CHAPTER 7
Loud resounded Gendo's footsteps in the empty corridor, as he descended into the black pyramid that was Nerv's headquarters. Above the Eva cages there were a certain number of quarters whose unspoken purpose was to serve as holding cells. Ritsuko Akagi was being held in one of them, with two Section 2 agents in front of its door permanently.
That was not, however, Gendo's destination. Two rooms beside it, there was another, without any kind of vigilance. He knocked somberly, frowning.
"Come in," the reply came, after a few seconds.
He grabbed the doorknob, finding the door open.
It was dark outside, although there was enough light to vaguely discern the shape of the furniture. It didn't look like a cell; in fact, it seemed like a hotel room, a rather Spartan hotel, but a comfortable little room nonetheless. It was the cell for Gendo's special 'guests'.
Its occupant was sitting down in the shape of a ball, in a corner, hugging her knees and with her face buried on her arms.
"How are you, Yui?" Gendo asked softly.
She shivered in fear and looked at him. Her eyelids were puffy and reddish, and she looked like if she had been crying for an awful long time. Gendo felt a pang of regret. Yui had been trapped in the lab until the battle ended, and when he had come down there to excuse himself, he had found Yui asleep. He had brought her to the room, not sure of what to do anymore.
"So you finally have come, huh?" she croaked weakly.
Yui got up slowly, and faced him, folding her arms over her breast. She was trembling, Gendo noted.
"Sorry, dear," Gendo mumbled awkwardly, lifting a hand to caress her cheek.
"So you are sorry. Eighteen hours, but you're sorry."
She slapped him, so hard that Gendo actually heard the bones of his neck creaking under the force of the hit. He felt the metallic taste of blood in his mouth, surging from his broken lip. Yui's ring had broken it. He spit blood on the floor, watching how Yui trembled in rage and revulsion.
"Don't you dare touch me, scumbag! Ever!" she hissed. "If you touch me again, I swear that I will rip you apart!"
"…"
She sat down on the bed, assessing him coldly. Gendo just remained still, looking abashed at her. His cheek was hurting an awful lot, and he was sure that the lip would need attention. He didn't know that Yui could be so forceful. Or perhaps he just didn't remember.
"What am I doing here, Gendo?"
"It was the safest place…"
"And now? What are you going to do?" she asked suspiciously.
"I don't know. What do you want to do?" he shrugged.
"It's nice of you to ask," she said sarcastically. "But at least I should thank you for your shock therapy."
"Hm?" Gendo mumbled, abashed.
"I have progressed in my phobia, it would seem," she hissed. "Now I'd rather be alone… than being with you."
"Is that how it is?" Gendo murmured. "I'll leave, then."
"No. It will be me who leaves," she said, getting up. "Right now!"
"As you wish," Gendo nodded sadly. "Where are you going to go?"
"Don't know," she muttered. "And I don't really care; anywhere where you aren't will be enough. With Shinji, I suppose. Are… aren't you going to keep me here?"
"Holding you here?" Gendo said, doubting for a second. "No," he sighed finally. "Yesterday… It was for the sake of security. I'm not imprisoning you."
She gathered her shoes and walked outside, pushing Gendo aside forcefully.
"Yui," he called slowly, grabbing her by the elbow.
She slapped him again with her free hand in the same spot.
"Don't touch me!" she yelled, with loathing in her voice.
"When all of this finishes…" Gendo gritted his teeth, ignoring the pain that talking caused him. "We need to talk."
"It's no use, Gendo. I don't wish to listen to you."
"I owe you an explanation," he said, removing the glasses. "Please, Yui. I'm not asking for anything more."
"You deserve nothing more..." she hissed. "We'll see. Now I'm leaving."
Gendo merely nodded, letting her exit the room and hearing how she argued with one of the agents in front of Ritsuko's cell until the man agreed to escort her to somewhere else. He sighed and let himself fall onto the bed. He passed a slightly shaking hand through his hair, shaking his head in despair. Then he grabbed his phone and dialled a number.
"This is Lieutenant Asaki. Whom am I speaking to? "
"This is the Commander. I want two security teams watching over Yui… Mrs. Ikari, permanently and indefinitely, from this very second."
"Of course, sir. Where is she right now?"
"Somewhere in the Geofront, but leaving. She may go wherever she wants in Tokyo III, but she's not allowed to leave the city."
"Yes, sir. Where will Mrs. Ikari be staying?"
