I participated in the development of EVA

Ritsuko Akagi was speechless and didn't know how to defend herself.

But then he shook his head in a funny way.

"Are you going to try it?"

"what??"

Misato Katsuragi was stunned, and then looked incredulous.

"Ritsuko, you don't want to watch him and me do it, do you!?"

Ritsuko Akagi's face suddenly turned red, and then she gave Misato Katsuragi a displeased look.

"I don't have such a perverted fetish."

"Then you want me to try?"

Ritsuko Akagi wanted to explain herself, but the words could not come out of her mouth because she realized that when she said that she wanted Misato Katsuragi to give it a try, she was not only refuting Misato Katsuragi's guess, but also had a glimmer of hope that if Misato Katsuragi succeeded, the rescue work for her mother would make progress.

Seeing her suddenly fall silent, Misato Katsuragi was suddenly shocked.

"I was just joking with you, you don't mean to be serious, do you????"

Ritsuko Akagi subconsciously wanted to nod, but finally controlled herself.

"How can it be……"

"I knew it... something's wrong! What's with that guilty look on your face!? You don't... really want to watch me do it with him, do you??"

Ritsuko Akagi panicked for a moment and then returned to normal.

"I'd love to pry your head open and see if it's full of yellow waste."

Misato Katsuragi joked with a dry laugh.

"Uh...please don't do that."

Then he changed the subject, "The weather is pretty good today."

"Yep."

The atmosphere between the two of them at this moment was as awkward as it could be.

It took a long time before Misato Katsuragi spoke again.

"Ritsuko, what on earth did you go through during that time?"

"During that time?"

"What happened on the night when the artificial apostle first appeared? After that day... I felt that something was wrong with you."

Ritsuko Akagi fell silent.

Because that day she lost her only relative.

"Nothing happened..."

Although she tried her best to hide it, Misato Katsuragi knew her too well.

"You just said 'Let me try' in a joking manner. Is it related to what happened that day?"

Ritsuko Akagi fell silent.

"..."

Misato Katsuragi added another sentence.

"And since that day, you have been deliberately avoiding things related to your aunt..."

Having said that, she paused before speaking again.

"Could it be that my aunt and the director are walking together? No! If that were the case, you wouldn't have said 'Let me try' just now..."

Ritsuko Akagi interrupted Misato Katsuragi's words.

"That's enough, Misato. If you keep talking nonsense like this, I'll get angry!!"

Hearing this, Misato Katsuragi fell silent.

She didn't mention these things before because she didn't want to upset Ritsuko Akagi. She mentioned them now because she felt that Ritsuko Akagi's mental state was getting worse and worse, and if she delayed it any further, something might go wrong.

The two stood by the lake in silence, looking at the rippling surface of the lake.

It was not until the sunset covered the sky that Misato Katsuragi spoke again to break the silence.

"Ritsuko, if I were... with the director, would I be able to help you that way?"

Ritsuko Akagi wanted to shake her head to deny it, but she couldn't.

Almost two years have passed since her mother disappeared. During this time, whether she tried to save her mother in person or used a pseudonym, she has not made any progress. Other seemingly feasible rescue plans have also made no progress. This makes her more and more anxious and desperate.

Seeing that she fell silent, Misato Katsuragi realized that her guess was correct.

But it was precisely because I guessed correctly...

She just couldn't understand.

What exactly happened to Ritsuko Akagi that required this method to help her?

Although she couldn't understand it, she decided to help.

"Are you sure? Once something happens, there is no room for regret..."

This matter was of great importance and the solution was too outrageous, so after she made up her mind to help, she couldn't help but ask again to confirm.

Ritsuko Akagi remained silent and said nothing.

After hesitating for a moment, Misato Katsuragi spoke again.

"If you don't speak, I can't help you."

She confirmed again and again, obviously worried that not clarifying the situation would do more harm than good.

At this moment, Ritsuko Akagi was struggling internally. She wanted to nod and ask Misato Katsuragi to help her break the deadlock and rescue her mother, but she didn't want to involve Misato Katsuragi. At the same time, she also didn't want this kind of thing to happen. Although in her heart, her feelings for her mother were greater than for Fumihiko Ikari, her admiration for Fumihiko Ikari was also real.

Yes!

She has been involved in the game all along, not only for the purpose of rescuing her mother, but also for her own selfish desires.

Finally she opened her mouth, but ultimately shook her head.

"..."

At this moment she couldn't understand what she was thinking and why she refused, because too many thoughts were mixed together.

Some of them felt that if Misato Katsuragi were to do this, the effort might not be enough, resulting in Misato Katsuragi's sacrifice being in vain. Some of them also did not want to involve Misato Katsuragi, and she had feelings for Fumihiko Ikari, and also... she did not think Misato Katsuragi would succeed, and was worried that Misato Katsuragi would succeed... In short, it was very complicated.

