Shinji Ikari returns from Warhammer

Ritsuko Akagi put her hand on her forehead and finally made up her mind.

"Let me teach you." Ritsuko Akagi said.

She took Misato Katsuragi back to the Ship of Hope. The purpose of the data room of the General Affairs Department was originally unknown, but there was a small kitchen in it.Moreover, Akagi mostly doesn't go to the cafeteria to eat, and only cooks some simple food in the room to satisfy his hunger.

Misato Katsuragi stood in the kitchen, frozen.

"Oops... order..."

According to Misato Katsuragi's tutorial, it's fried eggs with leeks, fried pork cutlets, and tofu and green onion miso soup.This is the menu that Ritsuko Akagi repeatedly ordered and decided on the way here.

What dishes are in the refrigerator and how to use them should be rehearsed in your mind beforehand.This is a cooking trick that Misato Katsuragi came up with on the road.Different dishes require different preparation methods. Some of them are not just roasted or boiled. Sometimes, egg liquid must be added appropriately or seasonings must be added.

At this time, whether you have clearly rehearsed the cooking sequence in your mind will make a huge difference in the outcome.Imagine the dish as a whole first, and then prepare the details needed to get there.This is the trick Misato Katsuragi realized.

Prepare the seasonings in advance and put them on a small plate, or prepare the vegetables that will be cooked later in another large bowl, etc... Specifically, it is this type of detail.

Speaking of which, for those who know how to cook, this level of know-how is just the foundation of the basics, but for Misato Katsuragi, it was a great discovery.No wonder Shinji Ikari teased him about the dark dishes with strange combinations that only Rei would eat.

But Katsuragi Misato didn't take it seriously, because she felt that everyone always had something they were good at, and she might be a little clumsy when it came to cooking.

however--

"Ah, how could this happen?" Ritsuko Akagi slapped her head.The leeks taken out and placed on the cutting board are no longer usable.

The leeks that were quite fresh yesterday turned out to be rotten at the tip of the leaves, as if they were melting, giving off an unpleasant odor.Summer is so terrible.Even if the ice is in the refrigerator, it should not be taken lightly.

"It's okay, it's okay, there are pork cutlets, the most important thing is the pork cutlets." Ritsuko Akagi quickly comforted.

"Listen up, Misato. Wash the steak first, wipe off the water, pat it with a meat mallet a few times, then put it on the plate, mix it with rice wine, salt, and pepper, and marinate it for about 10 minutes."

Ritsuko Akagi's explanation and the movements of her hands were so fast that Misato Katsuragi almost had no time to take notes.Ritsuko Akagi moved nimbly while cooking, and said at the same time: "My favorite way to eat it is to coat it with a layer of bread flour. The key point is to use citrus vinegar instead of ordinary vinegar, so that the taste can be more mellow - —”

Katsuragi Misato nodded desperately, staring intently at the movements in Akagi Ritsuko's hands.Yiyan's hands seeming to be dancing while slicing the pork chops. He is obviously a researcher but his cooking skills are so superb. I have to say that his posture is really elegant and charming.For a woman, her fingers are slender, like those of a pianist, exuding a noble temperament.

It wasn't until Ritsuko Akagi took out the fried pork chops and put them on a plate, and watched her put an appropriate amount of mayonnaise, shredded cabbage and tomato slices, that Misato Katsuragi suddenly realized, "Didn't you say you want me to do it? Doesn't this count?" "

You know it doesn't count, but if you are a cooking idiot like you, then you don't have to eat tonight. Although Ritsuko Akagi complained in her heart, she still smiled on the surface, "There is also tofu, green onion and miso soup, soup. It is the soul of the dish, which means I leave the most important thing to you.”

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"It seems that the blur device with built-in anti-L system cannot affect this place."

Ibuki Maya, who was still wearing protective clothing in the Third New Tokyo, was taking notes quietly, "There are also the Black Moon whose bottom is in contact with the ground, and there are changes, and Asuka and Unit [-] have fallen. It's been such an eventful year."

