NGE-FanFiction * Turning Points IV - INVASION
Stage 1 - The Game
Chapter 01 - Rebirth
"Darling, it´s time to get up!" a dampened voice came the door´s other side.
"Just five more minutes", Rei mumbled, turned to the other side, facing the wall and
pulled the blanket over her head.
"Rei, if you don´t get up now, you´ll be late for school!"
As hard as she tried, she was unable to ignore her mother´s voice completly.
"Ach, Mom!"
She heard that her room´s door was opened and her mother entered, the next moment the
window´s blinds are removed and bright light fell into the room.
"Now, my little sleepyhead, surely you want to eat a bit before leaving for school,
don´t you?"
Rei sat up and yawned.
"I had such a nice dream."
"Yes? About what... or whom?"
Her mother already wore her labcoat but looked at Rei with couriosity.
She felt her cheeks turning red.
"I... ah... about nobody."
Rei looked at the clock on the nightboard.
"I have to hurry...!"
She jumped out of the bed, grapped the clothes she had placed on the chair the evening
before and ran out of the room, across the narrow corridor of the apartment where she and
her mother were living, into the bathroom.
"No? Well... how was your first day at the new school, yesterday?" Ritsuko shouted while
headshaking tidying her daughter´s bed.
"Quite nice" the answer came dampened by the running of water from the bathroom.
"And, how are the other pupils?"
"I... I haven´t got to know them, yet."
"Ah, a pity. I´m sorry for moving to Tokio in the middle of the year, but I couldn´t
turn down the offered job at the institut."
"Mom, we have already talked about this a dozen times. I could have stayed with grandma
at Osaka. So, and how was your first day at work?"
Ritsuko Akagi smiled thinly.
She tries to distract... Rei, what are you trying to hide from your good old mother?
"Lots of things to do. But the collegues are nice. Maya... she´s working at her decree
at the institut, gave me a tour. And the teamleader, Doctor Yui Ikari, seems to be quite
a decent person."
"Ikari? Did you just say Ikari?"
The bathroom´s door was pushed open and Rei, wearing only bra and panties, looked at her
with eyes wide open.
"Yes, why?"
"Ah, nothing."
Ritsuko stepped into the corridor and went into the kitchen.
"If you hurry up I´ll give you a ride to school."
"Thanks, mom!"
***
A short time later Rei sat at the kitchen table wearing her school uniform and chewed
her toast. Her bag was leaning against the tableleg.
"Why were you that surprised when I mentioned Doctor Ikari´s name?" Ritsuko asked who
meanwhile had finished her breakfast and was just packing a thermos flask with coffee
into her own pack.
"There´s a boy in my class with the same name, Shinji Ikari."
"Ah. Maybe it´s just a coincidence."
"Yes, maybe."
"And, do you like him?"
Rei choked on her tea and coughed.
Ritsuko got up, went around the table and patted her daughter´s back until she had
stopped coughing.
"Mom, don´t ask me such things, I barely know him!"
"Barely? So you already know him a bit?"
Since Ritsuko was standing behind Rei she was unable to see the amused smile on her
mother´s face.
"Ah... we ran into each other on the way to school yesterday."
"Ran into each other?"
"Well, I turned around the corner and he came from the other side and we were both
running and so we..."
"Ah, I can imagine it."
Now Ritsuko couldn´t suppress a giggle.
"Did he say he was sorry?"
Rei nodded and drank her tea.
"I have to go!"
She grabbed her bag and ran out of the kitchen.
"Hey, I wanted to give you a ride..." Ritsuko shouted but was only answered by the
closing of the apartment´s door. With a broad grin she sat down on her chair and once
again checked the stuff within her bag.
"Hm", she mumbled. "Ikari... Shinji Ikari... it would be a really big coincident but
maybe he is a relative of Doctor Yui. I should ask me... Rei, Darling, you don´t happen
to have a crush on this boy, do you...?"
She sighed realizing that her only daughter was would turn fifteen very soon, would
sooner or later have her first boyfriend...
***
On the other side of this part of the town another person also had troubles with getting
up, or better to leave the dreamworld, still clinging to a very pleasant dream about a
certain bluehaired girl with pale skin and red eyes he had met the day before.
"Will you get up now, or do you want us to be too late again?"
Even the large and thick pillow he had buried his head under wasn´t able to dampen the
loud voice of his tormentoress who also happened to be his best friend.
"Asuka, why don´t you just let me sleep and leave for school?" he growled.
