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

EVA Unit-01, piloted by Shinji Ikari.

Don the combat suit, enter the insertion plug, and the insertion plug is loaded into Unit-01.

The process was no different from the previous two times, and it should have started smoothly. However, just before Shinji began to merge with Unit-01, Kassadin noticed something and used Ultra Telekinesis to remotely call for a halt: "Stop, Shinji, there is a problem with this machine and the pilot's cock."

"Okay, I'll do it right away!"

Although he didn't understand what the problem was, adhering to the basic logic that Uncle Kassa would not harm him, Shinji Ikari stopped the startup without saying a word. No matter how much Misato Katsuragi urged him in the command room, it was no use. She just made excuses, saying that she needed to do some mental preparation first and pause for a while.

"Is that idiot scared?" Asuka muttered.

"That's not true, something's not right," Casa said in a low voice, letting only Asuka know.

After saying that, her eyes sharpened, and she turned her back to Misato Katsuragi and the others, walking to a corner and lightly tapping the wall. "Since you already know you've been exposed, why bother hiding it?"

"—Oh my, you truly are a deity from beyond the heavens. I was wondering if you would become weaker in this form, but it seems that nothing can be hidden from you."

Approaching footsteps in the corridor, a gentle-natured boy revealed himself, smiling as he gracefully introduced himself to Kasa.

"Nice to meet you, God who surpasses even the gods, I am Kaworu Nagisa, the Free Apostle."

Chapter 259 The Human Instrumentality Project, Gendo Ikari's Desperate Gamble

First of all, I am not a god.

—Although I really wanted to say that, seeing Kaworu's attitude, Kasa already understood that there was no point in arguing with this kid about this matter. Even if the other party said he knew, he would probably still treat him as a god.

So let's skip these meaningless formalities and jump straight to the useful topics.

"Have you found a way to coexist peacefully with humans?"

Sneaking into NERV's headquarters, and being so gentle and without any murderous intent in a place where everyone around is human, seems to be an ideal situation.

"Unfortunately, it's just an illusion right now; that kind of thing is impossible."

Kaworu smiled, whether with helplessness or regret, "It's just that it's not my turn yet, so I can restrain myself. But one day, I will have no choice but to follow my instincts and move towards the goal of human completion. Once I succeed, humanity will not be able to survive."

Kasa nodded. "So, you're just standing here in front of me like this, aren't you worried?"

“Didn’t you spare the life of the Third Apostle? With your abilities, if you harbored ill intentions towards us and wanted to wipe us out, you could have done so in the blink of an eye yesterday.”

Kaworu Nagisa was very frank.

Because humans are fragmented individuals, they can only rely on technology. Therefore, they can only vaguely understand that the extraterrestrial deity in front of them has the power to wipe out the Earth-Moon system in an instant, but they do not know how precise the deity's actions are.

Given the other party's capabilities, if he truly harbored ill intentions towards these apostles, yesterday, the instant all the apostles were shaken by his appearance, Mr. Kasa could have teleported to the side of all the exposed apostles within half a second, instantly killing them all with a single blow, and then returned to the Third New Tokyo City.

The fact that they are still alive is enough to prove how kind and benevolent Mr. Kasa is, and it also proves that his vision has never been limited to the human realm, and that he has not shown extreme one-sided favoritism.

As an angel of freedom, Kaworu Nagisa must consider whether this is the only chance he will ever have in his life.

If things drag on until Mr. Kassa leaves the solar system, then humanity, the apostles, reincarnation, and the Instrumentality Project will simply revert to their original, irrecoverable state.

He wanted to take a gamble, betting that this Mr. Kassa was unexpectedly kind and possessed an extraordinary ability to stop all the sorrow in the world!

Therefore, he abandoned the group of old men from SEELE who were originally cooperating with him and tried to defy fate, and came here alone.

He believed that Mr. Kassa would be interested in Shinji, and now it seems that his prediction in this regard was correct.

"So, to be honest, I've come to surrender."

Kaworu's face was full of sincerity.

Rather than believing in those incredible SEELE characters, or betting on the contradictory Gendo Ikari, or even trusting Shinji, all these approaches are utterly insignificant in the face of Mr. Kassadin.

Why deliberately take a rugged mountain path when there's a shortcut?

Not to mention that this shortcut is so direct that you can reach the top in one step, without even needing to take a second step.

