473)C.C.: "Lelouch, I shall reveal to you the condition of our pact... my wish now..."
(silence for a moment)
C.C.: "My wish is to die, for my existence to end forever."
Lelouch: "End? But you're..."
C.C.: "What lies at the end of Geass for its users... is to succeed the position of the one who bestowed the power on them. In other words, one would obtain the ability to kill me.
Lelouch: "Kill... C.C.?"
C.C.: "Of the many people that have had a pact with me, none were able to attain that goal. However, now there is one - Charles."
Lelouch: "Impossible... You made a pact with me in order to die?"
C.C.: "Correct."
Lelouch: "You've lived in order to die?"
C.C.: "Therein lies the providence of this world. Such a limit is called life."
Lelouch: "No! There is life because one is alive!"
C.C.: "Same thing. People are aware of life when they are aware of death."
Lelouch: "You're just playing with words!"
C.C.: "But people do die."
Lelouch: "Even so, what is the reason... the meaning of birth into this world?"
C.C.: "You know the answer to that. Those are nothing but mere illusions."
Lelouch: "A life that just has death is too tragic!"
C.C.: "You don't call endless aggregation of not dying, 'life'. That is merely an experience."
(Lelouch gasps)