"You're the one who proposed the Oxygen Destroyer model?" Ritsuko asked in astonishment.
She had indeed heard of the Oxygen Destroyer and read some of the theoretical material, but she had never been directly involved in its development.
Fuyutsuki asked, "Then how far have you gotten with your research, Serizawa?"
Serizawa replied proudly, "How far? I've already built a predecessor to the Oxygen Destroyer-the Oxygen Depleter Device-in my own laboratory."
"Unfortunately, it was destroyed during an experiment."
"But the entire method for making it is right here in this old man's head."
He said with some irritation, "Your people confiscated my Briefcase for inspection. Tell them to bring it over at once. There's a recording of the experiment inside."
Gendo Ikari said coldly, "If your experimental results are genuine, I'd very much like to restart development of this weapon."
Professor Serizawa said, "You'd better hurry up and get a projector first."
Ritsuko rather admired this old geezer who showed Gendo Ikari absolutely no respect.
After some trouble, they managed to get a projector. Professor Serizawa took a battered videotape from his Briefcase and inserted it.
Black-and-white footage flickered onto the large screen. Professor Serizawa connected a wire from a device to a fish tank, then activated the device.
"Oxygen Depleter, experiment number 199... beginning..." Serizawa looked somewhat haggard on the screen.
In an instant, a mass of bubbles rose from the water in the tank as though it were boiling.
"What is..." Ritsuko had just started to ask a question when the next scene shocked her into complete silence.
Amid the bubbles, the flesh of the fish in the tank dissolved at an astonishing speed, leaving only white bones.
Before long, even those bones had dissolved completely.
"I did it!" Dr. Serizawa looked delighted in the recording.
Serizawa stopped the