"It's been two days, it's been such a long time, is Shikinami okay?" Sakura Suzuhara, who was standing next to her, was taking notes and couldn't help but ask, "It seems that EVA's life support system is only 24 hours at most."

Ibuki Maya's expression was indifferent, "These EVA pilots are no longer pure humans, and Asuka's abnormality is above all pilots. Perhaps between humans and apostles, she is closer to the latter. Even if everyone dies, She might still be alive."

"It's so lonely." Suzuhara Sakura sighed softly, "Don't die alone, don't live alone."

"Humans are such social animals, but apostles are not. They are perfect creatures that can live alone in this world by themselves."

"Put the research in order and write a report and send it to Captain Katsuragi in the afternoon." Maya Ibuki ordered coldly.

"Yes." Sakura Suzuhara looked at the handsome Commander Ibuki's departure. There were some things she wanted to ask, such as the matter between her and Vice Captain Akagi, but in the end they were stuck in her throat and she could not ask them. .

"Akagi said that she can no longer love others and has lost the right to be loved."

Ship of Hope, WILLE Seed Vault, Shinji Ikari and Misato Katsuragi slowly went down the elevator.After eating, I took a walk and ended up here.

"After the incident at Ikari Gendo, Ritsuko Akagi was depressed and unhappy for a long time. She felt that she was not qualified as a woman, a mother, and a friend. She also refused to accept Ibuki Maya's confession. Aren't you surprised..." Misato Katsuragi looked at the girl standing there. Next to him, Shinji Ikari was already the same height as him.

"Why are you surprised? Maybe Ritsuko Akagi is the only one in Hakone who doesn't know who Maya Ibuki likes." Shinji Ikari said.

Misato Katsuragi nodded. She was not wearing her usual captain's hat, but an ordinary red denim jacket and black hip skirt.Although Asuka, Makiha, and Misato Katsuragi did not discuss it, they all subconsciously made the same choice - to wear the clothes that Shinji Ikari was familiar with.

"Ritsuko Akagi believes that she is not qualified to be loved. According to the new generation, what is it called... sealing the heart and locking love?" Misato Katsuragi thought for a while and smiled.

At this time, Ryonami Kotone from the logistics department ran all the way to Misato Katsuragi with a report. She glanced at Shinji Ikari next to her, perhaps a little surprised that he was here and seemed to be very harmonious with the captain.

"Captain, the next work requires your signature. Allow the independent operation of the credit organization and allow the lifting of all restrictions on EVA." After Katsuragi Misato connected to the tablet, a palm pattern appeared on the screen, and she gently He put his hand on it, and then there was a prompt to pass.

The pink-haired Liangba bowed slightly and left quickly. Misato Katsuragi looked at the huge seed bank above her head and said softly.

"This area carries the ship's primary mission, the protection of all species."

Misato Katsuragi reached for her pocket. This was her habitual action of wanting to smoke, but now she only had a pen. "An ark that can run almost permanently, is unmanned, and has complete autonomy. This is the AAA Miracle." Nature."

"With such characteristics, this spaceship should also be an apostle or an EVA." Shinji Ikari asked.

"Do you still remember the third apostle? The Bethany base that was captured in the permafrost tried to transform it into an EVA skeletal ichthyosaur, and the Hope Ship is a more perfect finished product. The entire spaceship is made of the eleven apostles. The modified airframe is actually a huge ship-shaped EVA." Misato Katsuragi said, "There are a total of four aircraft carriers transformed from the wreckage of the apostle. At the beginning, we only had time to take away this half-finished ship of hope, otherwise life would not be possible. It’s going to be so hard.”

While humans can mass-produce apostles (EVA) and even create S2 sustainable mechanisms with unlimited energy, it seems that those apostles are nothing more than that.

But there is another very crucial and metaphysical thing, which is the personality they possess.

Ikari Yuantang once said that the human completion plan is the human choice to seize the apostle's seat before God.Therefore, even though humans have been able to create creations that are close to apostles and produce EVA in batches, there are some qualifications that only true apostles possess.

Looking at the seed bank in front of him that almost stored the genes of animals and plants around the world, Shinji Ikari asked, "Didn't you think you could win from the beginning?"

