A/N: The fourth and final segment of the anthology is based on the doujin I Want To Leave Behind a Miraculous Love by Nagashiro Rouge, the same creator of Eve and Eve (which the third segment For All Eternity was also based on that doujin). This may also be the only segment with erotic elements.
P.S.: Brunhilde (Record of Ragnarok) makes an appearance near the end.
Maintaining Life
What you're witnessing may be the beginning of a particularly terrifying nightmare.
It isn't. It's the end.
It all started with a comet.
Everyone who saw the falling star lost their eyesight. Then, the fragments of that comet that fell onto the earth spread a murderous virus around the world, and the humans who died from it turned into murderous monsters.
Outnumbered, humanity created an artificial intelligence defense system against the dangerous threats that are ravaging the world. And the best option that this high-tech system decided upon...was to nuke the world.
After that, aliens came to plunder the earth, presumably for world destruction or mass destruction. But however, they were repelled by an unprecedented natural disaster, as this was Earth's final desperate tactic.
And thus, the world was completely destroyed. The once populated Earth is now deserted. Beliefs and gods may not exist in this world after the apocalypse.
Introducing Asuka Langley Souryuu and Mari Illustrious Makinami, the last two remaining survivors on the world's surface.
Their destination...
...The Evangelion Zone.
"Whew...", Asuka said as she was walking with Mari through the deserted overgrown apocalyptic landscape near the city of Tokyo, "Sure is hot..."
Mari wiped her forehead, "Yeah."
"I think Tokyo might be this way.", supposed the orange-haired girl.
The glasses-wearing brunette answered, "Everything will be fine, Asuka.", as the two look at each other happily.
Even if they speak with words, they can also communicate with their feelings.
"Asuka."
"What is it, Mari?"
That was when Mari embraces Asuka with a kiss, surprising her. After a few moments, Mari parted her kiss with the other as the former's teal eyes intimately looked into her blue eyes.
"I love you...princess.", she said to Asuka, making her smile.
As the two kissed again romantically, the lilac-haired valkyrie Goll watches the two as she was surprised by the post-apocalyptic landscape she was in.
As you can see, Mari loves Asuka as much as she loves her. They had their first kiss a while ago.
And one day, as they felt themselves itching to do something, the two of them came across a tantilizing book...
When Mari and Asuka had read a explicit book when scavenging through and staying at an abandoned store for the time being, the latter felt exasperatingly embarassed while the former looked interested.
"Asuka...", Mari said as the two looked at one another again, before locking their lips.
Their intimacy began to intensify as the two laid on the blanket, with Mari becoming assertive by touching her bra outside of her breasts, before they started to undress while they're holding hands.
Kissing close as their tongues explored each other's mouths, they moaned as they made love, even with Mari breastfeeding from one of Asuka's breasts as the former hummed.
Asuka says, "Geez, Mari... You look and sound like a baby...", as she thought of the subject for a few moments, "You know, if one of us were a guy, we could leave descendants."
Or as it may seem.
If Asuka was a guy, she might not have fallen in love with her.
But does that mean Asuka likes her appearance instead of what's inside?
Would it be better to say she'd like Mari even if she was a guy?
Asuka may not get it, but that would be fine. She's alive now because of her feelings of love for Mari.
But occassionally, she finds herself thinking about which one of them would die first.
Later on after their intimate private time, both Mari and Asuka look in shock when they come across a sand field filled with stick crosses placed over the burials.
Asuka watches the burials in horror as she started feeling fear overcome her, her vision fading and her heart beating fast.
"No...", anxiously panted the orange-haired girl, "I don't want Mari to be alone..."
The brown-haired girl with glasses noticed this as she was concerned, "Asuka...?", before she saw her friend faint out of anxiety, "Asuka!"
Honestly it's not something that Asuka wants to talk about, but if one of them had to disappear first, she'd want it to be Mari.
"Asuka!", delighted Mari when her close lover came to back in the store they're staying in where she was tending to her for safety, "Are you okay?"
Asuka smiled, "I'm okay...", smiling at her while Mari smiled back; the two of them proceeded to kiss and hold hands once again before Asuka thought, "Ah... If only I was a guy...then I wouldn't be able to let Mari feel lonely..."
Asuka gets scared just thinking about it.
If she dies, these feelings of love would disappear too. She saw on television that the creation of Earth was a miracle.
If all that remained on this planet were the feelings of love between girls, that'd be some miracle, right?
She still doesn't know if there were beliefs and gods anymore after the apocalypse, but she has a prayer...
'Please let our feelings remain on Earth.'
"Asuka, come here!", noticed Mari as they were exploring the desolate overgrown city, "There's something out here!"
Asuka curiously asked, "Did you find something, for sure?"
"It looks like...a spaceship.", the glasses-wearing brunette explained as her lover took a look for herself, surprised.
What they found was an abandoned alien spaceship back when they had invaded during the events of the apocalypse, as the orange-haired girl said, "It's a UFO..."
The two of them look at each other and nodded, before they head towards it in means of exploring into the spaceship through an open hatch, out of curiosity.
"That's strange... It doesn't look like there are any aliens inside or on board...", presumes Asuka.
Mari agreed, "Yeah..."
Going deeper within the spaceship, they looked around the abandoned parts of the spaceship when the orange-haired girl said, "I wonder if there's anything we can use..."
"Asuka! It looks like there's beds in here! And they sure look comfy!", the brown-haired girl with glasses said.
