The Collection of The End

——2015.8.6——

nerv headquarters.

"This humiliating defeat of Nerv has become the biggest topic in the world in the past two days,]"

"Now let's take a look at the comments of Kaos Cloud, the commander-in-chief of the United Nations Army of Earth,]"

"General Claude, who has always been straight-tempered, said bluntly: 'If Nerv loses to the apostles like this, I'm afraid he won't even lose face.'"

"Oh, Nerv increases its arms budget every year, saying it wants to fight the apostles. How much money does it cost year after year? Have they achieved any results? They——"

Wow, Ikari Yuantang turned off the broadcast of the Dilian news and looked down at the command department below, his glasses shining: "The N2 bombs of the Dilian destroyed 22% of the apostles' structures. They are expected to wake up in five days. I don’t want to see a second failure.”

"Yes, we have already made a plan for the second battle." Katsuragi Misato replied.

"Include the plan to fail again and have to defend the Third New Tokyo City," Ikari Gendo said, then turned and left: "I will deal with those complaints and bills."

The entire headquarters was silent. It was nearly ten minutes after Ikari Yuantang left before whispers started to sound.

"It's all! It's all you! I made a fool of myself!" Asuka turned to Shinji Ikari, who was sitting next to her, with a cold expression.

"Uh..." Shinji Ikari opened his mouth, wanting to retort that you were killed alone in two-on-one, and it had nothing to do with my fire cover. Moreover, in the illusion, it was clearly me who saved you, but if you think about it carefully, if Without "Explosive Heat Return", Unit 2, whose attack was reduced to 0, would have been destroyed, and now she could only lie in the hospital covered in scars and look at the ceiling - this was the best possible possibility. .

So it was indeed him who made her look embarrassed, and there was nothing wrong with her. Shinji Ikari scratched the back of his head and did not respond.

If I had to explain this sentence from a realistic perspective, I can only say - "It's all because you were too weak and failed to defeat the apostle who came to find you and then came back to save me, making me look embarrassed."

It's too much to be unreasonable...

"What kind of posture is that? Like a carrot stuck upside down in the sea!"

"Shame on you! Get out of the battlefield immediately!"

"If I were fighting alone, I would never be in such a mess!"

"This is my first appearance in Japan——"

Uh-huh? I see... Shinji Ikari raised his eyebrows slightly.

This time's words cannot be listened to alone and analyzed sentence by sentence. They are not accusing him or Unit 1 of his mistakes at all. The translation of her entire sentence should be:

——I failed in my first battle. Not only did I make a huge embarrassment, my defeated posture was so embarrassing. I just wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it to avoid being seen by others. Wuwuwu...

So if you know what she did all the time, you will be targeted, right? This behavior of erecting thorns all over your body when you are frightened...

"Hedgehog." Ayanami Rei whispered from the side.

"..." Shinji Ikari turned to look at her in shock.

"I can't read minds," she added.

Look, what is the gap? This is the gap.

"Okay!" Misato Katsuragi stopped Asuka from stabbing people everywhere: "We will immediately study ways to deal with this 'Twin Apostles' that have never appeared before, and conduct targeted training for you. Before that..."

She reopened the program and started looping it, then turned around and left:

"Let me take a good look at it here for three hours."

What kind of unit of time is that?

"NERV said they are already preparing for the second battle——]"

"Oh, thank God. There is no solid foundation for a battle like this. Even if you can win this time, can you guarantee that next time, a more powerful apostle can win next time? I advise them to work on the concept of apostle first. Understand.】"

…Where did you find this general with a broken mouth?

——2015.8.10——

Gathering Garden, Literary Club.

"Uh, you mean, Nerv's plan to urgently improve the synchronization rate is to... stay together inseparable for a week?" Kirishima's real name covered his mouth with a tray: "The straight-line distance cannot exceed half a meter. In addition to completing the training, you must also Going in and out together, eating and sleeping together, even going to the toilet and taking a shower together?”

"Yes," Shinji Ikari shrugged, "That's why I was kicked out."

"I think if it's Ayanami-san, she shouldn't care about this kind of thing," Kirishima's real name said, "Ah, I'm not saying she's very casual."

"I know what you mean, and she didn't object to it in the first place, but Asuka firmly disagreed, shouting about 'indecent' and 'violating the moral code'. I said, 'Why do I want to go with you?', but I was chased Called 'idiot', 'pervert' and 'go to hell'," Shinji Ikari pouted: "In the end, we can only let her and Ayanami train."

"Isn't it difficult for the two of them to synchronize?" Kirishima Mana looked at the roof.

"It's very difficult," Shinji Ikari picked up the tea cup and drank water: "There is only a 50% chance of synchronization at most."

