Chapter 329 The Truth

mid march

The rebellious Lelouch, after firing several tear gas canisters in succession this season, is finally coming to the final ending as planned.

At the same time, this week, the average volume sales of Sword Art Online's single volume officially exceeded 28 million.

As everyone in the industry said, Xia Yan's only enemy now is himself.

Sword Art Online has been growing in popularity in the past two or three years since its birth. At this moment, it has become a popular work with an annual output value of more than 10 to 2 billion.

And as the serialization time increases, the commercial value of Sword Art Online will continue to grow.

For full-time hunters, after the plot ends from the Sky Tower chapter, it quickly enters the Phantom Troupe chapter.

Although it is only the early plot of the chapter, the distinctive characters in the Phantom Troupe have appeared one after another, and they are constantly refreshing fans' expectations for this work.

Nowadays, the average sales volume of comic books has exceeded 26 million copies, which is only a few hundred thousand behind the historical first place.

In fact, no one in the entire Dragon Kingdom doubted whether a full-time hunter could achieve this achievement.

In fact, whether it is Lelouch, Sword Art Online or Hunter, they are indeed excellent, but they are not so exaggerated. After the three works are released, they can easily set records in the Dragon Kingdom.

Normally speaking, if you are a new creator, serializing for the first time in your life, and put these three works on the market, you will definitely not be able to achieve the current results.

But the important link between these works is Xia Yan.

Just like the Marvel Universe in a parallel world, starting with Spider-Man, then Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hulk, and Doctor Strange

As long as certain characters in the Marvel Universe are popular, other related characters will also increase in popularity.

In the Dragon Kingdom, Xia Yan's works can achieve this kind of results, which is similar to this phenomenon.

Xia Yan's past works in the three fields, plus the fans of the works being serialized, form a large collection. They are transformed into each other in various fields involved as the creator "Xia Yan", forming a benign development vortex.

Therefore, after Xia Yan reached the top in the animation field, his fame quickly spread to the comics and novels. In the novels and comics, after Xia Yan became the industry's top, it radiated back to the animation field, making Lelouch even more popular, with ratings exceeding Magic circle.

This phenomenon is unique to Xia Yan in the industry.

Other creators compete with Xia Yan not only with Sword Art Online, Hunter, or Lelouch's single works.

Instead, he was facing a coalition of Xia Yan's three groups of fans.

This is the reason why Xia Yanneng is so far ahead in the Dragon Kingdom's two-dimensional industry.

It’s just that others can’t learn it even if they want to.

The most direct point is that the three masterpieces Sword Art Online, Hunters, and Lelouch are serialized at the same time. Not to mention that there is no such genius in the Dragon Kingdom two-dimensional industry, and there is no one in the parallel world.

Yoshihiro Togashi has been updating Hunter intermittently for more than 20 years, which can make the animation Hunter have such popularity, not to mention that Xia Yan is flooded with several works of the same level in Dragon Kingdom and has been updated at the same time.

In the world of martial arts, nothing beats speed. Xia Yan not only updates quickly, but the quality of his works is also top-notch.

Beizhou Comics Club, because Hunter is now just one step away from becoming the No. 1 best seller in the history of Dragon Kingdom Comics, has also spent a lot of money, and is planning to invest tens of millions in publicity fees in April, and provide various promotional gifts. The gift event will encourage hunters to achieve an average sales volume of at least 26.5 million in April.

This matter is now brewing. Xia Yan has also received the notice and is also arranging the schedule for next month.

As for this moment

This month belongs to Lelouch.

The third Sunday in March

On the official website of Xia Tang Animation, a dedicated anchor started the live broadcast in the live broadcast room during the day to warm up the completion of Lelouch's animation in the evening.

In the two-dimensional commercial streets of major first-tier cities in the Dragon Kingdom, slogans and posters for Lulouch's final episode are overwhelming.

Subway, bus TV, GG brand, curtain wall GG screen in the central commercial street of the Imperial City.

Characters such as Lelouch, CC, and Suzaku appeared one by one.

This season, Sword Art Online could barely compete with Lelouch. Sword Art Online was serialized to its twelfth episode, and the ratings also exceeded 6%. However, in the week when Lelouch finished the episode, Senryu Animation was also very popular. To save face, I deliberately did not engage in marketing so that the topical influence of the Sword Art Online anime and Lelouch would compete for attention.

This day.