"I don't know. Very likely, at Major Katsuragi's, but that's to be confirmed. Reports are for my eyes only."
"Sure, sir."
"I want her completely safe, at any cost, am I clear?" he asked.
"Crystal, sir. Teams five and seven are on their way."
"Good."
Gendo dropped the cell phone and lied down on the bed. He sighed, tired. It was no use: things had escaped beyond his control. Ironically, if he wanted to have any chance, now he would have to fight against the same forces he'd helped to unleash.
At the same time, in the woman's locker room, one of the powers unleashed by Gendo was taking a shower. A continuous stream of hot water splashed over her. Rei sighed in pleasure, feeling delighted how the shower cleaned all the dry LCL from her short blue hair. She liked the sound of water splashing, and the feeling of it over her body. It was warm and comforting, and it wasn't until she felt a little bit suffocated that she would leave the shower.
It was an innocent pleasure, and even if it was a bit pointless, she didn't care. She was beginning to discover to enjoy some of the little, random things that happened to occur to her through the days.
She grabbed the fluffy, white towel and began to dry herself slowly. Many things had changed in recent hours, she thought absently. She had been raised up to accomplish a single objective, without question or doubt. To reunite the commander with his wife was Rei's destiny, as the Commander had repeated to her countless times when she was younger. Rei had finally accepted it: it was her purpose in life, and it was pointless to question it, or merely to seek things that weren't related to the achievement of Complementation.
Then… The Commander's wife had returned all by herself, and suddenly Rei had been freed to live in her own, without a marked path to follow. She once had felt that there was a huge void inside her, and she had tried to fill it with her mission, and the Commander. Now that there wasn't a mission anymore –beyond the defeat of the Angels- and the Commander had shown his true nature, she had found herself thinking of other things.
'Shinji Ikari,' she thought, grabbing her clothes. When Rei closed her eyes, she saw him. When she stared, lying down on her bed, at the ceiling of her apartment, she thought about him. And she had found herself seeking his company. It wasn't like…
Knock, knock.
The beating on the door startled her slightly. She wasn't expecting visitors there.
"Yes?" she said softly.
"May I come in?"
She recognized the voice as Maya's, adding a small amount to her confusion.
"Yes," she nodded uncertainly, not knowing what the current head of the scientific section would want of her.
The door opened and Maya stepped in. Rei was already dressed, so she simply stood in the middle of the locker room, waiting for Maya to speak first. The young technician fidgeted nervously with her skirt's edge, clearly not knowing how to start a conversation with the quiet albino.
"Hum…" Maya said uncertain. "Aren't you going home, Rei?"
"I was taking a shower," Rei pointed out the obvious. "I slept in the Geofront… but I suppose that I'm going now."
"Oh… Well, I didn't mean to bother you. I just… wanted to talk a little."
"I'm not in a hurry," Rei said, her curiosity bothered.
"Well, then…" Maya sighed. "I… just wanted to talk to somebody, today. It's about Shinji."
"Ikari?"
"Yes… Ikari," Maya shrugged nervously. "I thought you were in a first name basis with him…"
To her surprise, Rei blushed slightly. "I am," she conceded. "But… It's only for us."
"Oh…" Maya bit her lip. "Do you like Shinji?" she blurted suddenly.
This time, Rei's cheeks turned as crimson as her eyes, which she averted. "I… don't think that I should speak about this with you, Lieutenant Ibuki."
"You do, don't you?" Maya sighed, letting herself fall onto a bench. "Oh, god… Forgive me, Rei. That's not at all my business, but I needed to talk to somebody… and I think that you're the only one that wouldn't laugh at me. I have seen the way you look at him… and I thought that you might understand me."
Rei didn't reply. She wasn't feeling at ease with Maya's questions. Too much directness from somebody she really didn't know that well. She wondered if it was so obvious that she was… interested in Ikari.
"I was wondering…"
"What?" Rei mumbled absently, still musing herself.
"I've been talking with Ritsu… Doctor Akagi."
"She tried to hurt him," Rei frowned deeply.
"Yes," Maya said, hugging her knees, "but I don't think that she did it because of Shinji. He was just a pawn."
"He is not a pawn. He's…"
"Only yours to protect, uh?" Maya chuckled.
"Yes," whispered Rei truthfully, although it wasn't what she was about to say. But it was true, nonetheless.
"Do you know what Ritsuko told me?"
"No."
