Shinji Ikari returns from Warhammer

"Men, sometimes they have to work multiple jobs. In fact, I am no different from a middle-aged office worker who runs a taxi at night." Ryoji Kaji explained with a smile, "Actually, I received the order as early as last night, but Regarding Commissioner Shinji Ikari’s GEHIRN, it just arrived, and I sent it over non-stop as soon as I received it.”

Tonight, many people are bound to have sleepless nights.

The alarm suddenly sounded in NERV Hakone late at night. Even in the middle of the night, the duty officer still quickly woke up Ritsuko Akagi, the person in charge. When she walked into the control room wearing a white coat and slippers, there was chaos inside. group.

"The second branch situation cannot be detected, data analysis, no gamma rays!"

"Damn it, the signal of the reconnaissance plane over there is also very poor! Upload the data and let MAGI judge it!"

"How about satellite monitoring? It should be fine! There won't be anything like the Sky Apostle, right?!"

"The hotline and satellite circuits are not responding! But the video is still there and is being relayed to the display screen."

With a hoarse sound, the huge display screen suddenly lit up.

From the perspective of satellite detection, a huge pink cross like the death of the apostle stands in the United States, accompanied by a red shock wave covering 89 kilometers spreading outward.

Although the United States was finally bombed, the development department members at the headquarters were not happy.Soon, the news about the disappearance of the second NERV branch reached Misato Katsuragi.

She suddenly stood up from the bathtub while she was still soaking in the bath.

"Disappeared? Are you sure the second branch's Massachusetts base has disappeared?" Misato Katsuragi asked seriously.

"Yes, it has been confirmed." Ritsuko Akagi replied calmly on the other end of the phone. "It has disappeared. The management department and investigation department above are in chaos, and the general affairs department has fallen into panic because the way of disappearance is extremely special."

"What's the reason?" Misato Katsuragi asked calmly.

"It's not clear yet. The only clue is an image uploaded from a geostationary satellite, and no other traces are left. Because the way of disappearance involves..." Ritsuko Akagi actually paused when talking about this. Obviously, this is also the case. Secrets that cannot be revealed over the phone.

"Okay, I understand, I'll go over right away." Katsuragi Misato said in a deep voice.

Putting on a bath towel, Misato Katsuragi stepped on wet slippers and walked quickly to Shinji Ikari's room and opened the sliding door, "Shinji, something big happened! You and..."

Katsuragi Misato, who habitually came to see Shinji, was suddenly stuck, because there was only Asuka lying on the bed, with the quilt between her legs and her head on the pillow.

After Shinji Ikari left, Asuka moved in.The guy who was in the way was saying, finally get out of here, this is Asuka's world as the God of Darkness.

"Sorry, sorry, just keep sleeping." Misato Katsuragi quickly closed the door.

A few seconds later, a muffled sound came from the dark room.

"What an idiot. Why don't you ask Shinji? He would have moved out a long time ago."

"Misato is also an idiot. Can't you see that he is just a playboy? Why do you still spoil him like this?"

"A top student is also a fool. Agreeing to any conditions will only encourage his arrogance."

"The management at the headquarters is also an idiot. Why should we fire him? Do we think this will make him surrender?"

Asuka lifted the pillow, turned over and lay on her back, raising the pillow high. The girl's pupils in the dark room were dim and dim.

Although she told Katsuragi Misato and Shinji Ikari to take the people from the moving company to move all the things, this was just a lie.Because Misato Katsuragi thought about Shinji Ikari's style and knew that he would not do this.

Because he wants the best in everything, he doesn’t know anything about sake, so he keeps the top-notch Daiginjo in his wine cabinet. Even though it’s just a Slumberland bed in a room of more than 2000 square meters, even the mattress costs as much as [-] million yen.As for second-hand goods, he never touches them, even his own.

Maybe in his heart, he will come back.But unexpectedly, Asuka occupied the magpie nest.

I didn’t expect that, you idiot Shinji. When the time comes, go and build a floor under the bridge!

Asuka hugged the pillow and quilt again, and she seemed to be able to feel Shinji Ikari's breath.She recalled that night when the two were facing each other, and she asked him what his reason was for driving EVA, but the answer she got was that there was no need for a reason, because he should drive EVA.

It's so easy to say. If he really gave up driving EVA, it would be easy.He wouldn't care about this.

