"Enemy attack! Take cover! Weapons free!" The middle-aged man's voice echoed down the corridor. Clearly, he commanded this unit.
They had brought extremely powerful signal-jamming equipment for their invasion, so powerful that even their own communicators were useless. That left shouting as their only way to issue orders.
The instant his roar died away, a figure appeared at the other end of the corridor.
He was just an ordinary-looking boy, but the man had to admit that the sight before him defied imagination. The boy was floating in midair without any equipment.
Did superheroes really exist in this world? Was this boy from DC or Marvel, the Justice League or the Avengers?
They knew monsters called Angels existed in this world.
But since those monsters had very specific targets, these soldiers from countries outside Japan had never actually seen an Angel themselves.
So seeing what looked like a human fly through the air toward them was still a tremendous shock.
Even Shinji Ikari's first medical examination report at NERV had been falsified. Headquarters had kept its secrets so well that not a single piece of genuine information had reached outsiders.
The person described by their information and the boy himself might as well have been two different people. Naturally, seeing such a monster with their own eyes terrified them.
The moment the boy appeared, one of their squad leaders suffered a fatal head injury, abruptly shattering the corridor's silence.
They did not hesitate. They immediately opened fire.
Their assault rifles spat flames without restraint. In the mere instant it took to pull their triggers, hundreds of spent casings fell onto the floor.
They knew some of their comrades were targeting three children, but at this point they had no attention to spare for whether this boy was worth ten million