EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 3: Wild Godzilla Appears

After one hour.

Shinji Ikari sat on the floor in the shelter.

The good news is that drinking water and food are distributed free of charge here. Although it is just ordinary bread and tasteless, it still fills Shinji Ikari's stomach after being hungry for the whole morning.

Normally at times like this, he would either be writing war reports and academic papers, or looking through review materials for exams. It was a rare moment of free time, so he wanted to browse the Internet and forums to see what the hot topics at Kassel College were today and what the news department had done. However, his cell phone turned out to be an antique that couldn't even access the Internet. The more he thought about it, the angrier he got.

With nothing to do, Shinji Ikari had to empty his mind and listen to the radio.

There are also speakers on the walls of the shelter.

After the evacuation began, they guided people in the direction they were heading. Although the place was still shaking badly, it was a shelter similar to an air-raid shelter, so it was unlikely to collapse under a mere earthquake.

With a hissing sound, the formulaic words of evacuation began to change.

"Now playing the missing person notice..."

A common thing.

After all, there are so many people, squeezed together, and occasionally a child would get lost.

Shinji Ikari has already started thinking about what to eat for dinner today. This is a huge problem for him. After all, the service in the academy's cafeteria is too good, and there are all kinds of food from all over the world. Although it is a different world now... But soon his empty head came back to his senses, because this broadcast mentioned him,
"Now playing the missing person notice. Mr. Ikari Shinji, after hearing this broadcast, please go to the door of the entrance of Shelter A. Ms. Katsuragi Misato is waiting for you. Repeat it again..."

It was like a notice to find a lost child.

This was a very rare experience for him, or it could be said that it had nothing to do with him. It was like skipping classes at school one day, and secretly going to a nearby Internet cafe to hang out like a bad boy without saying anything. He thought he could play games all day long, but then a strange parent came out of nowhere and shouted "Ikari Shinji" to everyone in the Internet cafe. Just when he wondered if he had found the wrong person, she pulled him out of the corner with a sharp look in her eyes. Everyone in the Internet cafe looked at him with strange eyes, and it was embarrassing to think about it.

Shinji Ikari's eyes widened slightly.

He never expected that the other party would find a shelter. Could there be anything more important than earthquake shelter right now?
No matter what, we have to go there immediately. We can't make people wait as long as the other party... How about giving it a try? Never mind. I am a magnanimous person and won't do such a thing. Ikari Shinji secretly complained to himself and stood up and walked towards Entrance A.

The journey is not far.

Coming up the stairs, he was about to look for someone when he was stopped:
"Ikari Shinji-kun?"

"it's me."

Just like her voice, the other person was indeed a woman who looked very cheerful and generous.

She wore sunglasses and a rouge-red coat. Although she was old enough to be Shinji Ikari's mother, she looked like a lively college graduate. She was dressed fashionably, tall and bright, like an urban beauty. She also had a Renault luxury sports car next to her.

Compared to the photos.

The real person looks more vivid and beautiful.

When you get closer, you can smell a faint scent of perfume on her body. It must be said that Shinji Ikari's first meeting with this lady was very impressive.

The urban beauty named Katsuragi Misato was leaning against the door of a sports car, complaining as if she was burning out:
"Oh, it's been so hard to find you. Get in the car first."

You deserved it for making me wait for an hour in vain!
I complained like this in my heart.

Shinji Ikari got in the car.

"Excuse me, Miss Katsuragi, it shouldn't be that urgent to meet your father. Is there anything more urgent than evacuating?"

He asked the question while fastening his seat belt because he was really curious about the question.

"Miri! Call me Misato."

"Uh..." Ikari Shinji readily agreed, "Ms. Misato."

The female driver nodded with reluctant satisfaction, started the engine, and the car shot out like an arrow from a bow.
"Your father wants me to bring you to him before I can complete my mission. My mission is to protect you. The safety factor of the shelter is still a little lower than that of your father."

indeed.

As far as I can remember, my father was a researcher for an official organization that was established to protect all of humanity. His work was very busy and important, and safety was definitely the top priority there.