"For a certain person, the survival of mankind may not be that important. In his view, mankind cannot prevent mankind from completing the plan, but in the end he gave his life to prevent the third impact."

"The person you are talking about is Mr. Kaji, right? What happened to the third impact?" Shinji Ikari turned to look at Misato Katsuragi.

Many surviving humans in this world believe that they are the culprits that caused the Third Impact, but in fact they only caused the Third Impact. When the Gate of Gaff opened, they were driven by Nagisa Kaoru on the 14th. The machine ended and he woke up [-] years later.

What about the real Third Impact?

"The No. [-] machine that stopped you was eventually kept deep in Hakone, but no one expected that this machine would activate itself when the interior of NERV was empty, sneak into Central Dogma, and pull out the Longylus inserted into Lilith's body. The gun resurrected Lilith, but then immediately chopped off Lilith's head and merged it with Lilith's body. The apostle awakened, and the MARK series machine No. [-] also entered super pseudo-deification and reopened Gaff. door. ”

Misato Katsuragi's words were blank, because at that time she only had the image of the world being destroyed in her mind.

The Black Moon breaks out of the ground and rises into the sky, the concentration of the L barrier becomes higher and higher, and people and animals all over the world begin to turn into apostle-like life forms.

The new life created by the forbidden fusion of Adam and Lilith turns humans who originally possess the fruit of wisdom into apostles who also possess the fruit of life, turning all life on the earth into apostles, thus promoting the passivity of life that is unwilling to evolve. evolution.

Some people's hands suddenly turned into apostles, and some people's feet turned into apostles. They had become the complete apostles and walked blankly on the red earth.

The story recorded in the Dead Sea Documents really happened before our eyes. Misato Katsuragi sighed and said the final result, "And this scene also made everyone in NERV see clearly the face of Ikari Gendo. We can only take advantage of the chaos to mutiny and seize the return." In the WUNDER (ship of hope) under construction, although two guns were later inserted into Lilith's body to bring her back to the ground. But it was already too late. The third impact was completed, and all mankind was in the third impact. All the resulting L barrier will turn into LCL."

Shinji Ikari pursed his lips. After a long time, everyone knew that he was not responsible for the third impact, but he refused to tell those who didn't know the truth.Perhaps it was because those who were still alive needed an outlet for their emotional turmoil, or perhaps because he was the son of Ikari Yuantang.

"Seele or the commander launched the third charge, there is no need to discuss this. The last question is, who is driving the EVA Unit [-]?" Shinji Ikari finally asked.

"Akagi guessed that it might be the puppet system that she didn't know about, but it is more likely to be Nagisa Kaoru." Misato Katsuragi had a deep expression. Although Nagisa Kaoru, an apostle with a human appearance, is harmless to humans and animals, it alone may trigger a third attack. The fact that she attacked the culprit made it impossible for her to truly trust him.

"Is there more?" Shinji Ikari continued to ask.

"If anything, there is a small possibility that the driver is Asuka. I don't know which one you want to believe."

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"The gyrocompass is functioning, and the ship's wheel and gravity controls are all normal."

"EVA Unit [-] has arrived at the designated location and is starting the entry process."

"The fifth qualified person, Nagisa Kaoru, didn't notice anything unusual. Oh, he looked at the camera. Maybe he found that we were monitoring him."

"The main gun is charging, and the energy flow is normal."

At this time, everyone on the Ship of Hope is carrying out their work in an orderly manner, solving the final mystery, the truth of the world, the enemies who may not be dead yet, and rescuing fallen partners. These are WILLE's responsibilities.

However, Sakura Suzuhara, who was responsible for liaison with Shinji Ikari, exclaimed, "No, Mr. Shinji Ikari has already gone down in Unit [-]!"

Coming here again for the second time, Shinji Ikari's heart was calm as he looked at the EVA corpse sunk into the wall in front of him.He drove the No. [-] unit slowly downwards, without any search equipment. He could see everything nearby with just the vision of the No. [-] unit.

WILLE just needs to do the logistics well, if there really is an enemy below that even he can't deal with.Even if Ayanami Rei and Makiha come down, it will not help.

