Volume 1 (Neon Genesis Evangelion Academy: Record of Heaven's Descent)
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| Author: | Min Min (眠民) | ||
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Chapter Overview
The first volume of Neon Genesis Evangelion Academy: Record of Heaven's Descent is comprised of four chapters.
Chapter One
Shinji Ikari goes out as he does every night to buy a drink from a vending machine near his home. At the machine he sees Rei Ayanami, a girl from his school, and a boy he does not know, race past him into the distance. Marveling at this curiosity, he accidentally drops his coin under the vending machine. He reaches under the machine and instead of his coin he pulls out a small, dark red orb.
Shinji wakes up the next morning, and on the news he hears about a disturbance that happened in the night close by. When he goes to Nerv Academy, a catholic school, Kensuke Aida tells him that the disturbance might be linked to some kind of “Divine Retribution.” He pulls up a website on his laptop that describes the prophecy told to the prophet Magi and speaks of this scenario: “[We] foresee this, and pass it to man, who has the potential for greatness; In 14 years and 29 days, the pillars that support the heavens will collapse, and rain spears upon the earth below.” Kensuke says to Shinji that that time will pass this year.
Asuka Langely Soryu and Rei Ayanami are in the same class as Shinji, and are briefly introduced at this time. Kaworu Nagisa is introduced to Shinji’s homeroom as the new transfer student, and he is seen wearing a different uniform from the rest of the students. When Kaworu is introduced, Shinji stands up and yells in surprise, since he believes Kaworu is the boy he saw last night with Rei. Because of this, Kaworu later asks Shinji to show him the school.
After school Shinji sees Rei and Kaworu walking off together, and he follows them out of curiosity. He soon loses sight of them until Rei rushes out in front of him with an implement similar in form to the Lance of Longinus. She hurls it at a crow, destroying it. From the crow falls one of the same red orbs Shinji found the other night.
Another being is in the area, which has wings and fires a lightning attack at Shinji. Kaworu protects him with an AT Field (which is said to be a remarkable thing for a human to have). Kaworu identifies the being as the Lightning based Ramiel, who has “…infected a human body…” It wants Shinji’s “core,” the red orb he found last night. Kaworu further identifies Ramiel as an Angel, a being to “guide mankind to destruction.”
Chapter Two
Ramiel powers up with a core in his chest, Kaworu explains that the Angels seek vessels to inhabit since they don’t have physical bodies. Kaworu yells at Shinji to hide and the battle with Ramiel progresses.
Shinji looks out from his hiding place and sees Rei badly injured. He rushes out to her, where at the same time crushing rocks fall to where he runs. Kaworu pushes Shinji out of the way and in return is pinned by a large slab of rock. Shinji struggles to remove the rock and tries to wake Kaworu, who is unresponsive. Shinji’s hand is full of Kaworu’s blood, and a flashback into Shinji’s past occurs.
A person’s arm is among objects looking like roots, which are enclosed by a now cracked screen. Leaves are floating in the air, and young Shinji watches as the person’s hand is placed on the cracked screen, smearing the blood on it flowing from that hand.
In real-time the Angel encroaches on him, and Shinji lets out a monstrous yell. He emits a ray of light which seems to destroy the Angel.
An image comes to life in Shinji’s mind. He is kneeling over a model of a city, and a young Kaworu says, “Though all you may see over there are individual parts, each of them has their own place, and their own meanings. Lilith draws ever closer…” Shinji remarks that he feels he has seen this child, and then says that the child is covered in red. He is corrected by young Kaworu, who says, “You’re the one covered in red…I wonder whose blood that is.” Shinji wakes up in Nerv Academy’s infirmary.
Rei comes to the infirmary and takes him into a church on school grounds. Inside the church, there is a black table in front of the tabernacle. To Shinji’s surprise, Rei places her hand over this and stairs appear where the black table once was.
She leads him through a pathway, past two angel statues marking the entrance into a room. They emerge onto a white platform surrounded by twelve white pillars. These pillars descend downward through what look like roots of a tree. The pillars ascend into leaves of a tree at the same time. Asuka and Kaworu are waiting on the white platform between the pillars.
A voice from above addresses Shinji with, “Starting today, you will be sent on missions along with the three people before you. You will fight the Angels.”
