"Since I haven't been here for a while, I don't know the complete details. I could ask Shirley or the others more about it later," actually, Lelouch knew completely what was going on. He - or Zero, to be more precise - was the current topic, he guessed and how Zero was brought down and apparently, killed, "as for Britannia, I can't think of any other reason but power. To be technical, they did it for the sakuradite that was her in Japan. They could have taken all they wanted - I don't see why they had to leave the country in destruction afterwards." His tone of voice was slowly becoming more bitter, recalling his memories of his father and how his mother was killed and how Nunally was injured. However, he calmed himself down and quietly muttered - more to himself than to Patchouli - the answer to Patchouli's last statement, "...so do I..."

((I'm sorry for the late reply! I had some things that came up ><))