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SHINJI:“I thought you'd be a more
serious person, Mr. Kaji.”
KAJI:“Once you're comfortable around someone,
you sure don't hold back, Shinji Ikari.”
SHINJI:“I'm sorry.”
KAJI:“No, I'm sorry too. I didn't mean
to sound sarcastic.
I know! I'll show you something neat.”
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SHINJI:“Are they watermelons?”
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KAJI:“Yeah, aren't they cute? This is my hobby.
It's a secret from everybody else, though.”
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156
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KAJI:“Making something...
Nurturing something is really great.
You can see and learn so many things
from the process.”
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KAJI:“Like what's enjoyable.”
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SHINJI:“And about suffering too, right?”
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KAJI (OFF):“Do you hate suffering?”
SHINJI (OFF):“I don't like it.”
KAJI (OFF):“Have you found anything that you enjoy?”
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KAJI:“That's fine too.
But knowledge of suffering makes you
all the more capable of kindness to others.
Because that's different from being weak.”
KAJI:“Yes? Hello?
It's Katsuragi.
She says they're starting the synch test.”
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RITSUKO:“I thought so.”
WOMAN (OFF):“Fix the depth at 3.2.”
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RITSUKO (OFF):“Shinji's synch rate is dropping.”
WOMAN (OFF):“LCL thickness is nominal.
Harmonics level is negative 1.1 ...”
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MISATO:“What's that mean?”
RITSUKO:“I can't say.”
WOMAN (OFF):“0.5...”
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RITSUKO:“But something must have happened
during that incident.”
WOMAN (OFF):“0.9...
0.10...”
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RITSUKO:“Something psychological.”
MISATO:“This makes it even harder to tell him
about Unit 03's pilot.”
WOMAN (OFF):“Current exponent is 0.9.”
WOMAN (OFF):“All results posted to Melchior.”
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RITSUKO (OFF):“But the pilot will be officially informed tomorrow.”
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