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

Only this inexplicable adult in front of me!

He didn't offer any special or extra praise, just this simple sentence, but why did it make her feel that his praise was a hundred times more sincere than any praise from anyone at the German headquarters, and without any of the infuriating feeling?

No matter how much the people at the German headquarters praised her, it seemed they still treated her like a child, like a useful pawn who obeyed orders.

Even Mr. Kaji, although he doesn't treat her as a pawn, always says that she's still a child. No matter how outstanding a child is, she'll only be treated like a child, so perfunctory!

Only this guy, this inexplicable 'Uncle Kassa,' seems completely different...

"Don't think I'll let this idiot Unit-01 pilot go just because I say some nice things before I run away. You treat him like your son, don't you? I'll beat him up tonight, just you wait!"

He gritted his teeth, but for some reason, he couldn't utter a sound when he wanted to stab Shinji. In the end, he could only bully Shinji Ikari to save face and make sure the two of them didn't underestimate him.

"Hey, so why are you hitting me instead of me?!" Shinji Ikari was truly exasperated and utterly speechless.

Kasa smiled, turned around, and jumped off the balcony railing. With a whoosh, he nimbly and effortlessly landed on the ground from the roof, without needing any cushioning at all.

Before leaving, he looked up and waved at Asuka, who was standing on the rooftop looking indignant like a pufferfish: "It doesn't matter, because Asuka isn't that kind of bad kid, right?"

"Tch!" Asuka spat viciously. "So you still treat me like a brat? I guess we're no different after all. Damn it!"

"Uh……"

Seeing the terrifying Asuka, Shinji Ikari immediately shrank back. Although he was quite angry and imposing at first, after seeing how easygoing Uncle Casa was with Asuka's slander, he decided to try to align himself with Uncle Casa for the time being.

As a result, he actually began to feel a bit afraid of the terrifying and ferocious Asuka.

Although she's a very pretty girl my age, she's really scary; it feels like she might actually hit someone!

"What are you looking at? You childish brat, I'll beat you up every time I see you!" Asuka glared at Shinji, baring her teeth and trying to scare him.

But she never clenched her fists or swung them at all.

"Hey hey hey, you two, what are you doing here? It's so lively, are you getting along so well? Should I arrange for you to stay together tonight?"

Whoosh!

After finishing her shower, the languid Misato Katsuragi peeked out from the stairwell and grinned at us.

Asuka scoffed, "Don't disgust me, you old hag."

"Old, old woman?!"

One strike to break through!

Misato Katsuragi's composure as an adult shattered instantly. Her eyes lost their luster, and she began to mutter, "I'm only 29 years old. I'm still young. I'm only 29 years old. I'm still young..."

"Humph!"

Asuka crossed her arms, looking every bit the victor, and swaggered downstairs.

She had originally wanted to ask Misato Katsuragi about that 'Uncle Kassa', but after thinking about it, she decided against it. She would teach that guy a lesson herself when they met next time, and show him how powerful she was as the pilot of EVA Unit 2!

Just wait and see!

……

As a planet with a total area of ​​51000 million square kilometers, everything on Earth is clearly displayed in Kasa's Ultra Mind right now, with everything perfectly aligned and without the slightest error.

After a moment's recollection, he figured out exactly where and which centimeter of the various places where the unusual energy fluctuations occurred during the daytime when he was there.

Without revealing his true form, Kassadin, having left the two children's side, quickly identified a region and successfully teleported there. After a few attempts, he was suddenly close to an apostle whose number was unknown.

this is very simple.

The apostles were far more easily startled than the monsters. During the daytime, when he appeared, these apostles, who were either hiding on Earth or in the Earth-Moon system's cosmic space, had already revealed too much of their presence due to their fright.

Kasa teleported to about four locations in total, but the first three attempts were unsuccessful. Clearly, the apostles knew they had been exposed, so they quickly moved their hiding places.

The fourth attempt went smoothly because it was deep inside a volcano. The apostle there was just an egg, not yet fully developed, and needed the volcano's energy to grow. It also couldn't move too far to other places, so it could only wait to die inside the volcano in despair.

