Hawks from the Land of Light are calling me a dove and an undercover agent in the chat group.

Like everyone else in the chat group, the two of them could see clearly that the giant object at the center of the explosion had not died. Although it had been damaged and stopped moving forward, it was undergoing visible self-healing.

[Dead Fish Eyes]: "What are they doing? As an army of a world, they can't just stop with their saturation bombardment, can they? Since the attack is so effective, why don't they continue attacking while the monster is injured? What are they waiting for?"

Hachiman Hikigaya was getting impatient. It was rare to see such a huge monster that could be injured by nuclear technology. Why not take this opportunity to continue bombing it and kill that thing?

Uchiha Sasuke, Yotsuya Miko, and Hibiki Yuta shared the same sentiment, but before they could get anxious, Kassadin made an explanation that made their hearts sink.

[Pro-war faction]: "It's not that we don't want to pursue, but with the technological level of the Shinji World Army, we can only inflict this much damage on that enemy at most. Even if we drop another hundred N2 mines, the damage won't increase by the slightest. We've already reached our limit."

This is the charm of Aote Vision + Zhongdeng Experience: many things don't need prior knowledge; you can understand them with just a glance.

[Coward]: "Hiss, no way! If that's the case, without external help, wouldn't Shinji's entire Earth be plowed up by that thing over time?"

[Best Actor]: "This is way too serious!"

[Pro-war faction]: "There is still a chance."

[Pro-war faction]: "@Shinji, who doesn't want to pilot Unit-01, ask the people around you if they know the name of that behemoth?"

The high school students ultimately lacked experience and tended to get flustered at the slightest provocation. However, Kasa was certain that Misato Katsuragi knew something; her various subtle behaviors all proved that she was confident in her abilities.

[Don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "Huh? Ah, okay, I'll be right there!"

When told what he could do, Shinji Ikari, who had been feeling lost and just going with the flow, immediately perked up and found his direction: "Miss Misato, do you know what that guy is?"

"Huh?" Misato Katsuragi paused for a moment, then smiled.

“I thought you would just say ‘yes, yes, yes’ like before, with a submissive look on your face. I didn’t expect you to ask such a question. Hmm, good question! The name of that thing is ‘Apostle’. It is what your father, Commander Gendo Ikari, and many others have to face and defeat.”

Shinji Ikari's eyes lit up. "Father?"

[Pro-war faction]: "..."

That poor kid.

Seeing Shinji in the live stream, who clearly saw his father as a great hero who saved the world, Kassadin became solemn.

All indications at present seem to suggest that Shinji's father was not a very good person.

The father is a commander, but the child is an insecure person who knows nothing about his father's situation. This shows that the father not only lives apart from his child, but has also not communicated with his child by phone for many years. Even if he has, he has certainly not given his child any positive emotions.

Moreover, the apostle's objective was clearly defined. Although fighter jets tried to change its direction along the way, it was to no avail. The apostle moved in a fixed direction the entire time, coupled with the prior placement of N2 mines...

In other words, Gendo Ikari already knew the apostle's target and that the apostle might appear here during this period, but he still specially summoned his son, who was originally located elsewhere and could be absolutely safe, during this time.

What is this for?

Kasa didn't even dare to think about it.

If it were truly the most undesirable and malicious situation he could ever hope for, then it would be utterly despicable.

Kassa remained silent.

He wouldn't rush to warn Shinji to have the worst mindset, because before the truth is revealed, it's still possible to believe in the possibility of kindness. But he also couldn't lie to Shinji at this time and tell him that his father loved him immensely.

【I am Batman】: "Kasa?"

Bruce seemed to have also figured something out through his Batman insight, and he sought Caesar's opinion.

[Pro-war faction]: "Let's be gentle for now, Bruce."

【I am Batman】: "Okay".

The two were speaking in cryptic language, leaving Shinji Ikari completely baffled.

However, he quickly put his attention away from the riddle, sat in the car, and followed Misato Katsuragi as they drove towards their destination, NERV. As they got closer to his father, whom he hadn't seen for many years, he felt increasingly grateful.

