"It's over."
With Hansen's voice, eva unit-01 took heavy yet nimble steps, walking through the smoke to stand before the frantically struggling Zeruel.
The purple giant reached out, ignoring the AT Field as it grabbed Zeruel's desperately waving toilet paper-like arms.
The muscles on eva unit-01's arms bulged, its armor letting out an overburdened groan.
Puchi—!!!
Accompanied by the tooth-grating sound of tearing muscle and snapping bone, the Tenth Angel's arms were brutally torn from its torso by eva unit-01 in a primitive and savage manner!
The violent aesthetics were heart-shaking!
The coordination of the three EVAs was simply a sight to behold; eva unit-01 acted as the main carry on the offensive, eva unit-02 weakened the enemy's strength, and eva unit-00 provided long-range control.
Zeruel had almost no room to resist as the approaching eva unit-01 violently snapped the bones in its chest, instantly exposing the red sphere that was the angel core!
Boom—!!
A terrifying gale kicked up a piercing howl as eva unit-01, like a fully drawn longbow, delivered a straightforward swinging heavy punch that carried vibrations capable of shattering space, punching directly through Zeruel's angel core!
Kachacha—
The shattered core transformed into a surging red tsunami that erupted out, soaking more than half the city in an instant!
The Tenth Angel's massive corpse then exploded, turning into the familiar giant cross-shaped flare!
Zeruel, annihilated!!
..."We... we won..."
Misato Katsuragi sat slumped in her chair, her mind a complete blank as she watched the three mechas on the screen that looked like gods and demons.
Ritsuko Akagi beside her wasn't doing much better; her intellectual gaze, usually full of reason and wisdom, was actually somewhat vacant at this moment.
The pilots hadn't even arrived, yet the EVAs, having deployed on their own, had smoothly defeated what was arguably the strongest Angel in history.
This scene seemed like a total fantasy no matter how one looked at it.
It was simply unscientific!
However, while the battle had ended, the anomaly had not stopped.
"D-detecting a high-energy reaction!"
"Look, what is that?!"
"The EVAs... they seem to be resonating!!"
In the center of the battlefield, the three EVAs roared to the sky simultaneously.
Massive wings of light spread out behind eva unit-01, and a dazzling halo symbolizing divinity appeared above its head!
At the same time, golden halos also emerged above the heads of eva unit-02, which had stood upright after deactivating its Beast Mode, and the distant eva unit-00; a vast and matchless powerful energy exploded and was released with the three EVAs as the center!!
Awakening!!
Deification!!
On the apartment rooftop, Hansen slowly floated into the air.
The three girls, Asuka, Rei Ayanami, and Mari Makinami, were lifted by a soft platinum light, surrounding him.
The divine radiance that erupted from the four of them simultaneously echoed the three EVAs on the ground.
"Let's go. We're going to see the Divine Realm that some people have been longing for."
Hansen looked up, glancing meaningfully toward the moon beyond the firmament.
His body had long since fused with the authority and powers of Lilith, Nagisa Kaworu, and even various Angels; triggering a so-called 'Impact' was as simple as flipping a switch for him.
Driven by his will, the Earth's atmosphere seemed to be torn apart by an invisible giant hand.
A massive vortex-shaped void composed of red and black colors appeared out of nowhere ten thousand meters in the air.
The 'Gate of Gaff'.
The portal of God, the passage leading to the Negative Universe.
"This is bad! Is this... the Third Impact?!"
Recovering her senses, Ritsuko Akagi looked at the wildly twisting readings on the large screen, her expression changing: "The AT Field is reversing!"
"All of humanity is going to turn into the LCL Sea! Someone stop Him!!"
Misato Katsuragi sat slumped in her chair, her lips trembling slightly as if the most unbearable scar in her memory had been uncovered.
"No."
Suddenly, her expression steadied because Hansen's gentle voice was echoing in her mind.
"Don't worry, this Impact will not cause the extinction of humanity."
"Because the rules are set by me."
Buzz—!
An even more dominant platinum radiance covered the deep and terrifying massive gate, and the Imaginary Divine Power instantly suppressed the spreading Anti-AT Field.
Under Misato's complex gaze,
The three deified EVAs, having nearly turned into giants of light, transformed into three streams of light and, along with Hansen and the three girls in the distance, charged straight toward the Gate of Gaff in the sky... The Moon, Tabgha Base.
In a state of weightlessness, droplets of deep red wine floated in the air.
Gendo Ikari stood before the massive floor-to-ceiling window, looking at that gate opening above the Earth, his face devoid of any expression.
However, his hand, which always wore a white glove, was currently gripping a black briefcase tightly.
"The scenario... has been torn to shreds."
His voice was low, betraying no emotion.
Fuyutsuki Kouzou, in a heavy spacesuit, stood behind him and sighed: "Gendo, are we still going to continue?"
"The power that man has shown has already surpassed the Angels..."
"That is the power of a god."
"We have no chance of winning."
"Chance of winning?"
Gendo Ikari turned around and casually took off his never-removed glasses, letting them float in the weightless environment.
He opened the briefcase and took out an eerie key sealed in specialized gel.
The 'key of nebuchadnezzar'.
"Fuyutsuki, for the sake of seeing Yui, I have never cared about the chances of winning."
"I only care about... even if there is only a one-in-ten-thousand possibility."
Under Fuyutsuki's shocked gaze, Gendo Ikari unbuttoned the collar of his uniform.
Without the slightest hesitation or the least bit of lingering attachment to his humanity,
He slammed that mass of wriggling neural tissue directly into his own chest.
"Ugh, aaaaaaaaaah—!!!"
Even the Commander, who rarely showed any emotion, let out a beast-like roar of pain at this moment.
His body hunched over involuntarily under the violent convulsions, and the blood vessels beneath his skin turned an eerie orange, as if countless worms were crawling under his skin.
When he raised his head again, his human eyes had disappeared.
In their place was a massive cross-shaped scar traversing his forehead, emitting a piercing orange light.
He had discarded his identity as a human.
Only to obtain the qualification to step into the Negative Universe and contend with the gods.
"Is this... what it feels like to be closest to God?"
Gendo Ikari slowly raised his head, and on that face that had lost its eyes, a smile appeared that was both sacred and hideous.
"Yui, I'm coming."
Boom—!!!
On the far side of the moon, the ground crumbled.
A pitch-black, not yet fully completed EVA—eva unit-06, holding the true Spear of Longinus in its hand, burst through the lunar dust like black lightning.
Gendo Ikari, who had already transformed into a demigod, floated into the mouth of eva unit-06, which then turned into an eerie stream of light and charged toward the slowly rotating Gate of Gaff above the Earth.
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