And Shinji Ikari also wanted to know what it was that made Unit [-] and Unit [-] unable to resist, and even Unit [-] fell here.

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PS: Here is the 14-year analysis of Iwakawa Salted Fish, the owner of B station up.

1. Because of the awakening of Unit [-] and the pilot (the materialization of the soul of the Fruit of Wisdom), and the fact that Rei Ayanami was rescued from the Tenth Apostle (the materialization of the Fruit of Life) and the conditions for becoming a god were met, the "near" episode was triggered. Three attacks, but fortunately [Nagisa Kaoru] stopped it in time.

2. The awakening of Unit 12 is very different from SEELE’s original plan to kill [Lilith] to complete the human race with [The 6th Apostle] (Unit [-]).

3. SEELE, who was anxious due to the accident of Unit 4, decided to significantly advance the launch of [Third Impact]. The four [WUDDER-class battleships] originally prepared for [Third Impact] were forced to prioritize the construction of the first [Repentance]. Number】.

4. [No.11 Apostle] appears and is controlled.

5. Complete the annihilation control of all [Apostles], SEELE took back control of NERV from the commander, and NERV members were transferred and detained.

6. To be on the safe side, SEELE decided to launch the awakened Unit-[-] and Shinji into low-Earth orbit in a frozen state during [Third Impact]. Shinji did not participate in the entire third impact. (But take the blame within the lines)

Two Two Five: Asuka × Asuka × Shinji Ikari

"Ikari Shinji, Ikari Shinji! Please answer when you receive it, please answer when you receive it!" Misato Katsuragi's voice sounded in the cockpit.

Misato Katsuragi's voice interrupted Shinji Ikari's thoughts, and he couldn't help but pout.In Shinji Ikari's opinion, their role is only logistics, and they also perform their own duties.However, those in the command center always have their own ideas and must have a sense of participation.

Shinji Ikari thought to himself, what can you do? Call for love when you encounter a strong enemy, give yourself light when you are in darkness and despair, or be the most critical Earth Tiger Hero when you summon together to transform into the Emperor Hero?

"Stop making noise, you can hear it." Shinji Ikari's cold voice sounded in the battle bridge, and Katsuragi Misato also breathed a sigh of relief.

Her senses were completely opposite to those of Shinji Ikari. When she heard the familiar voice and the image projected in the center of the battle bridge, she felt like she was dreaming back to 14 years ago.

"According to WILLE's research and Fuyutsuki Kozo's confession, it should be the resurgence of the No. 13 machine." Misato Katsuragi said without any nonsense, and immediately talked about the key points, "It is very likely that our attempt to salvage the No. 13 machine awakened the He may also be the ninth apostle sealed in Asuka's body, and there must be a medium among them that can touch him."

"Is Gendo Ikari still alive?" Shinji Ikari asked casually.

The battle bridge was quiet for a few seconds, because no one expected that Shinji Ikari would suddenly pronounce this name.Even though he has been killed, even if he is an enemy, he has been in the fear of him for a long time, and he still has a deep taboo on the three words Ikari Yuantang, as if he is afraid that he will return from hell again.

What's horrifying is that my fears seem to be coming true.

"This is the most likely possibility." A familiar female voice sounded in the cockpit, and Shinji Ikari raised his eyebrows.He could tell that the person speaking was Ritsuko Akagi. It stands to reason that she should be the most afraid of Ikari Gendo, "According to Teacher Fuyutsuki, death is not the end for some qualified people. Maybe the NO.13 machine It’s still hidden, and only Ikari Yuantang knows the ultimate secret.”

"That's good, I can kill again." Shinji Ikari said calmly.

The object of Wille's fear was not taken seriously by Shinji Ikari, or rather he was the nightmare that many people feared.

As these words were spoken, the cockpit and battle bridge suddenly fell silent.At this time, Unit [-] had already dived into the abyss. Shinji Ikari looked at the countless giant sculptures on the walls of the corridor, all of which were defective products with incomplete bodies or twisted limbs.

