Consolidating the Gains

In Third New Tokyo, an armed helicopter drew closer and slowly descended onto the helipad. A frail old man climbed out.

Seeing Gendo Ikari waiting in front of him, the old man wore a look of deep emotion.

"I chose you back then because I knew you were capable. Good, good..."

"Please, come in."

Gendo Ikari didn't say much more. He simply gestured for the man to enter.

With armed personnel from the Hidden Waterfall Village nearby, no one dared cause trouble.

The last remaining high-ranking member of SEELE had also been brought to Third New Tokyo.

Now that the Hidden Waterfall Village had fully surrendered, and Evangelion Unit-00 and Evangelion Unit-02 were stationed there, the local forces of this world were no longer much of a concern, at least for the time being.

After all, both the Spear of Longinus replicas and the mass-produced EVAs required time to manufacture, and Tao Yu couldn't stay here forever.

After absorbing Lilith and Adam, hunting down all the other Angels besides Kaworu Nagisa, and temporarily turning them into source essence to replenish the Kabbalah Tree of Life, Tao Yu had already secured his greatest gains in this world.

He could let them slowly build things here. Once he finished dealing with everything else, he could come back and collect them before heading home.

Now that the two Catastrophe-level members of the Ou Family were dead, Tao Yu felt a certain urgency.

The deaths of two important members of the direct line were enough to alarm a Saint.

Though Tao Yu could now use the Kabbalah Tree of Life to raise himself to the Saint level, he still wasn't sure whether his opponent had some means of saving his life.

So his next step was to take the Ten-Tails back to the ninja