"Noah's... Ark... must not sail in the wrong direction..."
Quatre's expression changed again. With a vacant look on her face, she turned toward Shinji Ikari beside her.
On the distant moon, the black giant struck the Spear of Longinus.
Even a fool would have noticed something was wrong, and there should have been no fools present. Everyone in the control room looked at Shinji Ikari.
"Is she speaking for that black giant?" Misato Katsuragi said thoughtfully.
"Could it be the influence of that scale Seraphim absorbed?" Ritsuko Akagi speculated.
"Is that black giant here for you?" Asuka looked at Shinji Ikari.
Shinji Ikari seemed quite calm. "Looks that way."
Perhaps leaving that scale in Seraphim was too dangerous. He ought to remove it by force.
"You're not worried at all, huh? One look at that guy tells you he won't be easy to deal with," Asuka remarked.
"You can actually admit how formidable an opponent is now. You've grown," Shinji Ikari said appreciatively.
"It's been three years, after all. Stop treating me like a kid." Asuka pursed her lips.
"So, what are you going to do? Kill me?"
Shinji Ikari turned back to Quatre and questioned the girl whose eyes had lost their light.
"...An actor who brings failure... should leave... the stage."
Just then, the large screen in the Central Control Room began to flicker, and a flood of text suddenly scrolled across it.
Everything just spoken through Quatre was entered into MAGI.
Words with religious connotations kept scrolling across the display.
"...So that the Ark... may carry the actors... to a new stage..."
It was a proclamation straight out of myth.
At the same time, words such as "end" and "apocalypse" remained on the display, densely filling the entire screen.
"Lord, where are you going?"
Seemingly affected by