EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 64 63. Lady, Ice Cream and Storm
There's a slight earthy smell in the air today.

It's going to rain.

Shinji Ikari is walking on the street.

Several days had passed since that day, and the summer in New Tokyo was still as hot as ever. It was only around dusk that the weather became a little cooler, so he was now going out to replenish the ingredients in the refrigerator in his apartment.

And that's the thing Shinji Ikari hates most about Tokyo.

Also here.

Food is pleasant, but there is little food in New Tokyo, and the ingredients in the supermarket are quite monotonous, often only the common ones. Compared with the cafeteria in Kassel College and the high-end ingredients in another world, this place is as poor as a country town that can be seen everywhere.

But there is no other way, after all, this is the world after a disaster.

He thought idly.

these days.

It's a very peaceful daily life.

I heard that Suzuhara Sakura will have an exam soon. The little girl seems very excited. She seems to want to prove herself and get first place. He doesn't want to disturb her preparations. He will go and see the results when they are out.

As for the driver swap experiment, I don’t know when it will start.

Unit 0...

Thinking of the yellow Yamabuki and lily of the valley white machine, Shinji Ikari stared blankly at his open right hand. The five fingers on it were just right, nothing strange. But only this hand could make him clearly recall the appearance of the pilot of Unit 00, the hair, the head, the ears, the earlobes...

Unfortunately, as time went by, the outlines of those things gradually became blurred and became a little confusing. What exactly did the outline of the girl's ears look like? Shinji Ikari felt that he could not remember clearly.

He couldn't help but want to try again.

Greed knows no bounds, and of course it could be the influence of hormones at this restless age, but for now, it’s only the slight touch of this hand that brings him to the beautiful girl.

Ayanami Rei.

What was she thinking at that time?

After buying the necessary ingredients from the supermarket, Shinji Ikari was about to return to his apartment. At this time, he rarely noticed an ice cream shop on the street. He had walked back and forth on this road for several months, but this was the first time he realized the existence of this shop.

Sometimes I see Asuka eating so happily in the headquarters.

He also wanted to try some ice cream.

In the past, Shinji Ikari had been tempted like this before. Late at night, you had just finished digesting the dinner of the day, and your stomach was empty. Your roommate was eating a midnight snack with a fragrant aroma of spicy chicken wings and grilled lamb skewers sprinkled with sesame and cumin. He was also dangling in front of you. Who could resist this? He placed an order online at that time and asked the cafeteria to deliver the midnight snack.

Before, I was busy buying food ingredients and at most stockpiled some snacks and drinks, but I had never bought this thing.

After stopping and hesitating for a while, Shinji Ikari walked over there.

Suddenly the door of the shop opened.

He subconsciously looked over and saw a European girl wearing an off-white floral dress, white school socks, and pure black round-toed leather shoes. The girl was holding a colorful ice cream in her hand and licking it carefully with her tongue. She raised her eyes and her long and thick eyelashes met his gaze.

The two looked at each other.

They were all stunned.

Shinji Ikari was stunned because of the face of the girl eating ice cream. They often saw her. Wasn't this Asuka? The way she ate ice cream quietly looked like a demure lady, with her brows lowered and so pleasing to the eye that she became a little unreal in the summer scene. She was as beautiful as the famous Princess Sissi in European paintings. For a moment, he felt that this girl was somewhat lovable.

He never expected to meet Asuka on this road.

Shouldn't.

It shouldn't be.

It's like two straight lines that only intersect in the school and the headquarters.

There should have been no connection other than this, but suddenly one day the other straight line twisted into a curved line and intersected again in another place.

Asuka glanced at Ikari Shinji from a distance.

Even at such a distance, the German lady's dissatisfaction with him was apparent. She took a big bite of ice cream, and her pretty face showed a rare expression of enjoyment. He couldn't help but think that it was probably the most delicious thing in the world. The distance between the two of them shortened.

He asked hesitantly,
"Why are you here?"

"Why can't I be here?"

she replied.

These two lines of dialogue sound silly.

Shinji Ikari continued,

“It feels a bit strange.”

"You are the idiot Shinji. If you want to go in and buy ice cream, hurry up. You are a boy after all, but you like eating ice cream like a girl. Humph, how childish!"

The German lady suddenly made a playful face in his direction.

Then she turned and walked away.

Asuka looks very tall from behind. Girls of this age tend to grow quickly, so the two of them are almost the same height.

Next, the two of them should part ways here at the store entrance.

But Shinji Ikari thought about it.

He felt a little uneasy.

According to her previous habits of going to and from school, Asuka should have gone straight back to Miss Misato after school, instead of going to the street ice cream shop where he bought ingredients. In this city, the daily routes of the two of them were completely different, except for those in school and the headquarters.

In any case, her appearance here at this time is an extremely strange thing. Friends should be loyal to each other.

Since there are no more important friends around now, friends’ matters are naturally more important.

So he gave chase.

The slender figure of the German girl suddenly quickened her pace, as if trying to get rid of him.

But it was not so easy for Shinji Ikari to get rid of her. Even though he was carrying a large bag of heavy food, his extraordinary physical fitness made it easy for him to keep up with the girl, and soon he was walking side by side with Asuka. At such a close distance, he could almost smell the taste of ice cream.

Seeing him coming, the beautiful girl snorted coldly.

She said unhappily,

"what?"

"Did you run away from home?" asked Shinji Ikari.

"I didn't." Asuka frowned involuntarily and said angrily, "I wouldn't do such childish things. I just came out for a walk to relax and I'll be back soon."

"Well, I believe you."

He said.

Although it sounded like the truth, Shinji Ikari thought to himself that he would never believe you.

"Don't follow me," she said again.

"It's just along the way."

He told a lie that both of them knew.

The two of them walked forward in silence without saying a word. The earthy smell in the air became stronger and stronger, and the heat reached its extreme. Even the cicadas stopped chirping for a while. This kind of weather would soon turn around. The crows on the telephone poles flew up, spread their wings, circled, and fell down again, staring at the young men and women in this city.

There was a loud bang of thunder in the sky and a strong wind started to blow, which scared the beautiful girl next to her. She even couldn't hold the ice cream steadily... It was raining.

…It was a storm.

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