"Why are you pretending to be stupid? That foreigner."
"Ah, are you talking about the transfer student?"
"Yes, yes, her name seems to be 'Asuka Langrei'. She is beautiful, has excellent grades, and is versatile in sports. If-"
"It would be better if I were mute."
"……really."
Shinji Ikari looked at Touji Suzuhara and Kensuke Aida who were judging the girls in physical education class next to them, and quietly moved away from them.
There is no other reason. I just don’t want to talk about my classmates behind their backs, and it is definitely not because I am worried about being retaliated by Asuka later.
If he didn't need to participate in group activities to increase the strength of the AT field, he would rather go to the Literature Club to borrow books from Ayanami.
Although Katsuragi Misato's schedule does not include any increase or decrease in this value that should be fully restored after each battle, Shinji Ikari himself has concluded some rules. Basically, the schedule for completing group activities will be increased, and the completion time will be increased.
There will be no changes to the itinerary for solo activities.
This increase or decrease sounds a bit conflicting with the concept of "heart wall". After all, participating in group activities is communicating with others. You should take the initiative to let go of your guard. It is impossible for the AT force field to increase, but think about it carefully. If you are not keen on it,
If social interaction is only completed as a task, it makes sense: participate in group activities → meet social needs → no longer want to communicate with others → the thickness of the heart wall increases.
The AT force field is really a magical thing.
As for Asuka, this pilot of Unit 2 who talks so much about "idiot", "I'm a lady" and "I'm a genius" actually has to come to class is a bit surprising. After all, she claims to have "self-study all the courses in the university and obtained the
"I have obtained the corresponding degree certificate", probably because Ryoji Kaji also has a "development system" that is exactly the same as his own and Rei Ayanami's.
But because of this, going to school is completely a "task" for her, so she can do whatever she wants while ensuring that the "task" is completed.
For example, when she introduced herself on her first day as a transfer student, she said this:
"I'm not interested in ordinary qualified people! If any of you have humanoid apostles, relatives of alien gods, agents of the Earth Alliance, and reincarnations of other worlds, you are welcome to come and play with me!"
Is there something wrong with German children’s culture? And there seems to be a particularly weak identity mixed into it.
Perhaps Asuka intended to use this shocking statement to scare the whole class away from talking to her, but she obviously underestimated the enthusiasm of her second-year Class A classmates.
——Can the aliens from the M78 Nebula do it?
——I am the incarnation of the Sapphire Apostle, and now I need a fund to repair my body that was penetrated by EVA!
——When will the time traveler stand up? I'm shaking with cold!
——What? I am a humanoid apostle who was reincarnated into another world and received the favor of an alien god and joined the Earth Alliance as a double agent. Has my identity been exposed?
——You put this stack of Buffs away!
Therefore, issuing a second-year declaration in a middle school second-grade classroom where everyone has superpowers will only lead to this result.
At the end of the day, she angrily chose a seat in the first row and gave all her classmates a slap on the back.
Well, even in this state, he still has to be the focus of everyone's attention. He is indeed a genius pilot.
————
Society building.
"President, today——"
"Welcome back, Master~"
Bang!
Shinji Ikari slammed the door and looked up at the club's door number.
"It is indeed a literary club. Why does Ayanami appear in a maid outfit? I must be too low on the AT field."
Shinji Ikari shook his head and opened the door again.
"Welcome back, Master~" Rei Ayanami, dressed as a maid, was still there.
Hmm... No, although the voice and appearance are similar, the hair color and eye color are wrong. Ayanami has blue hair and red eyes, while she has brown hair and blue eyes - wearing a white wig on her head.
Shinji Ikari looked past the maid Ayanami toward the depths of the club classroom, and as expected, he saw Rei Ayanami sitting there quietly reading - the normal version.
"Hey, President, where did you find the maid?" He smiled at the girl who looked very similar to Ayanami Rei, walked into the literary club and closed the door.
Perhaps it was an illusion, but he felt that the girl wanted to run away through the door.
"She came to me and wanted to join the literary club." Rei Ayanami said in his usual tone.
"'You' shouldn't tell her that this is the uniform of the literary club, right?" Shinji Ikari turned around and looked at "Ayanami in Maid Costume": "Is it okay to be so casual?"
Although there are some words that are difficult to say directly, for the sake of 100% synchronization rate, he believes that Ayanami can understand:
Is this the "Information Integrated Thought Body" causing trouble again? We have a lot of secrets, can we let outsiders know at will?
