"Can you turn into a kilometer-long ship?" Misato pinched Penpen's face and rubbed it around. "You can speak, why don't you keep talking?"

Penpen struggled with a "quack".

Penpen's eyes glowed a faint red.

"Shhhh You dishonest penguin! Miri paused and rubbed harder. Penpen's screams were louder, too.

Ian, the five of them drank tea on the side, watching the interaction between this person and a pet.

"Psychic call?" Ian took a sip of tea. "Oh? It's delicious, and Li's technique is getting better and better. ”

"Hmm..."Since moving here, Ayanami Rei's state has become more and more normal, with her own little hobbies, and her current image is no longer a three-no girl, but the image of a literary girl who is closer to tranquility.

"Uncle... When will we be able to fly that VF-35 again? "Asuka has always been obsessed with that high-performance aerospace fighter.

Hearing this, Rei also put down her cup and stared at Ian.

Those big red eyes were full of three words, and so did I.

Ian flipped through the schedule, and there weren't any projects that needed to be pushed forward with lately.

"Tomorrow, it's almost 22 o'clock today, and it's not good for you to stay up late when you're still young. We'll leave tomorrow morning around 10 o'clock. ”

Then the next morning, Ian, who walked out of the room door at seven o'clock, found the two little girls having washed up and were having breakfast.

"Huh?" Ian raised his hand and looked at the time. "Aren't you sleepy?"

The two shook their heads in unison.

"So leave early?" Seeing the eager expressions of the two people, Ian silently advanced the schedule a little.

"Then let's go." Ian went back to his room and picked up his tablet. "The three of them went straight to the bridge."

"Is this the bridge of the spaceship...... "The two little girls looked east and west." That one...... Is it Antarctica? ”

"That's right, the center of the second impact, Antarctica." Ian turned his head to see two little girls looking at the earth below from the porthole on the side of the bridge.

"What's that red hoop loop?"

"The Gate of Guf, which can also be called the Gate of the Soul. What is now certain is that in the center of the void is something like a wormhole, leading to the imaginary space we call the Dirac Sea. But for unknown reasons, the second shock was stuck by the owner. ”

"Stuck?" Asuka looked at Ian suspiciously.

"That's right, it's stuck. I can't find a better way to describe it, but theoretically, something can be divided into three phases: before, during and after.

The second impact maintains the appearance of a work in progress, but has no real effect. It's like pressing the pause button. "Ian saw K2 enter the bridge." K2, set a route to HQ. ”

"Obey the commander, start the main engine, warm up the hyperspace engine, set the route x113y21z33, and prepare for the hyperspace voyage."

“HQ？ Headquarters? Leigh saw that the earth was gradually obscured by the hull of the ship, and turned around.

"Well, the bobbin...... Headquarters of the Integration Department. The true center of the world in the future. ”

The huge hull of the Enterprise adjusted its course, and in the field of vision in the bridge, the starlight in the distance gradually brightened and was elongated, and then the white light in front of the field of vision flashed, and it became a pipe with a white mist-like border, and the Enterprise broke into hyperspace.

"It's ...... Faster-than-light travel? Asuka swallowed. Is this kind of thing possible? ”

"Strictly speaking, it is hyperspace travel, and so far there has been no special case to the theory that the speed of light cannot be exceeded, but it has only been macroscopically caused to move at a speed exceeding the speed of light." Ian casually popularized science. "Hopping, jumping, subspace navigation, hyperspace navigation, space folding navigation, etc., are all ways of navigating in space, and it is still considered impossible to travel faster than light in conventional space. However, it should be noted that this theory is limited to objects in conventional space, and cannot be applied to space itself. ”

"Huh?"

"In some of the older universes, the boundaries have expanded faster than the speed of light."

"I understand, but it's hard to imagine."

"It's hard to imagine, the boundaries of that universe are distorted. It can only be observed from a higher-dimensional perspective, and humans are still a little behind. Not...... We're here. ”

Enterprise exits hyperspace in the target system.

