Chapter 26: Ayanami

Chapter 26:
Ayanami

 

<<I can’t stand just sitting around all day.>>

“Huh?” Back in Hakone, Ayanami Rei Trois turned in the direction of the voice. “Quatre? How did you get in?”

Quatre had arrived with Kaji. She’d last been seen on the top deck, on top of her mutant Eva. Had she snuck into the base somehow?

<<Security isn’t exactly pristine here.>>

<<Did someone say all-you-can-eat pralines?! Where?>> Six’s voice joined in.

“Wait…” Trois said. “Our mental mirroring is reestablished.”

The link between the Ayanamis had been broken ever since Rei Quatre took a Q.R. Signum into her Eva.

<<So it has.>>

<<How’d that happen?>>

She could hear their voices the way she could feel the sun after the clouds had gone away. Had they finally been released from Armaros’ clutches? But that couldn’t be. Quatre’s mutant Eva still

had an active Q.R. Signum inside it, and the corruption left behind remained on Quatre’s and Trois’ bodies.

But how to explain this?

“Listen up, us,” Trois started. “No, that’s not right,” she corrected herself. “Quatre, Six, let’s talk with Trois.”