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:
V.V. found him first. The eerie, ageless boy took Rai to a cathedral of shadows where he was not a student, but a weapon . Here, Rai learned to overwrite minds completely. He became a ghost for the Geass Order, erasing key Britannian generals. But when he looked in a mirror, he saw only static. When Lelouch finally cornered him, Zero whispered, “You are not a person. You are a loaded gun. Is that how you want to die?” Rai pulled the trigger on himself—but the Geass rewound time, trapping him in a loop of his own erasure. Code Geass - Hangyaku no Lelouch - Lost Colors ...
The stench of Geass .
He was recruited by the Viceroy’s elite, the Glinda Knights. Under the stern but honorable Lady Nonette Enneagram, Rai learned to fight. He used his Geass to interrogate terrorists, extracting the location of the Black Knights’ HQ. He stood opposite Kallen Stadtfeld in a burning ghetto. She screamed, “You have their faces! Japanese faces! How can you serve them?!” Rai didn’t answer. He couldn’t. He couldn’t remember if he was Japanese. He won the battle but lost his soul, becoming a silent, loyal puppet of Britannia. But Shirley kept a seat empty at lunch
But Rai soon realized the school was a battlefield. The charismatic, aloof Lelouch Lamperouge watched him with cold, calculating eyes. The gentle chess master, Rivalz, laughed too loudly. And the doll-like nun, C.C., would stare at him while eating pizza, whispering, “You have the same stench as him.” found him first
Rai stood at the school’s rooftop, his body flickering like a bad signal. He realized the truth: He was not a person. He was a safety valve —a Geass created by a rogue scientist to reset the timeline if Lelouch failed. His entire existence was a contingency plan.
When the light faded, he ran. He ran until he collapsed at the gates of the private Ashford Academy.