Kallen Kozuki Quotes

For this to land the series had to build a character who already knew, from the inside, that a person and a persona can be split and the split maintained for years. Kallen has spent the whole first season being two people: Kōzuki, half-Japanese, in the cockpit of the Guren, and Stadtfeld, the frail Britannian heiress who misses class for her health. She performs the second one so well that Lelouch, of all people, is briefly fooled by it. So when she learns that the mask she followed has her classmate's face under it, she is not confused by the idea that they could be different people; she is the one character equipped to insist on it. Believing in Zero and rejecting Lelouch is not denial. It is a woman who lives as two names refusing to let him collapse his.

The answer she gets is laughter, and a line about her being his most useful piece, a well-played knight. It is a lie, and the lie is the only thing in the hangar that saves her: the Black Knights have their guns on him, Schneizel has just played the Geass card, and an honest reply would have put her on the wrong side of the line they are about to draw. So he insults her out of the firing zone. What it costs him is the last witness who could have spoken for him from the inside. Every person who ends the series knowing what he was is one who cannot be hurt by knowing it: Suzaku, C.C., Jeremiah. Kallen is left with the insult, a kiss he does not answer, and a mourning she has to do for a tyrant. He protected her with the one thing she asked him not to do, which is deceive her.