"Lu Mingfei," Nono lay in bed, speaking to someone she herself did not know, "don't shut me out-"
"Good night." Zero turned off the light and left the dorm room.
All residents within a 120-kilometer radius of Tokyo-3 had been evacuated. This Angel had the largest destructive range of any in history.
Arael used itself as a gravity bomb, falling from orbit. If it struck the ground directly, it was projected to leave a crater with a horizontal radius of 42 kilometers and a depth of 1.5 kilometers.
The three EVAs worked together to catch the Angel, their AT Fields at full strength, canceling out most of its mass. Finally, just before the Angel reached the ground, Unit-01, piloted by Shinji Ikari, reached out with both hands and seized its constantly evading S² Engine, giving Asuka the chance to kill it.
After the battle, Shinji Ikari received public praise from the Commander, while Asuka huddled inside her Entry Plug and did not come out for a long time.
That night, while Lu Mingfei was sound asleep, Asuka opened his front door with a spare key and lay down beside him.
Lu Mingfei started in fright and was about to get up to turn on the light when Asuka said, "Don't move."
They lay back-to-back on the bed. Lu Mingfei went stiff, not daring to move.
"Errand boy, let me stay for a little while," Asuka said quietly.
"Um-Miss Asuka-"
"You have my permission to call me Asuka, since I call you Idiot Mingfei."
"Asuka, thank you for protecting us. I saw it from the ground. You drove your knife right into the Angel's core. Great job!"
"-That privileged brat got there first, and he was the one who caught the core. Anyone could have done my part."
"How could that