When the Eighth Apostle attacked, all the residents of the Third New Tokyo City were evacuated to a distance of 120 kilometers, and their homes were finally saved thanks to the three EVA pilots who risked their lives to hold back the Eighth Apostle.

But this kind of "kindness" does not seem to improve the interpersonal relationship between the three of them in school, and the vast majority of students in Class A of the second year do not seem to appreciate their "life-saving grace".

Maybe they think that the three withdrawn guys didn't go to EVA specifically to save them anyway, so even if they were saved "by the way", there was no need to run to inherit this favor?

Probably because of this reason, even after the elimination of the Eighth Apostle, Shinji Ikari in the school is still only mixed with Kensuke Aida and Toji Suzuhara, while Black Cat, Rei Ayanami and Asuka are still ignored by everyone.

- Especially Asuka, who doesn't talk to Shinji Ikari or hang out with Black Cat and Rei Ayanami when she's in school, and she's either playing a handheld game console at the end of class, or she scans the guys who are sneaking up on her from a distance with the same eyes as monkeys in the zoo, like another black cat.

It seems that most of the otaku are ridiculed, excluded, bullied, and unpopular children in school There is a deep social reason, not that otaku are not born unpopular, but because they are not popular, so they have become otaku, if those children can be gently accepted by society, then there will be no otaku in this world.

"That...... Asuka-san,"

At noon on the next day of Tanabata, Hikaru Togi, the head of Class A of the second year, took the initiative to come to Asuka who was silently eating a lunch box with basically the same color as Black Cat and Rei Ayanami as usual.

"Huh?"

Asuka raised her eyebrows and silently looked up at the simple girl who tied her hair into two low ponytails with two cheap double-ball hair accessories, but her eyes were clearly saying "Go away, don't talk to me".

The plainly dressed local girl squad leader with a little freckles on her face did not retreat, and her face maintained a smile that she had probably practiced hard in the mirror, and asked Asuka gently but firmly:

"That...... Can we eat them together? ”

After asking, this ordinary girl couldn't help but look away. But she immediately pulled her gaze back again, trying to look at Asuka who was not kind to her eyes as calmly and sincerely as possible.

“……”

Seeing the other party's eyes trembling slightly for fear of rejection, the genius girl Asuka could easily guess the psychological state of the soil girl squad leader at this time - her hands behind her back must have felt a little soft, as long as she stared at it silently like this for a while, her psychological pressure naturally reached the limit, and then turned away in a gloomy manner.

"Yes, yes, I won't give you the lunch."

Although she knew exactly what she had to do to get rid of the other party, Asuka made another choice by protecting her bento with her hands, neither affectionate nor cold. He replied in a very ordinary way.

But. This kind of "ordinary" is not ordinary at all - even if the other party is not carrying a bento in his hand behind his back. The genius girl Asuka shouldn't be afraid of the other party snatching her lunch; The genius girl Asuka still had a look of "horizontal eyebrows and cold fingers at Qianfu" just now, and the next second she immediately allowed the other party to sit down with a very indifferent expression; Genius girl Asuka Mingming......

"Hee ......"

After getting Asuka's permission, Hikaru Toki showed her the bento she was carrying behind her, and she showed a playful smile that was a little shy.

And Asuka's acting skills, who pretend to be worried that the other party will snatch her lunch, are perfect. But the faint flush that appeared on her face had betrayed her deeply.

Also at noon, Shinji Ikari, who ate all kinds of bread bought from the school convenience store with Kensuke Aida and Toji Suzuhara, did not go to the sports field with his friends to vent the excess energy of young people, but like an old man, while listening to the old-fashioned Walkman, he lay on the ground on the roof of the school to bask in the sun and replenish calcium.

Although it was already summer, and the chirping of the first cicadas could be heard even if he was wearing headphones, the white clouds in the blue sky blocked the direct sunlight, otherwise even if Shinji Ikari's brain was deficient in calcium, it would be impossible to choose this time to dry himself.

“…… Move! Dodge dodge--! ”

Although Shinji Ikari wears headphones. But he still heard a loud warning from a certain girl, but it was very puzzling that the sound did not seem to come from somewhere on the same level as him, but from the sky.

Shinji Ikari took off one of his headphones to find out exactly where the sound was coming from, but as soon as he sat up. He was surprised to see a huge parachute rushing towards him.

"Ahh x2

Shinji Ikari and the girl in an unfamiliar school uniform who fell under the umbrella screamed in unison, but just as the two of them were about to collide, Shinji Ikari suddenly felt his neck tighten, and then his body was dragged aside by the huge force, causing the girl with the parachute on his back to crash into the air.

"Click......"

The girl's shoes on the girl's feet made a crisp sound on the concrete floor of the rooftop, and then the parachute "whirred" into the barbed wire on the edge of the roof, and slowly fell.

Shinji Ikari turned his head in confusion to look at the darkness that had suddenly appeared next to him, and cried out in surprise after seeing the girl who had almost hit him land safely.

"Black, black cat!"

“……”

Even when standing in the summer sun, the black cat still exudes a cold and black atmosphere, and condescendingly glanced at Shinji Ikari with sparkling red eyes, because of the backlight, Shinji Ikari couldn't see the expression on her face at all, but it must not be with a gentle smile.

Shinji Ikari had actually seen the black cat's sister-like wife and mother-like smile many times, but it was a treasure specially reserved for Chu Xuan and Ayanami Rei, and when facing people other than the two of them, the black cat always had an indifferent expression - it seemed that this was the case with anyone in the "Chu Xuan family", even Asuka who had just moved into Chu Xuan's house.

"Facing that way."

Suddenly, the black cat couldn't help but press Shinji Ikari's head and twisted it at an angle of nearly 90 degrees using brute force, so Shinji Ikari had to quickly turn his body along this force to avoid his head being twisted off directly

"Glasses...... Glasses ......"

In a place where Shinji Ikari couldn't see, a third person's voice rang out, it was the voice of a girl who had just fallen from the sky.

Shinji Ikari didn't know why the black cat didn't allow him to look at the girl who almost bumped into him, he tried to remember the girl's appearance, but he only remembered a black silhouette with his back to the sun, but in the darkness there seemed to be two thrilling white thighs, but unfortunately only a small one, and he was dragged aside by the black cat before he could see too clearly.

"I'm sorry, it's okay......"

"Di Di Di Di ......"

The girl who had fallen from the sky seemed to have found her glasses, but as she was about to walk this way, some kind of communication device she was carrying made a sound, and then she seemed to turn around and walk away to answer the phone.

Obviously, I've been talking to them in Japanese just now, but the girl was talking to the person on the phone in authentic English - it should be authentic, although Shinji Ikari wanted to turn his head to take a look, but the slightly cool little hand of the black cat kept his head firmly on it.

“…… I'm leaving, don't talk about it. ”

Until the suspicious girl ran away with a parachute, the black cat never let go of Shinji Ikaru's head, and she didn't have any explanation after that, and silently walked away as soon as she let go of her hand.

But Shinji Ikari soon saw the girl again in Nerv's base - Makiha? Mary? Elan Trias, the fifth qualified person from the European branch, lived in the British beautiful girl in the last room of Chu Xuan's house.