"Well..." Kirishima Mana looked at his water glass and stood up: "I'll make another pot of tea."

"No, no," Shinji Ikari waved his hand: "I just came here to hide from those overly curious guys who insist on asking me about the details of the battle, but it's very strange that you are here. If Ayanami is not here, you have no reason. Come here, and you’re still wearing a maid outfit?”

"No," Kirishima's real name paused for a moment, but did not stop. He still walked to the cubicle to boil some water, then walked back and sat down: "I just...have nowhere to go."

"Why, is the Ground Alliance military so harsh on its subordinates? Not even giving them a break?" Shinji Ikari joked, then waved his hand and added: "Well, I'm not trying to trick you, I'm not interested in the military's intelligence."

"Then what if I want to say it?" Kirishima's real name looked at him with water-blue eyes.

"Uh...then I just want to listen?" Shinji Ikari blinked.

Weird thing, why didn't you find yourself so attractive before? Of course, it's probably just self-indulgence.

"My father was a hydraulic scientist in old Tokyo, and my mother was a magazine editor," Kirishima said by his real name. "I'm not a military spy."

"Well..." Shinji Ikari looked at her thoughtfully.

"I know you don't believe it. After all, Ayanami-san——"

"No, I believe it," Shinji Ikari waved his hand: "I believe you are not a military spy, at least not the 'current you'."

"...!" Kirishima's real name turned pale and held his cuffs tightly with both hands.

"I didn't ask Ayanami, but it's almost unimaginable to train an ignorant child to be a spy and to ensure her loyalty. If you ask me to guess, what's 'Kisara' or 'Blue Eyes White Dragon'? You've never heard of it, right?" Shinji Ikari asked.

"Yes...two months ago, I was just an ordinary middle school student..." Kirishima said by his real name.

"But, something unexpected happened at that time, which made you determined to become a spy for the military." Shinji Ikari continued.

"..." Kirishima's real name bit his lip and said nothing.

"Kirishima-san, could you please tell me what your superpower is as a 'qualified person'?" Shinji Ikari continued.

"..." Kirishima Mana lowered his head.

"'Assembly Garden' is a school funded by Nerv and only accepts qualified students. There are no 'ordinary middle school students' in it." Shinji Ikari shook his head: "Except for those who have shown their qualifications and can be directly used, Apart from those, there are only qualified ones who have 'huge potential even though they have not yet been revealed'. However, if they know that your superpower is actually related to time, you will not be able to work as a maid so leisurely."

"Then, can you guess what happened to me?" By this time, Kirishima's real name had calmed down and turned back into the tea maid.

"Have you met your 'self'?" Shinji Ikari spread his hands: "You have become a spy for the military in the 'future', but you are unable to penetrate nerv's spy defense network, so you want to develop your 'past self' into 'Offline', to infiltrate the relatively rudimentary NERV at this time. Ayanami didn't originally plan to find you, but after you came into contact with your future self, the logical closed loop was completed. 'You were a spy from the beginning', so I decided to take you down. He was captured, and the titles like 'Kisara' and 'Blue Eyes White Dragon' are actually the code names of 'future you'."

"To be honest, I think these code names are not nice to hear, and I will definitely find a way to change them in the future." Kirishima's real name blinked.

"The 'future you' thought so in the 'past' as well." Shinji Ikari replied.

"..."

Woo--the kettle next door rang.

"Please wait a moment." Kirishima Mana stood up.

Hmm... Shinji Ikari looked at her back in maid uniform and began to think.

Obviously, the "Information Integrated Thought Body" guy does not have the ability to travel through time. The information it obtains comes from what the "Future Kirishima True Name" said to the "Present Kirishima True Name", which cannot be proven or disproven. , and it is impossible to determine when the "future Kirishima's true name" will appear again, so he can only encourage Ayanami Rei to catch her and control her, but obviously Ayanami's "capture" and "control" are completely different from its understanding.

The current situation is that Kirishima's real name, whether in the future or now, does not know the existence of the "Information Integration Thought Body", otherwise he would not be so careless and directly talk about information, and think that Nerv's intelligence network is powerful, and "Information Integration Thought Body" "The body" also doesn't know how much information "Future Kirishima's real name" has about Eve, and he is ready to continue to observe, so he is afraid of both sides.

Can I, as a middleman, make a profit on the price difference?

"Shinji-san," Kirishima Mana poured two more cups of tea, then sat down across from Ikari Shinji: "Don't be afraid of what I'm going to say next."

"I am the pilot of EVA Unit 1, I will not be afraid." Shinji Ikari picked up the teacup and touched the temperature.

