The Collection of The End

—2015.5.1—

The third new Tokyo city, 13 kilometers south.

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The time has not yet entered the midsummer, but there are already cicadas neighing constantly, but it is difficult to judge whether it is the noisy cicadas that are one after another or the repeated broadcasts on the roadside that are annoying.

"[At 12:30 today, an emergency warning was issued to the Kanto region centered on the Tokai region:]"

"[Residents, please go to the designated shelter immediately. All public transportation such as highways, subways, railways, etc. in the area have been suspended. Please do not go out at will.]"

However, for a teenager trying to use a public phone on an empty street, the mechanical answer from the receiver was more annoying.

"[It is currently in an emergency period, and all numbers cannot be connected. Please wait for the emergency to be lifted and try again. Repeat—]"

"Well, I shouldn't have come," the young man put down the microphone: "Every year it is said that the [Apostle] is coming, but it has not come every year. After everyone has forgotten about it, it suddenly comes, alas."

This is a boy of about fourteen or fifteen years old, with black hair and black eyes, a round face, and a rather youthful expression. He is wearing a black uniform that looks like a middle school uniform, but because the weather is a little hot, his top It was unbuttoned, revealing a clean white shirt and a wide belt with metal buckles that clearly did not conform to school rules.

"What should I do," he looked up at the sign of [Third New Tokyo City, 13 kilometers north] on the street sign: "Do you want to walk?"

13 kilometers, not close, but not too far. If you really want to go, it's not impossible. It's like participating in an amateur marathon, but the problem now is that there seems to be a legend nearby that will destroy human beings. —

Boom!

With the sound of heavy footsteps, an unusually huge black creature poked its head out from the cliff in the distance behind the street sign, turned its small face like a bird mask, and glanced at the boy in front of the phone booth from a distance. .

…the apostles haunted.

Da da da! Boom boom boom!

Before the juvenile could react, the sound of gunshots and artillery rang out.

The heavy artillery and armored vehicles that had been secretly deployed near the cliff took off their camouflage and fired at it, and there were fighter planes following the direction the apostles appeared.

The small town that was originally just a satellite city on the outskirts of the city instantly became a battlefield and a front line.

In the bursts of fire, the young man could clearly see the appearance of the "Apostle". It was dark and roughly human-shaped, but the shoulders were too large, the hands and feet were too thin and long, and the head like a bird mask grew on the chest, on the shoulders and waist. , There are hideous bone armors on the legs and elbows.

"Now those guys who advocate mutual understanding with the apostles and peaceful coexistence should be dumbfounded..." The young man spit out: "Whoever says that again will send them to this thing."

Apostle, after experiencing the "first shock" and "second shock", human beings named this super-giant monster that suddenly appeared and caused great damage. Maybe they originally had their own names, but it was too late. That's all.

Afterwards, based on the results of these two shocks, human beings accurately calculated that the Apostolic Army would reappear fifteen years after the "Second Shock" - they definitely have some secret information that has not been made public.

However, now is not the time to discuss the hidden intelligence of the Earth United Nations. For the sake of life, it is business to flee the battlefield first.

hum-

Just as the teenager was looking around and was about to find a nearby shelter to hide in, the apostle, who seemed to be stunned, turned his head, and shot two blazing white beams from the two eyes of the "mask", sending him along the way. fighters, armored vehicles and artillery positions were swept away.

...it wasn't unresponsive at all, it was calculating ballistics and aiming.

squeak - squeak -

The apostle swept out several beams again, destroying all the immobile and inconvenient artillery and armored tanks, and only a few clever fighters made superb maneuvers to escape the catastrophe.

Then, turn down and run...from the top of the teenager's head.

Heck, the young man watched the giant "apostle" approaching step by step, quickly picked up his bag and hid to the side of the building next to him.

However, with the size of the monster, a house of this size probably won't have any defensive effect at all, and I can only hope that it won't be stepped down with precision.

boom boom boom boom boom boom

At this moment, a blue car drove like lightning from the other end of the town. Its driver seemed to be very unskilled. He bumped into other abandoned and parked vehicles on the road several times before arriving in front of the boy. stop.

"Yo boy," the driver rolled down the window. "Want to hitch a ride?"

It was a woman with dark blue shawl, long hair and amber pupils. She was wearing a black professional dress and a red vest, looking very free, easy and confident.

"Well," the boy glanced at her, quickly opened the car door and got in the car and fastened his seat belt: "You are the first Lieutenant Katsuragi who is scheduled to pick me up?"

