i love how people say that he needed to have kallen "kill" him in order to complete the plan (becosue it would look more believeable)
completely forgeting that while kallen was OUTSIDE the shield, suzaku had a MUCH easier opponent to "lose" to (losing to a fellow KoR is very believable)
and he beat him like it aint no thing
i also love how people talk about it as if suzaku was going EASY on her
thats one of my "favorite" arguments
suzaku goes up against his childhood mentor - blows him away
he goes up against the closest thing he had to a FRIEND while in the britannian system - he slices him in half
but when he goes up against his OLDEST and MOST POWERFUL rival - THATS the point where he starts easing up