Huh?
Protect all mankind?
Shinji Ikari inexplicably felt that there was something inconsistent with his memory, as if something was wrong, but he quickly made up an explanation for himself.

It's probably a third-rate organization like the United Nations Environmental Protection Organization.

The car gradually entered the highway, and Misato drove the sports car gradually speeding up, looking as if she didn't care about the earthquake at all. She stretched out her hand to straighten the slightly distorted central rearview mirror, and glanced at Ikari Shinji who was looking at the scenery outside the car window, with a strange expression on her face.
"I thought you and your father didn't have a good relationship, but you don't look very resentful, do you?"

"For this kind of work, it's normal to be together less and apart more."

Thinking of the style of Kassel Academy where death is the only way to retire, Shinji Ikari, as a member of the executive department, has no hope for his future. Half-bloods are born to fight, and slaying dragons is their innate mission.

Although the Alchemy Department and the Equipment Department are also pretty good and you can be a logistics staff, the threshold to enter is extremely high.

He is still worried about his credits.

I guess I can only be a fighting maniac from now on.

"Not bad, Shinji-kun. You're much better than I was back then. When I was little, I complained every day that my father was too busy with research and didn't know how to spend time with me. Don't look at me like this now. I was very rebellious during adolescence."

Being able to say it in such a light-hearted and teasing tone, the relationship between father and daughter is probably pretty good right now.

Shinji Ikari continued the topic and asked,
"You finally reconciled, right?"

“…Yes.”

Misato's tone hesitated for a moment.

He vaguely sensed that there was a story behind this, but they were just casual friends and the other party wasn't interested in talking about this either, so she quickly changed the subject.
"But you are completely different from what I expected."

"Expected?"

"He doesn't look like a little boy, but behaves like a mature adult."

"Miss Misato is the one. She looks like a young girl. People would believe she is an 18-year-old high school student." Shinji Ikari added subconsciously. He learned this from Senior Chu Zihang. It is said that in Senior Chu's mother's eyes, he is just a good boy who studied abroad and played basketball at school every day. He looks like an elite, not the notorious killer in the executive department. Senior Chu liked to say this when he reported his daily life to his mother before going to the North Pole and when he was dealing with his mother.

"Hahaha you really know how to talk."

Misato couldn't stop laughing. He felt a little guilty for some reason, after all, this was a phrase used to deal with older women, which meant that in his eyes, he regarded her as an older woman who was not of the same generation.

After all, in this fourteen-year-old body.

It contains the soul of a future adult.

Although I am still myself, I have been in another world for so many years and I am already different.

Let’s change the topic.

The highway guardrails outside the car window seemed like flowing rivers. The city in the distance was filled with smoke that went straight into the sky. Looking at the slightly shaking road surface, it had been a long time, but the earth-shaking feeling had not disappeared. Shinji Ikari couldn't help but feel a little confused.

He asked curiously:

“Isn’t the earthquake over yet?”

"Hey, did you think it was an ordinary earthquake? No."

The car braked gently.

As if realizing that Shinji Ikari had misunderstood something, Misato Katsuragi stopped the car directly on the highway.

Fortunately, people were evacuating at that time, and there were no other vehicles on the highway. However, this attitude of stopping at any time and anywhere was too bad. It could be called a highway killer. Ikari Shinji felt that this guy would learn a lesson from a car accident sooner or later, so he couldn't help but make a joke.

"Won't we get caught like this? Stop at high speed."

He won't give false testimony then.

"For my part, no."

Misato snorted, looking very confident, as if she was underestimated. She unbuckled her seat belt, opened the car door, walked half a circle around the car body and walked to the emergency lane of the highway. Japan is a country that drives on the right, and the lane is also set on the far left. Ikari Shinji opened the door and walked a few steps, standing with her. The ground was still shaking, but the vibration here didn't seem to be strong.

"Look over there."

She motioned for Shinji Ikari to look at a remote corner of the city.

It's almost a suburban location.

There was a sound of buildings collapsing in the distance, and the earthquake continued. Ikari Shinji was very skilled and brave, and he didn't know where the female driver's courage came from. He stood on tiptoe, squinted his eyes and tried to look over there.

