"Humans cannot create something from nothing. Humans cannot survive without relying on something, because humans are not gods."
The boy quietly watched Fang Zheng and the others behind him.
"Li Lin truly are a tragic existence."
"What you represent is merely one possible path of evolution."
Fang Zheng silently raised the greatsword in his hand.
"Even for gods, there is more than one path to take. Adam and Lilith chose different paths and headed toward different futures. Sorry, but humanity has its own future."
"Then what about the Evangelion Series? Born of Adam, taboo to humanity, and yet Li Lin can even make use of such things in order to survive... I cannot understand."
"That is why humanity has survived to this day."
Fang Zheng stared at the boy before him.
"As a race, as a whole, humanity wants to survive no matter what. Not merely fleeing and trembling in fear when faced with disaster like animals do, but actively confronting hardship, fighting against heaven and earth. If there is a flood, they control it. If there is an earthquake, they overcome it. That is why humanity has survived until now, and it is also the fundamental reason Adam and the Angels failed... Sorry, but I stand with humanity."
"I can understand, messenger from another land."
As he spoke, Nagisa Kaworu turned around.
"At the moment when only one life-form can escape destruction and obtain a future, aren't there also people among you praying for exactly that?"
"That is just skipping class, abandoning your own flaws and responsibilities in pursuit of so-called salvation... the standard symptom of religious fanaticism. That is what uncultured people are like. After all, compared to science, abandoning your own will and handing everything over to some vague, illusory god, letting them decide your fate, is