Not only would he leave the dormitory, he would even leave the Third New Tokyo Municipal High School, and then disappear from his own life.

When he gets old, he can only sleep on the floor in the bridge hole and fight with the rats in the sewer for food.Looking at Miss Asuka on the screen as a hero who saves the world, will you regret your choice today?

"...Haga Shinji, don't even think about coming back." Asuka said muffledly, burying her head in the pillow again, greedily breathing in the youthful breath.

Then the legs holding the quilt gradually exerted force, as if they wanted to hug something or someone into the body.

By the time Misato Katsuragi arrived in Hakone, researchers from the development department had already compiled the data on the disappearance of the second branch.

The second NERV branch is the North American branch of NERV, located somewhere in the Nevada desert. EVA Unit 02 destroyed NERV-89 along with all objects within a radius of [-] kilometers when it started the experiment.

But this is only information provided to the United Nations, and the real situation is——

"Let's watch the replay of the video. The countdown begins, three two one." Ritsuko Akagi shouted the countdown, and there were only her, Misato Katsuragi, and three cadres from the development department here, because the content shown in this video itself was enough. Included in the most confidential information.

The shock wave was seen rising from the center point, followed by a pink cross beam.

But this was just an ordinary cross attack. Although it affected the lives of thousands of people and destroyed the entire second branch, covering a radius of 89 kilometers, Misato Katsuragi knew the cold-blooded nature of Ritsuko Akagi during her research.

If it were just to this extent, it wouldn't make her so serious.

As the playback continued again, Katsuragi Misato, who was concentrating on it, finally saw carefully this time.Although it was only a momentary change, she was stunned.

"Disappeared?!" Katsuragi Misato clicked her tongue.

"Yes, it disappeared instead of being destroyed." Ritsuko Akagi pushed up her glasses, reflecting the bright light, "I'm afraid that at that moment, even before the cross was born, it was swallowed by the Dirac Sea. .”

Dirac's Sea is a vacuum theory proposed by the British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928 to explain the abnormal negative energy state in the free particle solution of the Dirac equation.

He proposed that a vacuum is actually filled with an infinite number of particle states with negative energy, so this vacuum model is called "Dirac's Sea."

Dirac hypothesized the existence of positrons in this vacuum. As antimatter particles of electrons, they were considered to be a hole in the Dirac Sea; and the existence of positrons was experimentally confirmed by Carl Anderson in 1932.

Simply put, it is a sea of ​​negative-mass particles composed of the zero-point energy of the quantum vacuum.Although these particles are unobservable, they are by no means illusory and can be formed with enough energy. Wherever there is matter, there is a Dirac Sea, and imagine that the observed universe seems to be floating on its surface.

"It's too scary. Will there be an apostle who can open the Dirac Sea in the future?" Misato Katsuragi suddenly asked.

"According to the apostle's current level of evolution, this possibility is not excluded." Ritsuko Akagi said coldly.

Although Katsuragi Misato was a little anxious, she knew that someone else should be more anxious.

"The tasks on our shoulders are getting heavier and heavier, and the apostles are getting more and more difficult." After a long time, Katsuragi Misato finally sighed softly.

"As we make progress, the apostles are also learning and evolving. I hope we won't encounter unbearable despair." Ritsuko Akagi said.

Then everyone fell into silence. It was originally just an ordinary experiment to break through the running time bottleneck, but such a tragedy happened.But I don’t know why, maybe it was the instinctive reaction after the previous incidents, which made Katsuragi Misato think of a man whose glasses reflected light.

"It won't be his masterpiece again this time, right?"

There was a cold laugh from behind, and Katsuragi Misato was horrified. It seemed to be Shinji Ikari's laughter, but he shouldn't be here.She turned sharply and looked back, trying to spot the ghostly figure in the crowd.

She didn't find it, but she saw Ryouji Kaji standing behind a certain cadre, whispering a few times in his ear, then retreating into the shadows and disappearing.

One by one: The terrifying angel who surrendered to the throne

NERV headquarters, outside Area 23, in the central area of ​​the deep underground facility.

In front of the red warning sign that prohibited entry, a man passed through the laser channel calmly, but MAGI did not cause any harm to him.

Until he reached the deepest part of the tunnel, he took out a red card and swiped it lightly. Along with the digital symbols filling the screen, he just smiled and felt the cold barrel of the gun pressing against the back of his head.

