"This scene is truly moving."
Mari Makinami, standing to the side, watched the scene with a flash of complex emotion in her eyes.
By comparison, her Complementality was the most direct.
Unlike Rei Ayanami and Asuka, who were born of passive cloning, she had actively chosen to clone a young body and carried all the memories of her original self.
Mari Makinami turned around and looked at Yui Ikari, who had been smiling quietly.
"Senior." She took off her glasses, revealing those beautiful blue-green eyes. "Long time no see."
Yui looked at her with a gentle gaze. "Mari, you've worked hard all these years. For Shinji, and for that promise."
In this Katatante, the memories of Mari Makinami's original body were also unveiled.
She was the genius girl who had studied under Professor Fuyutsuki along with Yui and Gendo; she was Yui's junior, and the one who silently guarded everything from the shadows.
"Ah la, I've been found out." Mari Makinami shrugged, a free and easy smile on her lips. "I originally wanted to stay a mysterious background character forever. But..."
She turned around and looked at the man surrounded by Asuka and Rei.
"Before, I only wanted to help you fulfill your wish and watch Shinji grow up, but now..." Mari Makinami walked up to Hansen, her wild eyes burning with a scorching fire.
"I've found a much more interesting goal."
Like a knight swearing fealty, or a temptress enchanting a king, she knelt on one knee before Hansen, took his other hand, and pressed a devout and fanatical kiss onto the back of it.
"BOSS—no, My Lord... my body, my mind, and even my soul are ready to burn for you."
Hansen looked at the three girls before him, who had completely transformed.
After the Complementality of the Katatante, they were no longer the tragic characters with personality flaws from the original story.
They retained their original charm, yet possessed a divine sublimation.
It was a mature aura brought about by the final fusion of different timelines.
Though they still looked like youthful girls, the elegance in their every move and the depth in their eyes when they met his gaze were the pinnacle of pure desire.
"Very good."
Hansen nodded slightly. Just then, the transformation of his divine power reached its conclusion.
[Imaginary Divine Power (UR+): A creation god power that governs reality, illusion, and the mind. It wields idealistic power to interfere with reality; creation and destruction are but a single thought! Wherever the heart points, there lies the Divine Kingdom!]
BOOM—!!!
A grand fluctuation that defied description erupted from Hansen as the center, instantly sweeping through the entire Negative Universe.
The originally chaotic and disordered Katatante came to a standstill in this instant.
The floating trains, ruins, and crosses all disintegrated under Hansen's will, turning into the purest fundamental particles.
Hansen slowly spread his arms.
At this moment, he was the center of this dimension, the anchor point that defined the concept of existence.
The original Imaginary Divine Power could only interfere with reality and twist laws.
But now, it truly touched upon the authority of the Creator!
Right then, the dimensional barrier constructed of mind and fantasy was crudely torn apart by a will filled with despair and hatred!
BOOM—!!!
Spatial fragments splattered like glass, and a giant, pitch-black EVA with a hideous form descended with a crash.
It was not any EVA currently in NERV's service. Its form closely resembled the eva unit-01, yet its deep color scheme exuded a reversed evil at every turn.
Crimson lines like dried blood covered its body, and two additional arms extended from its armpits, like a fallen four-armed god-demon from myth.
At the center of its head was a cross-shaped scar emitting an ominous orange-red glow, like a single eye staring into the abyss.
eva unit-06, designated Mark.06.
A monster born from the fusion of SEELE's god-creation plan and Gendo Ikari's demi-god body.
The current eva unit-06 held the god-slaying lance of longinus, and blood-colored muscle patterns were visible beneath its half-constructed pitch-black armor.
The tip of the lance flashed with a dark red light capable of swallowing even light itself. Wherever it passed, even the darkness and silence of the Negative Universe retreated.
However, Gendo Ikari, piloting this world-ending weapon, ignored Hansen, who was radiating light across the entire Negative Universe, and ignored the three girls whose auras had been reborn.
The eye of eva unit-06, now a giant cross-shaped light on its forehead, was locked dead onto the pale blue spiritual silhouette behind Hansen, who radiated maternal light.
"Yui..."
A hoarse, distorted call filled with endless longing and madness came from the speakers of the unit-13, shaking the entire Katatante.
"I finally... finally made it here!"
He had discarded his humanity, shouldered infamy, toyed with the fates of others, and even sacrificed the entire world and all of mankind just for this moment of reunion across life and death.
Gendo Ikari had sacrificed countless things to gain demi-god power, and now he was trembling uncontrollably, like a child who had finally received a beloved toy.
However, Yui Ikari did not throw herself into his arms as he had fantasized.
She simply floated there quietly, her gentle face, which was seventy percent similar to Rei Ayanami's, filled with endless sorrow and pity.
She looked at this man who was willing to destroy the world for a reunion as if looking at a poor soul lost in a labyrinth of obsession, never able to find the exit.
From a certain perspective, it was precisely because she had learned of SEELE's mad world-ending plan back then that she had secretly guided and allowed this man to walk this rugged path of no return.
"Yui! Look at me! Answer me!"
Gendo Ikari let out a beastly roar. He controlled the unit-13 to reach out with its giant arm, trying to touch his lover who was so close at hand.
But no matter how hard he tried, that distance that seemed only a step away became an eternal chasm.
His fingertips reached forward, yet he could grasp nothing.
The AT Field he had formed by rejecting the whole world and his own biological son had long since turned into an indestructible Wall of the Heart, isolating him not only from the world but also completely from Yui's soul.
"Truly pathetic, Gendo."
An indifferent voice rang out. Hansen's figure appeared like a teleportation in front of Yui, and he extended two fingers, nonchalantly pinching the tip of the lance of longinus that was capable of tearing through dimensions.
HUM—!!!
The god-slaying power contained in the lance tip erupted frantically, attempting to annihilate the enemy who dared to obstruct him!
But the god-slaying power that could easily pierce through Zeruel's AT Field suddenly stopped the moment it touched Hansen, unable to stab forward any further!
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