"So this is the plan to rescue Shinji... You wrote it in less than a month. You really are amazing, senpai." Ibuki praised Akagi, who stood behind her, as she typed on the keyboard and studied the data on the virtual screen.
Akagi merely smiled faintly and explained to Ibuki in a slightly proud yet inscrutable tone, "Unfortunately, I didn't come up with the original proposal. It all came from research done ten years ago, back in my mother's day..."
When Akagi mentioned her mother, she frowned, but quickly regained her composure.
What followed was Gendo Ikari's past, as well as the past of Akagi and her mother.
If one were to explain how Akagi had fallen hopelessly in love with Gendo Ikari just as her mother had, loving him in such a humble, unhealthy way, some of the blame lay with Akagi's mother-Naoko Akagi.
It all began with an experiment involving Unit-01.
Only when Gendo Ikari lost the sole ray of light in his life did he understand what it meant to appreciate something only after losing it.
At that moment, Gendo Ikari realized that Yui Ikari was his one true love, irreplaceable...
Yui Ikari had given Gendo Ikari his only emotional anchor, and his first taste of being loved.
Unfortunately, before Gendo Ikari could express his love to Yui Ikari, it was already too late. The moment an accident during the Unit-01 experiment made Yui Ikari disappear from his world...
Gendo Ikari panicked...
Then came the Human Instrumentality Project, and it was around that time that Gendo Ikari changed.
He began to diverge from SEELE's Script and devised his own-the E Project.
To be with Yui Ikari again, and stay with her forever, he would use any means necessary, even his own son...
Do you know why Gendo