As the smoke cleared, a scarlet eye and a purple core were the first things to appear in the sky.
Then a white body emerged from the smoke, its silhouette almost identical to Zero's.
EVA-Darklops Mecha Zero (hereafter referred to as Dark Lops EVA).
Everyone at the base, along with the civilians still trapped in the city and unable to evacuate, was stunned.
A civilian asked, "Is that Ultraman Zero?"
"Look at it! That's definitely not Ultraman Zero!"
"Then is it reinforcements for the Angel?"
Yui Ikari's pupils contracted. Trembling, she asked Zero and Shinji, "Zero, why does it look so much like you?"
"Is that Darklops? No, it's Lopps, but it isn't!" In his alarm, Zero took over Shinji's body and sprang up, slapping the table.
"It might have been modified from Darklops Zero!"
Darklops Zero was the prototype of the Darklops created by Belial, and he was immensely powerful. Zero's battle against him back then had been grueling. At first, his opponent had overwhelmed him in both hand-to-hand combat and techniques. Only after unleashing a burst of power had Zero managed to defeat him.
Now, just looking at the huge white figure before him... he sensed an inexplicable, terrifying presence.
That meant this enemy was countless times stronger than Darklops Zero.
To take it a step further, he might even be stronger than every enemy Zero had faced so far!
Lops EVA landed silently without disturbing a thing. His enormous red eye slowly turned toward Mirror Knight, Unit-02, and the Pedanium Unit-03 before him.
Upon seeing Lops EVA arrive, the Sixteenth Angel actually stopped eroding Unit-00 for the moment.
"The same presence..."
"Were you the one who sent me those memories?"
"Who are you?! Why are you impersonating Zero?!" Mirror Knight demanded.
Asuka's fear gradually turned to anger