"Ha! That you would like, Baka-Shinji! If I didn´t wake you up each and every morning
you´d spent the whole day carrying buckets for being late!"
He knew the resistence was useless, but he pressed the pillow harder against his ear and
his head against the mattress, trying to return to his dream.
"Now move your lazy body!" Asuka shouted and pulled away his blanket.
He should have expected this, it was one of her favorite tactics to wake him.
"Ahh! Why aren´t you wearing shorts? You Hentai!"
He pulled up the knees and covered himself with his hands. This gave her the opportunity
to steal his pillow.
"Why do you pull at my blanket?"
"Hentai!"
"You are a Hentai yourself, you peeping tom!"
"I? So, there´s nothing to see, since there is nothing!"
"Shinji, Asuka, school starts in ten minutes!" his mother´s voice came from the corridor.
"Can you see? Now we´ll be late, just because of you... ah, forget it!"
She stormed out of the room.
"I´ll wait for you downstairs!"
***
Five minutes later Shinji Ikari left the house when he lived with his parents, as did
Asuka and her parents.
The redhead already stood near the parkinglot in front the house and waited for him.
"If Misato-sensei weren´t late herself always, I wouldn´t waste my time waking you every
morning. For ten years I am doing this now and do you appreciate? - No!" she scolded
him, before she grinned and shouted: "Lets race to school!" and ran away.
He was already used to her challenging him after she had gained an advantage.
Shinji sighed and followed her.
***
On the roof of skyscaper in the center of Tokio a government-owned helicopter without
markings landed on the landing-field.
Two humans got up, a man and a woman.
The man might have been an eurasian, it was difficult to determine his ancestry. His
hair was black with a bit of grey and a light shimmer of blue, the skin was pale, the
face resembled a bird of prey. He only had one eye, the other one was covered by a
black leatherpatch, a light scar divided the left brow. He was large and not broadly
built, wore a dark suit and gloves and a grey trenchcoat.
The woman as smaller that her companion, her hair was ravenblack, her eyes were hidden
behind dark glasses. Her whole composure expressed attention and readyness. She wore
dark trousers and shoes, a white blouse under her leatherjacket and one black glove over
her right hand.
Both were aged somewhere between thirty and fourty, both carried dark suitcases.
They are already expected by a golden-blonde asian woman wearing a business-suit. She
smiled when she approached the man and embraced him.
"Welcome back to Japan, Thomas."
The other one smiled, too, but without the warmth within his good eye it would have been
a skull´s smile since the skin tightened over the bones.
"I glad to see you, sister."
He returned the embrace.
"Where´s Roderick?"
"He´s busy, but he asked me to greet you, one of us had to stay at Osaka with the prototyp
and the testmodel."
"I see."
The woman broke the embrace and turned to her brother´s companion, offering her her hand.
"Miss Deiko."
"Lady Selene."
Deiko took the offered hand with the gloved right one.
"Good to have you both back. What did you discover?"
Thomas cleared his throat.
"Situation´s dire. We should talk below and then assemble the teams."
Selene closed her eyes.
"Fifteen years... we knew that peace wouldn´t last forever..."
"At least we had the time to prepare." Deiko said.
"Yes, but just remembering the sacrifices to stop a lone scout..."
"Sister, I was there at the southpole", Thomas growled and pointed at his eyepatch.
"Of course..."
"It nearly cost us the complete team - and it was only one, just a lightly armed and
armored Matriel-scout. This time it will an army."
"I know."
"In your last report you wrote that MARDUK had found a suitable candidate, tell me more."
"Yes, a potential candidate, we are watching her... Come, Midori has everything prepared
at the meeting chamber."
They left the roof.
***
Rei stood at the same corner she had run into Shinji the day before and carefully peeked
around, saw two running figures in the distance.
Seeing Asuka her face twisted, way too well she was still remembering arguing with the
redhead right before her new class to the amusement of her fellow pupils and the teacher.
Then she saw Shinji running behind Asuka and just had to smile.
Why do I feel attracted to him? He´s nice as far as I can judge... on the other hand I
just know him for a short time... And what if Asuka is his girl-friend? she asked
herself. At the same time she was feeling that Shinji and Asuka weren´t more but good
friends, even without knowing where she got this knowledge.
She did a step back to prevent being seen by Asuka who passed her. Then she turned around
the corner - and collided with Shinji.
"Au!" Rei shouted when she landed on her backside.
"Uhm, sorry..." Shinji stuttered.
