Space
Kozo Fuyutsuki casually tossed his empty liquid-food pouch aside, leaving it floating.
"So this is Mother Earth... It hurts just to look at her."
Kozo Fuyutsuki gazed at Earth through the window, his voice heavy with wistfulness.
The entire planet had changed from blue to scarlet, and a massive, seven-colored hole gaped in Antarctica. It was the scar left by Second Impact.
Gendo Ikari said, "But plenty of people longed to see this devastation. This is a world humanity cannot enter, where the taint of original sin has been purified."
Unmoved, Kozo Fuyutsuki replied, "I would prefer a chaotic world polluted by people."
Gendo Ikari said, "Chaos is merely a human perception. The entire world is orderly."
But Kozo Fuyutsuki went straight to the heart of it. "It is the human heart that disrupts the world, isn't it?"
Gendo Ikari withdrew his gaze from the window and looked up at the ceiling, lost in thought.
Marine Biology Research Institute
Shinji Ikari looked at the red seawater, comparing it with what he had just seen in the tank. "I can't imagine this ocean being blue before I was born."
Kaji said, "They've done a very good job restoring an environment where people can survive."
Shinji Ikari sniffed the breeze blowing in from the sea and said regretfully, "But the sea breeze seems to have a strange, fishy stink."
Kaji explained, "That's the smell of decaying marine life. It shows that they once lived here. Unlike those red waters over there, this is what the ocean truly looks like."
Huang Zhetian joined them, looking at the enormous isolation gates built in the distance. Of the entire sea, only the water where they stood was blue.
Red surrounded the blue, creating a stark contrast.
"The world wasn't always like this. Back then,