EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan - Chapter 229 Chapter 227 The sun will rise as usual tomorrow

"Finally, I hope you can help me take good care of Katsuragi."

After a series of words, Kaji Ryoji's voice suddenly stopped and the recorder stopped working.

Destroy all mankind?

hiss……

What a cliché comic book cliché. Did all of humanity provoke you? The Human Instrumentality Project... turns out to be a plan to destroy humanity? Those people above have to give up their wealth and power and destroy all of humanity.

This operation is so incomprehensible that it even goes against human nature.

No...are they all crazy?And suddenly there appeared an organization called Seele. According to Kaji Ryoji, this organization holds great power in the United Nations.

Seele...seems to be German, meaning soul.

Shinji Ikari was puzzled.

I listened to the tape recorder again to make sure nothing was missed.

Then he gave up.

This so-called human instrumentality project is really to destroy humanity, artificial evolution, and in the end, all humans will be gone, isn't that the destruction of humanity? As for Kaji's hope that he would take good care of Miss Misato... Ikari Shinji thought of Miss Misato crying in the watermelon field. Even if Kaji Ryoji didn't say it, he would protect these acquaintances who were close to him.

…there’s a certain ritual missing.

What will the ceremony be?

After staying on the apartment balcony for a long time, Shinji Ikari returned to the living room.

Ayanami Rei was curled up on the sofa reading a book. When she saw him coming back, she habitually found a comfortable position to lie in his arms and continue reading. He hugged the girl's soft body, smelled the fragrance of shampoo in her short blue hair, and his thoughts gradually diverged.

Should I tell Rei Ayanami?

Although he wanted to deal with the battles by himself, things would not always go as he wished. Both Ayanami Rei and Asuka might face battles.

If the two girls still know nothing by then, they will probably be forced to drive the EVA machine for no apparent reason, destroy the enemy for no apparent reason, not even knowing why they are fighting, and finally be blamed for no apparent reason.

If we were ordered to kill each other...

"Ayanami, I have something to tell you."

His tone was quite serious.

Rei Ayanami, who was reading a book, stopped turning the pages.

When she heard what Shinji Ikari said, she became a little nervous for a moment.

Then who could it be?

She inexplicably thought of Misato Katsuragi who drove Shinji Ikari back tonight.

On Ikari-kun's body.

It smells like Miss Katsuragi's perfume...

Ayanami Rei: ...

She was relieved in her heart.

Ikari Shinji, unaware that the girl had other thoughts, told the whole story.

During this time, Rei Ayanami in his arms remained silent, without even asking a question. For a moment, he thought Rei Ayanami had fallen asleep and didn't hear him. He lowered his head and saw that the girl was listening intently, paying attention to everything he said as always, so he continued speaking."...Ayanami, do you still remember the apostle in the Central Dogma District? Her name is actually Lilith. The so-called Human Instrumentality Project is to bring all humans back to the present..."

Then Shinji Ikari remembered.

This apostle has been harassing... calling out to Rei Ayanami. Today, Ayanami went to the Central Dogma District again and controlled Unit 0 to take the Spear of Longinus out of His body. Maybe He is calling her out of hatred now. However, the spear that pierced His body has disappeared, so why is He still holding a grudge?

“Is He calling you again?”

"Ah."

And compared to before, the call was clearer. Ever since she pulled out the Spear of Longinus and annihilated the fifteenth apostle today. She closed her eyes and just thought about the white giant for a moment, and his full appearance emerged in the darkness. His eighty-meter tall body was clearly visible, as if it was right in front of her, even though she had not observed many details. His appearance was so familiar, but Rei Ayanami searched her mind from birth to the present, and there was no trace of his existence.

Lilith...

She repeated the name in her mind.

She might have an inexplicable connection with Lilith... Ayanami Rei had this thought inexplicably. And for some reason, as this thought came to her mind, some inexplicable images appeared in front of her eyes, flickering blurrily, like a slide show, and even the feeling of being called by Lilith became stronger and stronger, and she had the illusion that her body was getting lighter and higher, and she was about to float up like a soul.

Ayanami Rei immediately stopped thinking about this and stopped thinking about it. Then the flickering images disappeared as well. Instead of thinking about this, she should think about the Human Completion Project.

She actually doesn't care about the Human Instrumentality Project.

After all, she only has less than a year to live, so there is no point in thinking so much. It is just a matter of dying sooner or later.

But when I think of Shinji Ikari.

She had originally thought that Ikari-kun would be able to live smoothly after her life reached its limit, but as long as all the apostles were annihilated, would everyone have to face the Human Instrumentality Project? In other words, everyone might die by then...

The thought of such a future made her feel cold.

But Rei Ayanami was not prepared for such a future. When Shinji Ikari suddenly told her the information about this plan, she couldn't think of a way to deal with it. Her previous idea of ​​letting Ikari-kun get along well with the pilot of Unit 2 was just her naive little idea, not to mention the Human Completion Plan.

However, completion... Ayanami Rei felt that this word sounded somehow familiar.

Shinji Ikari finished telling everything.

He felt a little thirsty, poured a glass of water, drank a sip and asked:

"Ayanami, don't you have any ideas?"

He was the one who talked most of the time. But he also wanted to hear Rei Ayanami's opinion, to pool their wisdom, maybe there was something he hadn't noticed. When the girl heard his question, she fell silent, with a calm expression on her beautiful face, as if she was thinking, or in a daze.

"Ikari-kun, don't you want to finish it?"

"Of course." Ikari Shinji nodded without hesitation. "It's called completion, but it's not much different from destroying humanity. If they really want to carry out such a plan after annihilating all the apostles, as a normal person, I will definitely stop them."

"…I'll listen to you, Ikari-kun."

"..."

This good girl is so silly that she has no personality at all. She only listens to him and naturally cannot give any advice.

Shinji Ikari sighed, he stroked the girl's hair, rubbed Rei Ayanami's head and massaged it, the girl squinted her eyes comfortably. It seems that even if she knew about the Human Instrumentality Project, Rei Ayanami only wanted to follow him closely. If he became a big villain... No, she would not want to see herself enter destruction, so she would definitely come to stop him.

"Then leave it to me."

he said softly.

Maybe it's not that serious.

After all, it's just one-sided statement from Jiachi... I can only think optimistically and then be prepared.

Humanity has never been a monolithic entity. Since there is Seele in the United Nations who wants to destroy humanity, there are naturally other organizations that do not want humanity to be destroyed. Ikari Shinji knows that he cannot fight alone, otherwise he will definitely lose. He must find the organization that opposes the Human Instrumentality Project.

Suddenly he thought of someone.

Whose side is behind her? If it is really what he thinks, perhaps this is the key to stopping the human completion plan. If you see Makiba again, you can talk to her.

Shinji Ikari still remembers that she had said before that she wanted to prove that she was not a bad person.

As for now, sleep.

The sun will rise tomorrow as usual.

The night is getting darker.

I have to visit Asuka who is in the hospital tomorrow.

If I don't go, she will definitely get angry with me, and then I will have to coax this young lady. I don't know if Asuka, who is lying on the hospital bed, has woken up after so long.

(End of this chapter)