Unit Three? Just lost the No. 4 machine and threw the pot in a hurry? "Ritsuko complained angrily." Use the Vatican's mediation treaty as a reason to reject them. ”

"It's late, it's a direct order from the League of Nations, we have no room to refuse, and the Vatican Treaty was scrapped three minutes ago." Misato sat on a stool. "I heard that they were discussing the formation of a unified global polity, and I really didn't know what kind of nerves I was talking about."

"Isn't that normal?" Ritsuko looked down at the information Ian had given her. "When order was restored five years ago, wasn't it because the League of Nations integrated most of the armies of the world? Now I finally understand how wasteful this kind of multi-government coexistence with a unified army is, right? ”

"No, I always felt like there was something else in there." Misato's eyes flickered and landed on Ian. "Shinji... Is it what you did? ”

"Huh? I'm here for a vacation, and I don't do official business. ”

"That is to say... Are those old men really enlightened? ”

"It should be said that in the face of the time of human extinction, I am surprised that you can still hold on to the independent regimes of various countries for so long, instead of concentrating on dealing with the apostles..."

"After all, the old men don't know about the Dead Sea documents and the human completion plan..."Misato sighed, realizing that everyone present had gone to study the newly arrived materials. Hey Shinji, how much do you say? ”

"Huh?" Ian looked up. "Isn't this a normal choice, it's an apocalypse crisis, it's an alien visit, and either one is enough for that group of politicians who still have brains to make painful decisions."

“……”

A group of people sneaked home early after the meeting.

Misato drives the GTR in the color version of the first machine, carrying Ian and Ritsuko.

Drive back at 50 km/h.

"Since..."Misato just started talking...

"Wait." Ian pulled out his blaster pistol. Unknowingly, Miri's car was surrounded by six SUVs.

took out another piece of nanobot and pressed it on the body, and the nanobot quickly spread out, devoured, and rebuilt the car.

"Terrorists?"

"Probably... Not normal anyway. The number of permanent residents in the third new Tokyo city is now below 10,000, and the probability of encountering exactly six cars is too small. ”

He took out his tablet and hacked into the central control computer of several cars next to him. Listen to the conversation with the person in the car next to you.

“…… Is it them? ”

"I see the face, it's the operator of the purple pseudo-god."

"For the sake of the rebirth of the dead human beings, let the fate of death bring the joy of new life."

"Whether it is a god or a human being, they all become one after death."

"Death is upon you."

“……”

"It's SEELE's remnants." Ian put down his tablet and operated the nanobot to open a sunroof on the roof of the car.

"No, it's a cult group that has recently popped up in the city of Third New Tokyo." Misato stepped on the accelerator and looked like a GTR's four-seater sports car. He sprang out of the way, dodging the impact of an SUV.

"They have been attacking members of NERV recently, and the security department has been having a headache for a long time." Misato steadied the car. "We've brought in the rats, the action group, it's time to act."

"Huh? Fishing? ”

"I've been fishing for over two months now... Yes! Misato gritted her teeth at the end, pulled the handbrake and stepped on the clutch, stepped on the brake and accelerator at the same time, slammed the steering wheel, and the GTR flicked its tail and turned directly into another fork in the road.

“… Whew... Toast without eating and eating penalty wine... Leave the impact alone, fire and fire! ”

A conversation in the car behind me came from the tablet.

"Fire?" Ian looked back. “…… you cultists with this kind of equipment? ”

The roofs of the three large Lincoln SUVs were opened left and right, and the on-board machine guns were raised separately. Two raised 7.62mm Gatling guns, and one raised twin 12.7mm old godmother.

One of the passengers in the car stood up and pulled the trigger directly.

The muzzles of the four machine guns instantly began to spit out fiery snakes.

"Get down!" Misato curled up, leaving only a barely sight to see the way. only to find that the remaining two people were very calm. "Huh?"

The bullet hit the rear of the car, but it didn't even shatter the turn signal.

"Don't say it, it's pretty good to be baptized by the barrage."

A man who might call him a cultist leaned out of the window, and the person who came out of the window took the bazooka handed to him... Forehead is the Javelin anti-tank missile ...

Misato saw this scene in the rearview mirror, and cold sweat came down. "Doesn't it matter how much?"

"Of course it matters..."Ian pulled out two grenades and threw them down the skylight.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

"Boom!"

