[He's angry, but there's frustration edging into it too. It's so easy to imagine any number of possibilities he'd be happy with. He'd accept anything if it allowed him this one small thing. Why is that too much to ask?]

If that's too much to ask, then...then why can't we just stay here? Why is that only part of the penalties or whatever?

[If doing their stupid sentencing shit will just get him sent back in some form, but not doing it might somehow cause him to lose Lelouch, then he's being screwed over either way, isn't he?]