Gendo Ikari's Decisiveness

Third New Tokyo, NERV Headquarters

"As soon as I get Adam's Egg and the Dead Sea Scrolls, I'll extract Yui Ikari's soul. As for recreating her body, that'll have to wait until I get Lilith and the Spear of Longinus and head outside. The things you have here aren't exactly clean..."

After Tao Yu finished speaking, Gendo Ikari's breathing grew a little more labored.

Then he said gravely,

"I can prepare a body."

His words gave Tao Yu pause. Then he thought of Rei Ayanami—not that he would use the current Second Rei Ayanami directly.

There were actually quite a few Rei Ayanami clones. They simply hadn't been activated.

After all, Yui Ikari's clones had been infused with a little Lilith, so they could indeed perfectly accommodate her soul.

"That works, but the soul can only be merged with the body after I get the last of the things I need."

"Agreed."

Since Tao Yu had agreed to retrieve Adam's Egg, Gendo Ikari thought he could extract the soul and verify that it was really Yui's.

He believed he could at least tell Yui Ikari's soul from anyone else's!

Even though Tao Yu had already said that the soul might have lost many of its memories, he was confident he could judge for himself!

"I'll take you to Lilith and the Spear of Longinus first. Since you can take those things away, there's no need to keep defending Third New Tokyo."

Gendo Ikari was a decisive man, and Tao Yu couldn't help but feel some admiration for him when he heard that.

In truth, if Tao Yu wanted to, he could storm Terminal Dogma right away!

He'd only been holding back because something might happen with Adam's Egg.

Now that Gendo Ikari was willing to give him direct access to