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This is the fourth 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
The Angels resumed their attack on Tokyo-3, and the children are sent to fight them. Shinji is absorbed into the Giant of Light, but is saved by Asuka. Misato tells them they will have to work individually overseas. Kaworu disappears and everyone forgets about him. Asuka and Shinji confess to each other. The group meets later after being separated for a long time.

Part 1: That Which is Precious
Despite the appearance of Adam and the other Angels, NERV had not dispatched the Evangelion units yet, and the pilots were on standby. However, the tension started to get into them. When Toji asked Misato if he can go to see Hikari, Shinji thought that Toji wanted to get rid of him, and when the two met in a shelter, Toji refused to tell her about him having to fight against the Angels. After Toji had left, Hikari, worried, asked Shinji about what they were doing. Before Shinji could reply, she gave him a mascot she made for Toji to deliver it to him.

Shinji delivered the mascot to Toji, and informed him that everyone in the city had been evacuated. After he was assured by Shinji that they would fight the Angels, Toji confessed that he was scared and didn't want Hikari to see him like that. Toji tried to convince himself to be strong to protect her, which confirmed to Shinji that Toji cared about her the most. Shinji met with Rei on his way back, and when they arrived, he started thinking about who the most precious person to him was.

Part 2: Ghosts of the Past
Shinji is confused about who is the most precious person to him, while Asuka is still avoiding Kensuke after he confessed to her, which seems to make Shinji worried. After seeing Rei and Kaworu close to Shinji, Asuka felt irritated and left with Kensuke following her.

Meanwhile, Kaji meets Gendo regarding Kaworu Nagisa, who's apparently been the latter's classmate 30 years ago, but without any results. Later, Kaji meets with Yui and asks her about Kaworu Nagisa, since she had been with Gendo in the same class but to no avail. However, she tells him that the Angels' appearance was predicted by someone she can't remember.

Later, the Angels resumed their attack on Tokyo-3 and the pilots are sent to intercept them. On their way for dispatch, Rei reveals to Asuka that she confessed her feelings to Shinji and says that she would regret not telling her. Rei, Shinji, Asuka, and Toji are in their respective Evas, but Kensuke hasn't arrived yet, while Kaworu has been assigned to be a backup due to the investigations conducted about him. Kensuke is late but he meets with Kaworu on his way. However, he knocks out and takes his place in piloting Unit-04.

Part 3: A World of Light, A Darkness of Sound
The four Evas has been dispatched. Kensuke was also found unconscious, and Kaworu cuts off the communications with the control room after he was ordered to get off the Eva.

On the battlefield, Shinji is initially confused about who he is fighting for, but after seeing Rei and Toji concentrating on repelling the Angels, he sets his mind to protecting everyone. On the other hand, Asuka is still lost in thoughts of what Rei told her earlier and isn't able to focus on the fight. Shinji rushes to save her, but the Giant of Light, Adam, appears in front of him and absorbs Eva-01, and loses consciousness shortly. He wakes up inside a dark place where he sees his younger self when he was still in the lab and his first meeting with Kaworu after Asuka left him when playing hide-and-seek, but Kaworu made him feel relieved and offered to play together.

Shinji, however, realized that he needs to go back to fight the invading Angels, but another Kaworu appears before him and asks for his reason for fighting, since all of his friends had told their feelings to their most important person even though he didn't want that to happen. He wishes his friends and him would stay as children and the older Kaworu shows him how his life would be without NERV and the Angels, but the "real" Asuka holds him, and he focuses on getting back.

Part 4: The Future from Now
Shinji managed to get out of the Giant of Light with Asuka's help, but as soon as that happened, Adam disappeared. After the fight has ended, the pilots were allowed to go to their homes, but before going home, Shinji meets with Kaworu who asks him if he was happy. After Shinji affirms that, Kaworu leaves. Soon after that, he meets Asuka and invites her to go home together.

Later, Misato tells the pilots that each of them will be assigned to a different lab around the world. Despite being against that, she tells the pilots that just burdening 14-year-old children with the task of piloting the Evas is worrying even for the adults and asks for the children's cooperation.

Kensuke suggests that everyone meets with an object to make a time capsule to open it when they reunite. Later, with Hikari invited, they meet but Kaworu says that he didn't have anything to bring. Shinji and the others offer him to bury their group photo with them, and everyone promises to come back to the same place.

Later at the port, everyone except for Shinji is present and Asuka is scheduled to be the first to depart. Kensuke meets with Asuka and accepts that she can't return his feelings. Elsewhere, Rei meets with Shinji and tells him again about her feelings, but this time, Shinji tells her that he doesn't have the same "liking" for her, but assures her that she is an important friend of his. Soon after Shinji left, Kaworu meets Rei and, after talking with her, he disappears without a trace.

As a result, Kaworu apparently "was erased from everyone's memories." On the other hand, Shinji had just arrived at the port, while Asuka is already on board with Kaji. She suddenly left the room thinking she heard Shinji's voice, but soon, Shinji actually shows up and she jumps into his arms, and both confess their feelings.

Shinji and Asuka meet everyone after several months and they went to the park where they buried their time capsule. After uncovering the group photo, Shinji looks at Kaworu's face but cries for not being able to remember him. Even though everyone were occupied with their business, they decide to meet on the next day to have breakfast together.