EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 14 13. The Second Qualified Person

Currently, I am the only one receiving training.

Because of her injury, Rei Ayanami is temporarily unable to participate. Shinji Ikari parted ways with her at the elevator exit and went to the training ground with Ritsuko Akagi.

NERV was still bustling with people.

As he passed by, he noticed that many people were yawning, looking like office workers who had stayed up too late, and some even fell asleep directly in front of their computer desks.

"Everyone looks listless."

"I can't help it. After all, this is a special time." Akagi Ritsuko's eyes were also a little bloodshot after staying up late. She said lightly, "But I can sleep well tonight, as long as the apostles don't come again..."

It seems like there was a lot of work last night.

Even the usually icy blond person in charge made a rare complaint.

As the two of them were walking, Shinji Ikari suddenly thought of someone. He looked around but didn't see the urban beauty. He asked curiously,
"By the way, why don't you see Miss Misato?"

"That guy has already slipped back to catch up on some sleep."

He could vaguely sense the resentment in Ritsuko Akagi's words, and wisely did not mention overtime again.

These two ladies have a really good relationship.

at last.

Ritsuko Akagi led him to a venue filled with a large number of mechanical circuits.

In the middle of the venue was an irregular metal polygon more than 20 meters high. The densely packed wires on it were enough to make people with claustrophobia suffer from it. Next to it was the cockpit that he had just become familiar with.

It seems this is the place for training.

He thought he was going to train on Unit-01, and it should be under repair now. But it was okay this way, thinking of the inexplicable attraction of Unit-01 and the existence that could interrupt his neural empathy, Shinji Ikari always felt that there was a big pit inside waiting for him to jump in.

A set of blue and white combat uniform was handed over.

"From now on, this will be your special combat suit. It can monitor your physical data in real time and also provide some protection to avoid accidents during combat. Remember to put it on before driving the EVA."

Shinji Ikari took it, quickly changed his clothes in the locker room and walked out.

The cockpit was wide open.

It was pitch black inside and he couldn't see anything, just waiting for him to go in and fall into the trap.

At this moment, Shinji Ikari asked a question out of his divergent thinking.

"By the way, there's no bomb on the EVA, right?"

"Wha, what?"

Ritsuko Akagi suspected that she was hallucinating.

"It's the kind of bomb that can destroy both you and the enemy if you lose the battle."

Once you are betrayed by the equipment department, you will be afraid of bombs for ten years.

Shinji Ikari can still recall the first night he arrived at Kassel Academy. At three o'clock in the morning, he was awakened by the sound of an explosion in his dormitory. When he rolled up and looked out the window, the pillar of fire in the academy almost blinded him. Just when he thought that the Dragon King had invaded the academy and was ready to fight with his brothers and sisters, he received a message from the academy's artificial intelligence Norma.

"The equipment department is conducting normal experiments. Please continue to rest."

He stared at the glowing screen of his cell phone, shocked beyond words in the middle of the night. His fellow student who lived next to him muttered, "It exploded again," then turned over and fell back asleep.

By now he was completely desensitized to the noise of explosions.

The Equipment Department has made great contributions.

Shinji Ikari didn't want to drive the robot properly, so the giant robot suddenly exploded and disintegrated, just for a gorgeous firework.

"Only EVA can fight against the Apostles. With the AT force field, no matter what kind of bomb it is, it can't cause any damage to them."

I heard there is no equipment department.
Ordinary bombs cannot harm the Dragon King, so don't add bomb functions to your equipment all day long.

So he walked into the cockpit with confidence.

——LCL fills the interior.

——Neural empathy. The scene of that day appeared in front of his eyes again.

The third New Tokyo City.

apostle.

Shinji Ikari was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately realized that this was probably a simulated venue. Because the surrounding environment was too fake, it looked like the poor quality modeling in some rubbish money-sucking games, not to mention that the most important apostle was standing there motionless.

"This is target practice. Don't worry Shinji-kun. Everything here is fake."

The voice of Ritsuko Akagi's comfort was heard in the communication channel.

"What's next?" he asked.

"Just aim at the target and fire. This is fixed target training, and there will be moving targets to train on later."

Shinji Ikari tried firing a few shots, and immediately a strange feeling arose in his heart.

like……

It's a bit simpler.

As long as you have played FPS shooting games, you can quickly get the hang of it. What's more, Shinji Ikari has actual shooting experience. But now he is a teenager who has never touched a gun before, so he can't behave too abnormally.

Even so, Ritsuko Akagi was a little surprised.

I do not know how long it has been.

"You are truly a genius, the third boy."

As I got off the training machine, the blonde lady who came towards me complimented me.

"third?"

"Oh, this doesn't mean that your grades are too bad. You are the third qualified candidate, and Li is the first qualified candidate. What? Do you think this title is not nice? Then I'll just call you Shinji-kun." she said.

A faint smell of cigarette smoke wafted in.

Shinji Ikari took a step back imperceptibly. He soon noticed that the smell of cigarette came from the blonde lady in front of him. This was understandable. After all, it was normal to smoke a cigarette to relieve stress after staying up all night. It was estimated that when he was struggling to press the trigger in the training machine, Ritsuko Akagi was smoking and observing the data with her legs crossed.

Can't imagine anymore.

The picture looks like that of a middle-aged uncle.

"You can call me anything you want, but as for the Qualified One... I asked before, was I chosen to be a Qualified One because of something special about me?"

"It's not that I didn't want to answer you at that time, but I didn't know either." She shook her head and took a few steps to the side, keeping a certain distance from Ikari Shinji. The smell of cigarettes was much thinner. "This part is not my responsibility. The organization responsible for finding qualified people is called Maruduk. I don't know the details. I'm afraid only the commander knows the most about it."

What Ritsuko Akagi meant was that he could try asking his father.

Shinji Ikari felt that even if he asked, he would probably be rebuked. He had long passed his rebellious period, but he didn't know why his father always had a bad attitude. Thinking of this, he subconsciously glanced towards the podium.

There was no one there.

Wage thief.

hateful.

so envious.

"Why? Are you looking for where your father is?"

Ritsuko Akagi noticed his gaze keenly.

It was just a glance, could you notice that?
Shinji Ikari subconsciously wanted to say no, he would be happier if that bastard father wasn't here, that man might have forgotten about having a son, in that case everyone should just live their own lives and be happy. But the blonde lady had already started explaining herself,
"He is negotiating with Germany. The Angels have already started invading, and this will be their main attack area. But Japan's defense force is seriously insufficient, so they hope that they can send the Second Qualified Person and EVA Unit 2 in Germany to help. The negotiations will probably take a long time, at least several months."

"The second qualified person?"

"Yes, it's also a girl. You should be very happy, right?"

Who would be happy about this kind of thing!

(End of this chapter)