There are tens of millions and hundreds of millions of animation fans across the Dragon Kingdom with anticipation during the day, waiting for the arrival of 8 o'clock in the evening.

On this day, 80 to 90 percent of the cosplayers at the comics exhibitions in the Magic City, Imperial City, and coastal first-tier cities were wearing costumes of characters such as Lelouch, CC, Suzaku, Kallen, and Charlie.

On this day, downstairs of Xia Yan's Xia Tang Animation Company, a fan support group of thousands of people gathered during the day, holding GG signs downstairs to express their support for Xia Yan.

Xia Yan stayed at home. He had long expected that he would be arrested by fans when he went to the company today, so he would definitely avoid it first.

But actually now, he feels quite subtle in his heart.

The feeling of reluctance is not felt by the fans, but also by Xia Yan.

Maybe he took out a hundred excellent masterpieces from the memory fragments in his mind.

But Lelouch is unique. After tonight, there will be no more.

Of course, several animated theatrical versions of Lelouch are also ready to go, and will be available soon after the animation ends.

But Xia Yan knows very well that those things are used by the production company in the parallel world to make money. They slightly supplement the world view of the work, but have little to do with the protagonist of the story, Lelouch.

Although Xia Yan also produced those plot versions, the original work's dragging plot is condensed, and the focus is only on portraying the expansion of the world view in the theatrical version. Xia Yan did not expect to make money from these. It is better to say that it is a theatrical version than a side animation.

After a long breath, Xia Yan calmed down his mood and looked at the forum. Everyone in the fan group was already agitated at 5 pm.

On the Jiuxiao Forum, seven of the top ten hot search terms are related to Lelouch. The evening news broadcast of Modu TV even spent 15 seconds introducing the relevant information about the broadcast of Lelouch's final episode tonight.

At seven o'clock, a large part of the second dimension in Longguo turned down their friends' invitations to play, blocked their partners' harassment, and sat quietly in front of the TV waiting for the last episode of Lelouch to be broadcast.

The headquarters of TV1 in Modu was still brightly lit at night, and many people stayed in the TV station to monitor the TV ratings in real time.

The ratings of Lelouch's recent episodes are breaking records.

Xia Yan's company spent money to play GG, and TV1 in Modu was naturally not to be outdone.

They also wanted the last episode of Lelouch to create a ratings record that would make the later comers despair.

In this era when the TV industry is showing signs of decline, it can be said that the record set by Lelouch now is likely to be the benchmark for the industry in the future. It is impossible for the later comers to have a freak like Xia Yan, right?

So on this day, whether you watch cartoons or not, turning on your mobile phone, TV, or computer, you will inevitably be marketed by the final episode of Lelouch.

Su Meng took a deep breath, and moved her eyes away from Lelouch GG on the forum and turned to the TV.

Ignoring her boss's request for overtime, Su Meng returned home at six o'clock. After sitting in the living room for almost two hours, she finally.

The time came to eight o'clock.

The last episode of Lelouch.

First, the OP song was changed.

The OP changed?

"Can they only use one episode and redesign the OP screen and song? What a rich production team." Su Meng's eyes fixed.

Then she carefully read the information of the OP song.

The army, the coronation, the execution platform, Nunnally's tears, and.

zero

Su Meng frowned, feeling that this opening song was a bit interesting, and it seemed to have a little spoiler.

But Su Meng didn't think much about it. What else could be spoiled anyway?

It's the last episode of Lelouch. No matter how much spoilers there are, its answer will be revealed in the next twenty minutes.

After the opening song, the story continues from the end of the previous week.

After Lelouch controlled Schneizel with Geass through the surprise attack plan, he came to his sister Nunnally, who controlled the key to the nuclear weapon, and asked her to hand over the key to the weapon that could destroy the world.

Nunnally had no way of resisting Lelouch at this time, even though her legs were disabled.

Outside the floating palace where the two were, Suzaku and Kallen were fighting fiercely.

[Brother, you are not qualified to dominate this world.] Nunnally looked at Lelouch with anger.

[Brother, you have trampled on the will of countless people. ]

[So, hiding your true identity all day long, trembling with fear that the assassination of our two royal families by the Bunitanian Empire that will come at an unknown time, is this the life you want? For your future] Lelouch looked at his sister who regarded him as an enemy, and his heart might have been hurting, but his expression still maintained the indifference of His Majesty the Emperor.

This was his end, he won the world, but, except for the title of His Majesty the Emperor, there was no one in the world who was his companion.