"Beep, beep beep beep beep beep!"

The volcano apostle immediately exhales in response to being approached.

"Don't get agitated." Kasa maintained his human form, trying his best to conceal his Ultraman nature, while releasing a calming beam of light. "I'm not here to kill you, I just want to ask you some questions. I'll leave after I'm done. Tell me, why do you apostles attack humans?"

Although the Full Moon Beam is Ultraman Cosmos's patented technique, the Land of Light does have similar moves, as they are part of a system, only their effects are not as powerful as the Full Moon Beam.

“Complete…evolution…obstacles…” Inside the oocyte, the volcanic apostle’s words were incoherent and fragmented.

It is still in the process of gestation and growth, so its inherited memories are not yet complete. Moreover, as an apostle, its thinking and thought patterns are quite peculiar. If it weren't for Ultraman's mastery of everything, he might not even understand its few words.

Kassa then asked, "Can't we coexist peacefully with humans?"

“Apostle…Eighteen…Rival…The Only One…”

It's confirmed that they're related. There are a total of eighteen Angels, and [Human] is one of them. Every Angel is a competitor, and only one Angel can get the chance to complete and evolve. This is why when the Third Angel attacked NERV during the day, the other Angels didn't go to help.

As for supplementing or completing things, that's an internal matter. There's an opportunity for evolution on the home front, and it's normal for the eighteen local competitors to compete with each other. Judging from NERV's advance arrangements, the human leadership is also aware of this information.

Therefore, it constitutes fair competition.

While it's true that Ultraman knows about such matters, as an outsider, it's best not to get involved or take sides.

Therefore, Kassa had only one request: "Can you maintain the strength to not die while competing, and not kill your competitors? If you do that, I will help protect you when humans try to kill you, and will only send you defeated apostles to other planets."

"Complete...the only victor, the only survivor..." the Volcano Apostle murmured intermittently.

But Kassa understood what he meant.

In other words, in the EVA world, once an Angel completes the restoration, the entire Earth will likely undergo a massive upheaval, resulting in only the victor who completes the restoration surviving.

If the victor is human, even in the worst-case scenario, it is possible that only one human will survive while all other humans will perish.

In that case, we can't just sit idly by. We can't just sit idly by and watch the internal competition environment, which could lead to global extinction. He really needs to investigate this in detail.

Two approaches.

Either destroy the possibility of completion directly, or change that so-called completion so that it won't lead to such a catastrophic outcome, thus nipping it in the bud.

The root of the problem probably lies with NERV.

Chapter 255 Every generation has its own pride and arrogance

[I Don't Want to Pilot Unit-01]: "Ugh, I can't take it anymore! Asuka is going too far!"

[Coward]: "Who is Asuka?"

[I don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "She's not just any ordinary girl. She's the kind of person who's very rare—overbearing, bullying, and bossy. Although she's a very pretty girl, she has a terrible temper. She's awful!"

[Dead Fish Eyes]: "Hmm? Sounds like there's a story behind this. If I remember correctly, based on the current time difference, it should be the middle of the night where you are, Shinji. You're still awake and talking about a girl instead. Oh dear~"

Before meeting Ultraman, Hachiman Hikigaya was quite the loser!

Although he wasn't as unlucky as Shinji, he was very sensitive to topics about love. As soon as he heard there was inside information, he immediately perked up during the break in the martial arts tournament.

[I don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "Although I don't know what you're thinking, please stop with that rude idea. I think I'd rather stay single for the rest of my life than date Asuka. No, I definitely don't even want to hold her hand!"

[Best Actor]: "Hmm, is it getting so awkward? We're clearly colleagues who piloted the EVA together, aren't we?"

[Don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "Listen to me, it's really not that I don't want to get along with her. Uncle Kasa said that Asuka has good qualities, so I've thought about learning from her."

[I Don't Want to Pilot Unit-01]: "But do you know how Asuka treated me?"

