

In one of these, Shinji does not kill Kaworu and instead convinces him to live. However, Unit-04 is not illustrated.Īlternate routes can be unlocked once certain conditions have been fulfilled. Kaworu seek to protect Shinji during this battle, explaining his gesture. However, before Kensuke embarks on Unit-04, Kaworu Nagisa knocks the boy out and takes his place without permission. When several Angels appear in Tokyo-3, NERV decides to deploy all Evangelion units. Among them, Kensuke Aida is designated as the pilot of Evangelion Unit-04. Six pilots from the Tokyo-3 school are chosen to pilot them. NERV develops five Evangelions to fight the Angels. It is illustrated by illustrator Ryota Magaki. In the extra pages, developed to the printed book version, Unit-04 is depicted as the same as Evangelion Unit-03 but using an external S² engine attached on its back. Like in the anime, Kensuke Aida passingly mentions that unit-04 was lost. While the S² Engine experiment was a failure, use of an S² Engine was later perfected for the Mass Production Evangelions. Unfortunately, there was an accident involving the S² Engine which caused Unit-04, the facility it was in, and everything within an over 80-kilometer diameter to be consumed by a Dirac Sea.
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Unit-04 was a test subject for installing an S² Engine into an ordinary Evangelion, likely by using the one recovered from Shamshel. 2.3 Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days.
