While Gendo Ikari sulked in secret over here, Rei Ayanami and the Angel were trading blows over there. Although the Allied Forces' earlier battle had not harmed the little watery thing, it had at least exposed some of its abilities. For example, Rei knew that it could extend and retract Lightsabers from its palms at will, and that its eyes could fire death rays. She had therefore made specific defensive preparations against those abilities.
With Misato Katsuragi absent, Rei Ayanami strictly followed Fang Zheng's orders. First, she was to keep the Angel from approaching Tokyo-3, and then... then they would figure out how to kill it.
Rei Ayanami had no good way to deal with the little watery thing for the time being, but the little watery thing was even more frustrated. It only wanted to reach Tokyo-3 immediately, yet this damned person kept getting in its way. Worse still, unlike those previous enemies, she was not easily eliminated.
What drove the little watery thing even crazier was that its opponent refused to confront it head-on. Whenever it tried to leave, she would come up and stall it. But when it turned to attack her, she ran faster than anyone—and fired off a burst of bullets as she retreated.
To be honest, those bullets did very little damage to the little watery thing, but its AT Field had been neutralized. It was still losing HP!
If its HP were 3000, then one round of Rei Ayanami's attacks would deal, at most, thirty points of damage.
But she just kept firing.
If this went on for a hundred rounds, wouldn't it still die?!
Naturally, the little watery thing could not really let Rei Ayanami kite it for a hundred rounds. After she had worn away one-fifth of its HP, it immediately