girl, and found that she was slowly recovering.
• Lelouch used Geass to command Mahiro, but Mahiro resisted and beat him before treating his injuries.
• Mahiro explained that Geass could fulfill its wielder’s wishes but carried a steep price, and that Lelouch’s power was Absolute Obedience.
• Lelouch chose revenge, asked Mahiro to care for Nunnally, and resolved to begin by targeting Clovis and investigating his mother’s death.
• Mahiro agreed to begin Lelouch’s training, but the sound of engines outside signaled that his first battle was already approaching.

Mahiro helped Lelouch seize a Knightmare, then confronted C.C., who had survived his attempt to kill her. Their conversation revealed that Mahiro once killed her repeatedly after her contact with C’s World awakened his destructive Alpha Stigma, and the chapter left them discussing Lelouch’s revenge against Britannia.

• Mahiro explained that Lelouch’s Geass required eye contact and could not affect someone inside a Knightmare, but Lelouch controlled Villetta Nu and took the Knightmare’s key.
• After Lelouch departed, Mahiro disintegrated Villetta and examined C.C., then began unzipping her restraint suit.
• C.C. awoke, stopped Mahiro with a handgun, and pulled her suit closed before they traded barbed remarks about his pursuit of her.
• C.C. recalled how Mahiro’s Alpha Stigma went berserk when she granted him Geass, killing her 137,232 times before he returned to normal.
• C.C. admitted she had fled Britannia out of fear, while Mahiro blamed her for creating Lelouch and warned that his revenge could destroy the world.

Mahiro and C.C. watched as Lelouch took command of the terrorists and used a freight train full of Sutherlands to turn the battle against Britannia. Lelouch’s strategy routed the Britannian forces, though their commander prepared to deploy Kuhnshi’s unit.

• Mahiro and C.C. listened in on Lelouch’s radio call as he persuaded Kallen and the terrorists to follow his orders.
• Lelouch ordered the terrorists to open a freight train and revealed its cargo of active-duty Sutherland Knightmares.
• Lelouch told Kallen to keep using her Glasgow as bait while the others prepared the Sutherlands for battle.
• Lelouch directed the terrorists through a series of precise maneuvers that threw the Britannian forces into disarray.
• A Britannian commander called for Kuhnshi’s unit to deploy.

Clovis ordered a full assault on Shinjuku, but Lelouch’s trap devastated his forces until Lloyd deployed the new Knightmare Lancelot. As Lelouch’s side began to collapse, an unknown third party announced a capture operation over both armies’ communications and began intervening.

• Clovis ordered his Imperial Guard to reinforce the encirclement and commanded the armored forces to destroy the Shinjuku Ghetto.
• Mahiro listened to Clovis’s orders with C.C. and predicted that Clovis’s weakened headquarters defenses would leave him vulnerable.
• Lelouch flipped the ground beneath Shinjuku, wiping out the force Clovis had sent and driving the remaining troops toward headquarters.
• Clovis accepted Lloyd’s offer to deploy Lancelot, which broke through Lelouch’s formation and turned the battle against him.
• An unknown woman broadcast a request to begin a capture operation across both sides’ communications, and an unseen voice authorized it.

Delta and Zeta fought their way through Britannia’s forces before turning on each other, while Alpha sent Beatrice and the other black-clad fighters to capture Lancelot. As Clovis ordered his troops to retreat, Suzaku watched the new attackers slaughter the army around him.

• Delta appeared on the battlefield and destroyed several Knightmares before Zeta arrived and challenged her.
• Delta and Zeta fought each other, then attacked the surrounding mechs when the army opened fire; Zeta used Thousand Blades while Delta tore machines apart with her claws.
• Alpha let Delta and Zeta draw attention away from the operation, then assigned Beatrice to capture Lancelot and ordered the other fighters to assist Omega.
• Clovis ordered his remaining forces to retreat and leave the terrorists to the Special Dispatch’s forces.
• Suzaku, piloting Lancelot, saw the black-clad fighters decimating Britannia’s army.

Beatrice and Shadow Garden captured Suzaku and dismantled Lancelot while Mahiro watched the battle end. Clovis ordered a ceasefire and aid for Shinjuku, as Lelouch confronted him in the command vehicle and Mahiro arrived unseen.

