EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 45 44. The returning flowers should be given to the girl
After the nuclear explosion.

Shinji Ikari met Ritsuko Akagi in the conference lounge.

After not seeing this blonde beauty from the technical department for many days, the pitiful dark circles under her eyes caused by staying up late have disappeared a lot, making her iconic teardrop mole even brighter - it seems that she did not work overtime during the few days of the meeting, and she looks full of energy.

At this moment she was complaining in a troubled manner,

"Miri, you're being too reckless."

"I'm sorry, Ritsuko."

Katsuragi Misato apologized to her friend begging for mercy, clasped her hands together and said with a smile, "Shinji-kun is here to save the day, and I didn't really get close to the nuclear reactor."

“That’s not the crux of the matter.”

"I know I was wrong."

The two adult women presented a scene of deep sisterly love in front of Shinji Ikari.

Until someone outside shouted "Captain Katsuragi", Shinji Ikari looked and saw that it was someone from the logistics department. It should be something related to the transportation of Unit 01, and she, as the head of the operations department, needed to make a decision.

The female captain responded and then looked at him.
"I'll go first. Shinji-kun, please wait for a moment. We'll go back to Tokyo together later."

"Ok."

Shinji Ikari nodded obediently.

Soon, the heroic female captain Katsuragi Misato was no longer in the lounge. Only he and Akagi Ritsuko were left together. After a while of silence, the blonde beauty took the initiative to speak.
"I'm sorry to interrupt your vacation."

"fine."

Shinji Ikari shook his head. "At first I thought a new Angel had arrived. I was shocked."

The result was just a runaway robot.

The meaning is still unfinished.

He wasn't a battle maniac, but this thing was weird from the inside out. The robot went out of control and had no resistance, and the nuclear reactor exploded immediately after he let it out of his hand... You have to know that Shinji Ikari was ready to use the AT force field to block it. Now it's like you have spent a lot of effort to collect the full-level equipment and weapons, and just when you were about to challenge the big devil, the villagers at the entrance of the village came to you and told you that the devil fell and killed himself.

Only the parties involved can feel the unreasonableness of the whole thing.

So what's the point of collecting equipment...

It's a bit too rough.

"If we don't handle it properly, future funding may be cut in half."

Most things.

All of them can be inferred from the perspective of those who benefit the most.

Recalling what Ritsuko Akagi said not long ago, he guessed that the robot's loss of control was what the headquarters called "handling."

When it comes to funding, those crazy people in the Equipment Department are fearless. Even the US military is not afraid to kill accountants who dare to check the funding. If it weren't for Misato Katsuragi's impulsiveness, this matter should have nothing to do with him. Since he can make it out of control, he can naturally make it return to normal.

The means are a bit dirty.

This world is not black and white, but Ikari Shinji piloted Unit-01 to fight against the Angels, not to get involved in this kind of shit, so it would be better not to let him go. Otherwise, he might mess things up if he couldn't stand it, and he was a little angry when he thought about it.

So Shinji Ikari reminded,

"We finally dealt with the robot, but it's not worth much now. We've saved the headquarters' funding."

"It's a blessing in disguise." She said lightly.

"It's a pity that I came here for nothing."

"Did you run away in vain?"

"of course."

Ikari Shinji said meaningfully.

He felt like an innocent passerby caught in a business war between evil capitalists. He was walking down the street, happily going to and from school with a beautiful girl, but was suddenly knocked unconscious by a stick. When he woke up, he was confused and continued to live his life without knowing anything, but there was a ridiculous big bump on his head. - He didn't even have money for medical treatment!

Hearing his words that were obvious, Akagi Ritsuko didn't show any surprise on her face. She thought for a moment and said,

"I can give you some advanced biology homework when we get back."

"Is there anything else?"

"You are really greedy..."

In this case, her tone was calm, without any embarrassment. Akagi Ritsuko thought carefully. It was not common for a beautiful woman to think about something. She suddenly called his name.
"Shinji-kun."

"Ok?"

"Would you like to go somewhere with me?"

"Where to?" he asked.

“You’ll find out when you get there.”

She looked like a riddler.

When he asked, "Would you like to go somewhere with me?", Ritsuko Akagi in a white coat had already walked away without stopping, as if she didn't care whether he came or not. But this aroused infinite curiosity, so Shinji Ikari reluctantly followed the person in charge.

As for the woman who asked him to wait, neither of them cared.

Walk out of the meeting.

She made a phone call and said something unknown, but soon a car came to pick her up.

The two got in the car. Shinji Ikari looked at the surrounding scenery which was completely different from the Third New Tokyo. The ruins of Tokyo fifteen years ago was really a dead scene... After an unknown amount of time, the speed of the vehicle gradually slowed down. It seemed that they had reached their destination.

He glanced through the car window and saw the sign that read -

【First flower cultivation base】

Shinji Ikari: ...Is this all you're going to do to me?

He thought that flowers were not something that could be found anywhere. You could buy a large bouquet of flowers at any flower shop on the street for a little money. You could get any flower you wanted. They would bloom from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Miss Ritsuko, you are sending your children away. Then Shinji Ikari came to his senses. It turned out that it was something from another world... He hadn't seen many flower shops since he came to Tokyo-3. The weather was really bad, and it had been like this for fifteen years.

This world is so miserable.

He suddenly had an inexplicable thought that even beautiful flowers were no longer common.

Unlike the heat outside, the base was kept at a very comfortable temperature, with an artificial breeze.

The two walked into the flower shed.

There are snow-white Phalaenopsis orchids that tremble in the breeze like fluttering butterflies, there are warm purple roses that stretch out in overlapping heights, and there are lily of the valley with clusters of flowers lavishly blooming on branches that are higher than the surrounding ones - they are all very beautiful flowers.

This scene of flowers in full bloom has never been seen in the excruciatingly hot Third New Tokyo City.

Even if I was mentally prepared.

Shinji Ikari couldn't help but ask,
"This is?"

The blonde beauty in a white coat seemed to be recalling something. "This city used to be called the Capital of Flowers. I heard that flowers bloomed all year round in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the mountains and fields were full of flowers waving in the wind. Now that the disaster is over, we can only see this grand spectacle in the small base..."

"You can choose whatever you want today. It's your welcome gift for coming here."

She smiled rarely.

"——You can take it back and give it to a girl."

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Damn it, even with an outline I would still get stuck on writing, otherwise I would have been able to write 10,000 words a day.

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