Cornelia li Britannia Quotes

Two names, in ascending order of what they cost her, and the second one is the bill for an accident. The series had spent an entire season making the audience like the sister being asked about, then let a slip of a command turn her into an atrocity, and this is the moment it hands the arithmetic to the person who has to live inside it. Nothing in the reply Lelouch gives is adequate, which is the point.

Schneizel answers Cornelia's alarm with a catalog of problems that people want removed: deprivation, discrimination, corruption, and war. Cornelia refuses to let the desirability of those ends settle the question of civilian killing. His next explanation broadens the proposed attacks, and she objects that their agreement concerned using the weapons against Lelouch. Her protest therefore has a limit worth keeping in view. She is not speaking from an established refusal of force; she is contesting the scope and justification of this plan. That makes the objection more credible as an interruption between allies, though less complete as a general ethic. Schneizel cannot dismiss it as mere ignorance of their shared purpose. Cornelia accepts that there was a campaign to conduct and still insists that this reasoning exceeds what she agreed to. The promised destination does not authorize every route taken in its name. The tension between her earlier agreement and her present objection is worth retaining. A protest does not need to come from an innocent person to identify a real violation, and prior participation need not make every later limit meaningless.