"You again!"
She was rubbing her forehead as if she was in pain.
"Can´t you look out?"
"I´m sorry."
Embarressed he got up and beat the dust out of his clothes.
"Well, okay."
She smiled hesistantly.
"Would you help me getting up?"
"Oh, yes, of course."
She took the offered hand let him help her to get back on her feet.
"Idiot, where are you?" Asuka shouted from the distance after she had notices that he
wasn´t behind her anymore.
"Argh! What are you doing here again?!"
"Uhm, you can see, I have to..." Shinji said and just wanted to turn away, when Rei asked:
"She´s quite a good grip on you, hasn´t she?"
He stopped.
"Eh, no, that´s not right."
"Yes? She calls and you run, like an old couple."
At the same time she laughed, taking the sharpness out of her words.
"Ah..." he only managed to say, completly captured by her smile. "Ah... Asuka and I are
living at the same house, for nearly eight years we are going to school together now..."
"So, that´s it! Hm, our paths are crossing here. We could meet here in future and walk to
school together?! - Without further run-ins, of course."
"Uhm, yes, I´d like this." he hurried to say.
Asuka had turned around and was approaching the two.
"Are you going to stay here, Baka-Shinji? Hey, Arami, can´t you look out a bit? Or do
you even cross the street without looking to the left and right?"
"The name´s Akagi", Rei correctey. "Rei Akagi, Asuka Soryu."
"Uhm, Rei and I have just talked about meeting here and walking to school in the future,
that´s great, isn´t it? I mean, you´ve complied just yesterday about noone of your girl-
friends living next to our route to school, and..." Shinji hurried to prevent any kind
of argument.
"Yes, great, really great, Baka-Shinji! There´s just a problem - Wondergirl here isn´t
one of my girlfriends!"
"But... ah... you could become friends..."
"I wouldn´t oppose", Rei smiled. "Why should we argue? It´s..." she looked at her wrist-
watch and mumbled something. "The school does start... now!"
Her eyes tripled their size.
All three of them started running.
***
A knock at the door of her bureau...
"Doctor Ikari?"
Doctor Yui Ikari, vice-director of the Institut for Genetical Research, looked to the door.
"Yes?"
An old man entered, wearing a long red-brown coat and supporting himself on a walking cane.
He had light grey hair, his head was nearly bald, the eyes were behind thick glasses.
"I am Lorenz Keel, we had an appointment."
"Ah, yes, Mister Keel, please come in."
Yui got up, placed the files she had just read aside and pointed at an empty chair.
"Sit down."
"Thank you. I know, I am a bit early..."
"That´s no problem. I am glad to meet you personally, Professor Fuyutsuki´s only speaking
with highest praise of you."
Keel´s lips formed an expressionless smile.
"Well, I´ve heard quite a lot about you, Doctor Ikari. It seems you are kind of prodigy
among genetic scientists."
"Too much praise, I am just doing my job."
"... which is financed by the committee I am a member of. The project you are working at
at the moment, the final diciphering of human DNA is a great point of interest among us."
"Eh, yes. Surely you have the reports about this and the other projects."
"Of course. And your ideas are quite interesting... especially about mutations..."
"Yes, but it´s only a possibility. My priority is correcting genetic flaws... like hereditary
diseases... and extending human lifespan. Once we know about all secrets of genetics, we´ll
be able do things unimaginable at the moment, like regrowing limbs and organs. Diseases will
be purged..."
"A very noble aim, Doctor Ikari. We are just asking ourselves how long it will take you to
procure these results. See, we all, that´s the members of the committee, are quite old men,
who´d have an interest in gaining some additional years."
"Well, I can promise you a wonder, but we have achieved quite a lot in the last month. I´d
say, give me a year and I will have found a way to naturally extend human lifespan by, say,
ten to fifteen years."
"I hope that you will be able to do so."
He looked at his watch.
"Ah, it´s late... Please forgive me, but I have to leave for another appointment, a man of
my age can´t affort to be careless with his remaining time."
Keel got up and slowly walked to the door.
"I understand. Shall I accompany you to the exit?"
"That´s not necessary, I know the way. Thank you for your time, Doctor Ikari."
He left the bureau.
For a while Yui was staring at the door.
Why do I have the feeling that he wasn´t interested in the opportunities for healing at
all but in achieving quite darker aims...
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Preview: What would NGE be without EVANGELIONs? Check out the next chapter for the new EVA-
VR-game and the first appearances of a certain teacher and a certain spy.
