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

But if she were to confess directly, wouldn't it make it seem like Asuka-sama is worried about losing that idiot Shinji? That idiot would definitely be secretly pleased, hmph!

Although the Wall of the Heart is broken, Ultraman is not an evil god and would never forcibly change someone's self. The broken Wall of the Heart does not mean that tsundere is no longer tsundere.

While Asuka was struggling with her decision, Shinji, who hadn't yet figured it out, also ran away from his mother and Rei Ayanami in embarrassment and went to Kassadin's side. Whenever these children encountered any difficulties, the first person they thought of was still him.

"Love counseling... no, Uncle Kassapa, if Mom comes out, does that mean EVA Unit-01 can't be activated anymore?" Shinji Ikari hesitated for a moment, then decided not to let the uncle help him analyze his love life.

He has finally grown up and knows that there are some things he should face and bear on his own, no matter what the outcome may be.

Although he can escape for a short period of time, his current escape is no longer for the sake of escaping, but to allow himself to concentrate on careful and serious thinking, and he cannot completely waste time during the escape.

He still cared about Unit-01, at least. Although, as his ID in the chat group showed, he didn't really enjoy piloting it, he would still feel a bit melancholy if Unit-01 became a broken piece of metal that couldn't be started.

“No.” Kasa shook his head slightly. “Whether it’s Unit-01, Unit-00, or Unit-02, they can all continue to be activated. Lilith and Adam have also made their own choices.”

"Huh?"

Shinji Ikari was taken aback.

What does this mean? Could it be that... Lilith and Adam have become the new machine spirits of the three EVA units?!

Chapter 263 Uchiha Sasuke: Shinji, you brat, I swear to kill you!

"more or less."

Kassa briefly explained to Shinji that although humans and Angels are no longer forced to complete their relationships, this is a breakthrough in the mind, and the ancestral relationship in the body is still there and cannot be erased.

Therefore, if Lilith and Adam continue to exist in this world as individuals, they will inevitably encounter problems from time to time.

So after consideration and after consulting his opinion, Lilith and Adam both chose to split themselves into several parts like fireflies, each residing in a different host.

Unit-00, Unit-01, Unit-02, Rei Ayanami, Asuka Langley Soryu, Kaworu Nagisa, and Shinji Ikari were divided into these seven parts.

Overall, Unit-00 and Unit-02 were assigned to three different EVA units because it would have been too powerful to be assigned to Unit-01 alone, which would have led to Unit-01 becoming a god, and that was not Shinji's wish.

As for Asuka and Rei, it was a case of loving the house because Lilith and Adam both favored Shinji, the son of God. So they also gave some to Asuka and Rei, so that when Shinji lived a long life, the two girls he loved, Asuka and Rei, would die of old age first.

As for Kaworu Nagisa, he is indeed worthy of being a special free angel, and he is also a very good child in the eyes of Lilith and Adam.

Of course, these seven portions were the majority, and the remaining small portion was also divided equally among the other apostles, which was a small way to ensure that everyone received something and that none of the other apostles left empty-handed.

However, the vast majority of them were given to Shinji and Unit-01.

At this point, Shinji and Unit-01 were essentially one in the true sense. Shinji could store Unit-01 inside his body at any time and summon it to pilot whenever needed, and there would be no more power shortages.

Whether or not Shinji goes berserk is entirely up to him, because his synchronization rate with Unit-01 is now beyond infinity, countless times higher than when his mother was the Machine Spirit.

Shinji Ikari scratched his head. "Uh, in other words, I'm currently the Jinchūriki of Unit-01, the Jinchūriki of Lilith, and the Jinchūriki of Adam all at the same time?"

Although he had only been in the group for a few days, he had already learned about Sasuke's Naruto worldview through the chat, and had heard of the term "Tailed Beast Jinchuriki," which he felt was inexplicably fitting for this context.

“You can say that if you want, but I think there’s a more appropriate word,” Kasa smiled. “You should say that you are now one with all three of them at the same time, and it’s an eternal one.”

While Lilith and Adam did maintain a minimum level of life, in this state of oneness, Shinji had the authority to erase their lives and selves at any time without suffering any backlash.

Moreover, whether in daily life or during battles, Lilith and Adam are in a deep slumber, unable to see Shinji's actions in reality or his inner thoughts.

Lilith and Adam will only awaken together when Shinji actively calls upon them, granting Shinji and Unit-01 power beyond their normal capabilities for a limited time.

Of course, a significant portion of his power and status was given to others, so he was unable to reach the level of the original Godhood Unit-01.

But that was enough for Shinji; he never expected or liked becoming a god.

"I always feel like I'm actually a very lucky person!" Shinji Ikari murmured softly.

All the hardships come.

