A halo like an Angel's appeared above Unit-06's head, a symbol of divine power.
"I'm going to save Shinji. He didn't run away. He's truly strong. This time, he'll reach a happy future," Kaworu Nagisa said.
"Shinji Ikari is so special that, after just one month at Headquarters, you're willing to betray SEELE for him? Perhaps I would only understand if I saw him myself as I am now," Gendo Ikari said quietly.
"It's not betrayal. I was born to meet Shinji."
Unit-06 turned to look at Gendo Ikari. The boy in the cockpit was smiling.
"Even if you saw him, you wouldn't understand. Because this is love, something you don't deserve to have as you are now."
"Love?" The voice from Unit-07 did not fluctuate in the slightest. "Nothing but human weakness. I no longer need such things."
"As I thought." Unit-06 nodded gently. "You don't need it? Then why do you seek to become a god? Isn't it for Yui Ikari?"
"Yui is indeed my reason for becoming a god."
"Just a reason?"
"Yes."
"You've completely lost your humanity," Kaworu Nagisa said pityingly. "But it won't be long now. Today, you'll be freed from that pitiful shell, right here."
"You intend to kill me?" Gendo Ikari's voice remained cold, without fear or anger. "You intend to stop me?"
Unit-07 tightened its grip on the Spear of Longinus, not out of nervousness, but simply to engage all its muscles in preparation for battle.
This red spear, brimming with divinity, could suppress even Progenitor-class beings such as Adam and Lilith. It was a god-slaying spear that represented despair.
The metal armor of Kaworu Nagisa's Unit-06 gleamed coldly. An almost pure A.T. Field swirled around the Spear of Cassius, stirring fine ripples through space.
"Gendo Ikari, I don't want you standing