Stage 1 - The Game
Chapter 01 - Rebirth
"Darling, it´s time to get up!" a dampened voice came the door´s other side.
"Just five more minutes", Rei mumbled, turned to the other side, facing the wall and
pulled the blanket over her head.
"Rei, if you don´t get up now, you´ll be late for school!"
As hard as she tried, she was unable to ignore her mother´s voice completly.
"Ach, Mom!"
She heard that her room´s door was opened and her mother entered, the next moment the
window´s blinds are removed and bright light fell into the room.
"Now, my little sleepyhead, surely you want to eat a bit before leaving for school,
don´t you?"
Rei sat up and yawned.
"I had such a nice dream."
"Yes? About what... or whom?"
Her mother already wore her labcoat but looked at Rei with couriosity.
She felt her cheeks turning red.
"I... ah... about nobody."
Rei looked at the clock on the nightboard.
"I have to hurry...!"
She jumped out of the bed, grapped the clothes she had placed on the chair the evening
before and ran out of the room, across the narrow corridor of the apartment where she and
her mother were living, into the bathroom.
"No? Well... how was your first day at the new school, yesterday?" Ritsuko shouted while
headshaking tidying her daughter´s bed.
"Quite nice" the answer came dampened by the running of water from the bathroom.
"And, how are the other pupils?"
"I... I haven´t got to know them, yet."
"Ah, a pity. I´m sorry for moving to Tokio in the middle of the year, but I couldn´t
turn down the offered job at the institut."
"Mom, we have already talked about this a dozen times. I could have stayed with grandma
at Osaka. So, and how was your first day at work?"
Ritsuko Akagi smiled thinly.
She tries to distract... Rei, what are you trying to hide from your good old mother?
"Lots of things to do. But the collegues are nice. Maya... she´s working at her decree
at the institut, gave me a tour. And the teamleader, Doctor Yui Ikari, seems to be quite
a decent person."
"Ikari? Did you just say Ikari?"
The bathroom´s door was pushed open and Rei, wearing only bra and panties, looked at her
with eyes wide open.
"Yes, why?"
"Ah, nothing."
Ritsuko stepped into the corridor and went into the kitchen.
"If you hurry up I´ll give you a ride to school."
"Thanks, mom!"
***
A short time later Rei sat at the kitchen table wearing her school uniform and chewed
her toast. Her bag was leaning against the tableleg.
"Why were you that surprised when I mentioned Doctor Ikari´s name?" Ritsuko asked who
meanwhile had finished her breakfast and was just packing a thermos flask with coffee
into her own pack.
"There´s a boy in my class with the same name, Shinji Ikari."
"Ah. Maybe it´s just a coincidence."
"Yes, maybe."
"And, do you like him?"
Rei choked on her tea and coughed.
Ritsuko got up, went around the table and patted her daughter´s back until she had
stopped coughing.
"Mom, don´t ask me such things, I barely know him!"
"Barely? So you already know him a bit?"
Since Ritsuko was standing behind Rei she was unable to see the amused smile on her
mother´s face.
"Ah... we ran into each other on the way to school yesterday."
"Ran into each other?"
"Well, I turned around the corner and he came from the other side and we were both
running and so we..."
"Ah, I can imagine it."
Now Ritsuko couldn´t suppress a giggle.
"Did he say he was sorry?"
Rei nodded and drank her tea.
"I have to go!"
She grabbed her bag and ran out of the kitchen.
"Hey, I wanted to give you a ride..." Ritsuko shouted but was only answered by the
closing of the apartment´s door. With a broad grin she sat down on her chair and once
again checked the stuff within her bag.
"Hm", she mumbled. "Ikari... Shinji Ikari... it would be a really big coincident but
maybe he is a relative of Doctor Yui. I should ask me... Rei, Darling, you don´t happen
to have a crush on this boy, do you...?"
She sighed realizing that her only daughter was would turn fifteen very soon, would
sooner or later have her first boyfriend...
***
On the other side of this part of the town another person also had troubles with getting
up, or better to leave the dreamworld, still clinging to a very pleasant dream about a
certain bluehaired girl with pale skin and red eyes he had met the day before.
"Will you get up now, or do you want us to be too late again?"
Even the large and thick pillow he had buried his head under wasn´t able to dampen the
loud voice of his tormentoress who also happened to be his best friend.
"Asuka, why don´t you just let me sleep and leave for school?" he growled.