• Beatrice defeated Lancelot, pierced its cockpit armor, and dragged Suzaku out before Shadow Garden dismantled the Knightmare.
• Mahiro invited C.C. to watch the final act and warned her to reconsider whether death was truly the wish she wanted granted.
• Alpha withdrew Shadow Garden from the battlefield, and Clovis unexpectedly ordered Britannian forces to stop fighting and help the wounded.
• Mahiro entered the command vehicle unnoticed as Lelouch, disguised as a soldier, spoke with Clovis in the command center.

Lelouch revealed himself to Clovis, used Geass to question him about Marianne’s death, and killed him after learning little. Mahiro returned to Ashford Academy, where C.C. had secretly taken over his bed and said she was more interested in Mahiro’s hidden secret than in staying with Lelouch.

• Lelouch revealed his identity to Clovis and declared his revenge against Britannia.
• Lelouch used Geass on Clovis, who named Schneizel and Cornelia as possible sources of information about Marianne’s death, then Lelouch killed him.
• Mahiro found Clovis dead and gently closed his eyes before returning to Ashford Academy with pizza.
• Mahiro and Lelouch exchanged messages about the men in black who had appeared on the Shinjuku battlefield, while Nunnally welcomed Mahiro home.
• Mahiro found C.C. lying on his bed, and she told him she was more interested in his secret than in staying beside Lelouch.

C.C. stayed at Mahiro’s room, where their teasing turned into a night together. The next morning, she remained withdrawn, and Mahiro noticed blood on the sheets, realizing she had been a virgin.

• C.C. claimed Mahiro’s bed and told him to sleep on the floor while she planned to mend her torn straitjacket.
• Mahiro folded C.C.’s clothes, then climbed into bed and resisted her attempts to kick him out.
• C.C. provoked Mahiro, and the two spent the night together.
• C.C. woke in Mahiro’s arms but turned away and ignored him until he offered to heat up her pizza.
• Mahiro saw blood on the sheets and realized C.C. had been doing it for the first time.

C.C. reflected on the unfamiliar comfort she felt after spending the night with Mahiro, while he returned to his work as a teacher and student council advisor. At Ashford Academy, Mahiro joined Milly and the others in teasing Lelouch, as Nina worked on a simulation for an antimatter bomb.

• Mahiro left C.C. with pizza and told Nunnally that the noises from his room had come from a stray kitten.
• Mahiro told C.C. he was going to work, and she asked him to bring her pizza when he returned.
• C.C. ate alone after Mahiro left and felt an unfamiliar mix of emotions, including comfort.
• At Ashford Academy, Milly scolded Lelouch for falling asleep, while Mahiro, Shirley, and Rivalz joined in criticizing his behavior.
• Nina Einstein worked at a computer on a simulation of an antimatter bomb.

Mahiro watched Lelouch approach Kallen, whom Lelouch had identified as the Shinjuku pilot Q1, while Kallen began suspecting that both Lelouch and Mahiro were connected to the voices from the radio. The chapter ended with Mahiro publicly reprimanding Lelouch for meeting Kallen as something in Lelouch’s pocket began to vibrate.

• Milly proposed inviting Kallen Stadtfeld to join the student council, and Lelouch recognized her as Q1 from Shinjuku.
• Mahiro found Shirley watching Lelouch and Kallen argue in the garden, then interrupted their conversation by calling Lelouch upstairs.
• Kallen recognized Mahiro’s voice as resembling one heard over the radio and worried that both he and Lelouch might be connected to the Shinjuku operation.
• Mahiro scolded Lelouch for breaking the school’s dating rules, and Lelouch apologized while understanding that Mahiro was covering for him.
• Something in Lelouch’s pocket began to vibrate.

Mahiro explained Lelouch’s Geass to him and relayed Milly’s request for Kallen to join the student council. Kallen reflected on her resistance past and agreed to join after Mahiro found her on the rooftop.

• C.C. called Mahiro to demand pizza, and Lelouch told him that C.C. had appeared and claimed to be his contractor.
• Lelouch asked why his Geass had failed on Kallen, and Mahiro explained that he would have to learn its limits himself.
• Milly messaged Mahiro to invite Kallen to the student council and summoned Lelouch to the clubroom.
• Kallen called Ohgi, complained about school, and agreed to lie low while keeping her search for the people connected to Shinjuku in mind.
• Mahiro approached Kallen on the rooftop, teased her about her skirt, and invited her to join the student council.
• Kallen accepted the invitation without hesitation.