Two grenades exploded one after the other under the SUV with the cultist armed with anti-tank missiles. The SUV was directly blown up, and the cultist leaning out of the body subconsciously pulled the trigger and launched the Javelin missile.

The javelin, which was fired by mistake, blew up another pursuing SUV by the way.

"Hehe... The driving is not standardized, and the relatives are in tears..."Watching the two SUVs spin into the flower beds on both sides of the road, Ian thought of the movie lines he watched decades ago. "Oh? Changed bullets? So it's my turn. ”

He took off a nanotechnology robot from the roof of the car, converted it into an explosive machine gun, heard the gunfire stopped, and decisively poked his head out, aimed at the SUV equipped with a duplex old godmother and began to strafe.

"Hey! Doesn't that matter! Listening to the gunshots that stopped in the rear, Misato didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief when Ian's gunfire rang out, followed by explosions from the rear. Say it first when you shoot! ”

Misato was so frightened by the ups and downs that her eyes burst into tears.

"How can I have that time?" Ian aimed at an SUV equipped with Gatling. Who told you to probe? ”

Kill the cultist with a single shot who has changed his bullets and prepares to fire. Then aim at another Gatling-equipped SUV and strafe as it changes. Within seconds, the two SUVs exploded into a fireball.

"Support has arrived." Ian listened to the roar that was approaching.

"That's the AV-22 Attack Osprey that the headquarters just installed! Why is it so slow! Misato looked through the mirror at the approaching aircraft.

"Because it's not supporting us," Ian pulled the trigger and strafed the remaining SUVs. After more than ten seconds, the remaining SUVs were reduced to burning wreckage.

Looking up at the chasing Osprey carefully, there were dozens of bullet holes in the fuselage, and there were also cracks and blood stains on the cockpit glass.

"Katsuragi Ichisa! The action group reported that the temporary airfield was attacked, and two Ospreys were snatched! Be careful, the YAGA will arrive in a minute. Misato's voice came from Hinata's headphones.

"Two machines?" Ian adds a sniper scope to the Blaster and replaces the energy magazine. Concentrate and listen carefully to the noise around you.

"Shinji-kun be careful!" The Osprey launched an air-to-surface missile.

"I see." Switching to sniper mode, Ian aimed at the missile and began firing. "I haven't shot hand-held for so long ... My hands are a little raw..."

Ian fired at the missile at a speed of five rounds per second, and finally exploded the incoming missile at the sixth second.

"The hands are too raw," Ian looked away from the sniper scope.

Hands slap on the roof of the car, and the nanobots on the roof begin to generate two quadruple blaster machine guns.

"Let's still suppress the barrage."

"Awesome... Missiles can be taken down..."

No... I'm already rubbish... Replaced by a certain sniper brother, I'm afraid it won't be solved with one shot. Hearing Miri's commercial touting, Ian only felt a little embarrassed.

In the distance, the Osprey fired missiles one after another, launching all four quadruple Hellfire anti-tank missiles mounted under the wings.

"......" Ian twitched, grabbed a four-mounted machine gun in each hand, and fired into the air.

"Chirp tweet..."

"Boom boom boom..."

"The range is not enough...", the missile was shot down, but the Osprey was still hanging steadily in the air five kilometers away, and the range of the blaster rifle was out of reach.

"Boom!"

"Whoosh! Sou! "After the two YAGA crashed the Ospreys in the rear, they skimmed overhead.

"Boom!" YAGA FIRED ANOTHER AIR-TO-AIR MISSILE, KNOCKING DOWN ANOTHER OSPREY IN THE DISTANCE.

In a big circle, two YAGA hovered in the air to the left and right of the GTR in Miri to provide escort.

"Hey, Misato, is the convoy behind you your own?" Ian puts the two machine guns back on the roof of the car, and the machine guns disintegrate automatically, and the nanobots are refilled back into the roof of the car.

Ian then spawned another anti-tank rocket.

"It doesn't look like it's easy to mess with."

"Hinata-kun, is the convoy in our rear our own?" Misato contacted Hinata, who was on duty at the headquarters.

"That's right, it's a member of the action team, and the identity verification has been done."

Four Centaur assault guns escorted Miri's sports car in the front two and two in the back.

