Collapse, surrender to me!

"It was the Angel that was attacked when Unit-01 went berserk, not me."

"I know."

"…Then don't catch a cold."

Grace pulled Kewpie and immediately pulled out another Kewpie umbrella like drawing a thread, handed it to the other party, and then left.

……

"What? Don't you want to continue comforting him?" asked Kyubey.

"He knows everything, what else can I say?"

It's like knowing that a person is wearing a bulletproof vest and you can't kill him by shooting him.

But the moment you decide to take action, many things change.

Shinji was extremely opposed to this.

As Gray Xiu was speaking, she suddenly changed the subject.

"Qubi, tell me, if things develop to the end and I, an alien, stand on the opposite side of humans, will he choose to be an enemy of the world or an enemy of me?"

"…How should I put it? If Ikari Shinji were Homura, he would definitely be an enemy of the world. But unfortunately, he is not…so, I don't know either."

"It's rare to see something you don't know either."

"That's normal. I'm not good at things like feelings, and people's hearts are fickle. I can't give a definite answer."

……

Next to the garbage dump.

Shinji was still squatting there with the umbrella given by Gray Shu.

After a while, he spoke.

"Take me to see Sister Misato."

Just as he finished speaking, dozens of men in black appeared on the originally empty street, shining flashlights at him, making his eyes hurt.

NERV base.

"After taking a walk out, have you figured it out?" Misato handed over the drink in her hand attentively, still with that carefree look.

"Yeah, I figured it out."

Shinji nodded and took a deep breath.

"Misato, I have decided not to continue piloting Unit-01."

"Okay, okay, since you've decided to continue piloting Unit-01..."

Misato stopped talking halfway through her words.

The look he gave Shinji also changed.

The smile on Misato's face became visibly stiff.

"Shinji, are you kidding me, hahaha..."

"Misato-san, I'm not kidding. I won't be piloting an EVA again."

Shinji's determined look is completely different from his previous submissive look.

Misato realized something.

This time, it seems like things are really going to get out of hand.

She also truly understood what the biggest change that Grayshu's arrival had brought to Shinji was.

If the previous Shinji was a mollusk that anyone could mold into any shape, the current Shinji has bones.

"Are you sure, Shinji?"

Misato Katsuragi also became serious.

"If you don't fight against the apostles, your current classmates, and the civilians of this city..."

"What does it have to do with me? I was called here by my father, not voluntarily. If I fight the apostles, the scope of the impact will become wider and wider. The residents of this city may not be grateful to me in the future."

Snapped!

Shinji received a hard slap on the face.

"Shinji, do you know what you are talking about?!"

Misato Katsuragi said angrily.

"Since you are in this position, you must bear the corresponding responsibilities!"

"Driving the EVA is a decision made by my own will, isn't it?"

Shinji was slapped, but he didn't get angry. He just spoke calmly.

"On the first day I came here, my father said, either drive an EVA or get out."

"I'm giving my answer now. I choose to get out."

Shinji said this and pried open Misato's hand that was holding his collar.

It's also like breaking up the relationship.

"Where's your hero? Don't you want to be a hero?"

"I don't want to be one anymore."

"You're running away."

Misato looked at Shinji's leaving figure and her tone turned cold.

"You clearly said that you wouldn't run away again."

"I'm not running away."

Shinji paused the script and responded calmly.

"This is the path I chose. How can I be considered as escaping if I am walking this path? Or does it mean that as long as the path I take is different from the one you chose, it will be considered as escaping?"

"..."

Misato opened her mouth.

I wanted to say something but held it back. In the end, all my words were reduced to just four words.

“…You’re terrible.”

"Yeah, you guys too."

Chapter 298: Gray Xiu's Thousand Layers of Identity

Shinji left, leaving cleanly and decisively.

At the same time, many people in NERV were also dumbfounded.

This was originally the stage that Gendō Ikari built for Shinji. Now that the performers have left, what are the spectators watching?

If he refused to drive the EVA just because he was afraid of death in the battle against the apostles.

The problem is not that serious.

Because this was within Ikari Gendo's expectations, he had a plan to bring Shinji back.

When you understand a person's character.

The choices he will make become easy to predict.

Obviously, Gendō Ikari felt that he knew his son's true nature very well.

He has been using Shinji's personality to guide his actions towards his own plans.

It's because of this predictability.

Gendo Ikari never chose to, and even pretended to be a kind father, in order to have a good relationship with Shinji.

There is no need to sympathize with Shinji's feelings.

Instead, they treat the other party as a complete tool.

All the choices his son makes should be within his plan. This is his predetermined fate.

It's not just Shinji, but all the kids 14 years ago, the pilots of EVA, are like this.

The child chosen by fate.

It sounds like the same slogan as Digimon.

"Push him."

Ikari Gendo said in a deep voice.

……

Shinji Ikari was walking in the white corridor of NERV.

White metal and occasional flickering lights.

It gave him a cold feeling.

As expected, I'd better not come to this kind of place again.

The exit of the passage in the distance was shrouded in a dazzling white light, like a gate to escape from hell.

Then, he saw a somewhat thin figure walking towards him step by step.

"Korea?……"

Shinji was a little surprised.

He recognized the person.

It was my classmate Rei Ayanami who sat in the back row by the window.

From the beginning until now, he and Li have had no interaction and never expected to see each other in NERV.

And it looks like the other party is in a pretty bad condition.

Rei Ayanami's face was pale and her body was wrapped in bandages, densely wrapping her arms and legs.

There were slight blood stains on the covered areas.

The girl bent her body and moved forward with difficulty, holding on to the wall.

Without any expression, like a delicate puppet.

Her eyes were calm, distant and deep like the stars.

The wall she was holding on to seemed to be her only support, supporting her body as she continued to drag forward.

"Are you okay? Why are you here in this state?" Shinji saw this and hurried over to help the other person.

"I am fine."

Rei did not refuse Shinji, but did not say much either, and continued walking in the direction Shinji came from.

"You are already in this state, let me call a doctor for you first."

Shinji said, then took out his phone.

Of course he didn't have the doctor's number, but Misato Katsuragi should have it.

But what surprised him was that

I couldn't get through to Sister Misato on the phone.

"No, that's not right...my cell phone signal is blocked."

Shinji frowned.

I thought that when I said I had left NERV, my ID card became invalid, so it seemed normal that people who were not from NERV could not make phone calls here.

But before he could think about it any further, Rei Ayanami had already walked a long way forward, holding onto the wall.

"Why are you going there?!" No matter how naive Shinji was, he realized that something was wrong.

It seems that this classmate of his is also a member of NERV.