Today was truly his lucky day. Not only did he join the chat group and meet Uncle Kasa and everyone else, but he also learned that his father was a great man who fought against monsters, and that he would be reunited with his father.

Although I've always felt that my father is cold-blooded, treating his son like a roadside stone and having no feelings for me whatsoever, maybe all those years of my father ignoring me were just a facade. He actually loves me, but he's just too busy with work to care.

That's possible. Maybe my father is a gentle person like Uncle Casa?

With such anticipation in mind, Shinji Ikari looked at the NERV manual in his hand.

This is an underground steel city, built by the United Nations to fight against the Angels, and used and managed by an organization called NERV. Gendo Ikari is the commander and supreme commander of NERV.

Thinking about all this and looking at all this, Shinji Ikari didn't forget the Angels outside: "But how are you going to defeat that thing, Misato-san? Aren't N2 mines no good either?"

"—That is your mission here, Shinji Ikari."

Click!

As Shinji Ikari, guided by Misato Katsuragi, arrived at the final area, he had barely finished asking his question when he suddenly heard an extremely cold voice.

That was his father, Gendo Ikari's voice!

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Swish!

Shinji Ikari suddenly looked up at the source of the cold voice. It was in a higher area around them, where his father stood, looking down at them with utter indifference through the glass. There was not a trace of emotion in his eyes for his long-lost son.

Shinji Ikari could hardly believe his ears.

He stared blankly at his father, then at the enormous purple robot that Misato Katsuragi called "Unit-01" located nearby. Suddenly, he couldn't help but shiver, feeling his teeth chattering as if he had fallen into sub-zero temperatures in winter.

"Father, what are you saying? Why did you call me here...?"

It was less of an interrogation and more of a plea, hoping that her father would change his mind.

The reason he could remain indifferent to the battle between the army and the apostles while on the train was not because he was not afraid of death, but because he was not the one on the battlefield at that time.

How could a normal fourteen-year-old not be afraid of a monster that is tens of meters tall!

Gendo Ikari, looking down at her, pushed up his glasses and said in an extremely cold voice, "You already know what's going on, don't you?"

"—?!"

Almost at the same time, Kassadin, Bruce Wayne, Sasuke Uchiha, Miko Yotsuya, Yuta Hibiki, and Hachiman Hikigaya all froze in shock along with Shinji Ikari.

This unbelievable, incredible, and unbelievable scene caused a huge emotional upheaval among them!

When the truth, which had been calculated long ago, appeared so coldly, Kasa's Ultraman heart was instantly gripped.

Just seeing Shinji's expression turn somber in that instant, a dramatic fall from heaven to hell, made him afraid to even imagine the extent of the trauma the child's heart had suffered at that moment!

Bruce clenched his teeth, his face expressionless, but inwardly he was grinding his teeth.

Damn it, even though Gotham is full of toxic parents who force their kids to work and earn money to support their families at a young age, only to have them come home and be abused by their families.

But at the very least, virtually no parent in Gotham would force their child to join Scarecrow or the Joker's ranks to fight against Batman!

Yes, to draw an analogy with Gotham, the level of evil in Gendo Ikari is such that sending a fourteen-year-old to fight an Angel monster that is at least fifty meters tall is no less difficult than sending a fourteen-year-old kid from Gotham who listens to Batman and the Joker to fight Batman or the Joker.

Perhaps even worse!

Is this even human? Can this even be considered a parent? This is practically Joker-level evil. No ordinary Gotham supervillain can compare to him. Oswald the Penguin is nothing but a childish kid playing house in front of Gendo Ikari!

Uchiha Sasuke's blood pressure soared, his Mangekyou Sharingan activated, and he was enraged!

Before his clan was massacred, although his father was rather stern, he still loved him, and his mother was very good to him. Even Itachi, his parents always loved him.

Having experienced the happiness of having a loving and normal parent and then losing it, Uchiha Sasuke now hates Gendo Ikari even more.