"Kazuki Kazusa, sorry for being late, can you go home directly?"

"That's right, hard work." Misato hung up the communication. "By the way, Ritsuko, why didn't you react at all... Obviously, the Hellfire missiles on the opposite side were also used, and the large-caliber machine guns were also used..."

"Because we're completely safe from start to finish... Unless the latter wants us to die. ”

"Huh?" Misato blinked in confusion.

"Please, give a little bit of your brains to these aspects... Usually weapons cannot penetrate the AT position, do you remember this conclusion? Ritsuko rolled down the window, lit a cigarette, and looked wistfully in the rearview mirror, where she could see the smoke from the burning of the car.

"Well, remember, does it have anything to do with what I just asked?" Misato looked at Ritsuko while paying attention to the driving.

Ritsuko puts down the tablet with her left hand and stretches her palm out.

"Ding..." a small hexagonal AT stance appeared above her palm.

"Eh, eh!" Misato's hand shook, and the car almost tilted into the next lane. "How can you...?"

"It's very simple self-hypnosis." Ritsuko dissipated her position. "I refuse to identify with the world."

“… Yes? ”

"As the Nineteenth Apostle, there is no reason why we humans can't release the AT position."

"So why did we before..."

"Because we subconsciously deny this possibility... I don't believe it until Ian shows that he is unleashing AT as a human being. Even after he was released, I thought for a while that "he was special" and that we couldn't be like him. Ritsuko smiled mockingly, and she didn't know whether to laugh at herself or the world. Then with his training, Asuka and Rei learned the trick in just one afternoon. "The driver of the EVA is special." I used to convince myself that. Then, a month later, I saw Penpen and Asuka using the AT stance to defend against the pillow that was thrown over them when they were fighting. ”

"Wait... What did you just say? ”

"Rei and Asuka only used ......"

"No, no, no, not the latter sentence."

"Penpen will defend themselves against the pillows they throw at them with an AT stance...?"

"It's... Are you sure? ”

"Well, at first I thought Penpen was just a laboratory animal at some biological research institute in New Tokyo City No. 3, because some kind of experiment caused it to be so vegetarian that it could even eat the bento you made."

"What do you mean you can even eat the bento I made?"

"That weird black and blue fluid, I call it a bento, and it gives you a long face." Ritsuko thinks of the food Misato she saw a few years ago, not to mention the difficult homework of bento. Even the fried egg can be made into one-third carbonized, one-third edible, and one-third whole ghost animal object.

"In the days that followed, I looked up the information, although as a by-product of the EVA trial experiment, the penpen had been intellectually enhanced.

But it is absolutely impossible to produce such a degree of wisdom. I should have been skeptical when it started reading the newspaper, but I didn't. Even when I first saw it using the AT stance, I didn't doubt it, and I even thought it was a normal thing. It was the nanobots in my body that prompted me that my thinking was rewritten by external forces, and I realized that something was wrong. ”

"So... How did you investigate after that..."Misato's hands as she held the steering wheel turned white.

"I'll just ask."

"Huh?"

"And then it told me."

“……？” Misato felt that the feeling of facing Shinji who was abnormal everywhere at that time had returned. It's good to be responsible for being confused and listening to the commentary, and if you think about it, you'll lose. "So, what is it?"

"ADAMS'S PET, A CREATURE THAT EXISTED BEFORE THE FIRST IMPACT, WAS FREED FROM ADAMS' SLAVERY AFTER DEVOURING THE SOUL OF AN ADAMS AFTER THE SECOND IMPACT."

“… I figured that there was something at home to greet the lab animal that I just brought back from the lab, and it turned out to be a big guy. ”

"ACCORDING TO HIS OWN WORDS, HE WAS EVEN HALF A GENERATION BEFORE THE APOSTLE, THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF THE WHITE MOON IMPACT IN ANCIENT TIMES, EXCEPT FOR ADAMS."

“…… He can even speak? ”

“…… Is that the point?! Ritsuko was stunned for half a minute before she reacted.

"And then?"

"And then? In the last timeline, in the face of complete despair, Penpen sacrificed himself and turned into a giant ship with a length of one kilometer and a width of one kilometer, AAAwunder, which is the only god-killing power that humans can master. ”

“… Aha? "Misato couldn't make the connection between the penguins and the kilometer-long spaceship.