Kaji Ryoji raised his hands knowingly, and the spiral door that was about to open was closed again, "As the Minister of Operations, shouldn't you be sitting in the central command? Why do you have the leisure and elegance to come to a place like this?"

"Because I saw a mouse and I was wondering whether I should trample it to death, poison it to death, or feed it to a cat and bite it to death." Misato Katsuragi said coldly, staring at the man in front of her with stern eyes.

"It sounds really painful. Isn't there a more comfortable way to die?" Kaji Ryoji smiled.

Misato Katsuragi ignored the joke and stared at the back of the man in front of her with betrayed resentment in her complex eyes, "Is this your real job, lurking inside NERV to steal confidential information, or is this just your part-time job?" That’s all.”

"Which one are you referring to?"

"Kaji Ryouji is a member of the Special Inspection Department of NERV, the secret service agency, and is also a member of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Japanese government." Misato Katsuragi slowly revealed his true identity.

"It's exposed." Kaji Ryoji breathed a sigh of relief. He wanted to take out a cigarette from his pocket, but was suddenly hit on the head roughly by the barrel of a gun behind him. "Don't underestimate NERV, you idiot!"

"Is it an order from Commander Ikari?" Kaji Ryoharu was very concerned about this, because if it was, it meant that Misato Katsuragi's arrival was to carry out the annihilation mission for Gendo Ikari, and she was no longer needed.

"It's my decision." Misato Katsuragi said, "Your behavior is like dancing on the edge of a knife. If you continue this part-time life, you will die. This is the only thing I can be sure of."

Perhaps it can be said that the death fate of blessing good governance is inevitable.As the white glove of a big shot, he knows too much and will end up extremely miserable.

Regarding this point, Ryouji Kaji is also very clear, "Commander Ikari still needs to use me, and I won't die before that. But I want to apologize to Katsuragi for hiding the truth from you."

"But what you have done is already touching the commander-in-chief's inverse scale! Even SEELE will not tolerate you living! You are too conceited!" Katsuragi's beautiful face was frosty.

"We are all arrogant, whether it's you, me, or Akagi, it's all the same."

"Are you kidding me? Do you think I'm a fool like you who doesn't know how to live or die?" Misato Katsuragi roared, her anger almost unbearable.

But Kaji Ryoji was still provoking, "You already know the secret of the apostle, and he will naturally continue to evolve after he seizes the power of the post-embryonic angel. With your ability, couldn't you have just noticed that the angel in this battle is too similar?" Is it an EVA controlled by a driver? It’s just that you don’t dare to think about it and you believe too much in your own plan.”

"Shut up!" Misato Katsuragi pressed the muzzle of the gun hard against the back of Kaji Ryoji's head. As if feeling Misato Katsuragi's anger, Kaji Ryoji stopped saying provocative words.

"It was you who told Shinji Ikari the secret hidden in the Dead Sea Document! You are seeking death!" Misato Katsuragi said word for word.

During this period, the phone call with Shinji Ikari after the second battle made Katsuragi Misato sleepless at night... The fruit of wisdom, completion, apostle, human being, is just a very simple paragraph, but for Katsuragi Misato Talking about it was like a bolt from the blue.

Because this knowledge is a level three secret banned in MAGI, it is absolutely impossible for Shinji Ikari to know this.Although when he learned that he was "a person you can come into contact with every day and have great trust," Misato Katsuragi's first suspicion was still Kaji Ryouji.

Although from the description, Ritsuko Akagi and Rei Ayanami are more consistent.

But the former will never reveal this knowledge to Ikari Shinji. She is closer to Ikari Gendo than Ikari Shinji.Ayanami Rei would take the initiative to tell her, but unfortunately she didn't know.

"What? Dead Sea Documents?!" Kaji Ryoharu was stunned, "Wait a minute and let me sort it out! I'm a little confused!"

At this time, he finally understood that the source of Katsuragi Misato's anger was not her identity as a multi-faceted spy... Oh, although she was also very angry about this, the latter would definitely bring death.

She thought she was the one who told Shinji Ikari this secret, but he really wanted to know the secret of the Dead Sea Documents she mentioned, but even he couldn't access it!

"It's not you? Kaji Ryoji, don't pretend to be stupid!" Misato Katsuragi's eyes widened.

Looking at the astonished expression on Kaji Ryoji's face, Misato Katsuragi had a feeling that things might develop beyond everyone's expectations.

