EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 137 135. Ayanami Rei is a clone (Part )
Shogi.

Also known as Japanese chess.

Shinji Ikari and Vice Commander Fuyutsuki were walking side by side on their way to the lounge. After Fuyutsuki Kozo suggested playing chess, he nodded in agreement, thinking this should be a good time to chat.

"Can you play shogi?" the old man asked.

“I just know some rules and stuff.”

What Shinji Ikari meant was that he would not play.

He is a terrible chess player.

But it seemed that Fuyutsuki Kozo didn't mind that he was bad at chess. The old man and he soon came to the lounge and dug out a shogi set from the pile of miscellaneous items.

The two of them sat on the tatami and played shogi face to face.

After walking back and forth for more than ten steps.

Shinji Ikari's chess game was clearly in a losing position.

He held up his chess piece awkwardly, not knowing what to do next. After all, no one is perfect, and he was not an all-round genius. The old man, on the other hand, seemed to have been immersed in shogi for many years.

"He's a complete newbie." Fuyutsuki Kozo sighed.

"Feel sorry."

Ikari Shinji said sincerely.

He continued to play chess without giving up, and in the end he could only watch the old man's chess pieces kill him. Fuyutsuki Kozou looked uninterested, and it was obvious that he had no experience playing chess with a novice like him.

"Thank you for playing chess with an old man like me."

Fuyutsuki Kozo first said something polite, and he had no intention of continuing to play chess with the rookie. Then he finally brought up the business, "You want to ask about your mother and Ayanami? So, do you still remember your mother?"

“I don’t remember much.”

Shinji Ikari shook his head.

"She died when I was a child, before I can remember anything."

"Is that so... Are you interested in hearing about the past? Your mother's name is Ikari Yui, and she was my student in college. Your father, Ikari Gendō, used to be named Rokubungi Gendō, but after marrying into the family, he became Ikari... Gendō. Now that I think about it, that was many years ago..."

He was clearly here to ask about Ayanami's relationship with her mother.

As the conversation progressed, they suddenly started talking about their parents' college days. But Shinji Ikari found these stories about his parents' college days quite interesting, and he didn't mind not getting to the point.

"…Those days are really nostalgic. But what I didn't expect was that those days in college were actually the most peaceful time. Later, the three of us, teacher and student, came to NERV, and we thought that life would continue to be peaceful. However, during the experiment on Unit-01, Wei proposed to go directly into the core and tried it with herself as a test subject…"

Hear this.

Shinji Ikari finally couldn't help but ask:

"So, the consciousness in Unit-01..."

"You've already discovered it. That's right, she's the pilot after all." Fuyutsuki Kozo was stunned for a moment, then the old man nodded calmly and said, "Yes, that's your mother, now she's the control system of EVA-01."

Ikari Shinji was silent.

It was just speculation before, and although it got a "response" from Unit-01, it was not officially endorsed. Now that he had received the affirmation from Vice Commander Fuyutsuki, Shinji Ikari felt relieved.

He took several deep breaths and managed to suppress the emotions surging in his heart.

Seeing his reaction, Fuyutsuki Kozo said:
"I didn't expect you to be so receptive."

"Because even if you want revenge, you can't find a target." Ikari Shinji said softly, "And people should always look forward, right?"

This happened more than ten years ago.

His mother died when he was a child, before he could even remember anything.

After so many years, although Shinji Ikari felt bad when he first learned the truth, as time passed and it was an unexpected experiment, he had no one to blame, so he could only try to look at this matter with a calm mind. "Look forward..."

Fuyutsuki Kozo's fingers, which were stroking the chess piece, paused.

The old man seemed deeply touched by his words, and they both fell silent for a moment. After a long while, the old man continued, "I originally thought that you would be very excited and unwilling. Now it seems that you are much braver than me."

"brave?"

"Well, I'm actually a very cowardly person," Fuyutsuki Kozo sighed, "If I hadn't found an excuse to play chess, I wouldn't have had the chance to talk to you like this."

Ikari Yui.

The name of my student.

Even after so many years, the old man still clearly remembered her voice, appearance and smile. Mary Makiba didn't just have college photos. He also kept photos from that time and took them out from time to time to reminisce about the past. He couldn't be as open-minded as Ikari Shinji.

Are you cowardly?
He could not see any sign of cowardice in the old man in front of him, but people always have many sides. Maybe it was just as Deputy Commander Fuyutsuki said himself. After all, Shinji Ikari didn't know the old man's past, and it always felt weird to judge whether an elder was cowardly or not.

Ikari Shinji ignored this topic and then asked about what he was most concerned about at the moment:
"So, what is the relationship between Ayanami and my mother? Why do they look so similar?"

"…Ayanami Rei is one of your mother's clones."

Dongyue Gengzao spoke clearly word by word.

Ayanami.

A clone of my mother...

For a moment, Shinji Ikari even suspected that he had heard something wrong, and all his movements stopped. His blood suddenly turned cold, as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him in the middle of summer, and his brain went blank, and then began to become confused. It was even more confused than when he heard that his mother had merged with Unit-01 and became the control system of Unit-01.

Shinji Ikari's first thought was that he had sex with his mother's clone... But Ritsuko had said that there was no problem. Was she lying? Legend has it that when relatives who have been separated for many years meet, they are easily attracted to each other. Could it be that this is also the case with him and Ayanami?
wrong.

I was so confused that I started to question this relationship.

Shinji Ikari's thoughts were like a lonely ship in the sea during a storm. He wanted to ask if there was something wrong. But after listening to Vice Commander Fuyutsuki's words, he felt that it made sense, as if all the doubts Shinji Ikari had about Ayanami in the past period of time were explained by this outrageous answer.

Cloning...

He murmured the word.

Fuyutsuki Kozou seemed to notice his confusion, and the old man asked:
"You two are getting along well lately, right?"

"Um……"

"Don't worry, you two won't have those problems in your genes."

"Why is this?" Ikari Shinji forced himself to cheer up.

He felt like a broken bridge over a turbulent river. Ayanami on the other side couldn't get across, and neither could he. If he tried to get across against the current, he would be swept away. He thought there was no way forward, but suddenly he found a narrow path next to it.

"That's what I wanted to tell you."

Fuyutsuki Kozo paused and said, "Your genes have been changing since you piloted Unit-01. I'm afraid you are no longer recognizable."

This kid's genes.

It is transforming in a non-human direction.

According to the latest hospital test report, this is a kind of gene that has never been observed by humans so far. The technicians are at a loss as to how to analyze it, so there is no other answer except that it is related to the apostles.

"My genes are changing?" Ikari Shinji was stunned.

"Yes."

The old man said,
"Although the physical examination at the hospital showed that you are fine, I think you should be able to find out something in person. Shinji, has your body undergone any strange changes recently?"

(End of this chapter)