EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 191 189. Wonderful Night (Part )

It doesn't matter what you say.

Ikari Shinji will eventually talk about Unit 2, so let's stabilize Asuka first, and then launch a surprise attack, he thought secretly.

Asuka is still thinking about what story to tell.

"Shinji, have you ever seen snow?" she asked carefully.

"I probably haven't seen it."

"What do you mean by should..." Asuka didn't dwell on this question. Her cheeks were pale with a hint of red. She curled up in his arms as if she wanted to hide. This look was particularly cute. "I often see snow in Germany. Berlin is winter all year round, like a white snow country. When I first came to Japan, it was the first time I saw a place that was summer all year round. It was so hot."

She was lost in the world of memories, with her head lowered, revealing her fair and slender neck.
"I have lived in the German branch since I was a child, went to school there, and trained there. Shinji, do you know what Berlin is most famous for? It's the Brandenburg Gate. Everyone says it was very beautiful before the Second Impact, but I have been there for so many years, and I can only see it covered with snow. There is not even a sunny day in Germany there. It is gloomy all day long. The only food is potatoes. The girl with glasses always says that sooner or later someone will go crazy if they stay here. Even the pigeons in Europe don't fly here."

Shinji Ikari was a little dazed by the scene she described.

The girl in his arms had lived proudly in the world of the snow country for more than ten years. No one knew how she had come to where she is now.

"When the German branch disappeared a while ago, I felt like a big hole in my heart," she said. "But later on, I didn't care anymore. Although I have a lot of acquaintances there, the only one I'm close to is the girl with glasses." Shinji Ikari knew she was referring to Miss Mary Makiba.

"My mother later asked me..." she continued to recall.

"Mother?"

He had to interrupt and ask.

"Yes, stepmother." Asuka said calmly, "Called to ask how I was doing."

"Can you still hold on then?"

"It's okay, just acting."

"You have a bad relationship with your stepmother?"

"…It's not so bad. But she married my father when my mother died. No matter what, we can't be close, right? Shinji, you will understand this feeling."

"An affair?"

"Yeah." She nodded. "Just like the two of us now, don't you think we are cuckolding the top student?"

Shinji Ikari was choked by her words. Indeed, the way he was holding Asuka now looked like he was having an affair, but was it his fault? If anyone was to blame, it could only be Asuka! But when she talked about having an affair, her face was very calm. He looked at Asuka's expression, but could not find a trace of sadness on her face.
"Can you blame me?" asked Shinji Ikari.

"Blame me," she said. "I seduced you into bed."

"Don't say that. Blame it on me."

Shinji Ikari sighed. He couldn't figure out why this proud young lady would say such unreasonable words. But no matter what, if he continued to discuss this matter, he would be heading towards an unknown abyss. He had made enough mistakes. He couldn't fall hard like last time. He paused and said,
"I heard you talk about your mother's experimental accident before. Would you like to tell me more about it?"

"..."

Asuka's beautiful eyes dropped.

"Sorry," he said, looking down.

"Nothing." Asuka shook her head. When she said this, she suddenly felt a little cold and her shoulders trembled. She shrank a little more in Shinji Ikari's arms. "I just didn't expect you to want to know this, Shinji. If someone else asked, I might think I was digging into your wounds, but Shinji, you are the same as me, so it's no big deal. If you want to know, I'll tell you..."

"…That happened when I was 4 years old. My mother was a scientist in the German branch at the time. She went to participate in an experiment on Unit that she was in charge of. She was fine when she went there, but went crazy when she came back."

"go Ape?"

Ikari Shinji was stunned.

"Well, she yelled my name to a doll every day, and ignored anything from the outside world. In short, she was a mental patient or something like that. She became mentally ill because of an experimental accident involving Unit 2, and was hospitalized and locked up in the psychiatric ward all day. My father didn't like her mental illness, and that's when he had an affair. I was still young at the time, and I always thought that she was having an affair because of what happened to Unit 2."

Asuka's tone was calm when she said this, as if it had nothing to do with her.

The moonlight outside flowed in like mercury, shining on her fair face, and there was a cold feeling. Shinji Ikari suddenly felt his heart tremble for it. This had nothing to do with love, it was just the instinctive sympathy of human beings for pitiful things.

