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Chapter 503 Sacrifice (Original)

In Rei Ayanami's inner world, she is suspended in a liquid similar to the LCL water of life in the EVA body.

Then, like Asuka, she saw another self.

"Who?"

But this was the first time she saw another Rei Ayanami, so she asked.

"I."

"Me in EVA."

Soon, she was the first to come up with the answer.

At this moment, her mental image, which had become a mess just like Asuka's in the previous episode, suddenly appeared.

It means that although Ayanami Rei seems very calm now, in fact, she has long been like Asuka in the previous episode, her mind is completely confused.

"No, it feels like she's not me."

Ayanami Rei denied it again, and then asked the other Ayanami Rei in the LCL soaking in front of her, "Who are you?"

"apostle."

That Ayanami Rei looked at her and said, "Do you, the one we call an apostle, want to become one with us?"

Her voice seemed to echo, overlapping twice in a short period of time.

"No, this is definitely a trick!"

Zhou Wenwei immediately said nervously, "Ayanami Rei! Don't agree to her!"

This could be the remaining consciousness of the apostle "Adam" in Unit 0, or the consciousness of the womb angel that invaded and spied on Rei Ayanami's heart.

If you think about it carefully, you will know that none of them are good things.

"No, I am me and you are you."

As expected, Ayanami Rei flatly refused.

"But it's no use, it's too late."

However, that Ayanami Rei responded like this.

Then a scene that horrified Zhou Wenwei and other members of Rei Ayanami's party appeared. In Rei Ayanami's inner world, traces of erosion also appeared on her body.

It seemed to imply that what Rei Ayanami, who called herself an apostle, said was right, and it would be useless even if Rei Ayanami refused.

She is being eroded and merged by the apostle!

"I give you my heart, and I share my feelings with you."

Apostle Rei Ayanami said again, "Look, it hurts, doesn't it?"

"It hurts? No."

Ayanami Rei still seemed to have no emotions of her own and said, "It should be said that you are lonely. Yes, you are lonely."

"Lonely? I don't understand."

However, Apostle Rei Ayanami replied with some doubt.

"You must be lonely."

Rei Ayanami said, "Although we have many individuals, you are alone. This feeling must be very uncomfortable."

This... Rei Ayanami said this, could it be that this apostle "Rei Ayanami" is not the remaining consciousness of the apostle "Adam" in Unit 0.

It wasn't some womb angel invading Rei Ayanami's inner consciousness.

But...is it really Rei Ayanami?

But this Ayanami Rei is not the current Ayanami Rei, but the one... the No. 1 Ayanami Rei who was killed by Ritsuko's mother Akako in the past?

“Is that loneliness?”

The apostle Ayanami Rei smiled and looked at her, saying, "That is your heart, your heart full of sorrow."

A tear flowed across the sky, awakening Rei Ayanami who was immersed in her inner world.

It's Ayanami Rei...

she cried.

Rei Ayanami, who had never had any emotions, actually cried at this moment.

“Is this tears?”

Ayanami Rei felt very strange, looked at herself, and said in disbelief, "Am I crying?"

Then the next moment, a thick layer of yellowish-brown substance spread out from the corroded body of Unit-0. Upon closer inspection...

That turned out to be the appearance of all the apostles who had been killed before!

No one knows what is going on.

But at this moment, Gendo Ikari, who was in charge of NERV headquarters, finally couldn't hold back anymore.

"Korea!"

Ikari Gendō seemed to be getting a little nervous, and said, "Remove the freeze on Unit-01 immediately, and give the order to attack immediately...attack."

Although his tone was still calm, his nervousness could be clearly felt.

Some viewers who like to watch the show thought that he was just nervous about Rei Ayanami and started to make jokes -

"This is my biological daughter!"

"My daughter is in danger! I can't care less!"

"Ikari Shinji: Thank you so much!"

"What do you mean by a daughter who is closer than a son?"

"The commander is scared!"

"The Commander only panics when something happens to Ayanami Rei."

"I noticed that Gendou Ikari's eyelids were twitching."

"That is... is there a possibility that Ayanami Rei is not the Commander's biological daughter, but the Commander's wife..."

"That's right. Ayanami Rei is a clone created using Ikari Yui's genes."

"My own daughter (×) My own wife (√)"

"It profoundly illustrates what it means that a son is just an accident and a wife is true love."

