EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan - Chapter 244 Chapter 242 The Sixth Apostle Attacks

Daily life without the apostles was quite comfortable, running back and forth between school, headquarters, and the hospital. And in the past week, Ayanami Rei had not shown that strange inhuman feeling, just like the girl with a glow around her body that night, who was about to return to the moon, was just an illusion of Shinji Ikari.

Despite this, he still returned to his apartment earlier every day in case of any unexpected events.

Why does Lilith attract Rei Ayanami?

This remains an unsolved mystery to him.

I think the reason why Lilith attracted Rei Ayanami is more or less related to this plan.

But unfortunately.

It seemed that his last words had annoyed the Minister of Science and Technology. Ritsuko Akagi had not been in a very good state this week and was visibly absent-minded. Even when Shinji Ikari occasionally wanted to talk to her, she showed an obvious rejection attitude.

Besides.

Her position seems to be different from the headquarters, which is worth discussing with Shinji Ikari, who is eager for a justice organization to come and stop the plan to destroy humanity. But recently he has not met Ms. Makiba at all... It seems that everyone is avoiding him.

This made Shinji Ikari feel like a plague god.

Even worse, occasionally he would run into Ikari Gendo in the headquarters, and the two of them still had no communication, like strangers. But somehow, Ikari Shinji always felt that his bastard father was not in a good mood these days, and the look he gave him was not very friendly.

He didn't do anything bad...

He was staying in Asuka's ward that day.

Asuka's painful monthly day has arrived.

Fortunately, after a week, the pain in her head had subsided a lot, and she hadn't eaten much ice cream in the past few days - being hospitalized was a good thing for Asuka. So her pain this time was quite light, at least she didn't have to lie on the bed and look at him with pitiful eyes.

Dong Mu Guang also came to the hospital today.

Asuka, wearing a hospital gown, came out of the bathroom. She patted her butt lightly, felt the padding on it, frowned, and said, "It feels like a foreign body."

"That's too much detail," he said casually.

"What's the matter? Shinji, don't you have a foreign object there too?" As Asuka said this, she turned her face away in embarrassment, and her voice became lower and lower. Her cheeks were slightly stained with a maple leaf red, probably because she was thinking about the unspeakable things that happened that night.

No.

Ikari Shinji thought.

Asuka didn't care about Shinji Ikari's complaints. Her embarrassment came and went quickly, and she soon recovered as normal, walking around the ward with a brisk pace. When she was first hospitalized, she couldn't even stand steadily for several days because of a head injury. She was shaky and almost grew mushrooms after lying on the bed for a week.

Now that her injuries have just improved, she certainly doesn't want to stay in bed all the time. Even her menstrual period can't stop her.

"I feel almost better..."

"Don't keep thinking about being discharged early." Ikari Shinji immediately understood what the young lady wanted to complain about. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Just stay for another week. Otherwise, it will be terrible if there are sequelae."

Asuka looks like she's back to being alive and kicking.

But no matter how serious the injury to the head is, it is necessary to be cautious, so I have to stay in the hospital for another week for observation.

Hearing him say that, the girl was upset but did not refute. She walked around the ward, and at one moment she tried to do a standing long jump, with her feet about 20 to 30 centimeters off the ground, and she took a small step forward. When her heels touched the ground, her body swayed a little, and she subconsciously reached out to the right, and Shinji Ikari grabbed her wrist and helped her stand steadily.

"I know, I know." Asuka sat on the hospital bed and said perfunctorily. It was obvious that she didn't take it to heart.

Shinji Ikari didn't say anything more. Seeing her carefree appearance, he was a little envious. After all, he had been troubled by many things recently. The Human Instrumentality Project was like a mountain weighing heavily on his heart... Thinking of this, Shinji Ikari found that he seemed to have forgotten something. Asuka still didn't know about the news of the Human Instrumentality Project. Seeing her like this now, talking to her about these troubles should not affect her injuries.

"Asuka..."

"what's wrong?"

For some reason, Shinji Ikari always felt that his tone was like he was promoting some kind of advertising product, giving him the illusion of a salesman, even though he was just saying something normal.

As expected, Asuka showed an interested expression and asked:"I don't know, what is that?"

"It is a plan of the headquarters after all the apostles are annihilated..."

Ikari Shinji had already told Rei Ayanami about this matter before, and his words were much clearer when he talked about it again. Unlike Rei Ayanami who listened attentively, Asuka often asked questions and temporarily interrupted his story. For example, when he just started talking about this plan to destroy all mankind, Asuka immediately shouted in surprise:"Wait, today is not April Fools' Day, Shinji. I'm not stupid, even if I have a head injury, I'm not that easy to fool."

Shinji Ikari could somewhat understand her feelings.

Suddenly learning that the headquarters might actually be an evil organization, it must be difficult for Asuka, who has been closely related to the headquarters since childhood, to accept it. After hearing that this news came from Kaji Ryoji who has been missing mysteriously, she quickly remembered the crying of Katsuragi Misato late at night."No wonder Misato has been like that lately, is it because Mr. Kaji can't come back?"

"Yeah." Ikari Shinji nodded.

Asuka reluctantly believed it because she remembered Katsuragi Misato's crying. Otherwise, it couldn't be that she was crying because she was going to move out. Misato was too lame. Anyway, Ikari Shinji continued to talk. When he mentioned the white giant Lilith in the Central Dogma District, Asuka was a little bit unbelievable, but her unbelievable part was different from what Ikari Shinji expected.

"Ah."

"What? I'm the only one who doesn't know the result?"

Asuka muttered, her expression slightly dissatisfied. Shinji, Misato, the top student... Everyone knew about it, but she was the only one who was kept in the dark. If it wasn't for Ikari Shinji telling her about it, she probably wouldn't have known what was going on until the end. This was naturally hard for Asuka, who still had some pride in her heart, to accept.

But Lilith...

"So why do these people want to destroy humanity?"

"I don't know the reason either... Anyway, they want to trigger the Third Impact and return all of humanity to their original state. It's not an exaggeration to say that they want to destroy all of humanity. And in order to prevent the apostles with strong vitality from living in the world after the impact, they must first annihilate all the apostles." Ikari Shinji explained in detail, "That's about it, Asuka, do you have any ideas?"

"Of course we stopped them. Shinji, you must think so too, otherwise you wouldn't have told me this." Asuka answered without hesitation.

What a joke.

"Shinji do you have any plans to stop them?"

"Mr. Kaji once said that Unit-01 is very important to this plan, and I just need to make a key choice at the end of the human completion plan." Ikari Shinji frowned, "But I don't know what that key choice is yet, and Mr. Kaji didn't explain it clearly, so the plan is to find those organizations that don't want all mankind to be destroyed, and let them stop the headquarters."

"Did you find it?" she asked curiously.

"...No." Ikari Shinji shook his head. "Asuka, you may not have noticed that the headquarters has been monitoring us, and it is difficult to pass information to the outside privately. However, I think Miss Makiba is very likely a member of those organizations..."

At this moment, Asuka made a surprised sound, and the girl's mouth opened slightly, as if she had seen something incredible. Ikari Shinji followed Asuka's gaze and saw the sky of Tokyo outside the ward window, blue and cloudy. At this moment, there was something unusual floating in the sky, and even in the hospital, it could be vaguely seen.

There was some long, ring-shaped object emitting white light in the sky.

It was white in color, about one kilometer long, and hung directly above Tokyo City, as illusory as a mirage. Since the invasion of the apostles, any abnormal things that suddenly appeared in the Third New Tokyo City must be related to the apostles.

Needless to say.

(End of this chapter)