"The third impact has already happened," Kirishima's real name looked at him seriously and said word by word: "My future self said that in her world, on May 1, 2015, the third impact Not long after the Apostle appeared, the Third Impact happened, and she wanted to prevent it from happening, but when she came back, she found that she did nothing and the Third Impact did not happen."

"..." Shinji Ikari raised his eyes and looked at the calendar.

This tea is so hot.

——2015.8.11——

Suruga Estuary.

"Zero! Asuka! Execute the plan according to the contents of your training!]" Misato Katsuragi said loudly in the command channel: "According to analysis, the Seventh Apostle will split or merge after the core encounters a fatal attack to avoid being destroyed. The reaction interval of the behavior is less than 0.03 seconds, and it is almost impossible to catch the gap, but this behavior will have a 62-second cooling time, and you must destroy them simultaneously again during this time, do you understand?]"

"clear.】"

"Leave it to this talented pilot! I will definitely kill those bastards this time!]"

No, this is completely out of sync, right? What exactly did you train for? Shinji Ikari sat in the insertion plug of Unit-0 and complained silently.

Curry Curry】Li Ziqiu expressed strong agreement.

"Shinji-kun, you are responsible for the support. I will not give you specific orders, just adapt to circumstances."

"OK."

Then let's play cards.

The information about nerv is roughly the same as what I know. The opponent seems to be the bald guy who only has Fusion] and Fusion Release] in his two card libraries. Whenever any demon god of Lei Feng Shui is about to be defeated, they will use Fusion] to create the door. Guardian, and the Guardian of the Gate is about to be defeated, they will use Fusion Release] to create three demon gods, and the interval between uses is exactly the same as their own card drawing time.

The Gate Guardian has high attack and defense, while the Demon God has the disgusting ability to reduce the attacker's attack power to 0. You must defeat them within 60 seconds with only two opportunities to draw cards...

No problem at all.

"The battle begins!]"

Draw a card!

Elemental Hero·Bubble Man]

Summon Bubble Man and draw two cards.

Elemental Hero·Hot Girl】

Pot of Desire: Draw two cards]

Hit the pot of lust.

Elemental Hero·Wingman: Attack Power: 1000, Defense Power: 1000]

Bottle of Desire: After activating Cap, draw a card]

Hmm... It's a little troublesome. The Vial of Desire is a trap card, and since I'm not participating in the battle, I can't activate it when the opponent attacks. I can only wait 60 seconds to activate it the next time I draw a card.

In other words... a hand full of low-attack monsters can destroy the opponent with just two cards?

Shinji Ikari put his hand on the card pile and looked up at the battlefield.

Although the image of the apostle was replaced by that "demon god", the general battlefield situation can still be seen.

The orange Unit Zero and the red Unit Two are like two figure skaters performing an ice ballet. They are shuttling back and forth among the demon's attacks with exquisite coordination, dodging one attack after another.

Finally, they took aim at the Wind Demon God, who was obviously the weakest, and the two EVAs spun and kicked towards it.

The Wind Demon God flashed and enveloped Unit Zero with a hazy green light. Unit Zero seemed to have noticed it and gave up the attack and turned around, allowing Unit 2 to hit the unaffected Unit 2 with a kick.

Bang!

The Wind Demon God turned into a golden light spot.

Almost at the same time, a "fusion" stood in front of the bald phantom, and the three demon gods simultaneously turned into golden light and merged into one.

Here comes the big guy with 3750 attacks, let’s see what I can draw this time.

Draw a card and activate the Vial of Desire!

Fusion]

Beloved Hero: Can only be equipped by 'Heroes'. The attack power is increased by the value of the defense power. When launching an attack, a field magic card is activated from the deck. 】

Well...the order of playing cards is simple and easy to understand.

"Three cores appeared on the apostle! Shinji-kun!]"

"clear!"

Boom, boom, boom!

As Unit 1 ran wildly, the environment around it suddenly changed, from the mouth of a river at noon to a majestic city at midnight, and on top of the tallest spire building in the city, stood a full-body A tall man in green, with white wings spread out on his left arm, and a red dragon head connected to his right arm.

Elemental hero·Flame Wingman, attack 2100, defense 1200]

skyscraper】

The hero glanced at the "Guardian of the Gate" that was wreaking havoc in the city, spread his wings without hesitation, and glided down. The flames sprayed from the dragon's head and the No. 1 Unit hit the monster at the same time.

Flame Wing Man, attack power: 4300]

When destroying an enemy monster, inflict damage equal to the monster's attack power to the enemy. 】

"Ouch, ouch, ouch—!]"

The two bald heads, the guardian of the door, and the seventh apostle who finally revealed his true face exploded into a cross pillar of light that reached the sky.