Five minutes later, Shinji Ikari and the others were already on their way to the Central Control Room at Headquarters.
Shinji Ikari had persuaded the older commander to abandon her complicated battle plan because he had killed twenty-four fully armed intruders in the Simulated Body's cockpit chamber without any gear.
Shinji Ikari had instantly killed everyone he encountered along the way. They had also run into several squads of intruders who had adopted textbook tactical formations, intending to exchange fire with them.
The enemy had little regard for the small pistol Misato Katsuragi carried, and they looked down on the group, who appeared at a glance to be nothing but researchers.
They showed no mercy for human life. As bullets poured toward them, Shinji Ikari stood in front of everyone in his white, long-skirted uniform and extended a hand toward the intruders.
It was a gesture of rejection, bidding danger stay away from them.
His imposing presence swelled to its peak in that instant, and the light armor-piercing rounds and grenades barely raised a ripple on the brilliant curtain of light.
Then he aimed his palm at the intruders, and only a few corpses remained in the corridor.
He was ruthless toward his enemies, but showed an entirely different side to his own people. He had just turned danger away from humanity, and when a female colleague's knees gave out and she fell, he even gently helped her up.
Those he helped unhesitatingly praised and thanked God, then declared that they would surely offer their devotion to the Child of God in the future.
Shinji Ikari never actively asked for offerings. Especially when it came to offering one's body, men were a gender he would absolutely never accept.
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