An unwelcome new role shakes up the lives of the Children while Gehirn works on a new technology to peer into their minds.

With the Artificial Evolution Laboratory on the verge of a major breakthrough, Ritsuko Akagi struggles to balance herself three ways between work, home, and her secrets.

On a forgotten Valentine's Day, Asuka struggles to survive a mild cold and Shinji and Misato struggle to survive Asuka while they wait for Kaji to come and placate her.

With a past she can't forget and her future little more than an aftermath extended, the former Evangelion pilot Asuka Langley Soryu drifts into adulthood in a world she helped save for everyone but herself. With others she is lonely, and with herself never more alone. To survive, she must find out who she is and who she is without.

"Who am I?" asks Rei Ayanami. A thief, a fashionista, a friend to children, a sower of discord, an unwelcome and unwilling dinner guest, all on one cloudy day...

With Asuka on assignment in Matsushiro, Shinji finds a way to get himself in trouble with her all on his own.