In the center of the "Here is ......" galaxy is a triple star system consisting of two blue giants and a white dwarf.

"Aldebaran." In order to prevent the three stars from being disturbed by gravity, they start the irregular three-body movement of the ghost animals. The three stars are actually anchored in a relatively stable orbit by six large gravity wells.

Construction is in full swing on twelve Star Slayer Fortresses with a radius of 7,500 kilometers in the star system, and 72 Death Star Fortresses with a radius of 1,500 kilometers have been completed and are cruising around the various Star Slayer Fortresses.

Of course, the only Star Slayer Fortress in orbit of the third planet and its 6 escort Death Star Fortresses are currently in the naked eye.

"These are...... Artificial planets? Asuka looked out of the porthole at the unfinished steel planet.

"Hmm. Welcome to the yet-to-be-built headquarters of the Integrate, the Pandora System. ”

"Pandora? A derivative of Pandora's Box? Leigh tilted her head to look at Ian.

It may also be a certain one-meter-two general~

"Ahem, that's right. The calamity that may be unleashed, and the hope that presses the bottom of the box. ”

"Is this your unit's advice to the world?"

"No, to myself."

Seeing the puzzled expressions of the two people.

Ian straightened his collar. "All of this is currently at my disposal."

"Does one person own a planet... It's really extravagant..."

"I don't own a planet."

"Huh?"

Ian resisted the urge to strike a certain Lelouch pose.

"What I have is a hollowed-out three galaxies, dozens of planets built into the Golden Zodiac fortress group, 36,000 Star Destroyers, more than 120,000 auxiliary ships, and a huge army of countless combat robots and clones. ”

"You... So many armies were built ... Do you want to rule the world? Asuka stopped Rei and slowly retreated.

"It's really sad," Ian scratched his head helplessly as he looked at Asuka's vigilant gesture. These are the cornerstones of peace..."

"Peace? Peace is not something these things can bring! Asuka pulled the key case out of her pocket, the only knife on it that was the only thing that gave her a sense of security right now.

"Asuka..."

"What's the matter, honor student."

"He has no ill will."

"How do you know?"

"Because it's not necessary."

"Necessary?"

"Three months ago, in the United States to guard the combat robot of the deputy commander of the winter moon. Only three units suppressed an entire division of rebels. Do you remember how many of them we saw in the hangar of this ship? ”

"Thousands..."

"It's 12,000 units. General data, where the computer is not locked at all... No, it should be said that all the technology is not locked, and we can look at it casually. ”

"But that doesn't mean..."

"Do you remember what Misato said?"

"Huh?"

"Tied up. He's tied up here. With the power he has, he can do whatever he wants on our side. But, on that basis, he is cooperating with NERV's actions.

Although he has not yet analyzed the pattern of behavior, he has been acting around a certain purpose. ”

"Saying so many things at once... It's so rare, honor student. ”

"No way, you're overreacting."

"So, what exactly do you want to do? This level of troops, and your fanatical attitude just now..."Asuka reluctantly accepted Rei's assessment that she was overreacting. "What the hell is such a large army going to do?"

"The role is twofold, one is to prevent the so-called advanced civilization from plundering the backward civilization." Ian rubbed his face, then held up a finger. "Of course, there is only one civilization that I have guarded against from beginning to end... Amount two. ”

"Second, the prevention of natural disasters."

"What kind of civilization needs this kind of army to guard against... What kind of natural disasters need this kind of army to prevent? ”

"A super-large civilization spanning the entire galaxy, with hundreds of thousands of Star Destroyers, hundreds of planetary fortresses, Galactic Republics. A single race occupies most of the quadrant galaxy of the half-human, half-mechanical race, the Borgs. Ian reported the two civilizations he feared the most at the moment.

"As for natural disasters? That's too much..."Ian thought to himself that it was friendly at the moment, but it was really two races that would have to be respectfully called the Scourge everywhere, ELS and vajra. Without proper methods and strong enough background, the moment you come into contact, you will become a dead person on the planet. There is also the one that claims to have more moves than Go, but so far I haven't heard of a beta with follow-up troops.