[When did I ask you to do this. ] Nunnally shouted.

Su Meng's heart sank when she saw this.

The most hurtful words in the world are "I didn't ask you to do it, you did it yourself!"

Lelouch fought hard to get this world where the two of them can live safely, but in Nunnally's eyes, it is not worth mentioning.

Lelouch, he knows how excessive Geass is.

Twisting other people's will and trampling on other people's dignity.

Lelouch is unwilling to use Geass only for the people he cherishes.

All over the world, various wars are still breaking out because of Lelouch's Bnitanya Empire.

But the main battlefield is where Lelouch and Nunnally are.

As long as Lelouch can recover the key, the Black Knights and the joint forces of other countries will no longer be able to resist and will be completely defeated.

By then.

The whole world will have only one king.

His Majesty the Emperor, Lelouch!

[The symbol of Damocles will become a symbol of hatred. The hatred of the world will be gathered on me. For this.] Nunnally held the key of the nuclear weapon "Damocles" in her hand.

After she said this, Su Meng probably understood Nanali's thoughts.

Whoever uses or controls this anti-human weapon will become the ruler of the world and the object of hatred, fear, and abuse by the world.

The world needs a sword of Damocles, but whoever controls this sword will be the maker of the world order, and at the same time, the source of contradictions, the vent of everyone's hatred, and the recognized enemy in everyone's heart.

Nunali hopes to end the world war started by Lelouch, the Black Knights, the Chinese Federation and other forces by sacrificing hundreds of thousands or even millions of soldiers' lives through Damocles.

And she will become a historical sinner after using this weapon, a witch who becomes the gathering place of world hatred, but also the initiator of a peaceful world.

The logic is very smooth, except that

[Lelouch v. Bunitania ordered to give me the key of Damocles. ] After hearing what his sister said, Lelouch no longer hesitated and used the geass ability directly.

In the outside world, wars in various places are gradually becoming white-hot.

Nunnali, who woke up from the geass ability, looked at the key in Lelouch's hand, and finally couldn't help but cursed Lelouch.

Because Lelouch really used the geass ability to distort her will. In Nunnali's view, her brother Lelouch no longer exists, and only the world dictator Lelouch is left.

The next is the most classic and domineering scene of Lelouch in this work.

A blinding light burst out from the sky.

The light from the explosion of Damocles blocked out the sun.

Television stations around the world only broadcast one picture. In the cockpit, Lelouch held the Key of Damocles and announced to the world.

[Announce to the world, I am Lelouch, the emperor of the Bunitanian Empire. v Bunitania. Schneizel has joined my army. The Black Knights no longer have the power to compete with me. Yes, at this moment, the world. has belonged to me! ]

[Lelouch. v. Bunitania orders, the world submits to me! ]

Lelouch waved his hand and pointed to all the people in the world who were watching the TV.

Secondary, handsome, but

makes people's blood boil.

At this moment, I don't know how many communities in Dragon Country, the two-dimensional people who watched the animation at home cheered warmly.

Fifty episodes

Everyone has watched this animation for fifty episodes and finally waited for this moment.

This.

"Is this the ending of Lelouch?" Su Meng was also excited, but she immediately felt a little disappointed.

This ending is very good. Lelouch finally became the final king, but

Is being such a lonely king what Lelouch expected?

Suzaku died in the battle, and his sister Nunnally turned against him completely.

His former companions who fought side by side were also captured by him.

Of course, under Lelouch's hegemonic rule, there is no war in the world.

However, human desires can be temporarily suppressed, but they cannot be eliminated.

If hatred is not allowed to be vented, it will only become stronger and stronger.

The scene changes, and two months have passed in the animation.

Lelouch is sitting in a huge and luxurious vehicle. Around him are powerful and neat guards of honor, and not far away from him are the Black Knights, the top leaders of the Chinese Federation, including his sister Nunnally, former subordinates of the Black Knights, Kallen and others.

All wearing prison uniforms, ready to be escorted to the execution ground for execution.

"Huh? Are you planning to kill all your former subordinates? Isn't that necessary?"

"Suzaku is dead? Really? Although the battle with Kallen caused the explosion of the machine, how can he just die like that?"

"Hey, why do I feel that this ending is a bit wrong! How could Lelouch kill his sister Nunnally and Kallen? Wouldn't that make him a tyrant dictator?"

"This plot is a bit outrageous, old thief!"

