Hawks from the Land of Light are calling me a dove and an undercover agent in the chat group.

Gendo Ikari can only handle things he can control perfectly, but Mr. Kasa can always face the unknown with the utmost dedication.

This is precisely the reason why Gendo, the most comprehensive entity that has always been high above, was so easily defeated.

With his glasses removed, Gendo Ikari's inner strength faltered once again. Feeling somewhat lost, and then mocked by Kaworu Nagisa, he retorted, "I am not afraid of death."

As Wei's husband, he did not want his image to be misunderstood as a coward who feared death, as that would tarnish his wife's reputation and judgment.

"Nobody asked you that." Kasa wouldn't look at him any better because of that. Being fearless isn't respectable; what matters is why you're fearless and what you do while you're fearless.

Not knowing how highly Kaworu regarded him, Kasa sorted out the situation and roughly understood.

Gendo Ikari believed that this fog was harmful to people, strengthening the barriers between their hearts. However, he did not perceive it as so harmful, probably because these things did not actually harm the human soul. At the same time, they were tools for breaking through the light of the soul, a kind of training method.

Under normal circumstances, if a person is resilient and independent enough, being eroded by the effects of the fog will not only not thicken the walls of their heart, but will also lead to enlightenment and make them stronger.

However, given that all humans in this world are currently considered to be split parts of the same individual [Apostle Li Lin], it's probably best not to think about this for now.

While it may seem beneficial to refuse to fill the gaps in people's hearts, the thickening of these walls actually prevents humanity from communicating with one another, leading to its demise.

"In your eyes, and in the eyes of SEELE and their group, what do all the others mean by coming up with this idea?"

"...We don't care about them."

Meeting Kasa's cold gaze, Gendo Ikari gave a bitter answer, even though he knew Kasa definitely wouldn't like it, but he dared not lie.

To not care is to disregard; in other words, in the eyes of these SEELE members, there is no such thing as a human being. In their eyes, the only people who can be considered human are a few of their own.

As for the other billions of people around the world? Sorry, they're all just tools, tools that exist to achieve any goals of SEELE members.

Of course, compared to the other members of SEELE, Gendo Ikari is the best one. At least he still has his wife, Yui Ikari, in his heart, adding another human being to his life.

Although they are still essentially selfish and self-serving to the point that their human values ​​have been distorted and altered, Gendo Ikari has a slight possibility of change compared to the old folks at SEELE.

Kaworu didn't care whether Gendo Ikari could change his mind; he only cared about Shinji. He immediately asked, "Then, what's the way to remove these products that thicken the Heart Wall?"

“There’s no such thing,” Gendo Ikari said pessimistically. “We never intended to withdraw from the beginning; we’ve already gone all in. If we can’t get past the Giant of Light, nothing we say will make a difference.”

His pessimism wasn't about regretting the decision, but rather his resentment at why such a deus ex machina had suddenly appeared, disrupting all of their SEELE plans and future.

With things having come to this point, he had no choice but to admit defeat. There was nothing he could do about it; the enemy had completely overwhelmed them in both strength and willpower. Even using their trump cards was useless; they were simply invincible.

But at least before he died, he wanted to know why he was dying.

"What exactly are you? Did you come to this planet to obtain the Fruit of Life and the Fruit of Wisdom to make yourself stronger? Or do you just enjoy ruining other people's good deeds?" Gendo Ikari asked unwillingly.

Kassa showed no anger at his slander and defamation, but simply uttered the simplest words he had said countless times over the past ten thousand years: "I will appear whenever someone needs help."

"Stop joking!" Gendo Ikari roared, feeling insulted. "Are you trying to talk about love and peace, hope and miracles? Tell me your real purpose!"

"I have never hidden my purpose." Kasa's gaze was compassionate, his murderous intent diminished.

At this moment, looking at the roaring Gendo Ikari, he seemed to be looking at a rebellious brat.

"Ha, then let your excuses run wild!" Gendo Ikari sneered. "Since I'm already destined never to see Yui again, let's die together."

Click!

The moment he finished speaking, the entire NERV base shook violently, and something underneath—whether it was Lilith or Adam—began to unseal. Kaworu was astonished: "What did you do?"