"It doesn't matter," Rei Ayanami replied, "Her name is Kirishima, second-year class C."
Which one doesn't matter? It doesn't matter if she hears it or it doesn't matter if she doesn't tell you important information here?
"Um, hello..." Shinji Ikari tried to greet the girl named Kirishima's real name.
"She is an agent sent by the Ground Alliance. Her real name is 'Kisara' and her code name is 'Blue Eyes White Dragon'." Rei Ayanami added.
"..." Shinji Ikari's outstretched hand froze.
The guy in charge of giving replacement numbers to agents in the Ground Alliance probably has something wrong with him!
"She has been trained as a secret agent since she was a child, and entered the Assemblage Garden with completely formal and compliant procedures, just to spy on intelligence after NERV activates EVA to deal with the apostles, so that the Earth Alliance can build its own 'EVA',"
Rei Ayanami continued to reveal the news with a calm expression: "She has a one-way connection with her superiors. After the fifth apostle was defeated, she received instructions to approach us. The time limit is one year. During this period, she will try to enter NERV's field of vision. There is no specific mission.
Feel free to play as you please, it would be best if you can test drive EVA or even obtain the status of a driver. In order to keep it confidential, her superiors will not contact her again until a year later."
This confidentiality work is really well done... No, with the information integration mind body present, the confidentiality work is completely meaningless.
"In other words, she can only pass on the information after a year? And if she is discovered and arrested while spying on the information, there will be no rescue plan at all?" Shinji Ikari looked at Kirishima's real name up and down: "Like a father.
What will happen to spies?"
"Decomposed into LCL solution."
"Hey! We have to stay in there all day!"
"Then chop it into pieces and feed it to the pigs."
"There are no pigs in NERV! Shut up about the petty bourgeoisie!"
Hmm... Shinji Ikari looked at Kirishima's real name, who was shivering with a tray in his arms: "In other words, you caught a spy and then took her as a maid on the condition that you didn't hand her over?"
"Well, because cleaning the club classroom is troublesome," Rei Ayanami said, "What other ideas do you have?"
I think what the bunny girl said...bah, I didn't think anything of it!
"..." Ayanami Rei raised his eyes and looked at him: "Kirishima-san's appearance and voice are 73% similar to mine, but she has a positive and cheerful personality and likes to chat with others. There is a 99% chance that she is going after you if the ground agent system is activated.
Go."
"That's ridiculous. Can't I like girls who are quiet and silent?"
"You are a good person."
"..."
"Pfft." Kirishima's real name was amused.
——2015.7.22——
"You actually have club activities!?" Asuka yelled in Shinji Ikari's ear.
"This... the schedule was just for 'schooling', and it didn't say that he had to go back to training immediately after school." Shinji Ikari raised his hand to pick his ears, but under Asuka's sharp, knife-like glare, he just touched his head.
"That's unreasonable! Once the apostles start to appear, they will not stop. As EVA pilots, we cannot slack off at all and must be ready to fight the next apostle at any time!" Asuka lowered her voice slightly: "As an EVA driver, I
Genius pilots are training hard every day, but you go to play house games like club activities? Are you a fool!"
"Your attribute improvement must not be high..." Shinji Ikari complained softly.
"Ah?! What did you say?" Asuka almost put her nose on Shinji Ikari's face.
"I said... Then I'll ask for leave from Ayanami and go back early today." Shinji Ikari took half a step back.
"Humph, it doesn't matter to me whether you go to training or not?" Asuka tilted her head.
I understand, she is new here, she has no peers in the base to communicate with, and she feels very lonely.
"Really, is it because there is no one to compare with during the training, so the excellence of the genius driver cannot be reflected?" Shinji Ikari complained: "Okay, okay, I'll be the backdrop."
"Hmph, it's good to know. Think of my back as a target to catch up with, hahaha~" Asuka covered her mouth with the back of her hand and laughed.
Does this mean "I recognize your qualifications as my partner"?
Although it is easy to understand, it is very tiring. If the synchronization rate between myself and her could be quantified, it should not exceed 20%.
"The club building is behind the teaching building. Let's change our shoes first -"
Asuka opened the shoe cabinet with a brisk expression, and then the love letters fell to the floor.
"..." She was stunned for two seconds, and then started to step on those letters: "Damn it! You have no self-awareness!"