"Then, when the selection for the pilot of Unit 2 came, I went. I wanted to make some achievements in that area. Maybe my mother would wake up."

"..."

Shinji Ikari already knew the ending.

He listened silently, learning about the past story of this proud girl.
"...I was selected as a pilot. I was so happy at that time and wanted to come back and tell her about it. But when I came back, I found that she had hanged herself. I was the first one to find out. She died in such an ugly way, with her tongue hanging out and a large purple patch on her face. I have had nightmares for years and I have never forgotten it. The look of death by hanging was so horrible. In the future, I would rather die by hanging myself." Her tone was still quite flat, as if she was talking about someone else's mother. For a moment, Shinji Ikari even felt that her mother was still alive and well somewhere in this world.

This is not an illusion.

There is indeed the soul of Asuka's mother in Unit 2.

But what about a mental illness? Is it schizophrenia? Half of it is in the body and half in Unit 2? Does the soul care about this?

"What happened next?" he asked.

"My mother's funeral was taken care of by my grandmother. My father didn't pay much attention to it. He was busy flirting with my current mother. My grandmother was very angry at the time. She felt that my father didn't care about me. She wanted to take me to her home to be taken care of, and even take custody of me so that she could raise me in the future." When Asuka mentioned her grandmother, there was a rare change in her tone.

Perhaps this old man is the only relative she recognizes in her heart.

"Grandma is very nice." said Shinji Ikari.

"Of course she is a good person, but I refused at that time. After all, she is already an old lady, and it would be too energy-consuming for her to take care of me."

"But you were only 4 years old then, right?"

"I became a pilot when I was 4 years old..." Asuka said unyieldingly, but she became depressed again when she thought about what happened recently. She started living independently when she was 4 years old, and she didn't need her parents or grandmother, but what did that mean? Didn't she still not be able to pilot Unit ? The pride she had had since she was a child seemed like a joke. After she finished saying this, she rested her head on Shinji Ikari's chest and listened to his heartbeat with her ears.

"It's your turn," she said to Shinji Ikari.

"what?"

"The accident of Unit-01."

"I don't remember clearly..."

"Don't cheat." Asuka snorted.

"Okay, okay, that's all I said."

Shinji Ikari had no choice but to surrender. He really couldn't remember clearly. Who could remember what happened when he was 4 years old like Asuka? He was not Superman. Did Superman still remember the process of landing on his adoptive father's farm in a spaceship when he was a child? It seemed that even the invincible Superman couldn't remember his childhood clearly.

"It's a very boring story. My mother also met with an accident during the experiment of Unit-01."

"Mental illness?" Asuka blinked.

"She wasn't that lucky. Her whole body dissolved in the experiment, and not even a corpse was left. I went to visit her grave on her death anniversary a while ago, and all I saw was a cenotaph."

"…so……"

Asuka suddenly felt that Shinji was even more miserable than herself.

Is this some kind of misery competition?

The two fell silent. Asuka hugged him tightly. The night was very quiet and they seemed to be able to hear each other's breathing. She suddenly reached her cold hand into his shirt, and after touching Shinji Ikari's skin, she was not satisfied and moved quickly towards his lower body, but was quickly stopped.

"What to do?" he asked.

"Seduce you."

"I told you not to talk about this." Ikari Shinji held down her naughty hand, but Asuka's fingers were still running around on his lower abdomen, probably still insisting on her so-called "seduction". However, this little trick was nothing to him. After all, he and Rei Ayanami had done even more excessive things. This simple little seduction was completely uninteresting. At the very least, it had to be... Ikari Shinji stopped thinking about that.

"Aren't you sad on the anniversary of his death?" Asuka asked.

"I don't feel anything. After all, my mother died without any trace, not even a body was left." Ikari Shinji said, "But a while ago, I found a good thing."

"What good thing?"

"I called Unit-01 "Mom" and it responded by jumping up and down."

Asuka chuckled subconsciously, then realized what Shinji Ikari meant.

"Don't make such a joke."

She glared at me.

"I'm not kidding." Shinji Ikari said seriously, "Asuka, your mother's soul is in Unit 2."

(End of this chapter)