>>4083371>Next in the graveyard, she is aboard the jetThat happened in ep15, long before he got absorbed by leliel.
If your theory was right we would also see ghost Rei in the end of ep5 when he was almost burnt alive by Ramiel. In Ep 18 when unit 03 was strangling unit 01 . And ep19 when Zeruel was hitting the core of unit 01.