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I love how morons here still theorize that the Akito spin off could be set after R2. It's not, it is set in between the seasons, that has officially been stated.

There are two possible answers here, and I believe they've both been suggested in this discussion already.

1. The Emperor has altered Lelouch memories to give him the identity of a Britanian military advisor. Those of you who say "no, because then he would have memories of that when CC restores him to his true self". How do you know that? Just because Lelouch remember the latest identity the Emperor had given him, where he was the brother of Rolo and all, doesn't mean he remembers previous identites and memoires the Emperor has imprinted. We do not know if Charles' memory altering Geass is limited to one use per person. If it is not, then he could have given Lelouch any number of various identities to make use of him in the war against the EU before finally sending him back to Japan.

Or:

2. He is being forced to work for Britania with a false identity under threat of being killed, or more likley the threat of Nunally being killed. The thing that speaks most for this theory is that he adresses Suzaku in a very personal way and acts as the normal Lelouch would do. But personally I still belive more in the first one.