"That I was just having a crush on Shinji," Maya confessed. "Because I felt pity for him. But… I'm not sure myself. One part of me wants to believe her; to believe that I'm not in love with a fourteen year old boy."
"Is that so?"
"I'm not sure," Maya shrugged. "Perhaps. And what about you?"
"Me?"
"Come on, Rei… Shinji's the only person I've seen you start a conversation with, not mentioning the way you look at him when you think nobody's seeing you." she smirked. "I promise I won't tell. Are you?"
"I…" Rei blushed. That was a question that she had asked herself recently a couple of times, but she was unsure of the answer.
"Yes?"
"I'm not sure," Rei smiled lightly. "Perhaps."
"You're being mean, Rei," Maya giggled. "That's cheating."
Rei shrugged, looking herself at the mirror of the locker room. She'd seen the same image a thousand times before. Pale, marble-like skin, bloody red eyes and, surrounding her impassive face, an unruly mop of blue hair. She wondered what Shinji might think about her. Would he find her appealing? Would Shinji think about her, ever, as she did about him? Would he look at her when she wasn't looking?
Rei had no clue about the answers. She damned Maya under her breath, for making her thought about that. While, before, she had only given passing thoughts to the idea, now the only thing she could think about was Shinji… and she wasn't sure of what to do with that.
"Are you going to tell that to him?" she asked with a whisper.
"Me?" Maya mumbled thoughtfully. "I don't think so."
Rei glanced at her, slightly surprised.
"See, no good could come of it for either of us… Especially for Shinji. It's… I would only hurt him if I told him what I felt for him, all of a sudden."
"I don't wish to see him hurt," Rei murmured, somewhat relieved.
"Neither do I," Maya assured her, "and that's why I'm staying out of the way… for the moment. And what about you?"
Rei stared at her, feeling how a bottomless pit seemed to open at her feet. She imagined herself for a second, telling Shinji about her… feelings. A sudden vertigo rushing over her, and she closed her eyes. For the first time in her life, she was free to act how she liked best, and she felt the dizziness of freedom overcoming her. It was her choice, and nobody else's. Rei's choice.
It was the second day after Arael's visit to Earth. Nothing had remained of the orbiting Angel afterwards the Lance of Longinus hit it. It simply had vanished like a bad nightmare; nothing to prove that the blinding, light-made Angel had really existed.
It seemed that everything had ended all right, Shinji thought. Everyone was safe and alive, and the Angel had been destroyed with almost no casualties… Except for one thing. Asuka's psyche hadn't survived intact to the attack. Rei's help only had worsened it, to the point that the redhead hadn't pronounced more than a dozen words since she'd awakened the following day. Misato had driven them home, only to return to the Geofront later. They were alone in the apartment, but they hadn't exchanged a word. Asuka, refusing to even change her plugsuit, had headed for her room and softly closed the door.
Shinji hesitated. He wasn't sure what he would say once he crossed the door in front of him. Asuka hadn't accepted being rescued by Rei from the Angel. Shinji was glad she was safe, but he knew that she wouldn't appreciate his concern.
For the redheaded pilot, the Eva was her life. The single, focused objective of her life had been, as long as Shinji knew, to be the best Eva pilot in the whole world. In a sense, she was even more dedicated to this than Rei. A person with a single objective can be very strong, but at the same time, extremely frail. As long as she could keep being the best pilot, nothing else could affect her… but when that disappeared, she became the same thing that Shinji had been since a long time ago: a lonely, scared teenager, with few dreams and little room for hope in her life.
He sighed. It was pointless to be there in front of the door for all time, without entering or leaving. If he was going to enter, it was a moment as good as any other. Grabbing the doorknob with a slightly shaking hand, he opened the door a little and peeked inside.
Asuka was still dressed in her plugsuit, a full day after her rescue, even when she was at home. She was sitting down on the bed, knees under her chin and facing the wall opposite to the entry. The room smelled strange, a curious mixture of lavender and dried LCL.
"Asuka," he essayed timidly. "How are…"
"Leave," she cut him sharply.
"But..."
"Leave. Now."
He felt his mouth go dry.
"But Asuka…" he whispered. "You can't keep staying in your room…"
"Why?"
The sheer misery in her voice sent a dagger through his stomach. Why, she said. Why… Because she would turn ill? Or crazy? Because everybody needed her? Because she deserved better than that? Because the world didn't end when someone helped you against an Angel?
Because to see her unhappy hurt him?