Of course, even without his surrender, with Mr. Kassa's abilities, he could have easily revealed the essence of life directly, attracting Lilith and Adam to activate it because they felt greatly threatened, thereby directly locating Lilith and Adam's positions and capturing them on the spot for severe torture.

Then we'll have all the intelligence perfectly clear.

But with his surrender, things will be easier and more open, increasing the likelihood that Mr. Kassapa will be willing to save the world from its root!

"surrender?"

interesting.

This was the first time Kasa had saved the world so easily. Although the aliens in the main universe of the Land of Light varied in strength, they were all quite principled and generally preferred death to surrender. It was very difficult for any traitor to appear and surrender to the Ultra Warriors at the last moment before their death.

So this experience is quite novel.

Of course, it's also possible that Kaworu is trying to use the information gap to distort his understanding, but it doesn't matter. Having information is better than having none, and he'll be able to tell the difference from wrong guidance on his own.

"If you really want to surrender, then you must also want to live in peace with humanity?"

"To be precise, I want to coexist peacefully with Shinji." Without saying a word, Kaworu Nagisa laid bare his identity. "Sir, I love Shinji-kun. No matter how many times or how long, he will always be the one I love the most. As for other humans, I don't care."

Even when it came to his personal privacy, at this crucial moment, he didn't hide anything and went all in.

Kasa nodded: "When you say you don't care, do you mean you don't care whether you kill them or not, that you don't treat others as human beings, or that you're not interested in getting to know them well, but as long as they don't threaten your safety and freedom, you don't intend to kill them or deliberately oppose them?"

"It's the latter, sir," Kaworu Nagisa replied sincerely.

Kassa pondered for a moment, then asked, "What is the relationship between the Apostles and humans?"

“Long, long ago, there appeared a Tree of God. Two fruits were born from this tree: one was Lilith, and the other was Adam. They each gained different powers. Lilith received the Fruit of Wisdom, and Adam received the Fruit of Life. After Lilith and Adam were born, the trunk of the Tree of God transformed into the Spear of Longinus.”

Without any ambiguity, Kaworu immediately recounted everything he knew to the best of his ability: "46 billion years ago, Adam drifted to the solar system from who knows where, and fell to Earth with a white moon, thus giving birth to me and the apostles other than humans."

"Four billion years later, Lilith drifted to the solar system from an unknown location. Along with a black moon, she crashed into the Earth, causing the First Impact. Adam and the Apostles fell into hibernation. Soon after, Lilith gave birth to Lilin, who became the Apostle known as Humanity."

The Tree of God is the first generation, Adam and Lilith are the second generation, and the Apostles and humans are the third generation. Cousins ​​within three generations are indeed closely related by blood and are completely related. According to the judgment of the Land of Light, this is an internal racial dispute.

Kassa realized that his judgment was indeed correct, and that his decision not to kill the apostles was the right one.

Looking at the thoughtful Kasa, Kaworu hesitated for a moment before adding in a low voice, "According to the Dead Sea Scrolls that accompanied Adam, the tree that gave birth to Lilith and Adam may have been planted by a [god].

This is nothing.

For humans, Lilith and Adam are already gods, so if they knew that there was a supreme god above them, their worldview might be greatly overturned, and they might feel a sense of emptiness about life.

But Kassa's expression seemed indifferent, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

"Don't you care?" Kaworu Nagisa asked, quite surprised.

"There's no need to care. The universe is so vast, it's normal for there to be a so-called stronger god. As long as the other party doesn't indiscriminately kill innocent people, I don't need to waste time looking for it."

Gods and such, there are always similar characters in different universes, like Akane Shinjo, who is also a creator god, isn't she?

However, considering the way the unknown entity in the Evangelion world gave birth to Adam and Lilith, it reminded Kassadin of Reiblood. At its peak, Reiblood could even give birth to multiple Ultimate Ultra-level monsters, which would probably terrify some backward civilizations.

If Reiblood were to build an enhanced version of Bashomon one day, in the eyes of a backward civilization, it would mean the universe is about to be devoured.

But none of this matters to the Ultra Warriors.

They only ever care about one thing: whether the other party is evil or not. As long as they don't harm innocent lives, engage in aggression, or obstruct others' freedom and basic rights, then so be it.

There are just too many secrets in the multiverse. If they had to explore every single one of them, where would they find the time to safeguard peace?

