The Collection of The End

—2016.3.24—

Gathering Garden?

"No, four wins in seven games, another game!"

After Ikari Shinji won against Nagisa Kaoru, he was very unconvinced and insisted on the extra game, first two wins of three games, and then three wins of five games. Play table tennis?

If the girls in the support club knew that their "His Royal Highness" was such a fool, they would probably be... um... ecstatic.

"No, didn't you find it?" Although Ikari Shinji didn't play enough, he didn't intend to bully people: "Every time I draw cards that can solve the current situation, this is the super ability of the qualified, purer than you. There are too many card draw advantages that rely on luck.”

"Well, I feel it roughly," Nagisa Kaoru nodded. "That is to say, you have to clear your field, hand, graveyard and exclusion zone, and then reduce all HP in one round to win. After all, it cannot be activated from the deck. Effect."

It seems... that's the case, but that's too difficult.

Ikari Shinji nodded hesitantly.

"Congratulations," Ayanami said, holding her cheeks, "The 'Future Shinji Ikari' has been killed by you."

Ok? Ok…

Ikari Shinji touched his chin and thought about it, is that "Ikari Shinji who was trapped in the LCL with Ayanami for fifteen years"? If his super powers are the same as his own, Nagisa Kaoru can indeed take him away with preparations in advance.

"Future Kirishima True Name" wanted to rescue "Future Shinji Ikari", so she sent the humanoid apostle Nagisa Kaoru, who would appear fifteen years later, to the present to change the future, but although she can jump on the "timeline", But I don't know the existence of "world line".

Usually it's fine to make small troubles, and the timeline can be self-consistent, but at this time, Ayanami directly created a new world line to block the 16th Apostle. There is no doubt that his future has nothing to do with that. In other words, whether Ikari Shinji and Ayanami from the "future" can be rescued depends only on whether the information Nagisa Kaoru obtained from the "past" is sufficient.

For example, I peeked at the answer before the test, and the teacher changed the question.

Although the Nagisa Kaoru in front of him is from the future on the "timeline", that is, fifteen years later in the calendar, but on the "worldline", he is from the past, because those things "have already happened".

To sum up, the future of "myself at this time" is still blank, and there is no "answer" to refer to at all.

However, there is no need to say such a thing. After all, Nagisa Kaoru only appeared after she asked Kirishima's real name. With her personality, it is not easy to break free if she falls into self-blame.

"You see, I haven't lost a game just now," Ikari Shinji said, "If the 'future me' loses to Nagisa Kaoru, it can only prove that he is not me, so it has nothing to do with the 'current me' at all. ."

"How dare you say that..." Xiao Lingbo didn't seem to agree with this point of view, but he didn't refute it either.

"Don't worry, Shinji-kun, no matter when, where, or where I meet you, I will not hurt you." Zhu Xun rolled his eyes.

"You mean you're going to win without dealing damage to your health?" Ikari Shinji glanced at him: "There should be no Exzodia in the deck of Heroes of Destiny."

"Oh, who knows? Would you like to try it?"

——

"Shuffle 'Xinyuxia', 'Sky Hummingbird' and 'Water Wave Dolphin' back into the deck, and special summon 'Storm Xinyuxia'! The round is over!" Shinji Ikari announced.

"Oh, don't you activate the effect of 'destroy all magic and trap cards on the field'?" Nagisa Kaoru glanced at the row of five cover cards on his field.

"In that case, it will definitely be invalidated by a trap that has a 'activation when the cover card is destroyed'," Ikari Shinji pointed at "Storm Xinyuxia": "Now I activate the effect of 'return to the deck at the end of the turn'. , after this effect is activated, all cards on the field will also be returned to the deck, and when it is in the deck, any chain against this return effect will be invalid."

"Really? Then stay," Nagisa Kaoru flipped over a magic card: "'Forbidden Holy Grail', which increases the attack of a monster on the field by 400 before the end of the turn, and the effect is invalid."

A pitch-black cup appeared above the head of "Storm Xinyuxia", poured black mud on it, and the effect of returning to the deck was forcibly interrupted.

"...The round is over." Ikari Shinji raised his head and glanced at the nineteen small **** of light suspended on the roof, and said helplessly.

That thing is the effect of the magic card that Nagisa Kaoru activates at the beginning of the duel:

【Countdown to the end】

[You need to pay 2000 points of life when you activate it, and you will win after the twentieth round after activation. 】

Because it was Nagisa Kaoru, Ikari Shinji didn't have any countermeasures for the card in his hand, so he could only watch him play this magic card and cover up a bunch of trap cards and magic cards.