At the same moment, 800 meters underground in Hakone, among the dark servers and pipelines, the boy leaned back on the lines, pillowing his hands on his head.

[Identity authentication passed, welcome to visit, distinguished Imperial Pioneer, Shinji Ikari! 】

The owner of the voice is the mechanical female voice that every NERV employee is extremely familiar with, MAGI.The soft light of the screen illuminated the boy's face.

"Oh, beautiful!" Shinji Ikari's lips evoked a handsome smile.

This is an area that only Ikari Yuantang is allowed to access, and it is the host server of MAGI.In the huge space, millions of wires of various colors are entangled with each other and go in different directions. The four walls are covered with huge old computers. Ancient transistors shimmer in the dark, tape-type computers. The memory rotates and makes a clicking sound.

Here, even if Blessing is holding an identity card authorized by SEELE, he cannot set foot inside.Even Ritsuko Akagi's daughter was not allowed to do so without authorization.

But Shinji Ikari came in openly, and even in front of him, MAGI took the initiative to cover up his whereabouts.Just because he now has the highest authority.

It is also the highest authority granted by the Emperor.

The terrifying angel Yirol, who has the power to evolve beyond the fetal angel, went to self-destruction in the program programmed by Ritsuko Akagi because of invading MAGI's host half a month ago.And he was also one of the few apostles that Shinji Ikari came into contact with but did not kill with his own hands.

But Shinji Ikari who was in the simulation experiment at that time was the first target he contacted. He was even invaded into the spiritual sea during the invasion, and was forced to face that distant world and that glory.

At that time, he, who was supposed to be the most powerful corrosive apostle, was corroded instead.Oh, I should say I was inspired——

So much so that at the last moment of his life, he was not thinking about himself and evolution, but modifying the underlying database so that MAGI could protect Shinji Ikari from any infringement.

After a long absence, Shinji Ikari felt the warmth of being loved——

And this warmth actually came from an apostle whom he regarded as an alien.

[-]: Apostles, hold on tight to the Emperor.

"Emperor, please give me the strength to complete this thing, and brother, please forgive me for my slackness. Do not be afraid, all who belong to God can enter, the Golden Throne is open for you. Your duty has been completed, here In the darkness of the approaching shadow, the Emperor is with us, in the soul, in the truth.”

Shinji Ikari held the rose rosary on his chest tightly and sincerely recited the words of condolence for the battle brothers——

"——Let my hands wipe away the dirt on your perfect body, and your soul will be as pure as that bright lightning."

Even an apostle has an extremely holy golden spirit. At this moment, Shinji Ikari was extremely convinced.

The light on the screen illuminated Shinji Ikari's brown eyes, and a short-haired woman similar to Ritsuko Akagi appeared on the screen and nodded to Shinji Ikari, stroking her chest slightly.Then countless data appeared in front of him on the screen, and other secret data channels were connected. Countless gateways containing confidential data on the earth were open to Shinji Ikari.

Behind the shadow of the huge projection screen, countless windows popped up on the screen. All the information that had been deliberately blocked appeared in front of Shinji Ikari. There were photos of Speaker Motoji sitting in the conference room, and photos of him in Shin-Yokohama. There are photos of Shinji Ikari dragging Asuka running under the sunset, and there are even videos of foreign enemies invading during the blackout, which were accidentally captured by a roadside camera at an intersection that was filming illegal vehicles.When everyone thinks that their whereabouts are secret, there is actually an eye staring at you in the dark. Cameras everywhere record everyone's every move, and then transmit the data through satellites and centralize it into the MAGI database.

Shinji Ikari couldn't help but look up above his head, as if he wanted to gaze at the stars.

Although he was at a depth of 2000 meters underground, he seemed to feel that a pair of huge eyes composed of electron streams were opening in outer space, staring quietly at the earth.

That is the supercomputer MAGI, silently observing every corner of the world, watching the joys, sorrows, joys and evil tricks of human beings. There are no secrets it does not know, and there are no things it does not understand. It is only silent sometimes on purpose.

And now it will all serve him, serving the Empire and Terra.

At this time, the most powerful supercomputers of SEELE and NERV showed what the highest authority should be for this imperial pioneer.

But Shinji Ikari did not use this authority to do anything bad. Instead, he clicked on the confidential database protected by MAGI.