However, without Uncle Kassa, even Lilith and Adam, who favored him, would have ignored his own wishes and watched him endure everything alone before ascending to godhood, without helping him based on his own will.

He was perhaps a lucky man, with a loving mother, loving Asuka and Rei, caring Misato, and devoted Lilith and Adam.

However, without Uncle Casa, all this "luck" would have only brought him endless pain and despair, as has been proven in the past.

"So-called luck is actually proof of your own kindness and hard work," Kassadin said gently, praising sincerely. "Even with such a dark past, you never gave up on moving towards the future. You are truly a strong man, Shinji!"

He also witnessed the suffering Shinji endured in the first loop: having his arm severed, his head blown off, his heart pierced—the injuries were numerous and varied.

Not to mention the various forms of mental abuse, the physical damage suffered while piloting EVA Unit-01 to fight the Angels is enough to make people gasp; it's a pain that most adults couldn't endure.

However, Shinji endured it all.

Although the world cycles, Shinji Ikari is the same person from beginning to end. There has never been a second Shinji Ikari. The Shinji in front of us can also bear and face that kind of pain.

Such a good child, such a powerful child, such a pitiful child, is extremely rare, even in his more than 10,000 years of service!

Shinji Ikari's eyes shone brightly, as dazzling as stars.

He sniffed, almost bursting into tears. Even when he was wronged, he rarely wanted to cry. But now, when he heard the most heartfelt affirmation from Uncle Kasa, who was more like a father to him than a father, his nose tingled, and without saying a word, he threw himself into Uncle Kasa's arms.

"I have indeed tried my best... but I think all the efforts I have made so far have perhaps, no, absolutely been so that I could hold on until the day I meet you, Uncle Casa!"

Cut—

Peaceful doves flew across the sky, leaving long white trails in their wake.

Goodbye, all Evangelion warriors?

No, saying goodbye is not the end. From now on, if there is ever a situation where Shinji needs to pilot Unit-01 in battle, he will take on that responsibility more proactively than ever before, with the same resolve as the Ultra Spirit!

The tragic fate of not wanting to pilot Unit-01 has been reversed. The loser who could only be manipulated by others has finally grown a lion in his eyes. Standing here now is a near-god, a real man, a man recognized by Uncle Kassadin—

Shinji Ikari!

……

"Stop howling. All I did was cut you open, take out your liver, intestines, and lungs, wash them, and give you some drugs to double your pain during the process and force you to concentrate on watching the whole thing."

"You can't even handle this? You call yourself a ninja? You call yourself a ninja? And what about the man who's seen enough of the world's darkness, the man who wants to change the world? No matter what torture I use, you won't confess. Sigh, do you still remember your grand words at the beginning? This is really ridiculous."

"Ah, yes, yes, you're right, but that's Uchiha Obito. His identity was to steal Uchiha Madara's, his strength came entirely from transplanting Wood Release and the Mangekyou Sharingan, his IQ was 0.5, and his personality was that he would destroy the world for a woman."

"You have to be tough, you can't withstand forced confessions. Well, it's good that it's this easy, it saves us from wasting more time."

In the Naruto universe, in the ninja world, Orochimaru's secret base.

With his eyes vacant and his mouth dry from wailing, Obito Uchiha stared blankly with his mouth agape. He was completely drained of water.

With a crooked nose and slanted eyes, head drooping, hands and feet bound and tied to a wooden stake, one of his Mangekyou Sharingan eyes, capable of spatial teleportation, was removed, leaving only one eye to gaze upon the world.

He remained motionless, without even the slightest reflexive movement. His soul seemed to have been driven to self-destruction by immense torment, turning him into a zombie or a vegetable.

His vortex mask was lying on the ground, and his Akatsuki clothes were in disarray.

The ground was covered with a large amount of blood, which was no longer pungent and clearly had been flowing for some time.

Obito Uchiha's appearance showed no signs of dissection or whipping; he seemed perfectly intact, thanks to the kind-hearted Batman who performed a flawless restoration for him.

Sigh, there really is no one in the world more kind-hearted than the great Batman.

Wearing a bat mask, Bruce glanced sideways at Obito Uchiha, who was no longer reacting, shook his head, took off his blood-stained gloves, tossed his cape aside, and left the torture chamber dressed as Batman in his classic Dark Knight skin suit.

The room was well soundproofed, and Naruto was eating ramen in Kuku, not far from the torture room, without being affected at all.

Upon arriving at the hall where Naruto Uzumaki, Orochimaru, Sasuke Uchiha, and Kabuto Yakushi were gathered, Bruce immediately asked, "How is it?"

"Still the same old story, I'm at a loss." Orochimaru had to admit that he had lost this time.

