黒の騎士団 Kuro no Kishidan The Black Knights

The Japan Liberation Force, a Japanese terrorist group, takes a hotel and its occupants hostage, including Lelouch’s friends and a disguised Euphemia. As such, Cornelia cannot make a move against the hostage takers, which Lelouch realizes and takes advantage of. He mounts a rescue operation with Ohgi’s resistance cell, and as he speaks with the hostage takers, Suzaku sinks the floating hotel using the Lancelot. However, Lelouch derails any rescue efforts by the army so he can take credit for the rescue. Broadcasting publicly to the nation, he announces the creation of the Black Knights, allies of justice who will protect the weak from those with power.

目線 Mesen Glare

L is close to discovering the identity of Kira. Misora’s disappearance causes L to shortlist the people who were being tracked by the FBI at the time of Raye Penber’s death. He requests surveillance equipment to be installed in the homes of those he suspects, including Soichiro Yagami’s son. Light, however, becomes aware that he is being watched and has the shinigami locate all the cameras in his room. Later, he deceives the surveillance team by watching the news on a portable television hidden in a bag of potato chips and continues to kill the criminals being reported. This throws off L’s suspicions that he is Kira.

冬の日にようこそ! Fuyu no Hi ni Yōkoso! Welcome to Winter Days!

Problems with the health of Kaoru’s father heralds his return home to the farm where the family has planned his life through to his death. This now means the game project to be presented at the Winter Comiket, otherwise known as FuyuComi, has to be sped up as Kaoru will soon leave Tokyo for good. As reference for a female reaction, Kaoru gets Tatsuhiro to secretly videotape Kaoru’s embarrassing confession to Nanako, his love interest, revealing his full otaku ways.

“The Runaway and the Kitten’s Fugue” “Iede to Koneko no Tonsōkyoku fuga” (家出と仔猫の遁走曲 〜fuga〜)

Makoto starts her job working at a local nursery, and while walking home with Yuichi, they find a small, stray kitten, which is very affectionate towards Makoto. While talking on a bridge, Makoto drops the cat onto oncoming traffic, but it manages to survive. Yuichi gets angry at Makoto for this which causes Makoto to temporarily run away from home.

コーネリアを撃て Kōneria o Ute Attack Cornelia

Lelouch reminisces about his last meeting with his father; shortly after his mother’s death, Lelouch questions Charles about it and is exiled to Japan along with his sister Nunnally vi Britannia. Cornelia issues a challenge to Zero at Saitama Ghetto. Lelouch accepts and infiltrates a soldier’s Knightmare while giving orders to the Saitama rebels; the rebels disobey Lelouch’s orders and are defeated. Cornelia, having anticipated that Zero would disguise himself as one of her soldiers, prepares an inspection. Lelouch is saved when C.C., disguised as Zero, distracts the Britannian Army, allowing him to escape. Lelouch blames his defeat on the undisciplined rebels and resolves to build his own army.

曇天 Donten Overcast

Light writes the name Maki on the Death Note. When nothing happens, he realizes that Penber’s fiancée has kept an alias and fears that she may lead the police to him. Ryuk starts pressuring Light to get the shinigami eyes, but Light coaxes her true name, Naomi Misora, out of her by pretending to work for L. As the Death Note takes effect, Light informs her that he is Kira and watches as Naomi walks away to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Watari reveals his identity in the meeting with Light’s father and the other detectives. He gives the detectives special gadgets embedded in clothing in the event Kira comes into contact with them or they are in trouble. Detective Shuichi Aizawa is sent to the police headquarters by L and just misses Penber’s fiancée.

青い鳥にようこそ! Aoi Tori ni Yōkoso! Welcome to the Bluebird!

Megumi tells her tale of woe. Tatsuhiro talks to Yuichi via the game. The Mouse Road Corporation is found out and the leaders are arrested by the police. Megumi does not come home for a few days due to her being arrested, resulting in Yuichi’s starvation. Being so hungry, he runs away to beg for food at a local ramen shop and gets hired to deliver. Megumi, without her debts and brother, decides she may go back to college.

“A Mysterious Divertimento” “Nazodarake no Kiyūkyoku divertimento” (謎だらけの嬉遊曲 〜divertimento〜)

Yuichi wants Makoto to get a job in order to become more of a social person who has more common sense. On the same day as her interview, Yuichi goes out with Ayu to watch a scary movie, even though Ayu is completely terrified of horror films.

奪われた仮面 Ubawareta Kamen The Stolen Mask

Suzaku transfers into Lelouch’s class and faces the prejudice of the Britannian students. Arthur, a stray cat, enters Lelouch’s room and steals his Zero mask. Milly Ashford, believing Arthur has something that embarrasses Lelouch, has the whole school pursue the cat with a bounty. When Suzaku catches up to the cat on the roof, Lelouch pretends to slip forcing Suzaku to save him. Lelouch secretly retrieves the mask and Suzaku’s heroic save allows some of the students to accept him. The students attend an assembly where Charles zi Britannia, the emperor and Lelouch’s father, delivers a speech during Prince Clovis’ funeral.

綻び Hokorobi Unraveling

In an effort to repair his relations with the Japanese police, L meets in secret with the remaining detectives who want to work on the Kira case. L insists that they use false identities for protection against Kira and asks that they call him Ryuzaki instead of L. He reveals his thoughts about who Kira might be following the murders of the FBI agents and pinpoints who the federal agents were tracking during that period. Meanwhile, Light happens to meet a woman who introduces herself as Maki. As the two talk, he realizes that she is Penber’s fiancée and that she has worked out that Kira can kill by means other than heart attacks. Convinced that it is his destiny to use the Death Note to create a better world, Light is euphoric that he has come into contact with the very person who can get him caught. He formulates a plan to get rid of her.

