EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from Tiga

Chapter 96: Creating an All-Female Harem? [First Update 20006000]

"oh…?"

Shinji Ikari looked up at Makiba with interest.

Shinji Ikari expected that other NERV branches would take action... However, what happened just yesterday, the news of Ikari Gendo's disappearance spread all over the world today... It was still much faster than expected.

And... this guy, who transferred here and openly revealed that he is a spy... what does he want to do?
"So, you want to infiltrate NERV and seize power? Then why did you transfer here? These two things are not related at all."

"Ahaha~ I'm exposed."

Makiba chuckled. She knew that this reason was far-fetched...or rather, she had no intention of hiding it.

"Spying and all that... is just a way to get those greedy adults to pay me. I just want to be closer to you, Woof-chan!"

With an extremely charming speech and a bewitching smile... Makiba got down on all fours without any hesitation... and crawled to Shinji Ikari's side on her hands and knees like a female leopard.

In her every glance and smile, there is a unique charm that neither Asuka nor Ayanami Rei possesses... Lively and unrestrained, hot and beautiful - even if Shinji Ikari were to judge her, Makiba would definitely be worthy of the title of beauty.

"……ah…"

He frowned and pushed Makibo aside, not buying it.

"You acted like that last time, and Asuka nearly got you shot in the head with a lunch box. You never learned your lesson, huh? Say what you want to say now."

"~~ How boring. Wang-chan, aren't you a pure boy? Why can't I feel your enthusiasm at all!"

After being slapped across the face by Shinji Ikari and pushed aside, Makiba's desire to tease him was completely extinguished. She adjusted her glasses... and with that movement, her playful, little-girl demeanor vanished in an instant.

Switching to the image of a capable and elite woman...

"Gendou...is he dead?"

"no."

Shinji Ikari picked up his lunch box again and started eating... He was not surprised at all by Makiba's question.

"What happened? Gendou... As long as that man is still alive, there's no way he'll leave the base... leave... Unit-01 on his own accord."

Makiba knew very well the depth of the obsession of the man named Ikari Gendo.

If it were that Ikari Gendo, he would never have done the act of abandoning the NERV base...all his hard work so far...and Unit-01 here and disappearing.

After all... Makiba knows better than anyone how important it is for a man like Ikari Gendo to occupy this base... and possess Unit-01...

So, the moment she heard that Ikari Gendō was missing... and that there was a power vacuum at NERV headquarters, Makiba's thought was... Ikari Gendō was dead.

Apart from death... I really can't think of anything that can make him give up Unit-01... give up Ikari Yui...

"do not know."

But... Shinji Ikari still didn't raise his head, and continued to shovel rice into his mouth while answering calmly.

He truly didn't know—after all, he was busy searching for Rei Ayanami, rescuing Suzuhara Touji, fighting the Ninth Angel and the monster he transformed into. Tiga was also hit by a D4 shell, knocking him unconscious for a while. It was impossible for him to keep tabs on Gendō Ikari's whereabouts. So, when he disappeared, Shinji Ikari truly had no idea where he'd gone.

However... considering the person who injected the monster gene into Suzuhara Touji's body... and was also the culprit who installed the D4 mechanism in EVA... the guy named Kaburagi.

It was Gendō Ikari who brought it to the Matsushiro base, so... it seems easy to guess where Gendō Ikari went.

“…………Wang-chan! You have evil intentions…!”

However, Shinji Ikari's honest words seemed to cause Makiba to misunderstand.

"If not! Why do you think he's still alive?"

"………………Father and son's intuition?"

Damn it, everyone knows that you and your father have been in the base for several months, and your conversation does not exceed five sentences... There is no father-son relationship at all. Now you tell me this, right!
Makiba once again confirmed that Shinji Ikari was wary of her and did not consider her as one of his own, which was why he answered her so perfunctorily.

"Hey... Shinji-kun, even though I'm a spy... I really don't mean any harm to you. I heard... you've let both the first and second qualified candidates live in your house. If you want... I can move in too. I'll build you an all-female harem of qualified candidates~ So tell me... glasses!?"

Makiba crawled towards Shinji Ikari once again, even unbuttoning the first button of his shirt...

But how could it possibly be effective? Shinji Ikari simply used chopsticks to poke Makiba's eyes as she crawled over... and poked her on the lens of her glasses, physically discouraging her.

"Don't mess around. And I didn't lie to you. If I said I didn't know, then I didn't know. How can I answer you if I don't know?"

"So... what do you know, Shinji-kun? You... must have some interesting things that you haven't told me."

I didn't expect that even though I resisted to this extent... Makiba still wouldn't give in and kept pestering me... Shinji Ikari couldn't deal with this.

This girl——is she so concerned about the whereabouts of Ikari Gendō... Moreover, she also has a special relationship with her mother. As expected... since her parents' generation, this girl has had a lot of cause and effect with Ikari Gendō and Ikari Yui.

"Why do you feel like I'm hiding something from you?"

"Girls' intuition!"

Looking at Makiba's confident expression... Shinji Ikari couldn't tell whether she was mocking the father-son intuition he had just joked about... or whether she really thought so.

"It's true that I know something that you don't... But, if you want me to tell you, let me explain the matter of clones. I already know that you three pilots have clones... Then, what about me and... Suzuhara and Kaworu Nagisa? Do all qualified pilots have clones?"

“…You really don’t know?”

Makiba was stunned for a moment... seemed to be thinking whether Shinji Ikari really knew nothing or was deliberately pretending to be stupid.

"I don't know. No one told me...how could I know——"

Shinji Ikari shrugged... As expected, this girl... knew more about NERV's secrets than anyone Shinji Ikari knew... even more than Ryoji Kaji.

"Since you know... tell me... Especially, about the Sōryū... What's the relationship between Sōryū Asuka Langley and Shikinami Asuka Langley? Is the Asuka next to me really a clone?"

(End of this chapter)