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This is the third volume of the spin-off manga Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days, which is adapted from the video game Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel 2nd

Synopsis
After fighting the Angel, everything had seemingly gone back to normal. However, with Toji becoming more connected to Hikari, Rei confessing her feelings to Shinji, and Kensuke asking Asuka to go out with him, the relationship between the children started to become complicated. Moreover, Adam and other beings had appeared in Tokyo-3.

Part 1: The Group Photo
Shinji wakes up the next day after fighting the Angel, with only his mother at home. He started to ask her if his father had known about him and his friends being chosen as pilots, which led him to think that his father doesn't care about his family. During the conversation, Asuka got inside the house after ringing the bell with no answer, and Yui tells him not to make Asuka late for school. On their way to school, Shinji apologized to Asuka and she pushes his back telling him to cheer up.

Meanwhile, Kensuke have met with Toji on his way, with the latter wondering if anyone were involved in the other day's chaos since some of the buildings have vanished for the city. At school, Shinji, who is worried if any of his classmates were caught up in the rampage, is relaxed after Kaworu told him that everyone is there and all right. Rei arrives with her head bandaged which seemed to make Shinji worried, but she reliefed him.

After class, Shinji has received his math exam with a bad result. Asuka has tried to cheer him up by inviting him to the river shore to change the atmosphere, but eventually, the rest of the group has come along. Kensuke teases Toji and Hikari and ends up making Shinji fall in a hole. Then, he goes over to tease Asuka as well. Rei complains about how she cannot see well because of the bandages and Asuka offers her decorated bandaids and fix her hair. Shinji happily comments on the happy air around them, but Kensuke notes that some of them may have to move because of the last day's battle, with Kaworu adding that all the news were about the Giant of Light. Kensuke suspects that NERV knows about it. Seeing Shinji disturbed, Kaworu invites him to play along the next day for the concert. The girls has changed their hairstyles and asks the boys about their opinions, and Kensuke suggests a group photo. Asuka teases Toji and Hikari about their photo, and get him irritated. He takes Asuka exam paper from her bag, and accidently makes her fall in the river.

On their way back home, Kaworu asks Shinji if he should wait for him at the concert, and Rei seems looking forward to seeing Shinji play. Shinji tells Asuka that he has a problem standing in front of a crowd. Asuka wonders if she can be of any help, and Shinji thanks her. The next day, Shinji goes over to see Asuka, but she doesn't feel well after catching a cold.

Part 2: How to Spend a Day Off
Asuka fell ill and Shinji is confused about what to do to her, since he has school and the concert with Kaworu. Adding to that, Asuka's parents haven't returned from the research institute yet and Asuka doesn't want to worry them. Shinji decides to look after Asuka and take a day off of school, despite all of her demands. While he was looking after Asuka, Kaworu called to remind him of their concert.

Shinji goes to the supermarket to buy few things for Asuka, and meets up with Toji and Hikari who then went back along to Asuka's house. Hikari offers to make lunch for everyone and asks Shinji to help her but Asuka stops him, wanting Hikari and Toji to be together. Toji talks to Shinji about Kaworu and Asuka tells him to go, though he doesn't want to leave her unless she has recovered; Hikari implies that as Shinji's feeling towards Asuka, to the latter's embarrassment, who then collapsed due to overexerting herself. Her condition has gotten worse and she has rested in her bed, with Toji and Hikari taking their leave.

Meanwhile, Kaworu is waiting for Shinji and Rei arrives at the concert hall after being absent from school due to examinations at NERV. He tells her that Shinji was absent due to him taking care of Asuka. Shinji calls Kaworu and apologizes since he wouldn't go with him, and Rei gets disappointed after she has dressed up and stuff. Shinji tells Asuka that he cancelled his appointment, saying that she always helps him and he wants to return the favor.

Elsewhere, Misato drops by Kaji who is doing some research on Kaworu but to no avail, saying that the boy has a strange presence, and it wouldn't be realistic for a 14-year-old student to have no records on his past. Misato asks about what he will do to find out about him; he gives her the students records from the last 20 years, where she found Commander Gendo Ikari's name recorded as Gendo Rokubungi, as well as his wife's, Yui, and more strangly, Kaworu Nagisa was in the same class as them. Meanwhile, Kaworu's concert has begun.

Part 3: Individual Feelings
During the repairing of the damaged Evangelion units at NERV HQ after the battle with the first Angel to appear, Yui talks to Gendo about how she still couldn't believe the the Angels have actually come, to which he replied that they are ready to fulfill a promise they made twenty years ago with a still-unknown person.

Rei calls Shinji and first tells him that she went to the concert, but immediately admits that she didn't go at all and asks him to meet her at the train station but screams, and Shinji rushes to go there. He arrives there only to know she only tripped, and notices her unusual dress but with torn stockings and says that she didn't have to wear such clothes. She takes the stockings off and suddenly pulls Shinji with her to a train going to New-Yokohama, asking him to go with her to a restaurant but they eventually have ice-cream only, which he plans to save some for Asuka, and Rei notices his concern for Asuka. She retells him about her past in the research institute being an test subject for an artificial Eva pilot, and how she feels happy about her recent change in life. She then thanks him for the experinces that she had together with him and their friends, and confesses her love to him.

Elsewhere, Kensuke noticed Asuka when he was in a shop; she asked him if he saw Shinji, and then continued looking for him, but could not because of her illness. He carried her home on his back, but she got angry after he told her to rest, but she stopped when he asked her if she loved anyone. She ran from him. The next day, Shinji found that Asuka had left.

Part 4: The Ideal World
Shinji is still feeling confused about Rei's confession to him, but he noticed that the ice cream he bought Asuka had melted. He went later to check on her, but her neighbor told him that Asuka had already left. He ran to school and found out that she was there. When the two of them were arguing, Rei arrived at school. Asuka felt jealous of Shinji, and started ignoring him, which led him to feel down during the day. Kaworu approached Shinji and invited him to the roof, where the latter revealed what happened between him and Rei and how confused he was about what happened as well as how he does not want things to change, which was shocking for Kaworu.

Kaworu then went to the classroom where Rei was, and asks for the reason she told Shinji about her feelings, and the two started arguing about whether what she did was the right thing to do. Kaworu felt angry, threw her belongings and left; Rei felt sad and cried. Meanwhile, Asuka quarrels with Kensuke about what happened between them the last night, and he asked her if she would go out with him. Later, Shinji looked relieved since he saw that Asuka had returned to her usual self. However, when he mentioned Kensuke to her, she told him about Kensuke's confession to her, but when he asked her about her reason for not answering Kensuke, she became angry and left him. Shinji felt lonely thinking about how everyone became so distant.

The next day, Adam appeared in the city, but the problem is that not only Adam had appeared, but it seems like other unknown beings had appeared as well