Lelouch Lamperouges aspiration to annihilate the Holy Britannian Empire is gradually dissolving. His sister Nunnally has been abducted by Schneizel el Britannia, and Suzaku Kururugi disregards his earnest pleas for aid. The Black Knights are progressively losing confidence in Lelouch as their leader, and the United Federation of Nations has proclaimed a worldwide conflict on Britannia. Having endured multiple acts of treachery, an immense reduction in power, and an intensifying animosity towards Emperor Charles zi Britannia, the incapacitated Lelouch makes a final resolution: if he cannot obliterate the Empire from beyond its borders, he will seize control of it from within.