"Ikari Shinji: Why do I feel like I'm even more miserable!"

……

It’s just that...some viewers who know that Rei Ayanami is a clone and that there may be many clones still find it very strange.

If Gendo Ikari really cared about Rei Ayanami, even the first death of Rei Ayanami should not have happened.

It is obvious that the person Ayanami Rei was killed by Akako in anger was most likely related to Ikari Gendō.

After all, Rei Ayanami was so young, even if she was not instructed by Gendō Ikari to say those words to Akako.

It was Ikari Gendō who really said those words, and Ayanami Rei heard them, so she told them to Akako.

Maybe this Rei Ayanami is more special?

Anyway, Gendo Ikari shouldn't be so nervous about Rei Ayanami who has so many copies.

So maybe it was because of the scene where he saw the Uterus Angel eroding Unit 0 that he was so nervous?
Or was it simply because Unit-0 was corrupted and Unit-2 was unable to fight because of Asuka, so NERV headquarters was in danger, so they sensed the crisis and unfrozen Unit-01?
In any case, in this critical situation where Unit 02 is unable to fight and Unit 00 is in danger.

Shinji Ikari was able to pilot Unit-01 into battle again.

However... when he first came into contact with the Uterus Angel while piloting Unit-01, he was also immediately eroded by the Uterus Angel.

Then, under Misato's command, Shinji Ikari piloted Unit-01 and used a high-vibration particle sword to fight.

but……

When Shinji Ikari cut off the uterine angel with a high-vibration particle knife, it suddenly let out an extremely horrifying scream.

That is……

Ayanami Rei's voice.

Shinji Ikari couldn't help but show a look of horror, and then he still grabbed the arm of the Uterus Angel and the erosion phenomenon became more severe.

"It hurts... It hurts so much, Shinji."

Rei Ayanami's voice even appeared in Shinji Ikari's ears.

Then, at the broken part of the uterine angel's body, a pure white Rei Ayanami grew out again.

She stretched out her arms, as if wanting to hug Shinji Ikari who was inside Unit-01.

"Ha ha ha ha ha--"

She also let out a hideous laugh.

This is the real spiritual pollution. Anyway, the audience felt a little scared when watching this scene.

Lin Shengjie found it very scary because he was watching it on his mobile phone in bed. He felt goose bumps all over his skin when watching this scene.

“Is this my heart?”

Rei Ayanami in Unit 0 explained, "I want to be with Shinji..."

So... that was the true expression of the uterus angel simulating Rei Ayanami's inner thoughts?
I saw the pure white Rei Ayanami hugging the neck of Unit-01.

"no!"

Ayanami Rei suddenly spoke firmly, as if she had made some kind of decision.

then……

"Unit-01 is being corroded!"

"The AT field is starting to reverse! It's being severely eroded!"

Ritsuko and the commanders at NERV headquarters looked at the alarm indications and spoke in a panic.

"what--!!"

Then the womb angel that was still eroding Unit-01, including the pure white Rei Ayanami who was hugging Unit-01, seemed to be pulled back by Unit-00.

Unit 0's body swelled up instantly, as if it was pregnant for ten months and was about to give birth.

"Does she want to trap the apostle?"

Ritsuko said incredulously.

"The force field has reached its limit! The core can no longer sustain it!"

Hearing this, Misato quickly shouted to Ayanami Rei, "Rei! Abandon the machine and run away!"

however……

"no……"

Ayanami Rei's body was already densely packed with blood, as if it had been completely corroded. "If I run away, the AT field will disappear, so... I can't."

A pull ring mechanism popped out in front of her. After she finished speaking, she pulled the device without hesitation, and Unit 0 seemed to have activated something.

"Rei… do you want to self-destruct?"

Misato said this immediately.

This is... Unit 0's self-destruct program!
Ayanami Rei is going to drag the Uterus Angel to self-destruct together, and die together!
Then, the originally expanded body of Unit 0 suddenly shrank back and returned to its original shape.

but……

"The core is about to collapse! Break through the critical point!"

Under such circumstances, Unit 0 was once again pushed by an unknown force and stood up.

Ayanami Rei, who was still inserting the plug into Unit 0, suddenly turned around and saw Ikari Gendo.

But... soon, as if suggesting that the bond between the two was broken, the illusion of Ikari Gendou disappeared.

