The Collection of The End

—2016.2.24—

The Garden of Gathering, the Literary Society.

"Hahaha, that apostle is so rude. He recreated the apostle I accidentally suffered in the past in a fantasy world. Do you want me to encounter setbacks again and be devastated? It's too naive!" I drank all the tea in the room: "I blew them all up with my backhand. After breaking free from the hallucination, I shot the **** that was parked in the orbit of the satellite and killed it!"

"But you lost the 'Longinus Spear'," Ayanami, who was reading by the window, said without looking up, "The current observation is that it exceeds the second cosmic speed and will eventually fly out of the solar system."

"It's so noisy! How did I know that NERV still has a 'Satellite Orbit Recovery Program'? I should have said earlier that it couldn't exceed the second cosmic speed!" Asuka slammed the teacup on the table.

"Doesn't that just prove that Asuka is very good?" Kirishima came out of the back room with a teapot and began to add tea to everyone: "Unlike me, I can only wait for Shinji-san to rescue me in my hallucinations."

This literary club maid's arm and half of her face were still wrapped in bandages, and the skin that had been covered was now showing a sickly paleness. If you put aside the color of her eyes, she seemed to be seeing Shinji Ikari for the first time. Ayanami is almost exactly the same.

"Don't worry, it's not an illusion. If you are in danger, I will definitely rush to save you in time," Ikari Shinji answered quickly in order to avoid his own thinking, and then added: "Ah, I will also like Asuka and Ayanami in danger. go."

"Okay." Ayanami responded casually.

Even if it's perfunctory, it's time to say thank you...

"No need at all! Crane-cough," Asuka paused in the middle of her words: "Shinji-kun just goes to save others, this genius driver is invincible in the world~ oh hehe~"

Well... this way of interpretation is not impossible.

Due to the "death of the society", the whole NERV declared very tacitly that they had no idea what happened to the two of them in the fantasy world, and even locked them up for seven days on the grounds of "checking for mental pollution" and "stopping the leakage of memes" , so as not to show a strange look in front of them from a fool who can't manage the expression.

After all, the popularity of things like gossip will go down in about a week.

After that, Asuka and Kirishima's real names were exchanged during the quarantine period. Because of their own concealment, they somehow came to the conclusion that "the apostle scans the memory and reproduces the setbacks". It can only be said that it is wrong.

Now think about it carefully, I am so handsome and gentle, it is normal for a girl to be unrequited, and the pile of love letters in the shoe cabinet can testify.

Bah, narcissist.

No. 1 machine is not here, you swallow your feces and kill yourself!

Given that the above-mentioned methods are not fatal, I have decided to remain silent.

What to wear? When Kirishima clearly expressed his affection, what kind of rippling did you have to do, do you need me to repeat it?

Hmm... Ikari Shinji pinched his forehead.

Although I have the habit of talking to myself before, the fact that I can quarrel with myself with a clear "personality" has only recently appeared. To be precise, it was thrown into the crack of time and space by Kirishima's real name and returned. after.

Shouldn't... copy the personalities of other worldlines back?

Ayanami has not commented on this matter, nor will she respond to these wild thoughts. Maybe she thinks it is not very important?

"Because of the particularity of the fifteenth apostle, although you have been released from quarantine, you still have to observe for about ten days," Ayanami raised her head and pushed her glasses.

Hmm... Indeed, since Kirishima was admitted to the hospital due to the accident on Unit 3, the club classroom has not been cleaned for more than a month, and a thin layer of dust has accumulated in some corners that are not usually accessible.

"But..." Kirishima's real name was a little hesitant.

"If the dust gets into the bandage," Shinji Ikari pointed to his face, "the skin will become bumpy."

"..." Kirishima's real name looked at Shinji Ikari with a kind of "How did you say such obvious nonsense in a serious manner?", then nodded: "Okay then."

Oops... I accidentally forgot that she said "just believe what she says"...

Why don't she deliberately talk nonsense in the future and let her give up that idea subtly?

"Then we'll go back together," Asuka stood up, arranging the collar: "If an apostle attacks, maybe I will deal with you before you come back."

