The Collection of The End

——2015.8.29——】

Assembly garden, gymnasium, billiard room.

After the fireworks display, various celebration decorations in New Tokyo City were removed one after another, and the entire city gradually returned to its original mechanical and cold appearance.

When Shinji Ikari passed by, he could occasionally hear the staff chatting, saying that luckily no apostles came this time, otherwise the decorations would become messy if the building was retracted underground.

So, even while the celebration is being held, are they ready to evacuate at any time? It’s really hard work.

Similarly, just because the summer festival has completely ended and the lively scene on the street has gradually disappeared, Asuka, who still wanted to have more fun, was very dissatisfied, and finally had to modify the plan and set the plan for the last few days of the "school trip" as "A boring indoor activity."

"Today's game is a table tennis match!" Asuka, wearing a black T-shirt and white cropped pants, announced loudly with one hand on her hips: "A 7-point system! The winner can draw a line on the face of the loser!"

Just because it’s boring, you treat people as if they’re interesting, right?

"Well, um, can we change to another punishment method?" Kirishima's real name raised his hand.

Shinji Ikari turned his head and glanced at her, and found that she was wearing a white dress today, which was whiter than paper. If there was a little splash of ink...

To this classmate, it’s okay if you just say, “Can I do this without any punishment?”

Shinji Ikari looked down at the white shirt and black trousers he was wearing, and raised his hands: "Because it's troublesome to wash clothes, I refuse."

"You know there is a billiards game and you don't wear black clothes, do you have common sense?" Asuka glared at the two of them.

Sorry, not familiar with German common sense.

"I'll do it." Rei Ayanami, who was wearing a school uniform, put down her book, picked up the racket beside her and walked to the pool table.

"Hoho, you didn't run away, but took the initiative to come to me?" Asuka spun the racket and turned around: "I will help you draw a smiling face, doll girl."

Hiss - Shinji Ikari took a deep breath.

Asuka has a "nickname database". When addressing people, there is a certain chance that a realistic or abstract nickname will randomly appear. For example, Kirishima's real name is "tea girl", "crybaby", and "silly girl" For Shinji Ikari, he has nicknames such as "connected person", "big pervert", "scumbag", "peeping tom"... Well, I won't list them all.

As for Ayanami Rei, she is a "top student", "literary girl", "mouthless girl" and so on. This time the "doll girl" seems to be a newly invented one, but it accurately hits the mark - Ayanami Makoto It's a doll girl.

According to common sense, Ayanami shouldn't care about such trivial matters...

"How can I defeat you if I don't get close to you?" Rei Ayanami took off his glasses and pinned them on the pocket of his school uniform.

It's over, Asuka, please wish yourself well. Shinji Ikari quickly picked up the ball and racket, and ran to other tables with Kirishima's real name, which was unclear: "We are playing here, you guys come on -"

"?" Asuka looked at the two people who ran away without knowing why, then turned back to look at Rei Ayanami who walked to the opposite side of the table: "I see that you are not good at sports either, so I'll let you serve first."

call--!

Snapped!

The table tennis ball whizzed past Asuka's face with an afterimage, and half a second later, the sound of hitting the table was accompanied by the strong wind that messed up her hair.

"It's your turn." Ayanami Rei said while maintaining the posture of serving.

"..."

——

Audio and video classroom.

"Uuuuuuuuah...it's so tragic, how could this happen..."

Asuka was holding a handkerchief and staring at the movie screen with tears in her eyes. Next to her, Kirishima Mana had a similar expression.

After being beaten 4-0 by Rei Ayanami for more than ten games in the table tennis match, and with X's painted all over her face, Asuka decisively announced the end of the table tennis match and moved on to the next event, the "Bad Movie Appreciation Party."

The so-called "bad movies" are not really poorly made. Otherwise, you would be asking for trouble. What makes them "bad" is that the screenwriters are completely unclear about the facts of "Second Impact". A story based on conspiracy theories or the "truth" you guess may seem exciting to ordinary viewers, but for those who belong to Nerv and can drive EVA, this kind of story is far from the truth. The movies in it can only be regarded as daily entertainment.

For example, "At Mountain Range" and its sequel "At Mountain Range 2: Fat Face" assume that an ancient, amoeba-like race sleeps under the Antarctic, awakened by the impact of the second impact meteorite, and exposed to radiation from the meteorite. Affected by the second impact, he initially gained wisdom, began to transform and simulate humans, and infiltrated into human society when humans suffered heavy losses due to the second impact. Perhaps in order to prevent someone from seriously causing panic, this movie also specially set up that these mimics The monsters simply turn into bald, obese human males.

Are they stupid? Petite and cute girls are easier to penetrate, right? Shinji Ikari turned his head to look at Rei Ayanami.

"There is no such image of an apostle." Ayanami Rei glanced at him expressionlessly.

"That's good……"

"But there is still a lot of material left for the Fourth Apostle," she added.

"Please be sure not to do that." Shinji Ikari clasped his hands together and raised them above his head.

"Yeah." Ayanami Rei responded with an unclear meaning and turned back.

"..." Shinji Ikari scratched his head and continued watching the movie.

Of course, that is just the basic setting and story background of the movie. The real protagonist is a young man stationed at an Antarctic scientific research station. The scientific research station where he is located has considerable understanding and countermeasures against the amoeba race. , but he was in a coma in a life-support device for 14 years due to the "Second Impact". The entire movie is about him discovering the infiltration of amoeba after waking up, and trying to stop and save the world.

As for what Asuka is crying about... it is the plot of this young man returning to a strange hometown and discovering that his childhood sweetheart has married someone else.

There is something seriously wrong with your focus! And why should people wait for 14 years when you don’t know whether you will live or die?

——2015.8.31——】

Literary Society.

"The photos of the table tennis match are all mine! The negatives have also been destroyed, and there is no possibility of reprinting! Disband!"

Asuka put the ugly photos of her playing pool into her bag and rushed out the door without looking back.

"Well, I still have to prepare for the start of school tomorrow, so I'll leave first."

Kirishima Mana also stood up to leave.

"Although Asuka is quite silly, this 'school trip' was unexpectedly fulfilling," Shinji Ikari stretched and began to clean up the club classroom: "Those who went to Okinawa will come back tomorrow, and I don't know what will happen next time." apostle……"

Shinji Ikari paused in the middle of talking to himself, smacked his lips, and swallowed the second half of his sentence.

——Ayanami, do you know when the next apostle will attack?

It's already rude to compare her to those amoebas when watching a movie, so don't ask about this ability that is unique to "fat and bald men"...

"Shinji," Rei Ayanami said, "Have you finished your summer homework?"

"Ah...ah?" Shinji Ikari froze: "Because Asuka arranged too many activities, I completely forgot about it!"

"Yeah?"

"Will there be an apostle attack tomorrow? There will definitely be one, right? That way I can have a few days of grace before handing in my homework!"

"No."

——2015.8.12——】

The gathering garden, the swimming pool.

“Tomorrow comes tomorrow, and there are so many tomorrows.”

Wearing a black one-piece swimsuit, Rei Ayanami read a poem while passing by Shinji Ikari, who was meditating on his notebook, and then plunged into the swimming pool.

"I'm waiting for tomorrow, everything will be in vain?" Shinji Ikari answered doubtfully.