Stage completed. Crest obtained. What awaits Shinji of the Amateru line in the future? Suffocating Malaysia with its jungles and an aristocracy that refuses to give up what is theirs. Combat robots that destroy both their own and others. Civilians burning in the flames of war. The stage is over—and under the teenager’s mask, an even clearer second mask shows through: that of a beast, moving over corpses toward achieving its goals.