Talk:Collection of official statements/@comment-2A01:CB15:816C:D000:D4C7:62B8:FD02:42B4-20180621084810/@comment-2A02:1810:4F0B:500:C436:9503:788C:4743-20180621235650

Right, to be 100% sure I contacted someone who speaks Japanese and here's what she had to say about your remarks about the translation of the new epilogue:

--- Oh, I see. Well, I don't know where that person have learned Japanese... but as far as I know their translation or interpretation is not correct.

し かし私は知っている.  but I know (present continuous tense; because the pronoun, usually omitted, is here, it kind of imply that other people may not know this)

彼が微笑を浮かべて逝ったことを. he with a smile on his face died, went away from me.

This is a problematic line I think.

First of all it's the ita/itta problem. had a smile on his face -> past continuous tense, had a smile on his face and died. The "itta" if past form of "iku" so "to go". This is an euphemism for the verb "to die". So she's saying "with a smile on his face he went away from me" literally. In my native language we have the same euphemism for death, so for me it's a very natural way of saying it, but I don't know about other languages.

Even if that person refuse to believe it's "itta" not "ita" then the next line is definitely implying that "the boy" is no longer with the person who speaks.

成すべきことを成したものにしか知りえない深い満足と共に去っ ていった事を.  only the person who has done the things that should be done  deep satisfaction that only those who (the first part) can know with this (satisfaction) he has gone away links this sentence with the "I know" line -> watashi ha xxxx koto o shitte iru is the standard way of saying it because Japanese is SOV language.

The line has absolutely no grammatical link to the "the world hated him" line. I mean sure it can be interpreted as "the world hated him but he still smiled", but we do know why he smiled .

 is not "to understand", it simply states the fact that some info is know to sb. "To understand sth" is  or, so this  part is incorrect. Especially the <it's something that anyone who reached their goal would understand> part makes me think that this person Japanese isn't really on advanced level because it's completely wrong. In Japanese a whole sentence can be used as adjective so 成すべきことを成したものにしか知りえない深い acts as adjective to "satisfaction" and that person seemingly doesn't understand that. I can't even explain what the person did with this statement but a large part was omitted for sure. ---

So, you see that she is clearly saying that C.C. was talking about Lelouch's death.