"Final Unit!"
"What?"
"Final Unit. That's the name I gave your new body."
Misato Katsuragi spoke proudly. She really did love naming things.
"It signifies the end of the old world and the beginning of a new one."
"That name..." Shinji Ikari deliberately drew out his words.
"I spent ages coming up with it. If you say it sounds bad, I'm going to commit blasphemy."
Misato Katsuragi narrowed her eyes and stared at Shinji Ikari, delivering her threat with a perfectly serious expression.
But when someone cute made a threat, it only made them seem cuter.
"It's pretty good."
Shinji Ikari finally finished his dramatic pause. Seeing Misato Katsuragi's expression, which plainly said, "At least you have some sense," he chuckled.
He had completely adjusted to his current state.
To put it in gaming terms, he had tweaked the settings a little.
That kept all the irrelevant information from interfering with the pleasure of spending time with others.
Final Unit
The heavy alloy doors slowly opened in the underground core laboratory of the NERV ANIMA base's Central Dogma District.
They were examining an enormous spear.
It had a red-and-blue double-helix structure, its two shafts tightly entwined before finally converging into a sharp point.
Ritsuko Akagi stood on the central platform, energy crystal dust clinging to her white lab coat.
Ritsuko Akagi pushed up her glasses.
"While you were missing, we recovered the Spear of Cassius and the Spear of Longinus left in space and conducted some research."
"Using SEELE's knowledge, I made this new spear out of Lilith and the Adam used to create Unit-06."
"This is the Spear of Gaius, forged from the collective will of all humanity. It carries humanity's convictions, though I suppose it's useless to you now."
"How could it be useless? It's the work of