ノーフューチャーにようこそ! Nō Fyūchā ni Yōkoso! Welcome to No Future!

Realizing he has been tricked, Tatsuhiro meets with Megumi to call the deal off. Although, she seems willing to let him go at first. Nonetheless, she soon manages to distract Tatsuhiro, Misaki, and Kaoru, eventually selling them an ersatz set of dietary supplements, which would allegedly help Tatsuhiro with his hikikomori problem. On the way home, they realize they have been fooled, and they ultimately confront Megumi at her home, only to find her brother, Yuichi Kobayashi, is actually one of the players who tagged along with Tatsuhiro in the MMORPG “Ultimate Fantasy”.

“Demon’s Serenade” “Mamonotachi no Sayokyoku serenade” (魔物たちの小夜曲 〜serenade〜)

Yuichi runs into Mai and her friend, Sayuri Kurata, who invites him to eat lunch with them. When Makoto goes to buy food for Akiko, she uses the money to buy volumes of manga and nikuman. While Yuichi wants to scold Makoto to make her learn her lesson, Akiko simply decides to give Makoto her own allowance.

皇女と魔女 Kōjo to Majo The Princess and the Witch

Lelouch is reunited with the green haired girl who introduces herself as C.C. and is now living in his residence. Meanwhile, since Zero revealed he was Clovis’ murderer, Suzaku has been acquitted of all charges and meets Princess Euphemia li Britannia. Euphemia has Suzaku guide her around Japan including the war torn city of Shinjuku; There, the two intervene with the pureblood fraction’s murder attempt on Jeremiah for his betrayal. Later, Cornelia li Britannia arrives to the country, intent on capturing Zero.

駆引 Kakehiki Tactics

Light waits one week before killing Raye Penber. He follows Raye onto a train forces him to write down the names of his fellow agents on a piece of the Death Note by threatening Raye’s family. Because of the simultaneous death of these twelve FBI agents in Japan, the police are scared to continue investigating, and the American President pulls the FBI off the Kira case. However, Penber’s fiancée, a former FBI agent, seeks to find Kira for revenge. Light has another criminal leave a third coded note for L which finishes the phrase ‘L, do you know? Gods of Death love apples’. Although there is truth to this, L determines that Kira is only mocking him as he considers his next move.

はぴねすにようこそ! Hapinesu ni Yōkoso! Welcome to Happiness!

Tatsuhiro meets up with an old high school friend, his class representative Megumi Kobayashi. When he divulges to her about being a hikikomori, she tells him she knows someone who can help cure his dilemma. She ends up whisking him off to an old dilapidated building where he finds himself listening to a sales pitch on a pseudo detergent product. Tatsuhiro manages to escape, but Megumi chases after him and tells him her depressing story. He buys the washing powder from her.

その名はゼロ Sono Na wa Zero His Name is Zero

Jeremiah Gottwald and the purebloods within the Britannian Army wish to scapegoat Suzaku for Clovis’ death as an excuse to rid the army of Honorary Britannians, citizens who become Britannians after their country had been conquered. Lelouch dons the pseudonym Zero and with the help of Kallen and Kaname Ohgi, uses Geass on Jeremiah allowing them to escape with Suzaku. As Zero, Lelouch asks Suzaku to join him to rebel against Britannia; Suzaku refuses, believing Britannia should be changed with legal means and departs for his trial.

“Holiday Caprice” “Kyūjitsu no Kisōkyoku caprice” (休日の奇想曲 〜caprice〜)

Yuichi reminisces about events of the past seven years ago concerning his first meeting with Ayu. Nayuki makes Yuichi return to school to retrieve her school notes she borrowed to him, and as he is leaving the premises, he runs into a third-year student, Mai Kawasumi, who is wielding a sword.

追跡 Tsuiseki Pursuit

Light tells Ryuk that he is trying to create an ideal world where no criminals are left unpunished and that as the God of such a world he cannot sacrifice half of his life for the shinigami eyes. Light begins experimenting to find out how much control he has over how a criminal dies. He tries to have prisoners escape or draw L’s face before they die. When they fail to do so, he learns that the Death Note is not all-powerful. Using this knowledge, Light devises a plan to find out who has been following him. Light has a drug dealer touch the Death Note and makes him highjack a bus before he dies. During the highjacking, Light gets his tracker to reveal that he is Raye Penber, a Federal Agent from the United States employed by L and his associate Watari.

ゲームオーバーにようこそ! Gēmu Ōbā ni Yōkoso! Welcome to the Game Over!

Misaki walks in to a rather disheveled Tatsuhiro within a cluttered room, as he has apparently relapsed into his old hikikomori ways. When Tatsuhiro decides to search for an item to sell, his partner Mia invites a party along for dragon slaying. Misaki attempts to free Tatsuhiro from his obsession, however Tatsuhiro finally ceases when he realizes that the catgirl partner Mia turns out to be Kaoru.

偽りのクラスメイト Itsuwari no Kurasumeito The False Classmate

Having reason to suspect the death of Marianne vi Britannia, his mother, was planned by one of his relatives, Lelouch questions Clovis about her murder before killing him. He returns to Ashford Academy and realizes his classmate, Kallen Stadtfeld, is part of the terrorist group. Using Geass, he learns about her motivations for joining the terrorist group and discovers Geass only works once per person. Kallen suspects Lelouch’s involvement in the previous battle, but is fooled when Lelouch prepares a pre-recorded phone call. Soon after, the news announces Suzaku is convicted for Clovis’ murder and is to be trialed.