"Lelouch should just rule the world, why kill these people? Just because they were traitors and rebelled against Lelouch?"

"I'm serious, although the Black Knights These people betrayed Lelouch, but it doesn't have to be this way. After all, it was Lelouch who deceived these people first. Now that he has won, he can just lock them up for ten years or something, release them and monitor them, and let them be ordinary people. Why kill them? Isn't this really a dictator? "

"Damn. Old thief, this plot is still doing this in the last episode. Isn't it really going to start a third season? Make Lelouch a villain, and then the new protagonist of the third season kills Lelouch?"

In the fan group, a group of people have already started to complain, but in the animation, unexpected characters appear.

Black cloak, first big sword, helmet.

Zero.

Zero?

Isn't Lelouch still sitting on the emperor's throne?

This zero

Su Meng's heart jumped, vaguely aware of the key point of the plot, but it can't figure it out for a while.

The surrounding guards shot at Zero with guns, but it was just a human outline, and couldn't keep up with his flexible movements at all.

Mr. Orange Uncle even gave the strongest assist, ordering the guards not to shoot, he wanted to fight Zero with a sword and kill the assassin who dared to assassinate His Majesty the Emperor.

Then, Orange Uncle's strongest acting skills, he used his face to catch Zero's feet, gave him a boost, and Zero jumped up and came to Lelouch's throne.

What is this plot?

It's the last episode, old thief, what are you playing?

Why can't we understand anything?

Then the camera switched to the conversation between Lelouch and Suzaku in the dark hall.

[According to the agreement, you come to kill me. ]

As soon as Lelouch opened his mouth, it was an explosive plot.

Su Meng held his breath. This memory was not long, more than ten seconds of plot, but the memories of Lelouch and Suzaku, and the reason why Suzaku was willing to help Lelouch were also announced.

Although Lelouch's identity was known to the top leaders of the Black Knights, Zero's identity was known to the top leaders of the Black Knights.

But the people at the bottom know nothing, and still regard zero as a symbol of freedom to resist the world dictator Dai Yongshi.

Lelouch now wields the weapon of war, Damocles, and his status as Emperor of the Bunitania Empire.

At this moment, he was carrying the hatred in the Bunitania Empire that had brought pain to the world during the hundreds of years of dictatorship and war, and the loss of countless lives of relatives and friends.

The people at the bottom resented the force that ruled them and resented the rulers and emperors.

Lelouch possesses both concepts, as long as he dies

Only then will the resentment in people’s hearts disappear.

The emperor of the Bunitania Empire was killed by zero, symbolizing the victory of freedom, the world moving towards a new pattern, and dictators becoming history.

This is human progress.

"Lelouch, he is planning to kill himself." Su Meng suddenly understood the plot.

In the animation, the background music BGM changed instantly.

Suzaku pretended to be zero, and the sword in his hand penetrated Lelouch's body.

In front of the world, in front of my sister Nunnally, Kallen, former subordinates and partners of the Black Knights.

The emperor of the Bunitania Empire, the evil Lelouch, was assassinated by Zero.

This is the truth seen by the people of the world.

But those who knew that Zero was Lelouch knew Lelouch's intentions in an instant.

Red blood stained the picture.

Lelouch's weak body fell from the throne, like an ordinary person, and fell in front of Kallen, who was locked up in prison, and Lelouch's sister Nunnally, and blood spilled all over the floor.

This scene and this plot made Su Meng's heart beat wildly.

Goosebumps formed on my arms.

A shiver rose from his toes to his scalp.

A feeling of sadness and the feeling that this is a masterpiece began to rise involuntarily in my heart.

Rebellious Lelouch.

Can this animation develop like this in its last episode and ending?

[Lelouch, you want to atone for using geass. 】

In the church, cc looked at the statue of God in tears.

cc With this sentence, fans immediately knew what Lelouch was thinking without any further explanation.

It turns out that he also knows how much suffering the geass ability has brought to the world, and how much pain it has brought to his friends around him, Charlie, Nunnally, Euphemia, Suzaku, and Kallen.

This plot instantly sublimates everything Lelouch does in this work, all his decisions, and the image of his character.

Su Meng looked at Lelouch's body that fell helplessly in the animation. Suddenly, her nose became sore and she couldn't hold back her tears.

[Only those who have the consciousness to be killed are qualified to kill. 】

In the first episode, the memories of Lelouch's words when he first used geass to kill people intersect with his current ending, forming a closed loop.