Unit-00, Unit-01, and Unit-02-all three EVAs-were immediately launched out of the steel ground by the transport system.
At Pribnow Box, the hatches of the three Simulated Body Entry Plugs opened at the same time.
"An Angel intrusion interrupted the test?" Rei Ayanami opened her eyes and looked through the LCL at the once-white ceiling, now stained orange-yellow.
"No wonder I just had a nightmare. What the hell was wrong with that priest? Why was he into little boys? Good thing I killed him first and sank him in Tokyo Bay." Asuka was drenched in sweat.
She gasped for breath, utterly bewildered by the strange dream that had suddenly begun and just as suddenly ended.
Rei Ayanami gave her a slightly surprised look. She had dreamed too, and her dream had also been about the boy now slowly sitting up between them.
And it had not been as simple as dreaming about him. In the dream, she seemed to have become him.
"It's the Twelfth Angel. I've already fought it. It isn't much of a fighter, but wiping it out completely will be a little troublesome," Shinji Ikari explained.
He looked at Asuka with mild surprise. Why did her dream sound so much like something he had experienced? Had he been seeing their memories too?
"Why are you thinking about that at a time like this?!" Asuka glared fiercely at Shinji Ikari, then realized what was happening and hurriedly covered her chest.
"I just zoned out." Shinji Ikari shrugged.
He was telling the truth. He had barely noticed her body just now; he had been recalling the dream he had had in the cockpit.
If those really had been the two girls' memories...
Although Asuka had told him before that she used to have many sisters, he had made a rough