Code Geass: The Night Before the Cold, 1945

In the year 2018 of the Imperial Calendar, the aftermath of the Black Rebellion had finally subsided, and the portal to another world had successfully opened. In the world beyond, unknown to them, it was already 1945. The World War that had swept across Eurasia and both oceans had just come to an end. The Holy Britannian Empire, an invader rich in military strategy and unacquainted with defeat. The United States and the Soviet Union, two superpowers that would soon stand as the world's opposing poles. The European continent, only just beginning to heal from the scars of war, was once again facing disaster. This land, already scarred beyond measure, would once again become the most deranged asylum and hellish battlefield in human history... But today, they bear the heavy responsibility of life and death...