"Yes…"

"I sent a lip print swimsuit photo for the contact and even drew an arrow to show the big sister of the career line." The boy continued.

"Akagi Ritsuko! You're dead!" The woman known as Lieutenant Katsuragi stomped on the accelerator while roaring, and the blue car bounced like an arrow from the string.

"[Sigh, sigh.]" At this time, the apostles who were chasing the planes that attacked it were attracted by the blue car that drove away quickly, the bird-faced mask turned around, and it was easy, or Said to be pleasing to the eye and shot a laser in the past.

Squeak-!

"So, you didn't post that?" the boy continued to ask.

"Of course not! I'm still on vacation! I only received a photo of you and the location for me to pick you up. Who knows what you received there!"

1st Lieutenant Katsuragi roared and swiped the steering wheel indiscriminately, evading the beam with a single drift.

The apostle turned his head in confusion, and another beam of light flew out.

"In addition to your swimsuit photo, there is [Katsuragi Misato]'s signature and lip print on it."

"Oh? Hehehe... It's okay to forge the signature, but also to make a lip print yourself?" First Lieutenant Katsuragi, or Miri Katsuragi began to emit black gas, and tossed the steering wheel indiscriminately: "And sent it to a junior high school student!? "

The blue car swayed left and right, dodging the second direct beam.

"[Huh?]" The apostle stared at the blue car and looked at it carefully, and then two lasers were emitted from the mask at the same time, one horizontally and one vertically cutting across the road in front of the car, no matter whether it accelerated or decelerated, it would be hit.

"If the lip print is not yours, but the person named 'Akagi Ritsuko', can you do something about it?"

squeak-squeak-

The blue car slammed to a stop, and Katsuragi turned to look at the co-pilot boy in surprise, and two lasers just crossed the window behind her head.

"Okay! Good idea!" She patted the boy on the shoulder vigorously: "In the future in [NERV], you will be covered by my elder sister!"

"I can't ask for it, Sister Katsuragi," the boy blinked and changed his words: "But if possible, please ask the elder sister to just show a 'slight interest in me', so that 'Akagi Ritsuko' will try to win Get close to me by doing what you're interested in, and we might get more information about her."

"You bastard—" Katsuragi Miri rubbed his head hard while laughing, making the boy's black hair look like a chicken coop: "This mouth must have deceived a lot of girls before?"

"No, they all think I'm scary." The boy blinked.

"Ha, then they are probably blind. If I were ten years younger, I wouldn't let you go." Katsuragi Miri continued to rub his head.

"Huh? Isn't that older sister turning 7 years old?"

"...Well, they are not only blind, but also deaf."

"[Cuck, chuck, chuck!]"

All the attacks were in vain, and the apostles seemed to become angry, completely giving up on tracking the planes, and strode towards the stopped blue car.

The next moment, a pitch-black missile flew from the direction the fighter jet had fled, and hit the apostle with its back turned accurately.

"N2 (NONUCLEAR)?!" Katsuragi Misato was shocked when she saw the missile in the rearview mirror, and reached out to hug the boy and fell down - but he was stopped by raising his hand.

"You just drive, I'll think of a way," the boy said quickly, "I'm [Children]."

The so-called "qualified" refers to children born in the year after the "Second Shock" 15 years ago. They will more or less master some skills that were previously called "superpowers", some useful, some Funny, some will cause damage to themselves when used, and some cannot exert their power at all without specific conditions. The Earth United Nations has established various institutions to research and apply these capabilities, and NERV is one of them.

As far as Katsuragi knows, all current experiments to replicate or artificially create "qualified people" have ended in failure, and no new qualified people have been born in 15 years, so each of them is invaluable.

It is said that some radicals are creating a "third shock" according to the research, and this kind of business that is not proportional to the income and expenditure will naturally not be supported.

And this boy, of course, was called because his ability as a qualified person was useful to NERV.

"...Okay!" Katsuragi Miri quickly started the car, and the missile that was inserted in the back of the "Apostle" hilariously exploded at the same time as it ejected and started.

boom-!

As the white light bloomed, a huge mushroom cloud rose, followed by a huge explosion shock wave and electromagnetic shock that quickly spread out with the apostle as the center.

Katsuragi Misato dashed all the way with unprecedented superb driving skills, but looking at the speed, it was impossible to avoid this tumbling wave.

In her busy schedule, she glanced at the young man beside her, and found that he was raising his left arm and pressing his right hand on the back of his left hand. At the moment when the air wave was about to catch up with the car, he suddenly threw out his right hand and slapped it hard.

【Attack incapacitated】!