"You would prefer prolonged weakness and vulnerability to an impossibly brief death? I know you're bleeding, Lady Britannia. You're in more pain than you have ever known in your life. Britannia has never suffered so great a blow in its life than that.

"The longer we remain here, the more likely it is for others to see you in this state. As we get closer to the start of class for the day, more and more students will wake up. And should Nanami find you, she won't give you the option. She views killing a student as an efficient solution to a student trespassing from their campus, or merely being a pest. Proud, strong, empire, or otherwise.

"Would you prefer to be killed by your Emperor, or by a stranger, a Japanese stranger?" Even without the Geass his words were dangerous. But even he wasn't so sure why he was so focused on shooting her. Maybe he saw it as another aspect of his revenge. But he didn't need to consider that now.