EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

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First he whetted people's appetite, then he said he had brought it.

She looks so smiling.

It's really a bit speechless.

But Shinji Ikari was the one who needed help, so he couldn't say much. This kind of bad-taste conversation was just a small episode. He thought Miss Mary might want to make an appointment with him - after all, it's impossible for someone to carry photos with them, they usually put them in the luggage - but this woman always seemed to surprise people.

At this time, she took out two well-preserved photos from her women's handbag.

"Give."

She handed it over.

One photo shows two women laughing wildly, while another shows them surrounding a swaddled baby.

Let’s not talk about Makiba next to her in the photo for now.

Shinji Ikari extended his index finger and gently touched the face of another woman inside. It should be his mother. Shinji Ikari originally had only some vague impressions, but now comparing it with the photo, this is the photo of his mother in college. He thought that her appearance was quite outstanding, and he also inherited a lot of it. His mother was laughing happily, as if she was amused by some joke. Even now, more than ten years later, he could still be infected by the smile of that year.

But for some reason, Shinji Ikari felt that this face looked very familiar.

It seems.

She actually looks a bit like Rei Ayanami.

Although the facial features are a little blurry due to the technical problem of the camera, they don't seem to be much different from that girl's facial features, only the temperament is different. One always has a calm face, and the other smiles can infect others. Ikari Shinji's heart jumped, and an absurd thought came to his mind. Could it be that Ayanami is his sister or younger sister? But Ayanami and Ikari Gendo don't look like each other at all. What's going on?

He buried this doubt in his heart and was about to speak.

"Even if you are her son, I cannot give you these two photos. They are my treasures. I can only show them to you."

Makiba announced the bad news in advance.

Shinji Ikari was originally thinking about whether he could borrow it, but his thoughts were predicted.

He had no choice but to look at the second photo.

The baby inside must be me when I was a child...

Just then he finally noticed a problem. Compared with Miss Mary in the photo during her college years, she didn't seem to have changed much now. She still had the red glasses and twin ponytails... It's a style that she has maintained for more than ten years... More than ten years have left few traces on her face. She has no wrinkles or aging problems at all. I don't know how old she is and how she managed to maintain such good looks.

But ask the woman her age.

But it’s a big no-no!

Although Ikari Shinji was curious, he would not ask such a question without knowing the tact.

"At that time, it was like a newborn puppy, breathing very hard. I didn't expect it to have grown so big now."

Makiba pointed at the baby in the second photo and recalled the scene of that year.

This situation is the most embarrassing.

The elders pointed at your childhood photos and talked about what you were like back then, but you had no memory of it at all and didn't know what to say in reply. At this time, another elder should have joined the conversation, but right now, there were only him and Miss Mary.

Fortunately, she quickly realized something and asked another question:

"I've been in Japan for a while now, and I heard that your relationship as father and son isn't very good."

Is that "not very good"? That's a very kind way of putting it.

Shinji Ikari thought that the two of them were now treating each other like air, and that the father-son relationship was about to be severed, but this was not his responsibility. He didn't know what that bastard father was still thinking at such an old age.

"He's not very willing to do so." He said decisively.

"I think so." She said something that showed her understanding of Shinji Ikari. "Given Gendou-kun's personality, it's normal for him to be like this now. When he was in college, he wasn't someone who would open up easily."

Shinji Ikari noticed her address.

Gendou-kun.

In Japanese etiquette, this is considered a very intimate term of address.

"But you're already in your forties, and even the most immature of people should take on some responsibilities," Shinji Ikari said seriously.

"That's not certain."

Makiba smiled.

"In my eyes, he is still the same as before, he hasn't changed at all. And don't look at what Gendou-kun is like now...your parents were very loving back then."

Loving?

For a moment, Ikari Shinji thought he had misheard something. How could a middle-aged man in menopause have a sweet love experience? This was simply unbelievable, but it was said by a good friend of his parents in college, so it was highly credible. It overturned some of his impressions of Ikari Gendo.

At this time, Shinji Ikari finally looked at the two photos carefully.

There were many doubts buried in his heart that made him puzzled, but for the time being he had to return the two photos. He handed the photos to Miss Mary.

She carefully put it back into her handbag, treating it like a treasure.

It feels a little weird.

Shinji Ikari always felt that Miss Mary and his mother were more than just good friends during their college years. Would ordinary good friends carry each other's photos with them when traveling to a country thousands of miles away? I don't know how close the two of them were back then.

"By the way, don't you have a photo of her?" she asked as if she remembered something.

“There aren’t many relics.”

Ikari Shinji shook his head.

In his memory, since his mother died in an experimental accident when he was a child, everything about her was quickly covered up. Even as a son, he didn't have many relics left. Now that he thought about it, there were many traces of human intervention. It was probably done by that bastard father.

"It seems like he has hidden them all. I don't know what he is thinking."

"I see... Speaking of which, the cause of her death was an experimental accident, but no one knows the details. I only found out the code name of the experiment, and the rest has been erased." Makiba paused and said, "Do you want to know what the experiment was?"

"what?"

Shinji Ikari paused for a moment.

He is not stupid, and he has had many doubts so far. Some bad associations quickly passed through his mind, which was a feeling he rarely experienced. He was not as indestructible as Jotaro Kujo, the protagonist of the JOJO comics. He would hesitate, be nervous, and in some truly terrible moments in his life, Shinji Ikari even felt fear. But this uneasiness was so different, it spasmed and trembled in his chest, playing a hollow bass.

"It's probably okay to tell you." Makiba's eyes flashed dangerously as she stared at him, "She died in an experiment involving Unit-01."

(End of this chapter)