“…… Too much? "This news is a bit exciting for a 14-year-old girl.

"Silicon-based life (ELS) that can't communicate without the right way to communicate and devour everything. It can cross the universe, crisscross dozens of galaxies, and can tear through the swarm of battleships (vajra). Runaway self-disciplined miner (beta). A high-level civilization that only knows how to fight (the Jetratites). A twisted piece of flesh that assimilates and destroys all intelligent organisms (the Flood). There are so many that I can remember in an instant. Not to mention the violent black holes, supernova explosions, comet falls and other natural and pollution-free natural disasters. ”

“… The"

"Don't tell me you're scared of these things," Ian pulled out an awkward smile. Aren't you fighting an out-of-control alien artifact right now? ”

"Apostle?"

"Whose apostle?"

“…… God's? ”

"Aliens, aliens who claim to be gods."

"Self-proclaimed?"

"Gods......" Ian's mind flashed with the fear he hadn't seen in a while. Do you remember a quote from the Bible? God loves the world. ”

"Of course I do."

"So, why do you say that?"

"Why..."

"For God loves the world so much." Seeing the red-haired girl's expression in front of him return to normal, Ian's mood also relaxed a lot. "In a distant world, a group of gods who are rumored to be evil gods lead countless mortals against an almost endless number of natural disasters. If it weren't for the fact that the fighting in the subspace battlefield has almost come to a standstill recently, I would have been on the front line by now. ”

"Of course, if it weren't for the fact that the group of lost ELS stalled their offensive, and there was no pressure for harmonious coexistence between civilizations, I wouldn't have bothered to build this existing fleet."

"Wait, there's a fleet?" Asuka felt like she had heard an amazing word.

"That's right, there is a fleet, this seemingly huge fleet, it's really just a soulless puppet, compared to the big republican army next door, it doesn't have to fight at all. At most, the purpose of his existence is to deter them from going too far. All trade, colonization, exchange, etc., are limited to a limited scope. I'm pretty sure what the Galactic Republic and the Klingon Empire, where slavery still exists, will do when they encounter a civilization like this side of Earth. ”

"Just like the Indians of two hundred years ago..."

"No, at least the earthlings are still alive. As a slave. ”

"Hmph, I believe you." Asuka flicked her hair.

"What do you mean... Isn't it fun for me to have fun here? ”

"So, what are you going to do with this lady?"

"It's just that simulating confrontation is boring. There are enough target planes in the base here, so have a good time? I've only used all the models here, so you can try them one by one.

And if I release hundreds of target planes for you to play, won't the people on Earth go crazy? ”

"Hmph, I see."

"Sharon will take you there, you follow her, I'll go to you after I've dealt with the problems accumulated here."

"Come here."

Rei and Asuka leave the bridge following Sharon's holographic projection.

"Why do you care so much about what they think?" Another holographic projection of Sharon floated in front of Ian.

Ian sat down at the console, rolled up his sleeves and began to deal with the various technical problems that had accumulated over this time.

"Because it's the goddess of childhood..."Although she is already a handful of years old, her skin is thick enough to resist small-caliber armor-piercing bullets, and it is still a little embarrassing to say this kind of thing sincerely.

"So, what now?"

"When the granddaughter is used to it." Ian's hands danced on the virtual keyboard. "Whether it's the Golden Zodiac, or a battleship, flying an EVA, or designing a Gundam, it's all something that makes me die without regrets.

So, to complete the follow-up Shinji Ikari, even if it's only this time, to make each of them happy, this agreement, is also to make up for my own childhood regrets. Ian typed the keyboard a little slower, then returned to normal in an instant.

"Your childhood regrets?"

"I've watched this animation no less than 50 times in the TV version and no less than 100 times in the theater version."

"So what?"

"Rei died hundreds of times in front of my eyes, and Asuka died no less than a hundred times. This time, I would never have seen it. ”