"Well... an alien from Andromeda, a person from the future twenty years later, the most powerful superpower on earth, a traveler from another world," Shinji Ikari read the signature on the envelope: "Doesn't this quite meet your requirements?
?”
"They are just some fools who admire me but cannot see her identity." Asuka took out her shoes and put them on: "You won't understand the troubles of a talented beautiful girl."
"How do you put it..." Shinji Ikari opened the shoe cabinet, and about twice as many envelopes as Asuka fell out of it: "I quite understand."
"..." Asuka pointed at him, dumbfounded.
"It's all your fault," Shinji Ikari said quickly: "Most of them are because I have a good relationship with you and asked me to go out for a duel."
"Who, who has a good relationship with you? I'm just a senior talented pilot who supports the weaker juniors." Asuka tilted her head.
Let me say it again, although it is easy to understand, it is very tiring.
——
Society building.
"Oh, literary club. It really fits Ayanami's style. He wears thick glasses and reads big books that no one understands." Asuka commented while looking at the sign of the literary club.
This impression is too stereotyped, and EVA drivers are not myopic.
"By the way, let me tell you in advance..." "Hey~ Top Student~ I'm coming in~"
Before Shinji Ikari could finish speaking, Asuka pushed open the door and walked in.
"Huan, welcome back, master, master?"
bump!
"#￥%@!" Asuka jumped out of the door suddenly, slammed the door shut, and made a bunch of unexplained gestures to Shinji Ikari with a distorted expression.
"Ah, don't be surprised. It's normal to have a maid in the literary club." Shinji Ikari opened the door and walked in.
"?" Apparently also frightened, Kirishima Mana, who was wearing a maid uniform, was holding a tea tray and staring at the door. When he saw Shinji Ikari walking in, he expressed doubts with his eyes.
"Don't be nervous, that's the pilot of Unit 2." Shinji Ikari comforted him.
"..." Kirishima's real name seemed to have a little light blooming in his eyes, but it quickly went out again: "I, I will pour tea."
Are you still thinking about the mission even now? How on earth did the Earth Alliance agent agency get a little girl of the same age to help them so wholeheartedly?
But it is a pity that she has now fallen into the hands of Ayanami Rei, no, in the hands of the Information Integrated Thought Body. I am afraid that she will continue to gain hope and despair in the future.
"Haha, yes, the literary club should have maids. This is tradition." Asuka finally prepared herself mentally and walked in with a little bit of help.
Which country’s tradition is it?
Speaking of which, this is the first time that Asuka has had personal contact with Ayanami since she transferred to another school. One of them is in the front row and the other is by the window. One is happy and the other is quiet. Although they have been in the same space for a long time, they are completely different.
I have never communicated before, and I don’t know what the first sentence was like.
"HELLO~" Asuka said in broken English to Rei Ayanami who was reading a book by the window: "You are the pilot of Unit Zero, Rei Ayanami, right? My name is Asuka, Asuka Langley, from EVA Unit 2.
Driver, let’s get along well with each other in the future.”
Such a stiff greeting deserves ten points out of ten, no more two points.
And Ayanami’s subsequent response can also be guessed, most likely "If there is an order, I will obey it."
"Then sign here." Ayanami Rei took out a piece of paper and handed it to Asuka.
"What is this..." Asuka picked up the piece of paper: "'Application for joining the literary club'?"
"Um."
"No, why should I join this inexplicable society? Many people begged me to go, but I didn't even go."
"You said before that you wanted to get along well with each other."
"I mean getting along well as an EVA pilot——"
"The pilot of Unit 1 is also a member of the literary club."
"What does it have to do with him joining me?"
"All EVA pilots have joined the literary club, but you refuse to join."
"Yes...yes, so what's going on."
"You said you wanted to get along well with me before, but you were lying."
"Huh? I'm not-"
"Then sign here."
"No……"
"lie."
"Ugh, damn it, can't I just sign it..."
Shinji Ikari rolled his eyes towards the roof. I don't know if Asuka is lying, but you are obviously bullying.
"Three...Master...please have tea." Kirishima's real name came out of the cubicle to pour tea for the three of them. She looked at Asuka a little strangely while filling out the club application form while gritting her teeth, and then turned to Shinji Ikari.
With a questioning look.
The synchronization rate is not enough. I don’t know what you want to ask, but I can roughly guess how you were manipulated by Rei Ayanami...
Shinji Ikari nodded to her: "Thank you for your hard work."