A startling glance.

As she said...it was not an earthquake.

——It is the weapons of mankind that are erupting like a volcano.

The sky was filled with swarms of helicopters flying by, and with the sound of "whoosh", the sounds of missiles and machine guns resounded through the clouds. The brilliant light tore through the lingering darkness in the white clouds, and the deformed bullets dragged the comet tails of meteors. It was hard to imagine that this was the suburbs of a city rather than a meat grinder battlefield.

Even though he was far away from the battlefield, Shinji Ikari could feel the intensity of the situation there.

them……

What are you fighting?
Moreover, when did the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, which have always been associated with waste, have such firepower? Besides, if the war breaks out in the city, even the suburbs will suffer, right?

Suddenly, there was a loud noise like the collapse of heaven and earth, and the entire highway was shaking.

The female driver yelled angrily.
"Did these guys use N2 mines?"

mines?

Can it have such power?

Shinji Ikari didn't know what weapon she was talking about, but he was almost unable to stand. He grabbed the high-speed guardrail to come to his senses from this shaky state. My God, he would be fine even if he jumped from a three-story building, but this roller coaster-like experience would be fatal. He had never trained in this aspect, and the extraordinary physique of a mixed-blood could only provide a slight relief.

But this was just an appetizer. Along with the sound of nails scratching a blackboard, the wreckage of the plane… something that looked like a wing fell down, and the Renault sports car on the side of the road jumped up several dozen centimeters with the naked eye, making a buzzing sound that made people's teeth ache. Then, the sky cleared up.

A tall building collapsed.

Something stopped here.

But it was not just a sound, but the smoke and dust that filled the air obscured the view of the sky and the ground. Shinji Ikari looked slowly. Although it was only a moment, it felt like a long time to him. Although he had guessed something from the intensity of the battlefield before he saw it, Shinji Ikari didn't understand what kind of monster he saw until he actually faced it. His sight penetrated the smoke and dust and saw "Him".

He had never seen such a strange creation in reality—

It was a monster that was taller than modern buildings that were dozens of meters high.

Long, bone-like arms swung down from the sky, almost falling to the ground. Its sharp claws like steel whips easily tore apart human buildings. Its human-like shape and tens of meters tall seemed to cover the entire sky. Even the scorching sun had to avoid it. Compared to it, those fighter jets seemed as vulnerable as Lego toys.

Shinji Ikari once watched a movie called "Godzilla".

The story goes that due to the abnormal climate caused by the US nuclear test, a 90-foot-tall giant monster was resurrected and attacked New York City, causing chaos in the entire city. Scientists, journalists, TV cameramen, soldiers and insurance company inspectors united to fight against this giant monster.

How high is 90 feet?
It's only 27 meters, but the monster in front of it is almost taller than three Godzillas stacked together. In the world view of that movie, what kind of nuclear test could create such a huge monster? Could it be that all the nuclear power plants in Japan leaked and attracted such a monster?

Shinji Ikari had never seen a tsunami before, but now he knows. When this huge monster like an ancient god pounces down on him, does humanity have any other choice except waiting to die?
Even if I use all the adjectives, it is still difficult to describe its greatness and antiquity. It is not wrong, it is——

He trembled slightly: "Oh God!"

——He finally understood what those missiles hanging under the helicopters he had seen before were used for!
Damn it!
Shinji Ikari screamed in his heart, what was going on?

Only at this time did he feel that it was absolutely necessary for Kassel College to force people to learn Chinese. No other word could better convey his meaning than the Chinese phrase "fuck".

With that size and strength, I'm afraid it's not just a second-generation species. Even the Dragon King is no better than this, right?

What to do.

You guys are going to slay the dragon too?
As if she knew what he was thinking, Katsuragi Misato, who was leaning against the guardrail in a trance, answered softly,

"It's the 'Apostle', the enemy of us humans."

Main TV, sub new theatrical version, sub old theatrical version, a small amount of games and anima, I removed a small part of the TV version content, and kept most of the new theatrical version content, so that you know what you are eating is EVA fanfiction
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