Five times, one for each reason that happened to occur to him, he opened his mouth. And five times, he closed it. The sixth time, he managed to say something.
"Because I…" he croaked weakly. "I…"
"What?"
"I…"
"Go away," she said softly, with a neutral voice. "I want to be alone."
"I thought that…"
Slowly, Asuka turned to face him for the first time since they had started the awkward conversation. She hadn't put on her head the neural clips, Shinji noticed. Instead, she was holding them tightly in a clenched fist. She looked awfully tired, pale and haggard. Her eyes were slightly reddish, and he wondered if she had been crying. She was still looking down at her hands, as if studying them.
"I need to be alone," she whispered intensely. "Go away."
"Asuka…"
"Please."
Shinji shifted on his feet nervously, "O… Ok, but I will come back later," he murmured awkwardly. "To see if you need something, and stuff…"
"Would you?" she said, locking her gaze with his for the first time.
Shinji felt a cold shiver down his spine. Asuka was eyeing him hungrily. A feral grin appeared slowly on her lips, and Shinji felt suddenly that he was being assessed… as only a prey can be.
"I… Yes, if you want something, I can…"
"Something… Anything, Shinji?"
Shinji gulped.
"Er… Sure…"
She got up, approaching to him slowly, inch by inch. Instinctively, Shinji leaned back against the wall, not being able to fall back any further. Asuka kept smirking and walking towards him, and Shinji found himself fighting against a dry throat. She got closer and closer.
Asuka put a hand on each side of his head, pressing against him until he was actually able to smell the dry LCL on her plugsuit, mixed with a vague lavender aroma.
She'd stolen some of Misato's perfume again, Shinji thought faintly, going pale. He could feel her warm body pressing against him, and suddenly all he was able to see was Asuka's face, mere millimetres from his, while his knees suddenly seemed made of water.
She was looking straight at his eyes, but Shinji couldn't force himself to bring his eyes up from her red lips. When she spoke, he trembled, feeling her warm breath all over his face.
"Anything, Shinji?" she whispered hotly, sending chills down his spine. "Truly, anything?"
Shinji was more than unable to nod, even less to articulate a single word. However, it seemed that Asuka wasn't expecting a reply.
"I can ask you for anything, isn't that right?" she murmured, as if considering it seriously.
Shinji wished to be a thousand miles away from there. Asuka snuggled against him a little bit more, and he stiffened like a post, his fists curling and uncurling at his side.
"Yes…" he whined weakly.
"And you would comply… What if what I want… is you?"
He gulped.
Slowly, she nodded and covered the last inch that separated her face from Shinji's.
The only thing that prevented Shinji to fall blank to the floor was the support the wall was providing, and, still, he feared that it might not be enough. Asuka's lips were brushing ghostly against his, slightly parted. She breathed again, making him shiver without control.
"Liar… I asked you to help me," she breathed without actually breaking the soft, light kiss.
"Oh, God… But, Asuka…" he managed weakly.
"And you didn't come."
"I…"
"She did… but you didn't…"
"Asuka…" he whined. "I tried…"
"I called you… I needed you… but you didn't want to hear me…"
She cupped his face, deepening only so slightly the kiss.
"I… I heard you…"
"Then, why?" she mouthed.
"Ayana…"
"Don't ever mention her name!" she hissed angrily, pressing his head against the wall. "Ever! You'd choose her over me, wouldn't you? Don't mention her!"
"Al… Alright… but… A… Asuka… you're scaring me…" Shinji whispered terrified.
That scene paled his wildest dreams. Asuka was pressing against him insistently, and, more or less, kissing him… But he couldn't do anything but tremble in fear.
"You're a liar…" she mumbled sadly, breaking the kiss and stepping back. She averted her eyes, hugging herself softly. "Now leave."
Shinji didn't dare to articulate a single word. He just stepped back of the room without being conscious of what he was doing. He'd never seen Asuka so unwell, he mused. If she had yelled at him, or thrown things, or just plain angry or disgusted, he would understand it. She was… very affected – not by her defeat, but by Shinji's failure to help her. She seemed to have trusted Shinji to come for her, and he had failed – even when he hadn't been fully aware of her call for help.
It was maddening. He'd have to speak about that with someone, he decided. However, who… that was an entirely different question. Misato was at the Geofront, and she seemed to not really care about anything, anymore… ever since Kaji's disappearance. His father was out of the question, and his mother would be with him, he thought angrily. There was only one person that he could talk to in the city, he realized.
