Kamen Rider Date A Live

"Saying you'd rather stop killing... well then, destroy Britannia!"

Stepping out of the shadows of the carriage, Lelouch looked at the soldier before him and let out a roar filled with rage.

"You...Lelouch?!"

At that moment, through a sliver of light filtering through the truck door, the soldier finally identified the person before him, and the name he uttered stunned Lelouch.

"It's me! I'm Suzaku!"

He removed his combat helmet, goggles, and respirator, revealing a rather handsome face. The soldier had brown hair and tea-green eyes, and it was a very familiar face. Upon seeing this face, Lelouch was first stunned, then his expression turned to shock.

"Suzaku...you've become a soldier in Britannia?"

Lelouch's expression was somewhat incredulous, but deep down he was very happy. Suzaku had been his childhood friend, and it was indeed a wonderful thing to meet him after so many years... Of course, it would have been even better if they could have met in a different location.

"And you? Could it be that this..."

What are you talking about?

Just as Suzaku was about to say something, several cracks suddenly appeared in the container, which resembled a spaceship's return capsule. At the same time, a burst of intense light shot out through the cracks, and then all the fixing pillars on the container opened, releasing a stream of gas accompanied by the bright light from the opened container.

"Hey? What are you doing?"

The instant the container shifted, Suzaku, with lightning speed, covered Lelouch's mouth and nose, tackled him to the ground, and simultaneously placed his own respirator over Lelouch's mouth. When Lelouch inexplicably broke free from Suzaku, he was immediately stunned by the "object" revealed inside the container.

"Not...poison gas?"

Looking at the "object" inside the container, Suzaku uttered a dry sentence. Although she was wrapped in a straitjacket and had unusual hair color, this beautiful woman looked completely unrelated to poison gas!

The other end underground

"Sorry for contacting you at this time."

The red Glasgow was now in a terrible state; it was hard to imagine what kind of resistance it had encountered. Inside the mech, the red-haired tomboy was talking to someone through a communication device.

It's alright, Glasgow's radio will still come in handy. Speaking of which, that...

"Ah, just like the intelligence said, that should be poison gas." At this moment, the red-haired tomboyish girl was using her brief rest time to replenish her fluids.

What about Nagata?

"I don't know, I think it must be underground."

Meanwhile, inside the truck cab, a man with a ponytail, who had been shot and was bleeding profusely, let out a weak cry.

"Answer me, Suzaku, is this girl poison gas?"

Lelouch and Suzaku were trying to untie the green-haired girl's straitjacket (undress her?) while discussing the poison gas. Just then, Lelouch removed the restraints from the girl's mouth.

"I don't know either. The mission instructions clearly stated that it was poison gas."

Suzaku answered Lelouch, and just as he untied the girl's leg restraints, two spotlights shone on the three of them, and nine soldiers appeared before them.

"You monkey!" One of the nine, who seemed to be the captain, glared at the two men helping the green-haired girl free herself. "Honorary Britannians have no right to do such things!"

"But I heard it was poison gas!" Suzaku ran up to the captain to explain how he and Lelouch had helped the girl escape, but the captain immediately interrupted him.

"You have no right to argue!"

Upon seeing this, Lelouch's heart began to pound violently, and an ominous aura spread around him. His gaze involuntarily fell upon the green-haired girl leaning against him.

'Oh no! This is definitely poison, and a potent one at that, enough to make the Suzaku leadership eliminate everyone who knew about it!!'

"However, based on your achievements, I've decided to give you a chance." Sure enough, the captain, who had initially been criticizing Suzaku, suddenly changed his tone, seemingly wanting to give Suzaku a chance to "atone for his mistakes."

"Private First Class Kururugi, use this to kill the terrorist." The captain pulled out a pistol and presented it to Suzaku. As long as Suzaku used this gun to kill Lelouch, there wouldn't be any problems, but…

"Huh? He's not! He's just an ordinary citizen who was accidentally dragged into this..."

Faced with the captain's order, Suzaku anxiously turned back to look at Lelouch, who was frozen in shock (and charging up his power), and hurriedly explained to the captain,

"Enough with the nonsense! This is an order! Didn't you pledge allegiance to Britannia?"

Lelouch's expression twisted slightly; he gritted his teeth, his once handsome face now filled with anxiety and unease. But the next moment, Suzaku's answer stunned him.

"That's... but I can't do it!"

"What?!" The captain's voice deepened, his eyes now filled with murderous intent.

"I won't do that, shooting civilians, shooting him like that." Suzaku turned to look at Lelouch, seemingly encouraging him with his words and strength. The next moment, a cold gun...

The gun was pressed against Suzaku's lower back.

"Then, go die!"

boom!

"Suzaku!!!"

Lelouch stared in horror as Suzaku lay dead in a pool of blood. Then, the captain who had killed Suzaku turned his gaze to Lelouch and the green-haired girl.

"Judging from your appearance, you must be a student from Britannia. What bad luck." Looking at Lelouch, whose eyes were filled with panic and fear, the captain's lips curled into a cruel smile.

