A month later, at school.
Huang Zhetian sat in his seat, holding a game console in both hands and playing with intense concentration.
Toji Suzuhara and Kensuke played beside him with NERV fighter jet models, providing their own sound effects and commentary...
In Rebuild of Evangelion, many events had been made public by the authorities and had long since ceased to be secrets.
Soon, the two lost interest and came over to watch Huang Zhetian play.
Over the past month, Huang Zhetian, the new transfer student, had quickly introduced himself to the hotheaded Toji through his own method of "winning people over with virtue."
From then on, Toji and Kensuke had acknowledged Huang Zhetian as their boss and become his little fanboys.
Who else could kick a large tree hard enough to send its leaves scattering like flowers strewn by a heavenly maiden? If that kick landed on a person, wouldn't it leave them black and blue?
Huang Zhetian asked in confusion, "What's going on? Why are we getting out of school early today?"
Toji took Huang Zhetian's console and started playing, taking a moment to answer, "No idea. The school just put out the notice. Who knows when classes will start again? It's been ages since they issued restrictions like this. The last time was sixteen years ago."
"Oh," Huang Zhetian said, recalling the past. "So that's how the old city ended up in ruins. Now I get it."
In truth, he knew exactly how those old city ruins had come about. Sixteen years ago, the force of four Adams self-destructing had reached every corner of the world.
Sea levels had risen, and island nations like Japan had quickly lost more than half their land to the purified seawater.
People had eventually been forced to abandon their once-thriving cities