With a gentle flick of the white giant of light's hand, SEELE's shell floated helplessly into its palm.
It tensed, but the excruciating pain it expected never came.
Unit-01 slowly raised its head and looked toward the azure sky, a trace of gravity in its divine eyes.
"Is something coming?" SEELE forced itself to sound composed.
"Don't you know everything? Take a guess." Shinji Ikari's voice carried a faint sneer.
"Hmph... I can't!"
"So you're not omniscient or omnipotent, yet you harbor the arrogance of omniscience. That is the sin of pride." Shinji's tone turned cold.
"If you want to kill me, just say so! SEELE has never feared death!"
Shinji Ikari snorted coldly, and Unit-01's fingers tightened slightly.
The sharp crack of breaking bones mingled with SEELE's screams. It curled up, but still refused to beg for mercy.
Shinji merely stared at the sky, his brow furrowed. "Asuka, what exactly did you do?"
A blurred human silhouette rapidly grew larger against the azure heavens.
It finally resolved into a giant resembling a white clay sculpture and crashed down in front of Unit-01, throwing up clouds of dust.
The sky remained clear and blue, but Asuka could no longer recognize the color she had once been so fixated on.
She had been abruptly hurled from the moon to Earth.
She and Unit-02, which should have been on the lunar surface, had now become an indistinct form blending the information of countless organisms.
Her once-distinct personality had been shattered by a vast torrent of consciousness, leaving only a seething mass of restless chaos inside her.
She should have been blundering aimlessly through the lunar dust, but amid a tremor in space, she had fallen into an invisible rift along with the lunar surface.
Then the monochrome lunar landscape abruptly shattered!
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