20:47:20

748. Repeated stabbing

Misato Katsuragi sighed.

If it was something else, she would definitely force herself to help, but this kind of thing involving feelings, she couldn't mess around... It's not that she cares about whether they have sex or not, but about Akagi Ritsuko's feelings for Ikari Fumihiko. If it was just sex, she wouldn't really care about it and could just treat it as finding a bed partner to relieve her loneliness.

Do not……

is a substitute.

Just like my ex-boyfriend Ryosuke Kaji, they are just substitutes to fill the shadow in my heart.

She hooked her toes in her red high heels and swayed gently.

"How about I help you hold down his hand?"

Ritsuko Akagi knew that this was a test from Misato Katsuragi, but she still explained it.

"Doing that kind of thing is just a key factor... not everything..."

Misato Katsuragi holds a high official position but not a high rank, so her understanding of EVA is very one-sided, and she cannot guess the specific situation. However, she is not stupid, and she guessed some information from her friend's answer.

"In order to help you, I have to make the director fall in love with someone else?"

After saying this, she suddenly reacted.

"You want me to be a third party and destroy the relationship between the director and my aunt!?"

Ritsuko Akagi fell silent.

Seeing this scene, Misato Katsuragi felt her scalp tingling.

I feel my scalp tingling because of the twists and turns in my friend's relationship. What the hell is going on?!

The person I like becomes my stepfather...

No wonder Ritsuko's mental state has become so distorted, no wonder the two of them can't be together.

“Are they really together???”

Ritsuko Akagi subconsciously made an excuse.

"once……"

"now what?"

This is not gossip, but Misato Katsuragi wants to know the specific situation so that she can help her friend with advice.

After a long period of silence with mixed feelings, Ritsuko Akagi finally spoke out what had been weighing on her mind.

"Mother has disappeared..."

"what???"

Katsuragi Misato was a little confused, what does "disappeared" mean?

"Is he missing?"

As I asked this question, I imagined a big drama in my mind: the mother discovered her daughter's feelings and chose to leave to fulfill her daughter's wishes, or the mother felt that she had snatched away the person her daughter liked and could not bear the condemnation of her conscience. The mother felt ashamed to face her daughter and secretly left the institute, separating from her daughter and the director.

It's not that she has a rich imagination, but that she has watched TV dramas with similar plots.

Ritsuko Akagi did not answer Misato Katsuragi's question, but couldn't control her emotions and threw herself into her arms and sobbed.

Feeling Ritsuko Akagi's tears, Misato Katsuragi closed her mouth and gently stroked her back, trying to soothe Ritsuko Akagi's grief in this way.

After a long time, Ritsuko Akagi was able to regulate herself and bring her out-of-control emotions back under control.

"It's not missing...it's disappeared..."

"Disappeared? What exactly happened?"

When talking about this, Ritsuko Akagi couldn't control her emotions again and choked up. It took a long time before she could speak again.

"You know about the second generation aircraft, right?"

The commander of the combat command center is able to know the specific situation. Katsuragi Misato is only an adjutant now, so she doesn't know much about the intelligence of the second-generation EVA. "I know, but I don't know much. I just know that the second-generation EVA uses a double insertion bolt system. As for what this double insertion bolt system specifically means, I'm not very clear."

"The dual-bolt system is not actually a two-person ride, but it solves one of the drawbacks of EVA."

"What's the disadvantage?"

"Eva needs to be implanted with a soul before it can be controlled by humans, just like..."

Akagi Ritsuko thought for a while before she found an easy-to-understand metaphor. "A TV remote control needs batteries to work properly. The newly released EVA is like a remote control without batteries, and the human soul is the battery. That is to say, before the second-generation machine is successfully developed, every time an EVA that can be driven by humans is manufactured, a human life must be sacrificed."

Misato Katsuragi stood there in a daze, unable to come back to her senses for a long time. She had obviously realized what Ritsuko Akagi meant by disappearance.

"Aunt injected her soul into an EVA!!!?"

"..."

Although Ritsuko Akagi didn't say anything, her even more intense sobbing let Misato Katsuragi know the answer.

She understood, but she couldn't comprehend it at all.

"Why did you do that, Aunt? It doesn't make sense... At that time, there was already second-generation machine technology, right????"

"The higher-ups wanted to steal control of that EVA, and my mother made that choice in order to preserve that machine."

Akagi Ritsuko subconsciously concealed it...

The mother chose to inject her soul into it in order to escape from the problem.

Misato Katsuragi was a little confused. She couldn't imagine how special the EVA must be to cause such a fight among the top leaders.

Of course, she was only slightly surprised, and then stopped dwelling on these things, and tried to connect everything together. However... she still couldn't understand what the connection was between her having sex with Ikari Fumihiko and rescuing Akagi Ritsuko's mother. But she knew that Akagi Ritsuko wasn't the kind of pervert who would watch someone she liked having sex with her best friend...