Scene 7:

Asuka's title: "Again with the pseudo philosophical bullshit…"

Shinji's title: "I'll try to be wrong more often, then."

[The scene opens with both Asuka and Shinji eating ravenously as they talk while Rei sits at the table calmly, not eating or talking unless specifically addressed.]

Shinji: You know, Asuka, I've been thinking.



Asuka: Yeah, Shinji?



Shinji: Maybe this isn't hell. Maybe I'm just in some asylum with white padded walls and I'm just making up all this crap in my delusional head.

Asuka: That's a logical possibility. But, you know what I was thinking?



Shinji: What, Asuka?



Asuka: Why aren't we really pissed off at Rei for sucking us into this nightmarish world?

Shinji: Yeah, you'd think we'd be a bit more upset about that.

Rei: I did not choose this world. Shinji created it in the way he wished it to be.

Asuka: Shinji, you wished the world to be like this?

Shinji: I'm kind of thinking no, but who am I to argue with the all powerful Lillith, right?

Asuka: Yeah, I thought so. Still, I'm curious to why you would allow super-psycho Shinji to create whatever world he wanted, considering he was, well, super-psycho and all.

Rei: It is because it was meant to be.

Asuka: Yeah, that's an answer. Again with the pseudo philosophical bullshit…

Shinji: It does kind of get annoying after awhile, now that I think about it. But I have another question; is there anyone else on this dead rock besides us?

Rei: There is no one and yet there is everyone.

Asuka: Oh, yeah, THAT makes tons of sense.

Shinji: Well, what do you expect from Rei nowadays? You should be used of it by now.

Asuka: Good point, Shinji. You're starting to make too many of them, though; it's kind of starting to scare me, too.

Shinji: I'll try to be wrong more often, then. But, Rei, what do you exactly mean by this whole 'no one' and 'everyone' spiel?

Rei: When instrumentality occurred, everyone's minds became one and in essence, destroyed everyone, leaving no one in it's place. Yet, at the same time, since everyone is one, everyone is present at the same time and thus they are present in me and are here. This applies to anyone you may see on your way to Eden.

Shinji: And where is that again?

Rei: You will see in time, Shinji. But, as of now, you two are the only ones who rejected instrumentality; that is, you two are the only one's who are separate from the unified mind of mankind.

Asuka: Wonder girl's still not making sense, but whatever…

Shinji: But, hey, Asuka! That means we're special, right? Considering the fact that we're the only individuals left while everyone else became one gigantic mass of nothing.



Asuka: Shinji, the optimism thing.



Shinji: Sorry.

Next Scene:

Asuka's title: "There is no path, wonder girl. All you're doing is pointing."

Shinji's title: "Well, that sucked."