"You've probably figured it out by now: Earth and the Moon are swapping places."
"This exchange has actually been going on for a very long time. So long that even I don't know how far back it goes."
"As I've already said, the Ark records information on life on Earth."
"The Ark on the Moon does the same. It records information on life from when the Moon was Earth."
"The Lunar Ark hasn't activated yet, because it was only in this cycle that I came to this world and built the two Arks."
"But each one also backs up the other's records."
"When the two Arks merge into one, they activate the complete reset mechanism."
"In other words, Almaloz, who stole the Ark, has already obtained the key to restarting the world's cycle."
"Instrumentality fails, then comes destruction, and finally a restart. That's how the world's cycle repeats."
"You're currently in the destruction phase. Once this phase is complete, the world will be reborn."
"When all life on this planet has gone extinct, new life that has already existed before will be born."
SEELE began chattering excitedly.
At that moment, it seemed ready to vent all the frustration it had bottled up over the past few days.
Even Misato Katsuragi, who had just been discussing whether to kill it, fell silent.
New life that had already existed before-didn't that mean their group would exist again a few thousand years later?
Only they would have been reset to factory settings.
If anything that had happened changed even slightly, wasn't it possible that their relationships wouldn't turn out the way they had today?
What about humanity? Would it sink into an endless cycle of death and rebirth, or could it find a new opening?
At that thought, Misato Katsuragi's expression darkened. "Whatever