EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 30. The Third Apostle Attacks with a thump thump thump
"First contact."

"Finish."

"LCL, start injecting."

"learn."

The startup experiment of Unit-00 is proceeding in an orderly manner. Through the observation window of the command room, Shinji Ikari looks at the motionless Unit-00. Before this, he had only seen his own Unit-01. This is the first time he has seen other EVA machines.

That's Rei Ayanami.

There was only the driver's calm voice in the communication channel, and it was unknown whether Ayanami's current state could be considered mentally stable.

Shinji Ikari didn't dare to disturb them.

"Hello."

Suddenly a voice in English was heard.

Hearing this greeting full of flaws.

Shinji Ikari immediately knew who the new person was in the command room, and he turned around to look.

It was indeed the blue-eyed German lady Asuka in front of him. She was wearing the school's standard sailor uniform and leaning against the wall with her arms folded across her chest. She looked around in a familiar manner and was more integrated into the environment than him, who had been in the headquarters for so long. Katsuragi Misato followed closely behind her. After the female captain came in, she stood aside with her hands behind her back, looking very steady.

I really don't know how this guy came out.

Has she finished watching Unit 2?

By the way, I have to go and see how Unit-01 is doing later.

"Second contact."

"start."

Shinji Ikari suddenly tensed up.

He was very familiar with this step. The experience of two actual combats and countless simulation trainings told him that it would be a mental synchronization soon. Generally speaking, as long as the contact with Unit 00 was completed this time, it meant that the start-up was successful.

“The nerves are connecting.”

"Connection successful, checking whether the neuron passes--"

He was also nervous for the girl for a moment, and in order to suppress his uncontrollable anxiety, he took slow, deep breaths.

please.

Neural empathy success.

"--pass."

It's like the dealer at the gaming table announcing victory.

Shinji Ikari breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that Ayanami's mental state is quite stable this time... He thought that this statement was too weird. It must be Miss Akagi that your words affected me. That beautiful girl is not mentally ill, she just lacks emotions.

At this time someone came over.

It is Ikari Gendo.

During this period of time, it was not that Shinji Ikari had not encountered his bastard father before. After all, they were all in NERV, so he had run into him a few times, but each time the two of them did not have much communication. Occasionally, he wanted to ask something, but seeing the look on the middle-aged man's face, he wisely did not ask... He felt that if he asked, he would be rebuked.

He didn't look at Shinji Ikari, so Shinji Ikari didn't look at him either.

Ikari Gendo asked the staff,

"Did it start successfully?"

"Yes, but a series of action training is needed to confirm it."

Check it out.

This is the normal process.

Who wants to drive EVA and defeat the apostle right from the start?

Both father and son were ignoring each other.

The people in the command room have become accustomed to this scene. After all, the commander and his son have been getting along like this every day these days. However, the newcomer Asuka cannot ignore this. The reason she targets Ikari Shinji is because she thinks that this guy can only pilot EVA because of his father.
"Aren't they father and son? Why do they look like they don't have a good relationship?"

She quietly nudged Misato Katsuragi with her elbow.

Could it be that... Is it the stereotypical father and son who have to address each other by their positions at work?
Asuka felt a chill in her heart. This was too pretentious, but she inexplicably felt that this was not the reason. After all, the impression she had of the boy did not seem to be a stereotypical person.

Katsuragi Misato smiled. She guessed that Asuka would ask this.
"Although they are father and son, their relationship is very bad. When Shinji-kun was asked to pilot Unit-01 at the beginning, he said some unpleasant things. Fortunately, Shinji-kun did not give up. Don't think that he is a fragile child. Shinji-kun is very strong."

Asuka was stunned for a moment.

This is too strange.

She stood there thinking, but couldn't come up with an answer.

Could it be that I made a mistake? But if the boy was not driving the EVA because of his father, then why did he persist until now and defeat the two apostles?
Shouldn't I act like a baby who has not been weaned, and seek praise from my dear father?
too weird!

No one knows the pain of being hurt after driving an EVA better than Asuka.

I heard that this guy called Ikari Shinji was just an ordinary person who had never received any training before. She was just thinking about asking for a fight during training in a few days to give this guy who got in through the backdoor a lesson.

Is that boy like me, who lost his mother at a young age and has a bad relationship with his father?
Did he also endure it alone after fighting with the apostles?
What to do.

Doesn't this make me look like a bad person?

Asuka thought in distress, her face was tangled for a rare time, but asking her to apologize was absolutely impossible. She looked at the staff in the command room who were busy again, and Unit 00 was making some walking and running movements, so she put the matter aside for the time being.

whatever.

She has more important things to do than this.

Unit 2 has arrived.

The paint is the bold red color she always likes.

But the new apostle is still nowhere to be seen. I don't know how long I have to stay in Japan to meet him. I hope he can catch up with my mother's death anniversary. Asuka believes that no one here can match her eagerness for the arrival of the apostle.

She comes here.

Just to prove that I am the best among all drivers.

Not only the European branch, but everyone in NERV, we have to prove it to everyone.

Fortunately.

This feeling was soon satisfied.

When Unit-0 was about to complete all the basic movements, someone hurried in and brought bad news.

"Commander, an unknown huge flying object is approaching."

The entire command room was instantly surrounded by a tense atmosphere.

Unknown and huge.

It has basically become a specific adjective for that thing. After hearing these two words, everyone realized what had happened and stopped all actions for a moment. There was silence in the command room.

"What about the energy reaction?" Ikari Gendo asked coldly.

"It has been confirmed that he is a new apostle."

Came so fast!

Compared with the previous giant purple cockroach apostle, this new apostle did not give the drivers enough time to rest, and the interval was less than a week.

but.

You have to attack no matter what.

Ikari Gendō pushed his glasses up and gave the order calmly, showing no sign of nervousness at all.

"Unit 0 has just started up, let Unit 01 and Unit 02 take over."

I'm a bit confused. When I was writing the plot of the TV version, some people used the settings of the new movie version to argue with it. I was dissatisfied with some of the plots of the new movie version, so I tried to incorporate some of the plots of the new movie version into the plot of the TV version. Some people used the settings of the game version of Iron Girlfriend to argue with it. I'm really confused.

Why don’t you guys have a fight first.

Also about Asuka.

I really don’t like the relationship between Asuka and Kaji in the TV version. I plan to use the relationship between Asuka and Kaji in the new theatrical version. No one should object to this, right?

(I hope that when I write this later, no one will ask why Asuka has such a bland attitude towards Kaji, otherwise I will have a heart attack)
In short, get rid of the dross and retain the essence.

I deleted some of the chapters that used different versions of EVA settings to argue, I hope you don't mind. I also realized that I need to explain which version of the settings it is in that chapter, and I will gradually add it later.

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(End of this chapter)