"Ha! That you would like, Baka-Shinji! If I didn´t wake you up each and every morning
you´d spent the whole day carrying buckets for being late!"
He knew the resistence was useless, but he pressed the pillow harder against his ear and
his head against the mattress, trying to return to his dream.
"Now move your lazy body!" Asuka shouted and pulled away his blanket.
He should have expected this, it was one of her favorite tactics to wake him.
"Ahh! Why aren´t you wearing shorts? You Hentai!"
He pulled up the knees and covered himself with his hands. This gave her the opportunity
to steal his pillow.
"Why do you pull at my blanket?"
"Hentai!"
"You are a Hentai yourself, you peeping tom!"
"I? So, there´s nothing to see, since there is nothing!"
"Shinji, Asuka, school starts in ten minutes!" his mother´s voice came from the corridor.
"Can you see? Now we´ll be late, just because of you... ah, forget it!"
She stormed out of the room.
"I´ll wait for you downstairs!"
***
Five minutes later Shinji Ikari left the house when he lived with his parents, as did
Asuka and her parents.
The redhead already stood near the parkinglot in front the house and waited for him.
"If Misato-sensei weren´t late herself always, I wouldn´t waste my time waking you every
morning. For ten years I am doing this now and do you appreciate? - No!" she scolded
him, before she grinned and shouted: "Lets race to school!" and ran away.
He was already used to her challenging him after she had gained an advantage.
Shinji sighed and followed her.
***
On the roof of skyscaper in the center of Tokio a government-owned helicopter without
markings landed on the landing-field.
Two humans got up, a man and a woman.
The man might have been an eurasian, it was difficult to determine his ancestry. His
hair was black with a bit of grey and a light shimmer of blue, the skin was pale, the
face resembled a bird of prey. He only had one eye, the other one was covered by a
black leatherpatch, a light scar divided the left brow. He was large and not broadly
built, wore a dark suit and gloves and a grey trenchcoat.
The woman as smaller that her companion, her hair was ravenblack, her eyes were hidden
behind dark glasses. Her whole composure expressed attention and readyness. She wore
dark trousers and shoes, a white blouse under her leatherjacket and one black glove over
her right hand.
Both were aged somewhere between thirty and fourty, both carried dark suitcases.
They are already expected by a golden-blonde asian woman wearing a business-suit. She
smiled when she approached the man and embraced him.
"Welcome back to Japan, Thomas."
The other one smiled, too, but without the warmth within his good eye it would have been
a skull´s smile since the skin tightened over the bones.
"I glad to see you, sister."
He returned the embrace.
"Where´s Roderick?"
"He´s busy, but he asked me to greet you, one of us had to stay at Osaka with the prototyp
and the testmodel."
"I see."
The woman broke the embrace and turned to her brother´s companion, offering her her hand.
"Miss Deiko."
"Lady Selene."
Deiko took the offered hand with the gloved right one.
"Good to have you both back. What did you discover?"
Thomas cleared his throat.
"Situation´s dire. We should talk below and then assemble the teams."
Selene closed her eyes.
"Fifteen years... we knew that peace wouldn´t last forever..."
"At least we had the time to prepare." Deiko said.
"Yes, but just remembering the sacrifices to stop a lone scout..."
"Sister, I was there at the southpole", Thomas growled and pointed at his eyepatch.
"Of course..."
"It nearly cost us the complete team - and it was only one, just a lightly armed and
armored Matriel-scout. This time it will an army."
"I know."
"In your last report you wrote that MARDUK had found a suitable candidate, tell me more."
"Yes, a potential candidate, we are watching her... Come, Midori has everything prepared
at the meeting chamber."
They left the roof.
***
Rei stood at the same corner she had run into Shinji the day before and carefully peeked
around, saw two running figures in the distance.
Seeing Asuka her face twisted, way too well she was still remembering arguing with the
redhead right before her new class to the amusement of her fellow pupils and the teacher.
Then she saw Shinji running behind Asuka and just had to smile.
Why do I feel attracted to him? He´s nice as far as I can judge... on the other hand I
just know him for a short time... And what if Asuka is his girl-friend? she asked
herself. At the same time she was feeling that Shinji and Asuka weren´t more but good
friends, even without knowing where she got this knowledge.
She did a step back to prevent being seen by Asuka who passed her. Then she turned around
the corner - and collided with Shinji.
"Au!" Rei shouted when she landed on her backside.
"Uhm, sorry..." Shinji stuttered.
"You again!"
