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Well, it could be

Spoiler:

One of Lelouch's "false lives", assuming Charles' Geass does not suffer from a one-time use limitation. It's possible that before his return to Ashford, the Emperor had Lelouch "do some odd jobs" while the opportunity could still be seized.

That'd explain why this Lelouch lookalike wears an eyepatch (to conceal the Geass that has was probably not properly subdued, though the rewiring of the brain should have deactivated it right off the bat) and why Suzaku is expressly escorting him.


But...well, that's just speculation.