“It’s not that I did anything,” Gendo Ikari said calmly, with a sense of waiting for his death. “The old folks at SEELE always plan for the worst. Since we can’t kill you or stop you, let’s die together.”

"Humans too, Lilith too, Adam too, the apostles too, everything on this planet will awaken and go berserk, becoming your enemy. No matter what your purpose is, you are destined not to get what you want."

"Even if what you say is true, that you came here to save people, you can't save anyone. Even if you can defeat Lilith and Adam, this world will be destroyed by you, nothing more!"

Kasa shook his head slightly.

He didn't intend to waste any more time with Gendo Ikari, and simply said to Kaworu Nagisa, who was standing to the side, "Get ready."

"Understood." Kaworu, who had already gone all in, obeyed unconditionally.

"Huh?" Gendo Ikari's heart skipped a beat.

The next second, he saw a magnificent hand carrying endless light reach out, seemingly grabbing the entire planet and refining it in an instant. Then, all was silent.

The world changed completely in an instant?!

Chapter 261 Goodbye, all Evangelion!

Legend has it that in the beginning, the world was in chaos, with heaven and earth in a state of confusion, without any distinction between heaven and earth, and without any living beings. The omnipotent God Jehovah then created everything in the world in seven days.

However, people have no chance to see this scene before the creation of the world, because God is not truly kind and merciful, but instead wants to put people in the shackles of original sin.

But at this moment, Gendo Ikari saw it; he really saw it.

That chaotic, primordial world—in this world where nothing exists, humanity, apostles, the earth, the world, and all life and things that come afterward are insignificant, and have no free world or moment.

Only the Giant of Light is eternal.

Even the wings and radiance of the so-called merciful Lord, the omnipotent God, and the legendary origin of existence cannot compare to the ultimate perfection of this giant of light.

Gendo Ikari opened his eyes wide and tried to reach out his hands, instinctively wanting to approach, to touch, to acknowledge.

He had almost forgotten all his previous doubts, fears, and hostility, and felt only an infinite sense of peace that filled his body and soul, a peace that was stronger than ever before, even more intense than when his wife embraced him.

But he couldn't do it. He was like someone sinking in an ocean that wouldn't drown, constantly sinking, sinking.

Around him, near, far, and infinitely far beyond, countless lives, just like him, sank into this ocean. Not only humans, but also other animals, and even other apostles, could only gaze from afar at the three who truly "existed" here.

The eternal giant of light, and Lilith and Adam, who stand opposite Him, displaying their forms.

The Spear of Longinus that bound Lilith has fallen off and is now in her hand as her weapon, while Adam's embryo has also detached from Gendo Ikari's hand, growing rapidly and wielding another Spear of Cassius.

The awakening of Lilith and Adam will each bring their own different impacts. The combined force of these two impacts is enough to wash over the entire surface of the planet, turning Earth into a barren rock, and even the seawater may be evaporated.

But at this moment, the combined impact of the third and fourth shocks has no effect on the world whatsoever.

This is because it is a world and moment where high and low dimensions coexist, flowing between reality and the mind.

Gendo struggled, breathing heavily. He didn't want to sink; he wanted to get closer to those three beings, to listen to the clash and battle between the three gods.

He gasped for breath, trying to regain his senses from the delirium he had been in, captivated by the Giant of Light's charisma. He wanted to hear with his own ears what the Giant of Light, who had shattered all plans and the future, had come for!

This is just too difficult.

Even when it suddenly appeared and confronted the Third Apostle, the immense life essence of the Giant of Light was still being actively restrained to a certain extent. People could only vaguely perceive how perfect it was, but would not be completely overwhelmed by it.

But now, the innate tendency of every Giant of Light to actively restrain itself has been withdrawn from Kassadin for the first time.

The life essence of Ultraman, for the first time, was completely and utterly unmasked and unhidden, released with a magnificent force as if it were about to ignite a star!

In this chaotic world where high and low dimensions coexist, if he didn't do this, and forced all life's attention to focus on him, then apart from Lilith and Adam, all life in the EVA world would be lost, and neither self nor independent soul would be preserved.