Then, Unit 00 suddenly turned into the pure white Rei Ayanami, and exploded completely the next moment!
The explosion wave spread out, even seeming to submerge an entire urban community.

NERV headquarters was immersed in sorrow, but Misato immediately issued the calmest command and everyone was on alert.

Not only the NERV headquarters, the audience was immersed in sadness watching the plot here.

Did Ayanami Rei...really die together with the apostles?

Even the protagonist, who piloted the invincible Unit-16, was unable to do anything to the th Angel, the Womb Angel, and was almost corrupted.

In the end, it can only be Ayanami Rei... This heroine was forced to die together with the uterus angel.

This is so sad.

After all, this is the heroine.

Maybe the audience didn't like the heroine Rei Ayanami at the beginning, but later on, Rei Ayanami's firm character and the scenes of her interactions with Shinji Ikari made the audience completely fall in love with this "three-no girl".

Just like Hayakawa Aki in "Chainsaw Man".

Not to mention that now she chooses to die together with the Uterus Angel for the sake of the male protagonist Shinji Ikari.

Maybe it’s okay for older audiences like Zhou Wenwei and Ke Xinjie.

But those young audiences.

“Ahhhhh——!! Old thief Qingshan!”

Lin Shengjie hid in the bed, crying and shouting with gnashing teeth, "Ayanami Rei! My Ayanami Rei is gone just like that! You old thief Qingshan, you are really not a human being!"

His pillow was wet with tears.

Many young audiences shed tears at the scene and angrily scolded Lin Qingshan for being a bad person.

After the war, NERV headquarters searched the explosion site. In addition to rescuing Shinji Ikari, they also seemed to have discovered...

The remains of Rei Ayanami.

Ritsuko ordered it to be recovered, but temporarily classified as top secret and the related "parts" disposed of.

And then, there is a flashback with the serial number and name of each apostle that was eliminated.

It’s just that it starts from the third apostle to the sixteenth apostle, and there are no serial numbers and names of the first and second apostles.

The sound of a meeting and discussion at the Seele Agency can be heard.

They were moved that they had finally defeated so many apostles and paid a huge sacrifice.

The Spear of Longinus was lost on the moon and Unit-0 was destroyed.

But to them, Rei Ayanami's sacrifice seemed to be nothing.

In other words, human life is not worth sacrificing in the eyes of these bigwigs.

The Spear of Longinus is of great significance, and Unit 00 cost a huge amount of money to build.

These sacrifices are greater than a hundred lives.

At the same time, they began to decide to resign Ikari Gendō.

Citing these huge "sacrifices", Ikari Gendō was dismissed from his post.

Just like that, it seemed that Gendo Ikari's position was coming to an end.

The camera turned to Ritsuko again. She suddenly tapped on the computer, and a group photo appeared on the screen.

That was... a photo of her mother Akako, and Ikari Gendo.

But at that time she seemed to be still in school, and her hair was dark burgundy like her mother's, not the golden color it is now.

It seems that the positions of the three people in this photo hint at something.

Then Ritsuko said nothing.

But the scene changed again, and Shinji Ikari appeared lying on the bed with a pair of headphones next to him.

There was unknown music playing in the headphones, but he didn't put them on. He just lay on the bed looking very confused.

Because... Rei Ayanami sacrificed herself.

Although Shinji Ikari looked numb at the moment, he was not sad and did not shed tears.

At this time, Misato suddenly came here and sat on the bed with him.

"Misato, I can't cry."

Shinji Ikari finally spoke, and said numbly, "I feel sad, but I can't cry..."

Misato wanted to comfort Shinji Ikari, but was flatly rejected by him.

Rei Ayanami's sacrifice had a huge impact.

Not only Ikari Shinji and Misato, but also Ikari Gendo, at this time he and Fuyutsuki who was released by Seele, stood in the empty transparent cabin.

The two of them looked up at the incubator where Rei Ayanami used to be, in a daze.

"Li... She is the product of my despair."

Dong Yue immediately spoke up, “It is still the object of your hope.”

It turns out that the appearance of Ayanami Rei was his doing, because Ikari Yui was actually his student.

So when some kind of accident happened to Ikari Yui, he helped Ikari Gendo to make a clone of Ikari Yui.

And just then...

Rei Ayanami appeared again.

only……

This is a replica of Rei Ayanami, it is... the "third generation" Rei Ayanami.

(End of this chapter)