A blue Alpine A310 sped along the highway. Misato still drove with one hand on the wheel, holding the phone from Headquarters to her ear with the other.
"I'll arrive in fifteen minutes. Launch Unit-00 to the surface through Exit 32! Unit-02 will provide support with its new pilot, Kaworu Nagisa, while the Special Unit operates independently. Oh, right! Unit-01 is to follow Commander Ikari's orders! I don't have the authority to release it from suspension! That's all. Anything else? The Special Unit's pilot wants to visit Unit-02's former pilot, Asuka, in her hospital room? Approved!"
Click!
Misato hung up, her expression grave as she looked through the window at the Angel in the distant sky-the Womb Angel!
A huge ring radiating white light hung motionless in midair, eerily unsettling.
If an ordinary person saw some enormous unidentified object floating in the sky in real life, wouldn't they panic?
(The author experienced something like that once, though it wasn't an unidentified object. As a child, I saw an airship in the sky over Guangzhou. It felt very close to the ground at the time, and seeing it made me a little nervous, hahaha.)
Misato's eyes filled with disgust and hatred as she muttered, "I can see the Angel from here... How did it get all the way to Headquarters before anyone noticed?"
NERV Underground Base, Asuka's hospital room, First Cranial Nerve Department.
Already dressed in his combat suit, Huang Zhetian opened the door and slowly approached the bed.
The sunlight streaming through the floor-to-ceiling windows opposite the bed seemed to carry warmth...
Asuka looked like a sleeping beauty, without the vacant eyes and lifeless expression she had worn in the original story.
Instead, her face looked lively and at ease. She must have been having a pleasant dream, free of