Kallen joined Ashford Academy's student council and pressed Yotsuba Mahiro about whether he had been in Shinjuku. At the student council gathering, Mahiro brought pizza upstairs to C.C., who had been watching it from the railing.

• Kallen accepted Mahiro's invitation to join the student council, then confronted him on the rooftop about Shinjuku, but he evaded her question.
• Mahiro teased Kallen about how their closeness might look to others, and a gust of wind slammed the rooftop door open before they headed to the student council clubhouse.
• Milly welcomed Kallen and introduced her to the student council members, including Lelouch, Shirley, Rivalz, Nina, and Nunnally.
• Mahiro noticed C.C. watching the unopened pizza boxes from the second floor and carried the pizzas upstairs for her.
• C.C. asked Mahiro to open the pizza boxes for her.

Mahiro brought Kallen clean clothes after Milly accidentally drenched her with champagne, then teased and disarmed her when she tried to question him about Shinjuku. Back in the student council hall, he learned Nina had lost a memory drive containing important data.

• C.C. gave Mahiro a chip that Nina had dropped, and he pocketed it to return it to her.
• Milly's shaken champagne soaked Kallen, so Mahiro brought her a change of clothes while she showered.
• Kallen pulled Mahiro into the shower and threatened him with a dagger, but he disarmed her and warned her not to reveal her combat skills at school.
• Mahiro introduced Kallen to the student council before returning to the hall and finding everyone searching for something Nina had lost.
• Nina told Mahiro that her missing memory drive held important data, even though she had already backed it up.

Mahiro returned Nina’s memory chip and discussed her Sakuradite research before helping Nunnally stand and take her first steps. The chapter ended with news that Suzaku Kururugi had been arrested for Clovis’s murder, shocking Lelouch and Nunnally.

• Mahiro returned Nina’s memory chip and explained how mass decomposition could produce far more energy than annihilation reactions, inspiring her to run new simulations.
• Milly watched Mahiro and Nina talk, then the campus settled into a quiet period as Mahiro and C.C. grew more intimate.
• Mahiro guided Nunnally out of her wheelchair, and she stood and took an unsteady first step while Lelouch embraced her in tears.
• Mahiro considered asking Maya Yotsuba to help with Nunnally’s Geass-related blindness.
• A television report announced that Suzaku Kururugi had been arrested as the suspect in Clovis’s murder, leaving Lelouch stunned and Nunnally distressed.

After Suzaku Kururugi was framed for Clovis's murder and arrested, Lelouch decided to rescue his old friend, with Mahiro agreeing to help. On the day Lelouch was due to meet Red Moon, Mahiro instead headed to Shinjuku.

• Jeremiah interrogated and beat Suzaku, accusing him of killing Clovis and other Britannian personnel.
• Kallen received a call from the masked figure who had arranged the ceasefire in Shinjuku and was told to meet at Old Tokyo Tower.
• Mahiro comforted Nunnally, while Lelouch revealed that he had killed Clovis and wanted to save Suzaku because they had been friends.
• Mahiro agreed to help Lelouch rescue Suzaku, warning him not to regret his choice.
• Lelouch left to meet Red Moon with his custom outfit, while Mahiro departed for Shinjuku.

Mahiro visited Shadow Garden’s underground research base to review the dismantled Lancelot Z-01 and discovered Ita had worked for a week without sleep. After hearing Beta’s research report, he ordered the robot’s parts returned to Lloyd Asplund so Shadow Garden could capture and study the rebuilt Knightmare again.

• Nu led Mahiro through a hidden underground entrance to Shadow Garden’s research base, where he met the exhausted Ita.
• Ita said she had not slept for a week, so Mahiro took her tablet and sent her to bed.
• Mahiro summoned Beta and Number 559, reprimanded them for failing to stop Ita, and asked them to explain the research results.
• Beta reported that Ita had mastered the Lancelot Z-01’s systems and that Shadow Garden’s Knightmare design was still at the blueprint stage.
• Mahiro ordered the dismantled Lancelot parts sent to the Governor-General’s Palace so Lloyd Asplund could rebuild the Knightmare for Shadow Garden to capture and study again.