[She's too calm. It's frightening, more so than any fist to the face from the girl could be. When she taps the eye patch he's forced to keep eye contact, forced to continue to stare. He understands the gesture, but at the same time it's lost on him. If she means to say her eye was damaged thanks to the Third Impact then...
But it makes no sense.]
I don't understand...
[He's talking to himself rather than her at this point.]
It never happened...Third Impact never happened...I killed Kaworu-kun...Misato-san spoke with me after...how could it have happened?
[He shakes his head, wanting to step back, wanting to distance himself from Asuka, but stands firmly in place. This is worse than any phantom, worse than any ghost.]
...I don't know what happened to your eye. I don't. But I'm not lying when I say Third Impact never happened yet. I would never lie about that. Never. I don't even know how someone could lie about that...
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But it makes no sense.]
I don't understand...
[He's talking to himself rather than her at this point.]
It never happened...Third Impact never happened...I killed Kaworu-kun...Misato-san spoke with me after...how could it have happened?
[He shakes his head, wanting to step back, wanting to distance himself from Asuka, but stands firmly in place. This is worse than any phantom, worse than any ghost.]
...I don't know what happened to your eye. I don't. But I'm not lying when I say Third Impact never happened yet. I would never lie about that. Never. I don't even know how someone could lie about that...