"Arrest that girl, and shoot the students on the spot!"

"Yes, my load!"

At the very moment the captain gave the order, Nagata, bleeding profusely in the truck's cab and barely clinging to life, after hearing everything that had just happened, raised his now-cold right hand, and with difficulty and trembling, reached for the truck's self-destruct button.

“Those… bastards from Britannia…”

He lifted a small black cover and took one last look at the photo next to the self-destruct button. It was a picture of himself, his wife, and their six-month-old child. If Britannia hadn't invaded, he might be living a happy life with his wife and child right now, but now…

With a final flicker of tenderness in his eyes, Nagata pressed the self-destruct button without hesitation!

"Long live Japan!"

...

...

The day of the birth of the third Rebellious 'Demon King' (3)

The day of the birth of the third Rebellious 'Demon King' (3)

—In a dark world—

A pair of black and white eyes suddenly opened, looking in front of them at the Vermilion Bird lying on the ground, its life hanging in the balance.

(Someone suited for Gatack power? Well... um? Incompatible with this world's power system? That's troublesome. Well, I'll just modify him into a Gatack mech. Now it should be...)

After a long silence, the black and white eyes sighed.

(How chaotic is this? Gatack mechs actually appeared 7 years ago?! ...Do I have to go back 7 years? This is so troublesome! But now...)

(Hey! If you're going to die, at least sign the contract before you die! Suzaku Kururugi!!)

—In the real world—

When Nagata pressed the self-destruct button, Shinjuku Outskirts...

"You're saying they escaped? Is this what you call a royal guard?!" Inside the army command vehicle, the obese, bald general roared at the screen.

"Uh, I'm so sorry! Although the blast has spread from above, the bedrock was..." A voice from a member of the royal guard came through the walkie-talkie on the screen, but before he could finish, the bald general interrupted him.

"Why do you think I only told you the information?!"

"I...we'll continue the search."

While the bald general below was reprimanding his personal guard, Clovis, sitting alone in the commander's seat, rested his forehead on one hand and calmly spoke a few words.

"The operation needs to move to the next phase." Upon hearing this, the bald general was taken aback.

"But, Your Highness..."

"If that thing becomes known to the outside world, I will be deposed. Tell the country that this is an unavoidable event caused by military exercises... I, as the Third Prince Clovis, hereby give this order!"

At this point, Clovis's voice rose, and he stood up from his seat, waving his right hand sharply forward!

"Completely destroy the Shinjuku slums!"

The moment this order was given, the entire Shinjuku district was plunged into a bloody massacre!

"Do you understand? Stay here and behave yourself."

At the long-abandoned subway entrance, Lelouch and the green-haired girl lay prone. Just as Lelouch tiptoed out to take a look, a gunshot rang out, startling him into pulling his head back in.

"How was it?" After killing the residents of Area 11 who had fled here, the same captain reappeared with his soldiers.

"Only residents of District 11," the soldier reported, implying that they hadn't found the person they were looking for. As for who that person was? Need I say more?

Lelouch looked at the beautiful green-haired girl beside him, and the green-haired girl looked at him as well. But Lelouch did not feel embarrassed at all. Instead, he was filled with endless questions. What secrets did this girl have that made the upper echelons of the military so crazy?

There should be another exit nearby.

"Yes, that's how the map outside the old city is drawn."

Just then, the sound of a child crying came from beneath the body of a female civilian in front of them. Hearing the cry, Lelouch turned around abruptly, but less than two seconds later, a gunshot rang out, and the child was silenced forever.

Lelouch's eyes trembled. This was the real battlefield, where killing and being killed, bullets and bloodshed, showed no mercy just because you were a child. Everyone on the battlefield was a weapon of slaughter. It was so real, so... tragic...

Beep beep beep!

"Forehead!"

As luck would have it, a cell phone suddenly rang from Lelouch's pocket. Lelouch's heart skipped a beat, and he reflexively turned off the phone, but it was too late. The soldiers and the captain had already noticed them.

Ashford Academy

"..." Hearing the hanging-up sound from the phone, the orange-haired girl blinked, then incredulously complained loudly into the phone.

"He's dead! That Lelouch!"

Boom!

Lelouch and the green-haired girl, like two pitiful lambs, were easily grabbed by the soldiers. They were then dragged to the north wall of the room, where Lelouch was slammed against it with a rifle butt. The green-haired girl wavered slightly, but was restrained by the two soldiers watching over her.

"That really does fit the image of a terrorist on their deathbed!" The captain's slightly mocking voice echoed in the empty room.

"you!"

Leaning against the wall, Lelouch gritted his teeth, raised his head to face the group of soldiers in front of him, and knew that if nothing went wrong, he was doomed to die today!

"However, you have worked very hard as a student, as expected of a Britannian! But your future ends here!"

The captain raised the pistol that had killed Suzaku. At that moment, Lelouch, sweating profusely, abruptly closed his eyes—an instinctive reaction. In his heart, besides the fear and despair of impending death, there was also a slow, simmering resentment. But resentment was useless now; in just about three more seconds, he would be…

"Don't kill him!"