Rei Ayanami slowly approached the bed, her footsteps light.
Once she reached it, she slowly extended her hands and carefully cradled the boy's slightly youthful face.
There was an unexpected boldness and resolve in Rei Ayanami's movements, as though they held an indescribable longing and anticipation.
The girl pushed the boy down onto the bed. He seemed to want to resist, yet seemed not to resist at all.
"Mr. Ikari..."
Shinji Ikari heard Rei Ayanami call his name, but her voice stopped there, with nothing more to follow. Perhaps nothing needed to be said.
Her delicate face drew closer, and then she brushed a light kiss against Shinji Ikari's lips.
What had it tasted like? He had not truly felt or savored it. Their lips had touched for far too brief a moment, fleeting as a flower that bloomed only for an instant.
As though a wish buried deep in his heart had finally come true, all thought fell away. Only the body's most primal, most genuine responses held absolute sway.
Shinji Ikari naturally accepted the beautiful girl's advances.
Rei Ayanami quietly gazed into Shinji Ikari's eyes, a trace of curiosity and confusion in her own.
She felt an inexplicable impulse, and something stirred in the boy's eyes as well. But the girl did not know what to do next. She recalled his favorite passage.
Man is a rope stretched between animal and superman.
Animal? Superman?
"Sleep."
"Sleep? Here?" Shinji Ikari felt he ought to confirm. Unlike Misato Katsuragi, who understood everything, this girl clearly understood nothing.
"I want to sleep with you, Mr. Ikari," Rei Ayanami said earnestly. She remembered what Misato Katsuragi had told her: sleeping together was something people with an extremely close relationship could do.
Shinji Ikari fell silent for a moment, then nodded. He did