"You took your time," she said. "Asuka's cooking. Rei's trying to help. And Kaworu's tuning the piano."
The sea was normal. Blue. Salty. No LCL. evangelion 1.0 3.0
Rei—the dark-haired one—sacrificed herself first. She stepped into a collapsing wave of 1.0 's hope and 3.0 's despair, and for three seconds, she smiled a real smile. "I think I was human after all." "You took your time," she said
The worlds screamed. The crimson sky of 3.0 bled into the blue sky of 1.0 . The ruined Geofront sprouted grass. The pristine NERV headquarters cracked with honest age. And when the light faded, Shinji stood alone on a beach. And Kaworu's tuning the piano
"Both of me were wrong," Shinji said. "And both of me were trying. That's not a contradiction. That's just being alive."