"Not yet." Ayanami pinched the frame of her glasses again.

—

Hmm... what is she going to do?

Wearing a headscarf, Ikari Shinji peeked at Rei Ayanami while using a duster to clean the dust off the top of the bookshelf, and found that she had just wet the rag and was cleaning the windows.

I'm actually cleaning...

Compared with other pilots who wrote their emotions and thoughts on their faces, on Ayanami Rei's side, even if the synchronization rate between Ikari Shinji and the first unit was 100%, she couldn't guess what she was thinking, and could only roughly base on her actions. estimate.

She sent the real names of Asuka and Kirishima away in advance. She should have something to say to herself, but she didn't say it directly. She should be waiting for her to ask, and if the question is wrong, she will not say it.

Being able to reset the world is tough.

Is there a possibility that she wants you to confess?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Confession is a trumpet to declare victory, not a charge to launch an attack.

Being interrupted by her twice, you are really a lot of cowards.

It's useless to talk less, I'll tell you when she decides to launch a third shock.

Confession successfully saves the world, confession fails and re-reads the file, right?

In any case, she must be waiting for you to do something, which is absolutely right.

So what exactly is it?

clap la la...

At this time, Ayanami Zero had finished wiping the glass, soaked the rag in the water, and then began to wring it dry.

The action of her wringing was not a conventional tiger's mouth, but two fists up and down.

Ah, remembered!

"Ayanami, the way you twist the rag really looks like my mother." Shinji Ikari quickly said according to the script.

Ayanami turned her head to look at him, her expression didn't change at all, let alone the expected blushing.

"Uh...that's actually..." Ikari Shinji scratched his head at a loss.

"Next month, there is a 50% chance of a third impact," Ayanami zero turned her eyes back, picked up the rag and continued to clean the window: "You can try to stop it."

Oh I got it…

what happened! ?

——

After repeatedly questioning Ling Ling, Ikari Shinji finally extracted effective information from a long list of short answers. Obviously, even if Eve's incarnation would not blush, she would still be shy when answering directly about herself.

In conclusion, there should be an apostle who cannot be dealt with next month, the sixteenth apostle.

It's not "can't deal with" in the conventional sense, but "other people can't deal with it", "as long as she goes to deal with it, she will be recruited".

Specifically, there will be a "circular apostle" with a "double helix DNA structure", which will actively contact "EVA with a driver" and fuse with it.

It is fusion, not erosion, and the apostle itself disappears after fusion, and the AT force field of EVA will be strengthened in turn, so the AT force field does not think it is an attack and will not respond.

But the problem is that it will give EVA and the driver all the DNA information it carries, how to use its power, and the memory it has. Because it is also "enhanced", it will not be rejected. After that, the driving With just one thought, a member can transform himself and EVA into a new apostle, because it is an active and spontaneous behavior, and it is also impossible to defend.

—

Although the apostle's ability is quite unreasonable, there are still traces to follow.

Up to the tenth, the abilities of the various apostles that appeared were mainly based on direct means of destruction—including the one who was not born, which he could easily deal with with his "card superpower", but it became troublesome after that. The apostles in the game began to infiltrate in the form of viruses, and the opponents of the cards also began to use methods against cards and decks.

In the early stage of the change of action mode, they were still a bit dumb, thinking that the power of EVA lies in the body,

The eleventh apostle eroded the experimental body to analyze the internal structure, and the twelfth apostle swallowed the first machine into the Dirac Sea to study the appearance. After they thought they had done it, they sent the thirteen apostles to directly erode and control the third machine.

Perhaps they were trying to prove that their judgment was correct. After the thirteenth apostle possessed by No. 3 machine was defeated, they immediately synthesized the strongest data they could obtain and created the fourteenth apostle, which was ridiculously strong. With the "card superpower" by his side, he has probably been taken away by it in one wave, let alone grabbed the "Giant Soldier" who destroyed the fifteenth apostle.

The 15th Apostle, who died two weeks ago, seems to be too weak, but it has a major victory that no Apostle has ever had before: the key to successfully discovering and confirming the EVA lies in the driver.

Thus, the sixteenth apostle who possessed this almost incomprehensible ability was born.

