Tokyo Municipal First Middle School
Huang Zhetian returned to school alone. As for Shinji and Kaworu Nagisa, one had withdrawn into himself and found an excuse to hole up at home, while the other had gone to test his Synchronization Rate with Unit-02.
Still, knowing Shinji, he would definitely go to Headquarters to be with Kaworu Nagisa...
As for Asuka... she had been placed in a hospital room at Headquarters for observation. The medical staff only said that she was mentally exhausted and unconscious. No other abnormalities had appeared, but the nurses still barred all visitors, even fellow pilots like them...
Huang Zhetian no longer wanted to bother with Shinji and the others. He was exhausted and lost...
Shinji's character was fixed in the Original Theatrical Version. Nothing could change him. Everyone else was changing, moving forward, and awakening, while Shinji alone stayed rooted to the spot. He refused to face an unknown reality or change through his true feelings.
Huang Zhetian simply decided to stop caring. He had come to this world for Asuka first, and the plot second.
But what Huang Zhetian would not realize until the very end was that, after coming to the world of Neon Genesis Evangelion, his initial wish for Asuka alone had gradually become a wish to change the entire ending.
By the time he finally understood, he was already in Rebuild of Evangelion...
Was he too late? Or was the timing just right?
While Huang Zhetian stared absently at the trees and utility poles outside the window, Class Rep Hikari Horaki approached him and asked, "Zhetian-kun? Is Asuka not coming again today? And Shinji isn't coming either?"
Huang Zhetian snapped out of his daze and looked up at Hikari Horaki, answering with a casual laugh, "Oh, Class Rep? Asuka hasn't been feeling