After that, he didn't attack the whole time, and the monsters were all covered from the inside, focusing on dealing with Shinji's attack, and his attitude was obviously delaying.

This kind of card that goes to the grave after activation, but the effect remains on the field, even with Shinji Ikari's "unshuffled card drawing", there is nothing that can be done.

Although there are still monsters with 3000 attacks on his field and Gaika in the backcourt, Nagisa Kaoru doesn't attack at all and has no chance to activate them. Nagisa Kaoru has emptied the high health value that has been added to 6000 points intermittently, otherwise the end of the round will mean failure.

In this case, I can only summon God...

In Nagisa Kaoru's turn, he blocked another monster, activated "Double Summon" to block another, and finally added another blocked card. Obviously, he made up his mind to set up a turtle formation.

But just when Ikari Shinji thought that Nagisa Kaoru was about to end the round, he stopped.

"Oh, it's dangerous," said the apostle boy with a smile, "If it's your turn, I'll probably be attacked by 'God', which is not good."

"You want to say that you are going to win this round?" Ikari Shinji raised his eyebrows.

"Can't do it, you still have two cover cards," Zhu Xun sat down and folded his arms: "So I'm going to 'procrastinate'."

Shame on you? Although this is a private game without a referee, this kind of behavior will not be punished, but it is a bit outrageous anyway.

"No, no, no problem, as long as the game is interrupted by 'force majeure', I'll have a huge advantage just by looking at the endgame." Zhu Xun shook his finger.

"Where did the force majeure come from..." Ikari Shinji asked halfway through, turned to look out the window, and then looked back at the circular "Final Time" floating in the room.

If the sixteenth apostle's circle-like body is far away and his eyesight is not good, it is indeed easy to see it as a ring composed of light spheres.

Is that also the countdown to the end?

【La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la~】

【La la la la, la-la la~】

As if to confirm Ikari Shinji's thoughts, music sounded from all directions in the gathering garden in the dark night, and at the same time, the sixteenth apostle who had not moved for a long time began to emit soft white light.

"Ode to joy?" Ikari Shinji turned to look at the halo in the air: "Last time the fifteenth apostle played Hallelujah, do they have a problem with their heads?"

"Songs are the closest expression to the soul," Zhu Xun said with a smile: "For example, even if there are a lot of people in the classroom talking chaotically, it's hard to influence people with firm minds to read and study, but if you change to a much quieter voice If you want to sing, he won't even think about learning it again."

"Simple and easy to understand..." Ikari Shinji looked at the light ball floating on the roof, and pressed his hand on the deck: "This is a draw?"

"Of course, it is 'force majeure' after all." Zhu Xun made the same action.

With their movements, the monsters and Gaika, and the end timer in the air disappeared at the same time, but the sixteenth apostle outside the house became brighter and brighter.

"According to the visual effect shown by this card, I have reason to suspect that you are really delaying time," Xiao Ayanami said.

"How is that possible?" Zhu Xun replied with spread hands, "The longer you delay, the weaker the Sixteenth Apostle will be. Is this something that has already been proven?"

"That's right." Ikari Shinji turned to look at her, "and there won't be a judge to pronounce it 'win'."

"..." Xiao Lingbo's eyes twitched: "Yes."

"How can..."

【La la la la, la-la la~】

boom boom-

With the very unfortunate "Ode to Joy", the sixteenth apostle began to rise rapidly.

No, not "raised", but "jacked up" - as "decoration".

Right below the sixteenth apostle, the city's buildings had become ruins, and at this time, the ground beneath the ruins was torn apart, the eaves and walls were broken, and the soil and stones were suspended in the air in a manner that defied gravity and continued to rise.

However, this unconventional phenomenon is not worth mentioning in the face of other wonders:

A super gigantic girl is slowly rising from the ground, and the originally huge sixteenth apostle is suspended above her head, looking like a small angel halo.

The appearance of this giant girl is exactly the same as Ling Ayanami, with short blue hair, red eyes, a sleeveless pure white dress, and eight pairs of prismatic flake wings completely composed of golden light behind her back. Looking up at the sky expressionlessly, he continued to rise from the ground.

In the direction in which she rose, the sixteenth apostle had been twisted and deformed, opening a dark circular passage in the air out of thin air.

