EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 53 52. The sea and blessing of good governance

Asuka is eating a sandwich.

In her other hand, she was still holding an unopened ice cream, waiting to have it as dessert after the meal. One has to say that European girls have good physiques. At least even though her diet is so unhealthy, Shinji Ikari has never seen her feel uncomfortable. He could simply call her a girl made of ice cream.

This is already the second day.

I'll be going to school almost tomorrow.

He and Rei Ayanami were eating their bento in silence, while the German lady was eating alone. Thinking of what Asuka had said before about the other side of Miss Misato, Shinji Ikari couldn't help but look at her with a hint of pity.

This quickly annoys Asuka.

She turned her head away so that no one could see her eating.

As expected, seeing this familiar face, Shinji Ikari realized that he had formed a bad stereotype about Asuka without realizing it. However, his relationship with this German lady has also deepened unconsciously. Now, can they be called friends?
He turned his head.

Suddenly he saw Ayanami looking at him.

The two looked at each other inadvertently.

At this time, Shinji Ikari remembered what Miss Ritsuko had said about the exchange experiment. He heard that the experiment would begin soon, and he was curious about the driving experience of Unit-0.

"Ayanami, what does it feel like to pilot Unit-0?"

"..."

Ayanami looked like she was thinking.

"Can't you describe it?"

"Ah."

The girl nodded slightly.

The beautiful red eyes naturally shifted from him to the bento. Ayanami Rei started eating by herself, chewing slowly. There are people in the world who look beautiful even when they eat, like a painting. Ikari Shinji couldn't help but think that it would be great if he had a camera in his hand at this time. If not, he could use a cell phone... Never mind, this world is still in the era of mobile phones.

Thinking of those two hugs yesterday.

He was still a little embarrassed to face Ayanami. A hug obtained by lying always made people feel guilty.

How about playing some cello music for her as an apology?

…This time there’s no need for a hug.

But if this happens, the two previous hugs will be exposed, and what about playing cello for her in the future? Isn't this the end? Ayanami will find out sooner or later... Ikari Shinji thought about this, and occasionally glanced at Ayanami Rei inadvertently, only to return her puzzled look.

In fact, he is not very worried about these things.

After all, this girl is Ayanami.

Compared to this.

There is another thing worth noting.

Daily training is like a 9-to-5 job.

He could have won the Outstanding Social Animal Award for two or three consecutive months, and he wanted to take a vacation occasionally. If he kept tense, he would be exhausted sooner or later. When he was interning in the executive department, he had vacations, but in New Tokyo, he could only run back and forth between school, headquarters, and apartment.

He looked at Rei Ayanami's blue hair and remembered what he had thought about yesterday.

The sea.

I kind of want to go to the ocean in this world.

It would be nice if someone suddenly appeared now, dropped from the sky like in novels and comics, and said to him: Shinji Ikari, it's time to go, and then stuffed him into a sports car - preferably a Bugatti Veyron, and took him to see the sea, instead of training here at the headquarters every day, and even not being able to travel away from Tokyo-3 to prevent a sudden attack by the Angels.

The words of the sea.

I feel like Ayanami has never seen the sea, but there is someone here who definitely has.

He glanced at the German lady.
"Asuka, have you ever seen the ocean?"

"Yes." She looked back, "What's wrong?" "What does it feel like? Ms. Misato told me it was a dead color. The description was too abstract. I couldn't imagine that kind of scene at all."

"It's orange-red. There's nothing inside. It's very clean."

Asuka pouted.

It seems like you are bothering me with such questions.

"Is it clean?" he asked for confirmation.

"Correct."

Faintly, Shinji Ikari seemed to be able to imagine such a scene: in that endless orange-red ocean, it was so clean that there was nothing in it. No marine life of any kind existed. It was indeed a dead scene. There were no beluga whales or dolphins. In an instant, the only life left in the entire world was on land. No wonder half of the human race disappeared.

"I heard that the ocean was blue a long time ago, and the water was not as clean as it is now. It smelled a bit fishy. There were also various marine creatures in it."

The German lady started talking.

“When I looked down from the plane before, I couldn’t tell what the sea looked like before.”

The two were talking.

There were heavy footsteps behind me.

He noticed that Asuka seemed to see someone coming.

"Ah, Mr. Kaji."

Shinji Ikari heard the German lady greeting him like this.

It seemed like she saw someone she knew, and she looked serious for the first time. Even the pouting just now seemed like an illusion. This attitude was extremely rare.

"It's Asuka. How have you been doing in Japan lately?" the person said.

"It's so boring, it's all training every day," but she showed her true colors the next second, and her delicate little face was full of complaints as she said, "When will an apostle come?"

"It would be a good thing if the apostles didn't come. We can't be so willful."

The person named Mr. Jiachi.

He said what Shinji Ikari really wanted to complain about.

Although he felt bored with the current training, he wanted more to travel and see the sights to relieve the boredom of being in one place for a long time, rather than looking forward to the arrival of the apostles like a battle maniac. There was no need to look forward to that kind of thing.

Ikari Shinji turned his head away.

In front of me was a young man who was almost thirty years old.

The man seemed to always have a frivolous smile on his face. He was quite handsome, and his frivolous temperament reminded people of the ace gigolos in Kabukicho, Tokyo. Their business cards often had ukiyo-e paintings on them and only a name written on them. Even so, every lady would be happy to get a business card, but the gigolos in Kabukicho would never appear in this place.

After greeting Asuka in the usual way, he looked at Ikari Shinji and asked with a smile,
"Are you interested in the sea?"

"A little."

The other person seemed to know him, but he didn't know him. After being in the headquarters for so long, he was familiar with the internal staff. Thinking of Asuka, did this man come from Europe? He clearly looked East Asian.

"Then I have an opportunity." The man continued.

"Chance?"

“The chance to see the blue ocean.”

Shinji Ikari asked hesitantly.
"I haven't asked you yet?"

"Give me a blessing." The man smiled, "Give me a blessing."

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