Whether she would answer or not, was another thing.
'Hello! If you're hearing this, I'm not hearing you. This is the Katsuragi res… Ok, Asuka, so this is the Katsuragi/Sohryu/Ikari residence. Leave a message and your number after the signal and we'll call you back. Probably, anyways. Thank you!'
Yui bit her lip, pressing the phone against her forehead. She was hoping to find Shinji or his guardian at home. She couldn't think of another place to go. Anyways, given time, Shinji would return home, and then she'd be able to meet him. She didn't know where Shinji's apartment was, and so she had only been able to arrive at the train station outside of the Geofront. But now… she was lost in the city.
Gendo would know where Shinji lived, but she was damned if she was going to ask him. Not anymore.
'Biiip!'
"Um… This is Yui Ikari. I needed to talk to you, Shinji, but I see that…"
'Click'
"Shinji's not here," a soft voice told her. "He left."
"Hum… Asuka, right?"
"Yeah."
"Do you know when he's going to return?"
"Don't know, and don't care," Asuka murmured. "He's always late."
"But I…"
"I have to go. Bye."
Yui looked confused at the black piece of plastic in her hand. Then, the alarms of the station began to cry aloud that everyone should take refuge in the nearest shelter until Nerv's operations had ended. She dropped the phone, covering her mouth with her hands.
"An Angel!" she muttered horrified. "Shinji…"
She was about to run to the maglev again, to return to the Geofront, when a pair of hands grabbed her by the shoulders.
"Mrs. Ikari? We have to reach a shelter, right now."
"Who are you?" she said surprised, turning to find half a dozen men surrounding her.
"Nerv," one of them answered, removing his sunglasses to reveal two cold, precise and ruthless black eyes. "Section Two."
Yui'd seen them in the train, but she had thought that they were merely another shift going home. Gendo's hand was long enough to reach her here, she thought bitterly. She must have realized that he wasn't going to let her leave like that.
"But I have to go to the Geofront."
"Negative. Too risky, ma'am. When the attack ends, we'll let you go wherever you want, but until then, we cannot let you be in danger," he said, inflexible.
"I…"
"No way, ma'am. Please come with us."
Sighing in defeat, Yui let them escort her to the station shelter, already pretty crowded with frightened travellers. She sighed again. It was going to be a long wait down there, until the Evangelion defeated the Angel. For once, the tide of people didn't comfort her at all.
"Shinji…" she whispered, sparing a last glance to the open sky through the station's windows. "Be careful…"
At the same time that Yui was searching for a phone, Shinji found himself hesitating again in front of a closed door. This time, it was a rather dull and dirty one, as used to be the door of the Apartment 402. Rei's apartment, the only one occupied by someone in the abandoned neighbourhood. Honestly, he wasn't sure about what he was doing there… Nevertheless, it was the only place he could think of to come. Staying at home was definitely a bad idea, judging by Asuka's random behaviour, and there wasn't any other place that he could go.
Silence answered him.
He frowned. Feeling slightly stupid, he knocked on again. "Rei?" he said. "Are you at home?"
Obviously, she wasn't. Sighing again, Shinji turned back to leave, only to find Rei standing in the end of the corridor. He froze.
"Shinji," she called softly, surprised.
Shinji blushed brightly.
"Hello, Rei," he mumbled.
"What are you doing here?" she asked curiously, trying to put her ideas in order.
"I…" he mumbled awkwardly. "I didn't feel like, staying in the Geofront and stuff… And Asuka wants to be alone, so I thought I should get out of her sight, at least for today…"
"Oh."
"So I came here, because I wanted to thank you," he said, smiling shyly and looking up at her.
"Me?"
"You saved Asuka…"
"It was… only my duty," Rei blushed slightly.
"Anyway, thank you, Rei," Shinji bowed formally.
"Hm. Do you… want to come in?" she asked longingly, brushing past him and grabbing the doorknob.
"Yes."
The interior of the apartment was mostly empty, not quite different from the last time Shinji had been there. At least, Rei seemed to have cleaned a bit, since the box with bloody bandages that roamed around the tiny room wasn't on sight. Still, the walls were covered with stains, and the glass of the window wasn't exactly transparent. Its emptiness...
"I don't know how you can live here."
Rei looked up from the cup of tea that Shinji had made. She didn't look bothered by Shinji's remark. If anything, she shrugged a little.
