Before he could answer, a black limousine arrived. Out stepped the Student Council President, Milly Ashford, with a grin as wide as a shark’s. “A stray? How delicious . He’s our new transfer student.”
“See you in the next cycle, Rai.”
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.
He had no name. No memory. No past.
Rai’s Geass was different from Lelouch’s. It wasn’t absolute command. It was resonance . He could “link” with a person’s deepest wish, amplifying their loyalty, love, or hatred. And with every use, his memory crumbled further.
When the light faded, he ran. He ran until he collapsed at the gates of the private Ashford Academy.