He wanted to interrogate Black Zetsu, but once Black Zetsu was captured and it was discovered that it couldn't escape, it immediately entered a state of suspended animation and couldn't be woken up no matter what he did, so there was no way to interrogate it.

I've tried all sorts of methods to wake him up, but nothing works. Black Zetsu is really good at faking his death; the principle behind it is completely unknown.

Moreover, he had even tried to kill Black Zetsu directly, attempting to force him to wake up from the brink of complete death, but it was all in vain. Black Zetsu had truly turned into a tree.

You can torture him all you want; if he wakes up and utters even a single word, you win, but you can't win anyway.

"Is that so..." Bruce sighed with regret, but didn't say much. To be fair, it wasn't that Orochimaru was incompetent, but that Black Zetsu was too powerful. He had tried to interrogate Black Zetsu before, but hadn't found a way to break through.

Although they successfully interrogated Obito Uchiha, Black Zetsu clearly also possessed secrets that Obito Uchiha was unaware of, so in the end, they still suffered a loss.

“Well, there’s no other way then. Let’s analyze Obito Uchiha’s information first.” Bruce said, about to begin, but then he noticed Sasuke staring at him and couldn’t help but ask, “What’s wrong? Do I have some kind of ninjutsu that Obito Uchiha secretly planted on me?”

"So that's what you're bad at." Uchiha Sasuke had so many things he wanted to complain about that he didn't know where to start, and his first reaction was this typical manifestation of persecution complex.

Sigh, Batman, sigh, hysteria.

Sasuke Uchiha shook his head, looked up at the ceiling, and sighed, "Sigh, I just feel like it shouldn't be like this."

They already have a chat group, so why is the person who came over a Dark Batman who's even darker than the ninja world? He just went into Obito Uchiha's interrogation room and came out vomiting.

Is this normal? I'm asking you, what happened to our ninja world being a dark worldview?

Shouldn't the person who comes next be a gentle, generous, trusting man who believes in love and miracles, with a sunny and cheerful personality that can eliminate the evil obsessions of others, able to lead by example to change the world, able to stand in front of all children to protect everything, and a righteous uncle who gives people the feeling of a real adult?

What the hell is this Gotham City Fear? How far are you, Batman, trying to lead my Uchiha Sasuke astray?!

Sigh, I always feel like someone stole the chat group life that should have been mine, Uchiha Sasuke's.

"The meaning is unclear." Bruce ignored Sasuke's sighs and began to explain.

"Based on Obito Uchiha's voluntary, proactive, and unpaid intelligence contributions throughout the process, we know that although Madara Uchiha is dead, he left behind two backup plans, Black Zetsu and Obito, to help him collect the nine tailed beasts and execute the Eye of the Moon Plan, and to revive him."

"As for the Akatsuki organization, although Pain was doing it for nuclear deterrence, he didn't know that when he obtained the nine-tailed beast, it would be the moment when Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu betrayed him."

"At the same time, Obito Uchiha was the murderer who caused the deaths of the Fourth Hokage and his wife on the night of the Nine-Tails' attack. In other words, he was the enemy of your entire family, Naruto."

"Furthermore, Itachi Uchiha was indeed a Konoha spy within Akatsuki, but he is already gone, so that doesn't matter."

"Currently, it seems that Madara Uchiha is the biggest mastermind behind the scenes in the ninja world in this era. He started planning decades ago, and all his goals are aimed at the Eye of the Moon Project. He wants to use the moon as a genjutsu to make everyone enter the world of genjutsu and thus obtain happiness."

Simply put, it's the ninja world version of the Flower of the Ninja.

Although all the information Bruce received about Madara Uchiha from Obito Uchiha was from a side perspective, he already understood what kind of person Madara Uchiha was.

In his youth, Madara Uchiha was influenced by Hashirama Senju and wanted to change the dark ninja world together, so he transitioned from a ninja clan to a ninja village.

However, two events after the establishment of the ninja village led to his descent into darkness.

On one hand, he couldn't become the Hokage he so longed for, which was his biggest dissatisfaction.

On the other hand, he discovered that although the ninja village was indeed better than during the ninja clan era, it still could not save the ninja world, let alone change the world; the ninja world was still incredibly dark.

So after betraying Konoha and being defeated in a great battle against Hashirama Senju, he completely abandoned reality and turned his attention to the world of genjutsu, relying on some records he saw at the Uchiha camp and the sudden appearance of Black Zetsu and White Zetsu who claimed to be part of him.

Based on these points, Madara Uchiha can be considered a typical tyrant, but while being a tyrant, he also has a part of the personality of a clown.

Overall, however, he still has a good heart. He has always aimed to "lead the world and people towards a better future," which is much better than Obito Uchiha, who turned evil and killed his mentor with his own hands after the death of his crush.

However, Madara Uchiha was ultimately too self-centered and arrogant.