—

Theoretically speaking, this kind of thing similar to mental loopholes, as long as the affected person has a firm mind and is not tempted by power, but the only hole in the whole process of the apostle's "aggressive behavior" is here: once the driver generates The idea of ​​"if you become an apostle, you can do it", no matter how absurd, the transformation will be carried out automatically.

For example, "If you become an apostle, you will be the most powerful genius driver", "If you become an apostle, Shinji-san will like me", such outrageous thoughts that you will find that something is wrong can also trigger transformation.

As for Ikari Shinji himself, there is even a reasonable and correct statement: "As long as you become an apostle, you will be the same as Ayanami."

Because she is an apostle and can naturally resist this one, Ayanami will suffer from another point, that is, "the memory of the apostle", that "double helix" is not designed to look good and replica DNA, they are stored separately. With the records of human beings' "altruistic" and "self-interested" behaviors with opposite motives, the AT force field has been greatly enhanced, and Ayanami Rei, who can directly connect to Eve's body, only has the idea of ​​"human beings are better to destroy", the third time. The impact will come as promised.

In Ayanami's words, after she came into contact with the sixteenth apostle, the probability of "the third shock" and "the first machine was blown up" accounted for 50% each, and Shinji Ikari did not have the courage to ask about the number of samples.

However, in "This Reincarnation", he seems to have increased the probability of Ayanami's idea that "human beings should continue to survive" by means of timeline jumping, etc., but it has not been so high, and he cannot be completely assured.

As for the increased favorability, the synchronization rate, etc., it only increases the possibility of Ayanami bringing herself to the next reincarnation, and it does not help to save "this world". Combined with the fact that there are many "Ayanami sisters" In the world line, she will only take away the people she is interested in, whether or not to keep the memory depends on the situation.

Ikari Shinji didn't plan to ask about the "other himself". He firmly believed that there was absolutely no second Ikari Shinji that could increase the synchronization rate of the first machine to 600% and still be intact. After all, 400% had turned into pus—this Just asked by the way.

—

After cleaning, the two left the assembly garden together, and Shinji Ikari didn't even think about how to defeat the sixteenth apostle until he returned to his dormitory.

If you put aside the resigned method of "flip a coin by Ayanami to decide whether the world will continue", there should be a method with a very high success rate, but it is very difficult to realize, but what is it?

It shouldn't be possible to let his "card superpower" play on the spot, right?

This feeling of suffocation is like seeing the exam questions one day in advance but not doing them at all.

Ok?

The day before the exam...exam questions...

Why look at the subject? Can't you just look at the reference answer?

"Real name? Are you in the dormitory?" Shinji Ikari dialed Kirishima's real name.

"[Ah, yes, yes, Shinji-senpai.]" Her voice was a little nervous for some reason.

"You think of a way to leave a message for your 'future self'," Ikari Shinji continued: "Make the 'time travel ability stable enough' and 'have not experienced the third shock' you come to my dormitory at this time to find me Now, I need your help with something."

"[Huh? Hmm... Okay.]" Kirishima's true name's voice revealed a bit of loss.

Ikari Shinji, who had roughly guessed what she was thinking, couldn't help but hang up the phone with a few more greetings and a simple thank you.

Although the real name of Kirishima who returned from the future is full of [prohibited items], but as long as she can come, I can judge the relationship between the future and her based on her attitude.

Hmm... I've made excuses for my scumbag behavior. Yes.

Boom, boom, boom.

There was a knock on the dormitory door.

The ability of time traveler is really convenient, the first one is that you will never be late.

Ikari Shinji tidyed up his instruments a little, walked to the entrance and opened the door:

"Long time no see... Huh?"

Standing outside was not Kirishima's real name, who was expected to have a more mature appearance, but a young man he had never seen before.

He looked about the same age as Shinji Ikari, wearing a white shirt and black trousers, short gray hair, red eyes, and a face that was handsome enough to dwarf ordinary girls.

"[Alterego, Kaoru Nagisa, answering the call,]"

The boy opened his mouth with a gentle and clear voice:

"[Excuse me, are you my Master?]"