Asuka decides, "Well...beats having to lay on the floor. Why not?", shrugging as they began taking their shoes and socks off before she took Mari's hand, "Come on!", just before they jump and bounce on one of the beds, "It's really fluffy!"
"So fluffy! Never felt a warm bed like this for ages!", giggled Mari.
Then suddenly, a dome encloses both Mari and Asuka inside on the bed, trapping them.
A strange gas emits from the dome's grating, shocking the two.
It wasn't poisonous or harmful, yet the smell was actually sweet like sugar, flowers or even the scent of perfume.
The orange-haired girl gasped, "Mari, are you alright?! What's this sweet smell...?"
"I'm okay...yet I'm not sure what this gas is...", answers the glasses-wearing brunette.
"It doesn't seem like anything's happened to our bodies..."
"Asuka... Look."
Mari pointed up where she and Asuka looked at something attached to the dome trapping the two.
It was illustrations of two stick figures. The first pictures showed the two figures, and then the second showed the two together facing each other when the gas is sprayed.
Asuka muttered, "Drawings...", as she looks ast the third illustration showing the two figures exampling sexual intercourse, "It looks like a guide to sex or something... This thing might've been used for breeding humans... Maybe the aliens were planning on enslaving humans as pets or something? But...what's this last drawing?", then questioning this when they saw the last picture showing the two figures pregnant, "Are they...pregnant?", and then both her and Mari look at each other for their reassurance, "If that's the case...maybe we can do it too...?", then questioning, "Uh... Mari? If you're okay with it, I... You don't understand me- How should I phrase this?"
Mari then kissed Asuka's hand, making the latter blush.
"Asuka... I think it's high time...we should raise a child of our own.", chose Mari as she placed her lover's hand on her belly, the two lovingly looking at each other.
To rephrase from earlier, of how they speak with words and communicate with their feelings...
...their feelings are all the same.
Asuka and Mari began by kissing passionately, their tongues exploring each other in a french kiss manner, before Mari began licking, kissing and biting Asuka's ear.
The orange-haired girl moaned, "Ah... Wait... No fair... I don't want it just done to me..."
Taking their pants and undergarments off and beginning to make love, Asuka felt pleasure enjoying Mari's sounds before the two moaned with pleasure.
Looking at each other, the two intensely kissed each other out of love, taking off their shirts and rendering themselves naked on the soft bed, they went to a missionary position as they continued to have sex.
Why did they survive? Why is it the two of them? What is their purpose?
They don't need a reason or a purpose. To Asuka, meeting Mari is her everything.
And she wants to leave this feeling behind!
"Asuka... Asuka!", moans the brown-haired girl with glasses as she felt her lover lick her bare feet and toes, before they both held hands once more, entwining their fingers.
Asuka lovingly said, "Mari... I love you! I love you so much, Mari!"
"I love you too... Asuka!", replied Mari.
The two of them then screamed in pleasure as they reached the climax of their sexual episode, all while their hands never let go during this.
After this, the two laid together, catching their breath and relaxing after their intimate experience.
"I love you...Mari."
"I love you too...Asuka."
They held hands together again, and shared yet another kiss, just before the dome finally opened, allowing the two girls to leave while the gas in the chamber seeped out and dissipated.
A lot of time passed since then.
During the next few years, both Asuka and Mari became pregnant after that fateful day, finally able to bear children regardless of their gender.
They both settled in their new home in the post-apocalyptic city of Tokyo, decorating and scavenging things to raise their children with, including a crib, toys and new clothing.
And after those few years, Asuka and Mari let their hair grow as they now had five children. Two of them had orange hair, two of them had brown hair, and one of them was a newborn baby.
Asuka and Mari were now barefoot and wore white clothes, while the four children had nice clothes to wear as they explored the landscape together as a new family.
And after all these years, their miraculous love continued to grow forevermore.
As this happened, the lilac-haired valkyrie Goll tearfully watches the six of them (plus the newborn) walk together as a family.
That is, until a familiar valkyrie behind her appeared.
"Goll."
"GAH!"
The short-haired valkyrie yelped in a fright when she saw Brunhilde behind her.
Brunhilde said, "That's enough of that one.", as the environment surrounding her and Goll faded away...
...and they returned back to the room Brunhilde resides in and that Goll had snuck inside the same night, revealing that Brunhilde had woken up to see what Goll was doing after exploring the four alternate universes.
"Didn't have my permission, huh?", asked the midnight-blue-haired woman.
The lilac-haired valkyrie saddened, "Sorry... I only...wanted to see for myself...", apologizing.
"At this time, I will let this slip past.", Brunhilde decided as Goll looked at her in surprise, "At least, because you are my sister.", going to her bed as she looks back at Goll, "Come."
Goll hesitated, "Oh... Okay.", as she walked forward to her valkyrie sister.
The two of them laid down as Goll was comforted and hugged by Brunhilde when they both rest on the latter's bed, sisterly.
"I... I love you, Brunhilde. You are a great sister to me.", Goll gladdened.
Brunhilde responded, "You are too, sister. I love you too, Goll.", asking, "You were appalled by those stories, right?"
Her younger sister nodded.
"Wanna experience a story later on?", the older valkyrie said.
Goll then looks in shock as the night continued in the realm of Valhalla.
There is a new dimension, beyond which is known to god and man.
It is a dimension as vast as space, and is timeless as infinity.
It is the middle ground between light and darkness, between fates and circumstances.
And it lies between the pit of one's love and the summit of their attraction.
This is the dimension of imagination.
It is an area which we call The Evangelion Zone.