Miko Yotsuya and Yuta Hibiki have even happier and more fulfilling families than the other couple, making them the most incredible people to them.

Hachiman Hikigaya gasped. He had once thought that his parents, who had practically raised him without any care and treated him very differently, were already the best. Now, it seemed that compared to Shinji's father, they were even model parents.

[Pro-war faction]: "Don't be sad for people who aren't worth it, Shinji. Don't let yourself be hurt by people who aren't worth it!"

[King of Resilience]: "This attitude is less like that of parents and more like treating Shinji, this good-for-nothing, as an enemy, as a foe! This attitude is even more hateful than indifference..."

【I am Batman】: "This is no ordinary biological father. We have to use a heavy blow. Comminuted fractures of the limbs are just the bare minimum!"

[Best Actor]: "This is outrageous! This is absolutely too much! How can there be such a father in the world!"

[Coward]: "Although I don't really want to use such foul language, this bastard can only be a biological father at best. Shinji, don't treat him like a real father!"

[Dead Fish Eyes]: "With a biological father like this, no wonder Shinji's personality is such a loser. This damn biological father is entirely to blame!"

"Indignant" is not enough to describe their current feelings; they are absolutely furious.

Even Hibiki Yuta, who has always been the most good-tempered person, even more easy-going and tolerant than Yotsuya Miko, was furious at this moment!

If he weren't searching for an adversary and couldn't leave, otherwise all his efforts would easily be in vain, he would want to immediately travel to Shinji's world and kick Gendo Ikari!

"..."

My nose feels sore and sore, and I inexplicably feel like crying, but it doesn't hurt at all.

Shinji Ikari sniffed, and there was a hint of tears welling up in his eyes.

He was initially just disappointed to the point of despair, feeling cold and powerless all over, as if his father's words had pushed him off a cliff, but he didn't feel like crying.

But now, seeing the eagerness and concern expressed by everyone in the group, led by Uncle Casa, and being treated so gently, he suddenly felt like crying.

Looking down at him, Gendo Ikari coldly rebuked, "Does crying like a brat do any good? Get back to Unit-01 right now!"

"I do not want!"

Encouraged and emboldened, Shinji Ikari rebelled against his father for the first time: "Now that things have come to this, why are you suddenly calling me here and making me do this without saying anything? What are you doing? Why do you want me to do this?!"

“Because others can’t do it,” Gendo Ikari said coldly.

hiss!

Upon hearing this, Bruce's blood pressure spiked, instantly surpassing Sasuke's.

Gendo Ikari's words were quite clear: Unit-01 was clearly humanity's trump card in Shinji's world, stronger than the military and capable of defeating the Angels, but it was extremely selective in its pilots, and only Shinji could pilot it.

The fact that Shinji was immediately summoned as soon as the Angel was predicted to appear proves that Gendo Ikari knew all along that his son was the only suitable candidate for Unit-01 and that he would inevitably have to go to the battlefield one day.

But even under these circumstances, he wasted Shinji's youth. For fourteen years, he never told Shinji any relevant information in advance, nor did he let Shinji learn how to pilot and fight. Instead, when the enemy came, he hurriedly pushed his son, who had been raised to be a good-for-nothing, onto the battlefield!

Is this even human? I ask you.

This is basically playing with Shinji and all of humanity at the same time!

Bruce asked himself honestly, even though Gotham had the premise that "only Unit-01 can save humanity, and the pilot of Unit-01 can only be a fixed fourteen-year-old child," he should and would indeed let this child pilot Unit-01 into battle.

But at least he would take the child over in advance, explain the whole situation in detail, provide prior training, and use psychology to make the child attached to him, so as to prevent the other party from being stubborn and refusing to fight.

Most importantly, he will definitely give this child enough in terms of emotional value and physical wealth!

But let's see how Gendo Ikari does it.

Gendo Ikari's outrageous actions are not only insulting Shinji himself, but also playing with the life and death of all humanity. If Shinji refuses to pilot Unit-01, then humanity is doomed!