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For a moment, Rei, Shinji, and Asuka go silent as they stare at the opponent of the Giant of Light. It is bigger than ADAM. It is the shape resembling a man with rudimentary wings and thousands of feelers, moving like nothing should move, living like nothing should live. The sea crackles with light and energy and mystic forces beyond mortal comprehension, as Go-kun reflexively raises his AT Field as thousands of cubic miles of the Pacific boil from the unleashed power.

Rei.

Rei looks up.

"Hi, Aunt Lilly!"

...This one wonders why you now refer to me as 'Aunt Lilly' instead of Leliel.

"You're really asking for a reason?"

...Point. It is time to return to the Dirac.

"Yeah," Rei says, tilting her head as she tries to figure out how tentacles word, "What about ADAM?"

The sea splits with a massive release of power, evacuating the area of the Pacific down to the sea floor as the two gods release the sum total of their might in two massive blasts.

As ADAM goes flying back, the air flickers into a black and white sphere, consuming Him as another appears around Unit 05. Its territory defended, Cthulhu rumbles as the sea floor fills in once more, and begins its steady walk back to R'lyeth. It is not time, yet.

The stars are not right.

And in Iceland, Rei Ayanami gets the oddest, confused look on her face. She is still alive. She did not die destroying the Herald.

That was not what was supposed to happen.

"As it will be," she says.

And with silent resolve, she returns to the task of killing the fish men.

NGE: Nobody Dies, Chapter 45