Either it has no head or a heart, or it has dozens of bloody palms growing out of its chest, or it has two faces. The only thing that is the same is the resentful eyes, which are the resentment of the dead towards the living, from the gods. The shape fell to the wrath of the alien.

"It's so ferocious, as if it's still alive." Misato Katsuragi sighed softly.

"...No!" Ritsuko Akagi suddenly said, "The third qualified person, these giants embedded in the corridor seem to have moved... Oh, what happened to Maya?"

An urgent call came from the maintenance force, and the entire battle bridge sounded the alarm of the enemy's incoming attack.Everyone looked at a loss. After capturing Fuyutsuki Komasu and taking over all the survivors, what other enemies are there?

"Get on the phone, I want to know what's going on?"

Katsuragi Misato suddenly became speechless.Through the screen, she saw with her own eyes that the head embedded in the wall of the corridor moved. The entire distorted forest-white face protruded from the wall. The flesh and blood hanging on the cheeks were still squirming, and the teeth that were exactly the same as human beings opened suddenly. Opening and closing, it made a continuous cracking sound.

"These inferior EVAs actually came back to life?!" Kitakami Midori's voice suddenly rose a few decibels, "Sure enough, Ikari Gendo is not dead! He is not dead! Us!"

At this time, on the border of the Third New Tokyo City, just as WILLE planned, after taking over the last survivor, WILLE had no so-called enemies to fight.All the troops were temporarily stationed at the border of New Tokyo City [-], observing the movements of the wanderers.

But suddenly, the ground in front suddenly bulged.A translucent giant quickly expanded, revealing the outline of a giant with a head.He looked up to the sky and let out a sound that sounded like an old man's laughter or a child's cry. Then he bent his slender neck, lowered his head, and looked at Maya Ibuki on the edge of the anti-L barrier.

It turned out to be one of the very few wanderers with heads. Ibuki Maya took a step back in fear. The giant in front of him was taller than the height of the building next to him. The armor bulges all over his body were like rugged scales, and they were jagged along the spine. The black bone spurs pierced the armor and came out. It unconsciously opened its mouth and took a step towards the border line.

Behind it, thousands of wanderers took shape, and the direction they were looking at was the Third New Tokyo.

"Back off! Everyone back off!" Ibuki Maya shouted in unison while holding a walkie-talkie.

Sure enough, as these large numbers of wanderers approached, the border of New Tokyo City, which had originally restored its color, gradually became red soil again.

In the center of this storm sweeping the world is the depths of the dark tunnel that seems to lead to hell.

The EVA embedded in the walls of the corridor seemed to have come to life. The negative universe opened the channel to them, and the infinite energy made them break free from their restraints.The scene in front of me is like the devil stepping out of the mural, struggling to reach out to the human beings who have fallen into hell.

However, what they faced was not humans, nor even angels, but evil spirits that were even more vicious than them.

Time seemed to stand still. The evil ghosts extending their claws from the walls of the corridor, as well as Unit [-] slowly diving in the center, were all still at this moment.When things started to flow again, the corpses all over the sky seemed to fall like bloody rain to the blue ultimate barrier below.

At that moment, Misato Katsuragi even wondered if her side was disconnected. What happened at that moment?

"Is it just this kind of stinky fish and rotten shrimp? Haha, it doesn't matter even if trash other than the apostles are lured into this battle, but no matter how many defective products there are, it can't relieve the depression."

These EVAs who seem to have come to life are far more advanced beings than the wanderers outside.Because they were originally qualified to become EVA, but due to technical or physical reasons, they became part of the wall of the tunnel leading to the abyss.

The corridor is still shaking. Just now, Unit [-] only destroyed the nearby parts.Shinji Ikari's face was expressionless. The awakened Unit-[-]'s left and right hands each condensed light spears as long as his body. Light wheels visible to the naked eye appeared from his feet, and then he tore the sound barrier and dived upward.

The corridor shaped by EVA was torn apart. Even the walls built with mythical materials as flexible and strong as the God's Form could not withstand the violent impact of Unit [-]. The blazing stream of light washed over the corridor and wiped out all the resurrected undead. Almost exhausted.

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