"Another one. This is already the fourth accident in Tokyo-3 this week where a driver suddenly drove into a crowd."
Misato muttered as she read the newspaper delivered that morning, her hair still a mess.
"And there was yesterday's news about the indiscriminate attack on the train."
"Has all the stress people have built up since Second Impact finally become unbearable?"
"People who blame everyone else for their miserable lives and even hurt others are cowards, plain and simple," Asuka said, poking her head out of the kitchen where she was helping Shinji wash the dishes.
"Are you all so sure aliens aren't behind this? Aliens hypnotizing humans and controlling them happened plenty of times back in my uncles' day," Zero offered a different opinion.
"It's been a whole week, and there's still no sign of these aliens you're talking about..." Misato complained. She had spent much of the past week investigating aliens with the Intelligence Bureau...
The result... nothing. Instead, everyone at NERV was getting nervous.
"Besides, even if an alien did this, what would its goal be? Just to frighten people?"
"Miss Misato, we shouldn't doubt that aliens are involved. Captain Zoffy personally warned us, after all. We should trust them," Shinji countered.
"You're probably the first person to call an alien 'captain'..." Misato was rather speechless.
After finishing the cleaning, Shinji and Asuka picked up their schoolbags and got into Misato's car.
Although Misato usually seemed carefree, she cared deeply about the two children and was afraid this danger might reach them too.
They picked up Rei, who had moved, on their way to school.
Yui Ikari had been the one to get Rei to move, partly for safety and partly because her previous living conditions had been so awful.
Thanks to Yui Ikari's guidance, Rei could