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“You gave me ten seconds of peace,” Lelouch said. “That’s more than anyone else has. Stay. Be my ‘zero.’”

“See you in the next cycle, Rai.”

The battle stopped. Just for a moment.

The stench of Geass .

But C.C. warned him: “If you don’t pick a side, the world will pick for you.”

When the timeline reset, the transfer student from Ashford Academy was just a rumor. A ghost in the club room. A half-finished painting in the art shed.

Rai smiled. For the first time, his eye didn’t burn with Geass. It simply saw . Code Geass - Hangyaku no Lelouch - Lost Colors ...

The boy woke to the smell of ozone and rust. He was lying in a tangle of scrap metal and broken concrete in the Tokyo Settlement’s underground industrial sector. Above him, a single, flickering holographic sign read: “Ashford.”

“I can’t,” Rai replied. “Because I was never really here. I’m the color that doesn’t exist on any palette. The lost color.”

When the light faded, he ran. He ran until he collapsed at the gates of the private Ashford Academy. “You gave me ten seconds of peace,” Lelouch said

He was found by a frantic, green-haired girl named Shirley Fenette. “Are you hurt? What happened to your uniform?” she asked, mistaking his civilian rags for a lost cosplay.

But Shirley kept a seat empty at lunch. Lelouch left a second king on the chessboard. And C.C., eating her pizza alone, whispered to the wind:

He closed his eyes. The world rewound one last time—not to erase him, but to ensure he was never needed again. Be my ‘zero

This was the “Lost Colors” route—the true ending. Rai refused to choose. He played basketball with Suzaku. He helped Shirley bake a cake. He argued with Lelouch about the ethics of revolution over a chessboard.