Huh. Now that you mention it, if she can disguise guys like us as humans like this, you'd think she could disguise everyone as kaiju too. Then we could all pretend to be . . . imugi? That what they were called? When those eggs hatch.

[LILITH isn't a "she." Gigan doesn't notice his own slip-up, or that he's beginning to fall into thinking of LILITH as one singular female being, an AI something like another one he knows and can conceptualize more easily than he can a vast human organization. How do I talk to her? he wonders, finally taking a sip of his coffee, black.]

—That's what this stuff tastes like?