She was rubbing her forehead as if she was in pain.
"Can´t you look out?"
"I´m sorry."
Embarressed he got up and beat the dust out of his clothes.
"Well, okay."
She smiled hesistantly.
"Would you help me getting up?"
"Oh, yes, of course."
She took the offered hand let him help her to get back on her feet.
"Idiot, where are you?" Asuka shouted from the distance after she had notices that he
wasn´t behind her anymore.
"Argh! What are you doing here again?!"
"Uhm, you can see, I have to..." Shinji said and just wanted to turn away, when Rei asked:
"She´s quite a good grip on you, hasn´t she?"
He stopped.
"Eh, no, that´s not right."
"Yes? She calls and you run, like an old couple."
At the same time she laughed, taking the sharpness out of her words.
"Ah..." he only managed to say, completly captured by her smile. "Ah... Asuka and I are
living at the same house, for nearly eight years we are going to school together now..."
"So, that´s it! Hm, our paths are crossing here. We could meet here in future and walk to
school together?! - Without further run-ins, of course."
"Uhm, yes, I´d like this." he hurried to say.
Asuka had turned around and was approaching the two.
"Are you going to stay here, Baka-Shinji? Hey, Arami, can´t you look out a bit? Or do
you even cross the street without looking to the left and right?"
"The name´s Akagi", Rei correctey. "Rei Akagi, Asuka Soryu."
"Uhm, Rei and I have just talked about meeting here and walking to school in the future,
that´s great, isn´t it? I mean, you´ve complied just yesterday about noone of your girl-
friends living next to our route to school, and..." Shinji hurried to prevent any kind
of argument.
"Yes, great, really great, Baka-Shinji! There´s just a problem - Wondergirl here isn´t
one of my girlfriends!"
"But... ah... you could become friends..."
"I wouldn´t oppose", Rei smiled. "Why should we argue? It´s..." she looked at her wrist-
watch and mumbled something. "The school does start... now!"
Her eyes tripled their size.
All three of them started running.
***
A knock at the door of her bureau...
"Doctor Ikari?"
Doctor Yui Ikari, vice-director of the Institut for Genetical Research, looked to the door.
"Yes?"
An old man entered, wearing a long red-brown coat and supporting himself on a walking cane.
He had light grey hair, his head was nearly bald, the eyes were behind thick glasses.
"I am Lorenz Keel, we had an appointment."
"Ah, yes, Mister Keel, please come in."
Yui got up, placed the files she had just read aside and pointed at an empty chair.
"Sit down."
"Thank you. I know, I am a bit early..."
"That´s no problem. I am glad to meet you personally, Professor Fuyutsuki´s only speaking
with highest praise of you."
Keel´s lips formed an expressionless smile.
"Well, I´ve heard quite a lot about you, Doctor Ikari. It seems you are kind of prodigy
among genetic scientists."
"Too much praise, I am just doing my job."
"... which is financed by the committee I am a member of. The project you are working at
at the moment, the final diciphering of human DNA is a great point of interest among us."
"Eh, yes. Surely you have the reports about this and the other projects."
"Of course. And your ideas are quite interesting... especially about mutations..."
"Yes, but it´s only a possibility. My priority is correcting genetic flaws... like hereditary
diseases... and extending human lifespan. Once we know about all secrets of genetics, we´ll
be able do things unimaginable at the moment, like regrowing limbs and organs. Diseases will
be purged..."
"A very noble aim, Doctor Ikari. We are just asking ourselves how long it will take you to
procure these results. See, we all, that´s the members of the committee, are quite old men,
who´d have an interest in gaining some additional years."
"Well, I can promise you a wonder, but we have achieved quite a lot in the last month. I´d
say, give me a year and I will have found a way to naturally extend human lifespan by, say,
ten to fifteen years."
"I hope that you will be able to do so."
He looked at his watch.
"Ah, it´s late... Please forgive me, but I have to leave for another appointment, a man of
my age can´t affort to be careless with his remaining time."
Keel got up and slowly walked to the door.
"I understand. Shall I accompany you to the exit?"
"That´s not necessary, I know the way. Thank you for your time, Doctor Ikari."
He left the bureau.
For a while Yui was staring at the door.
Why do I have the feeling that he wasn´t interested in the opportunities for healing at
all but in achieving quite darker aims...
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Preview: What would NGE be without EVANGELIONs? Check out the next chapter for the new EVA-
VR-game and the first appearances of a certain teacher and a certain spy.