[Don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "Or else it's [Hmph, you idiot Shinji, you can't learn any of Asuka-sama's good qualities. There's only one person as outstanding as Asuka-sama, no one else can compare, so stop dreaming!]"

[Don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "Or he's a classic daddy's boy who'd even become a thief to try and plagiarize in order to please your Uncle Kassapa. What a disgusting, childish brat."

[Don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "So I didn't want to make a fool of myself, right? That would have been fine, but after I stopped going to see her and went back to my room to rest, she came to my bedroom and wouldn't leave me alone!"

[I don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "After chasing me to my bedroom, he started by saying, 'You stupid Shinji, you must have grown up being bullied,' and then he said, 'I don't think that Uncle Gaza is anything special. What's so great about him?'"

[I don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "Ugh, I really can't take it anymore!"

Uh……

In three different worlds, Hibiki Yuuta, Hikigaya Hachiman, and Yotsuya Miko looked at these comments and were stunned, exchanging bewildered glances, hesitant to speak.

Compared to Shinji Ikari, the three of them suddenly had even more complaints to make, so many that they didn't even know where to begin.

Is this tsundere? This is definitely tsundere, no doubt about it!

She said that there was only one person as outstanding as herself, hoping that Shinji would praise her, which would be considered as having paid her tuition. In that case, she could convince herself to tolerate Shinji's gaze on her for a long time.

The "daddy boy" was actually envious and jealous without even realizing it. He envied Shinji for having such a good relationship with Uncle Gasar, and was jealous that Shinji, a loser, could gain Uncle Gasar's approval.

In other words, Asuka's "cursing her father and calling him a treasure" is essentially because she hasn't yet seen Shinji's strengths, so she hopes Shinji can take the initiative to refute her and point out his own strengths to counter her slander, thus learning from Shinji's merits.

As for the statement that Shinji "must have grown up in a life of being bullied," it is a subtle reference to Shinji's past. The intention is also to encourage Shinji to talk about his life and upbringing over the past fourteen years, as well as various interesting things from his childhood.

In reality, he was actively trying to get closer to Shinji, wanting to understand Shinji better and become his friend.

And the last sentence, "That Uncle Kasa is nothing special," is even more obvious. It's clearly a test to get information about Uncle Kasa. It seems that she has been unknowingly captured by Uncle Kasa, but she is too embarrassed to admit it, so she is testing him in such an awkward way!

Damn, Asuka is truly unbeatable. They've never seen a girl this arrogant before in real life.

Every word she utters is barbed, like a pure hedgehog, but upon closer examination, one can immediately see that the intention behind each sentence is good; she is a proactive and kind girl, and it's just barbs, not truly unforgivable insults.

She's nothing but tsundere; her entire being is composed of tsundere traits, nothing else.

Hachiman Hikigaya, Miko Yotsuya, and Yuta Hibiki were all stunned. Generally speaking, tsundere is a character trait that appears in anime. Although some people in real life may have a little bit of tsundere, it is really just a small amount and the content is very low.

But Asuka?

Judging from all her words to Shinji, her tsundere level is even more unbeatable than all the tsundere characters in all the anime the three of them have ever watched combined. It's so over the top that it's enough to make people gasp. It could be used to make at least ten romantic comedies.

[Best Actor]: "Is this just being arrogant?"

[Coward]: "To be honest, no matter how you look at it, isn't it just being arrogant?"

[Dead Fish Eyes]: "Indeed, if this weren't pure tsundere behavior, I'd eat your computer screen right here and now!"

A consensus was reached instantly!

[Don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "Uh, tsundere...? What's that?"

[Coward]: "Huh? You've never heard of the word 'tsundere'?"

[Don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "No."

[Dead Fish Eyes]: "How about searching online?"

[Don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "No, not really."

[Actor]: "I understand. Because of the Second Impact, there probably wasn't anyone in Shinji's world who had the time to create any fantasy works, so the tsundere character type never appeared, and therefore the term never came into existence."

[Coward]: "Reasonable."