"What is that..." Ikari Shinji asked subconsciously.

"It's 'Eve'." Xiao Lingbo gave a completely unexpected answer.

"Why is she here?" Ikari Shinji already knew the answer when he asked the question.

"In order for her to launch the 'Third Shock'," Xiao Ayanami put her chin in her hand: "Every time she defeats the apostle, Eve will accumulate some... Let's call it the 'End Time', which has a different effect from that card. As long as you accumulate fourteen here, you will be able to launch a third impact, no matter whether or not an apostle touches her."

Fourteen, but this is the sixteenth... oh, the first two are Eve herself, so they don't count, right?

"Can you do it?" Ikari Shinji determined the key words.

"Yes, it's not 'must', but 'can'," Xiao Lingbo raised her eyebrows: "Although I can suppress the other one, it may be triggered accidentally, so I took this opportunity to let her in this 'locked space' Launch a third shock and bring it back, in that case, there will be no problems for at least fifteen years."

"Well... there is a problem..." Ikari Shinji looked at Nagisa Kaoru.

He is the problem in fifteen years.

"I guess you haven't thought about a question?" Nagisa Xun smiled at him: "'The real name of Kirishima in the future' can send me to the past, but the real name of 'the current Kirishima' can't send me back to the future Oh."

It seems... it is...

"I'm sorry." Kirishima's real name bowed his head and apologized.

What's your business!

"I actually thought about drinking a bottle of rejuvenating medicine or freezing myself to go to the future, but those things don't seem to be of any use to the apostles," Nagisa Kaoru shrugged: "By the 'world reset' of the 'Third Shock' The return of power is a backup plan after the mission fails, but I didn’t expect it to be used now.”

"What kind of strange medicine is that..." Ikari Shinji suddenly reacted in the middle of his words, "Wait? What are you doing?"

"Go back to my own world," Nagisa Kaoru began to emit blue light: "'Future Kirishima's real name' is still waiting for 'Future Shinji Ikari' to wake up, and you haven't forgotten that I'm a real apostle 'Well, touching Eve will directly trigger the 'fourth shock'."

"This, that..." Ikari Shinji didn't know what to say for a while.

"The other one I asked me to bring you a message, she said 'thank you'." Xiao Lingbo said.

"Hmm," Zhu Xun responded casually, "We will meet again."

With the voice, he turned into a blue ball of light again, flew out through the window, and rushed straight to the "black hole" in the sky.

"Well... is it okay for us to stay here?" Ikari Shinji didn't turn his head to look at Ayanami until he couldn't see the ball of light clearly.

"The 'community classroom' and 'outside' are different worlds. You are hiding here to avoid being influenced by the sixteenth apostles, and my task is here to ensure that the 'third shock' will not go wrong," said Ayanami. : "The other me is even a little bit concerned when it happens, and the 'real world' will have a third shock synchronously."

"..." Ikari Shinji didn't know what to say for a while.

"Take a good look," Xiao Lingbo said again: "Seeing with my own eyes that I can survive the third shock is quite a rare experience."

It seems useless, this experience.

【La-la-la~】

As "Eve" touched the black hole in the sky, "Ode to Joy" came to an abrupt end.

After a brief pause, the endless darkness spread rapidly in all directions with Eve as the center. Wherever the "Kuroshio" passed, the still intact city buildings fell to the ground like sandcastles destroyed by children, and were then engulfed by darkness.

This kind of terrifying power, even though Xiao Ayanami clearly said that he would be fine if he stayed in the club classroom, Kirishima's real name exclaimed in a low voice when the Kuroshio rushed towards him.

Soon, the surroundings became pitch black, and only a few people's breathing was faintly audible.

"Yes, how long will it take?" Kirishima's true name asked weakly in the darkness.

"I don't know, I haven't experienced it before, but time is meaningless now," Xiao Lingbo's tone was not very sure: "Would you like to sleep first?"

huh... hum...

In the darkness, a light suddenly lit up. When a few people followed the light, they were stunned to find that the originally huge "Eve" appeared in the classroom of the club in the shape of a normal person. On her left arm, she was wearing a shiny With five cards in his hand, he stared at Shinji Ikari expressionlessly.

She didn't speak at all, but she clearly expressed her meaning.

[If you lose, I will kill you. 】

This... Ikari Shinji suddenly remembered a conversation between himself and Ayanami.

- Who gave me super powers?

— Eve.