"It's calm," she said softly. "How is Sohryu?"
"She's… unwell," Shinji shifted uneasily. "It's difficult to say."
"I see."
"And you?" he blurted suddenly.
"Me?"
"Hm."
"I'm fine," Rei shrugged. "You should care for Sohryu, instead of me. I'm replaceable."
"Don't say that!" Shinji said horrified. "Please, don't say horrible things like that. I wouldn't want anyone but you to be..."
"What?" she said curiously.
"God, I'm not any good at things like this, but… I care for you..." he said softly, blushing as red as a tomato. "And I couldn't stand to lose you… or Asuka… either of you. Please, don't say such a thing."
Rei blushed faintly. "You're making me blush," she mumbled awkwardly, looking away.
Shinji gulped slowly. "But it's true, Rei," he stuttered. "I care for you…"
"It's… the first time somebody has said that to me…" Rei whispered, still with a pale pink shadow on her cheeks. Maya's words –'Do you like Shinji, Rei?'- echoed in her mind and she looked at him, uncertain. "But… still, I feel that you should worry more for Sohryu, right now."
"I… do…" Shinji sighed. "I care for her, but right now… I don't think that I should talk to her. That would only hurt her more."
"Why?"
"Because she said that I didn't help her," he sighed, resting his head on his elbows. "And she's right. The more I try to help Asuka, the more I hurt her."
"You weren't able to," Rei said softly. "It wasn't your fault."
"But I should have…"
"I did help her," Rei interrupted him slowly, choosing her words very carefully. "And, even if she doesn't… appreciate it, she's alive, now. Perhaps she needs just a bit of time to recover herself, I suppose."
"Do you think that she needs time?" Shinji asked hopefully. It was a possibility.
"I am… not sure," she shrugged, feeling a pang of jealousy as she wondered if Shinji would be so worried for her, given the opposite situation. "You should ask somebody else."
"I wanted to speak to you, Rei," he said simply. "You're my… only friend, right now, aside from Asuka."
Rei blushed again. "Are we friends, Shinji?"
"I'd like to think we are, Rei," he chuckled, getting up. "But I suppose that it's up to you, after all. I… think that I should leave, now. I'll… see you at Nerv."
She nodded. Shinji got up to leave, but, suddenly she looked up at him intensely, and then she smiled lightly.
"I'd like to be your friend, Shinji…"
"I never thought you weren't, Rei," he smiled. "I have always trusted you."
"But I…" she said uncertain, "I'd wish to be..."
"What?" Shinji asked softly, seeing how Rei uneasily looked away from him, her cheeks crimson for the third time.
"I want to…"
Then the sound of two cell phones interrupted her, and both frowned in unison.
"So soon?" Rei whispered, surprised, while Shinji answered his and shook his head in despair. "It can't be… It's not fair…"
"We have to go," Shinji muttered, not having heard her. "It's an Angel."
"True," Rei nodded, looking abashed and getting up.
When she was stepping away, Shinji called her. "Rei? What were you going to say?"
She stopped in the doorframe, without facing him. "Nothing…"
"Please, Rei…"
"It was nothing, Ikari," she said sharply, walking away.
Shinji ran behind Rei and grabbed her hand. It was surprisingly warm and soft, and Shinji found himself staring at the slender hand on his like an idiot. He gulped.
"What?" she mouthed barely.
"Rei, I… Promise me that… If it's an Angel, you will tell me what you were going to say after the battle."
Rei looked up from his hand very slowly, until her crimson eyes locked with his. He swallowed, and then she smiled at him disheartened, grabbing his other hand. "All right, Shinji," she whispered softly. "I will tell you later."
A Section Two team was already waiting for them outside. As soon as they walked out of the building, they knew that the alarm wasn't a fake. A huge ring, shaped like a DNA string, was spinning quickly above the sky of Tokyo III. It seemed to have appeared from nowhere, but it was as real as life itself.
The Sixteenth Angel had arrived.
To be continued...
Author's notes
Hope you liked this seventh chapter of Eurydice. IfI work everything out as I have planned, there is only three more chapters to go. The next one... will take a hell of a lot more of time to come out, for it's barely planned nowadays.
Now, the aknowledgements (or should I saytheworshipping?) Many, many thanks to Steve Vader for his help with the plot and, especially, to Yui Ikari for rescue me from my horrible grammar. I luv you!
If you don't mind, astute reader, the review button is just a little down andto the left...
See you!
Athos