Even the apostles are like this.

"What a nice view……"

Gendo Ikari struggled, his left and right brains battling each other. Just a second ago, his left brain was thinking that even if he had fallen to this state, he would still go there to expose the true face of the Giant of Light. How could a god who could create worlds so easily come to help humans who were like ants?

But before he could do that, his right brain slammed into him with a vicious punch, making him involuntarily murmur words of praise for the giant of light.

This made him feel extremely ashamed and humiliated!

And he wasn't the only one murmuring like that.

A chorus of exclamations and praises echoed across the ocean. Apart from the elders of SEELE and his Gendo, all life had been completely captivated, even the apostles.

"Is that so? Is our faith of yours useful? Are you the god of faith? Are you here to harvest our faith?!" Gendo Ikari struggled, and while his left brain controlled his body, he shouted through gritted teeth.

Then, the next second, he heard it.

The voice came from the giant of light who revealed his true form, whose brightness could directly illuminate all dimensions, whose status surpassed that of ordinary gods, and who, when he got serious, could create or destroy the world with a flick of his wrist.

He did not respond to Gendo Ikari's questioning, and it was even unclear whether He had heard Gendo Ikari's words. At this moment, He spoke only to Lilith and Adam:

"I will protect this planet and all the innocent lives on it."

Lilith wields the Spear of Longinus, and Adam wields the Spear of Cassius. If they object, they will raise these two god-slaying spears, capable of killing gods, and engage in battle against this uninvited giant of light.

All life sank to the bottom of the ocean, gazing at the two of them from afar.

Lilith and Adam remained motionless.

They finally said, "The impact is not something we can control. The completion was the theme set when it came from the Tree of God. Starting with us, all the apostles cannot suppress the instinct for completion and return. It is an instinct that transcends genes."

"When an apostle completes his work, unless you kill him, even if you stop the spread of a new wave of shock energy, the new god who has obtained both the fruit of knowledge and the fruit of life will kill all the remaining children after you leave."

There was one more thing they didn't say.

Although there are exceptions.

Lilith and Adam turned their gaze to the ocean, watching Shinji Ikari swimming in it.

The world has already gone through its second cycle. In the first cycle, Shinji obtained the power of Instrumentality and became a new god who controls the life and death of the world. In the end, he chose to release this power and let people return from Instrumentality.

But this didn't help at all.

Giving up on completing or perfecting something will ultimately lead to a new cycle.

Without external intervention, even if Shinji Ikari chooses to give up on completing the task each time, the infinite loop will inevitably bring about change. In the infinite loop, as long as Shinji Ikari chooses to complete the task even once, then all his past letting go will be meaningless.

Therefore, in the long run, the result of choosing to let go is still the destruction of the world, and only one new god will remain in the entire solar system.

Moreover, this new god is most likely a new life form formed by the merging of billions of humans.

That does not meet the needs of the giant of light before us.

...Of course, that's all from the perspective of the homeland. In the eyes of the homeland, this is an unsolvable situation, but for this giant of light, breaking this situation is too easy.

All that is needed is to completely annihilate Lilith and Adam from their very source, and then completely obliterate all the Spears of Longinus. That would be enough. At that time, even if the apostles and humans wanted to make amends, they would be unable to do so, the world would not be destroyed, and the cycle of reincarnation would be immediately severed.

The Giant of Light is capable of these things, and both Lilith and Adam can clearly understand this.

Faced with the Giant of Light when he got serious, the two of them had no real power to resist.

Lilith and Adam didn't say these words aloud, but they were distracted and couldn't hide them, so Kassa already knew everything.

Lilith and Adam asked, "Are you going to kill us?"

They were not afraid of death, otherwise they would not have allowed the completion of the process. The result of the completion was the creation of a new god, and both of them would die.

However, from their perspective, the completion was not a bad thing. Regardless of which apostle was completed, it meant that their child had completed the evolution, and their death was worthwhile.

This is a difference in perspective.

But if they were killed by the Giant of Light, they would be very sad, because dying would be pointless.

To this, Kassadin responded with only three words: "No need."