EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 215 213. Apostle Gene Fusion and Dragon Gene Experiment

"It's not just the result of the apostle's erosion."

In the headquarters.

Ritsuko Akagi looked carefully at the genetic data in front of her.

Glowing eyes are unusual no matter how you look at it.

Shinji Ikari was worried that something might have happened to Asuka, so he decided to put aside the girl's desire to kiss her and find another opportunity next time. He quickly contacted Miss Misato on his mobile phone, and then Misato Katsuragi contacted Ritsuko Akagi - it was then that Shinji Ikari realized that he didn't seem to have Miss Ritsuko's phone number.

Anyway, Asuka had a thorough physical examination at the hospital.

The results showed that there was nothing serious and everything was normal.

But everything being normal is the biggest abnormality. So in the end, we returned to the headquarters and tested Asuka's genetic data, and only then did we make some new discoveries.

Ritsuko Akagi looked at the data and came to a positive conclusion.
"This sign of erosion... The Thirteenth Angel may not have been completely annihilated. A part of it remains and has merged with Asuka. If the erosion continues, Asuka's left eye's vision may be greatly affected."

"Can the residue... be removed surgically?"

Misato Katsuragi asked with concern.

When she heard Shinji say on the phone that Asuka's eyes were glowing, she was still confused. She had only seen glowing eyes when Shinji Ikari was hospitalized before, but at that time she had only seen them a few times in the hospital. After all, the golden eyes were extremely oppressive, and it was difficult for ordinary people to look at them without feeling fear. It was like the genetic instinctive sense of threat brought about by facing a higher-level beast.

I didn't expect it to be Asuka's turn now.

But strangely, when she looked into Asuka's eyes, she didn't feel any inexplicable pressure on her body. Meanwhile, Shinji Ikari, who was standing by, already had an answer to the question of whether the surgery was possible.

"The erosion is too close to the brain..."

Ritsuko Akagi shook her head.

If she were to undergo surgery, she might suffer irreversible brain damage if she wasn't careful. Moreover, this was an erosion by an angel, and humans currently don't have any surgery for this.

But this may not be a bad thing for Asuka.

It was incredible, she thought.

Can the human body really merge with that of an apostle?
That's right. For Ritsuko Akagi, this was just a confirmation of her conjecture. In a sense, Asuka now can barely be considered a demigod, right? An alternative combination of the fruit of life and the fruit of wisdom? What a precious sample. If it was when she just graduated from college, she would have to study it for several days without sleep or food.

"Besides surgery, is there any other solution?"

"No."

Akagi Ritsuko still shook her head.

"But don't worry, it should be fine."

"How can you guarantee that nothing will happen..." Misato Katsuragi's voice rose slightly, anger surging, but she immediately realized that there were two other drivers nearby, and it would be too undignified to quarrel in front of these two children, so she quickly stopped thinking about quarreling with her friend.

Ritsuko has been hiding a lot of things from me.

Didn’t you already know that?

But Misato Katsuragi still couldn't help but get angry.

While the two adult women were talking, Asuka, who was standing next to them, was holding a small mirror and curiously looking at her own eyes in the mirror. She would open her eyes wide from time to time to see where the glow was in her left eye. The faint blue light matched her beautiful blue eyes, as if a light bulb was installed in the glass.

"I thought I could be like Shinji." Asuka frowned and said disappointedly, "Logically, Shinji and I should be the same, right? It would be great if my eyes were golden. Why don't they have any golden light at all? I don't want this color."

It's different.

Obviously it was such a serious matter and the atmosphere was very tense, but Shinji Ikari still laughed in his heart at her naive words.

Ritsuko Akagi was not too surprised by this.

The one who corrupted Asuka was the 13th Angel bred by Adam, and the one who corrupted Shinji Ikari was Unit-01, a copy of Lilith. It is understandable that the two are different, unless there are more corrupted samples to show the similarities. Besides, the corrupted genes in Shinji are even more weird.

"Just in case, Asuka, you should come for a physical examination every day from now on." Ritsuko Akagi said casually.

"It's so troublesome." "Then why don't we stay in the hospital..."

"No!" Asuka, who was complaining about the trouble, immediately shouted, "Absolutely not! I don't want to be hospitalized! Just do the test."