Compared to the so-called gods far away, Kassa cares more about the tiny lives on this small Earth: "So, what exactly is Instrumentality?"

"It's a return."

After the initial surprise, Kaworu managed to calm himself down and begin a new round of responses.

His eyes shone brightly.

Even after hearing that the gods planted the Tree of God and gave birth to Lilith and Adam, he didn't care at all. This was certainly due to his personality, but it also shows that Mr. Kassa must have the power or backing of a god of that level who is not afraid of him.

This bet seems to have yielded an unimaginably huge profit, completely defying the limits of the universe!

"When we apostles come into contact with Adam and become one with him, it will trigger the Third Impact and make us [God]. Human Instrumentality, on the other hand, will return to Lilith and merge together to become a new kind of life, which is also [God]."

"The final completion is the fusion of the Fruit of Wisdom and the Fruit of Life, possessing the power of both Lilith and Adam, and surpassing both. According to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the person who completed the completion at that time seemed to be comparable to the god who planted that tree."

"Once one apostle completes Instrumentality, the other apostles will never have another chance to complete Instrumentality. Instead, they will be killed by the Third Impact triggered by the one who completes Instrumentality. This is the root cause of why it is impossible for all apostles to coexist."

Of course, there was no intention to coexist.

Apart from him, the angel of freedom, everyone from the human elites to the other apostles only wanted to kill him.

In less than two days, Kassa had already learned all of this extremely confidential secret, the most fundamental mystery that forms the basis of this world.

This was much faster than any of his previous investigations in the main universe of the Land of Light.

All I can say is that this is the first time I've ever played such a simple game.

When conducting investigations in the main universe, either there are too many sleeping monsters on this planet, and in order to avoid waking them up and harming the local inhabitants, the only option is to actively seal off the techniques used to scan the globe using Ultraman's power; or the troublemaking aliens are so unyielding that they would rather die than reveal any information.

Or perhaps there's some ancient, billion-year-old evil god's remnant in the galaxy that's been emitting dark power that's affecting all senses.

In short, it's incredibly troublesome.

Only in the EVA world, the difference between Angels and humans was immediately cleared on the first day, and Kaworu Nagisa surrendered with courtesy on the second day, making it incredibly easy.

Sigh, if only conducting investigations in the Ultraman multiverse could be this easy.

Kassa couldn't help but sigh, stomping his foot on the floor as he asked, "What's hidden beneath NERV headquarters?"

“Maybe it’s Adam, maybe it’s Lilith.” Kaworu shook his head. “I don’t know either. It’s the most fundamental secret of humanity. The elders of SEELE are hiding the truth, and only two or three people in NERV know it.”

Kassa then asked, "So, what's your situation?"

“Me?” Kaworu chuckled. “Your eyes are truly amazing… I’m probably the apostle closest to Adam. I have a part of Adam’s soul, but Adam and I are still two separate beings.”

At this point, Kaworu Nagisa gestured with his chin and looked towards Rei Ayanami in the command center in the distance, "As for that person, her soul comes from Lilith, and she is one of the most important personnel in the Human Instrumentality Project."

After explaining these two points, before Kasa could speak again, Kaworu, who knew from Kasa's obvious expression what he was currently focusing on, took the lead again and began to introduce the so-called Human Instrumentality Project.

"The Human Instrumentality Project is led by NERV and SEELE and is based on the premonitions in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Specifically, it is based on Unit-01 and aims to return all of humanity to the state of the 'Water of Life' before their birth, so that they can become one, eliminate all the barriers in their hearts, and become a completely new life."

This life pattern sounds familiar, and Kasa can summarize it in three words: "Simply put, it's Sophia."

He has fully understood.

Simply put, the so-called Instrumentality Project, whether for humans or apostles, is actually about using the power and life essence of Lilith and Adam to complete their own life evolution and evolve into a higher level.

However, if an apostle evolves, it will evolve into a separate individual.

Human evolution will result in a form like the Scria.

Normally speaking, we can't simply say that the Sphia's form is a deviation from the right path or a failed evolution, because this life mode also has its merits.

If Sophia hadn't forced other planets and life forms to merge with her, and hadn't engaged in aggression, and had simply remained law-abiding, none of the Ultramen would have actually tried to destroy her.

But this doesn't mean that Kassadin agrees with this evolutionary model, because there's a crucial point regarding the Human Instrumentality Project.