Artificial Chapter 18
They didn’t know she was listening until they heard the soft gasp from the doorway. Misato sprung into action, tugging Rei inside and slamming the door. Shinji watched through blurry vision, wiping his eyes with a shaking hand. Every movement, every breath felt like it was someone else’s. This can’t be real. This can’t be my problem. But it was, and it was past time that Shinji dealt with it. The mystery behind NERV, his father, and Kaworu had been building, and Shinji would be an idiot not to recognize that this was the boiling point.
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