Ritsuko Akagi was not surprised at the girl's choice.

She carefully looked at the genetic data on the test sheet, comparing it with the last test. At this moment, she suddenly seemed to have thought of something and said, "Today's test needs a control group to see the difference. The last test was a long time ago. Tomorrow morning, Asuka, you should come to the headquarters for another test."

"...Tomorrow morning?" Asuka's voice rose slightly.

"What's going on?" Akagi Ritsuko asked in confusion, "Are you busy tomorrow morning?"

"fine."

Shinji Ikari answered for her.

Asuka glared at him angrily, and while Katsuragi Misato and Akagi Ritsuko were not paying attention, she secretly pinched Ikari Shinji. You can't say that you don't want to come tomorrow morning because you have a date, that's too willful. Asuka herself can't do such a thing, but why! It's the weekend rest time that she finally got, but she still has to come to the headquarters to do the test.

Why would such a thing happen in the world!
Although she complained, Asuka still followed Ritsuko Akagi's request and confirmed the time for the test tomorrow morning. If there was nothing else, she should go back. She couldn't stay in the headquarters all afternoon. Today was the weekend!
Misato Katsuragi was going to drive the two of them back.

Looking at the three people walking away, Ritsuko Akagi suddenly sighed.

There are still many unsolved mysteries about the apostles.

Even if she studied it as hard as she could, she only realized one thousandth of it. She put down the documents in her hand. There was not much work on weekends. If it weren't for the incident with Asuka's eyes, she would still be in the laboratory concentrating on experiments. No matter what, this experiment related to Shinji-kun cannot be stopped. Akagi Ritsuko left the office and followed the dim corridor to a very remote place in the underground city.

This is a simple makeshift laboratory.

The equipment is scarce. After all, it was built by Ritsuko Akagi herself, so not many people know about it. After she became the head of the science and technology department of the headquarters, she rarely did experiments herself. Even if she did, it was a large-scale experiment on the EVA body, which did not require such a small laboratory. Now it feels like doing experiments when I just graduated from college.

"The 103rd experiment begins."

Ritsuko Akagi writes down her experimental notes.

There were several mice in the experiment. She picked out a lively mouse at random, injected the liquid in the syringe into the mouse, and then put it into a special glass box.

For the first ten seconds or so, nothing happens.

It was still moving around lively in the glass box, but soon its hair began to fall off rapidly, and something like scales began to grow on its body. Something under its skin was rising and falling restlessly.

Then, its ribs grew wildly, and the hideous bone spurs pierced its own chest and extended outward savagely. But even so, it was still alive, just squeaking and wailing, and even its mating organs were excitedly active.

Its neck began to bulge, forming a small fleshy mass that quickly grew larger, ears, red eyes... That was the second head of the little white mouse, and it seemed to have consciousness as soon as it grew out, stretching and turning freely. Then it stopped wailing, but showed a strong aggressiveness, its teeth and claws became extremely sharp at some point, knocking on the glass and making a harsh sound.

It looked at the world outside the glass with its red eyes, eager to attack Ritsuko Akagi outside the special glass.

This is something that would never happen to docile mice.

"Failed again?"

Ritsuko Akagi frowned and muttered to herself.

Finally she ended its life cleanly.

The glass box was covered in blood, and Ritsuko Akagi carefully cleaned it up before throwing the mouse's body into the incinerator. She was used to such experimental results, but she still couldn't help but wonder.

Biologists believe that all living things on Earth come from the same ancestor.

According to the Three Domains Theory of Biology, there are only three directions of evolution for organisms so far, bacteria, fungi, and eukaryotes, and the source of the liquid in the syringe is more like... a fourth direction that does not exist at all. This is completely challenging Akagi Ritsuko's common sense. Even for the apostles, she has some experience in research over the years, but now she has no idea how to experiment with the thing that has corroded Shinji-kun.

"Ugh……"

Ritsuko Akagi's brows were furrowed.

Scales, bone spurs... What kind of creature would have such things on its body? Could Lilith's erosion be so terrifying? Or was there something wrong with my research direction in some experimental link?

This damn thing.

…What on earth is this?
(End of this chapter)