KingVessel: Sorry for the long wait. Not only did my schedule get a lot more hectic, I was hit with a bunch of new ideas for Fanfics and had to build up on them. See my Author Page for some of them.


Chapter 09: 22, 23, 24


22: Prank Gendo Ikari.

The Office.

A Territory in which Gendo Ikari ruled. No decorations to adorn the surrounding walls. Needless, empty space to invoke discomfort into visitors who didn't know the owner.

Those who didn't know the owner believed that he had had it deliberately designed for the effect.

Those who knew the owner considered it a pale imitation of his own soul.

After popping out of the shadow in the corner and checking for hidden cameras, Shinji Ikari shivered as he observed the weird drawings that seemed to be carved into the walls.

'Wait. Might I be going to far with this? He's still my father and Commander.' Shinji considered that question for a full ten seconds before opening the duffel bag he had brought along, revealing it to be filled with all sorts of painting supplies, spray cans and stickers. 'On second thought, this place actually bothers me as much as Leliel's Space did. And it can't be natural for a supposedly normal office to match an Angel in being creepy!'

After a whole hour, Shinji stepped back to observe his handiwork. All things considered, the office didn't evoke the creepy feeling anymore so he was pretty sure he'd done a good job. Making sure to take a selfie with Kensuke's camera, Shinji stashed it away and umbraported into the Men's bathroom several floors below, no one wiser to his initial deeds as he cleaned himself and finally headed to meet Ritsuko.

As if left the bathroom, Shinji was unaware to a few of his hair strands turning white.


Shinji blinked in surprise as Ritsuko Akagi read out his bodily changes from a scientific point of view.

"-testosterone and HGH levels are well outside the normal guidelines." Ritsuko finished calmly. "Are you sure that this isn't from one of Misato's 'cooked' meals? This shows that whatever affected your body was actually a slow process. Then again, it does explain why your body didn't register anything abnormal right after Leliel."

"Misato-san hasn't cooked anything in weeks." Shinji replied, his eyes still fixed on the numbers on the computer. "Are you sure that this isn't from the LCL?"

"Unlikely." Ritsuko replied with a shrug, which did lovely things to her bust. "Not only have Rei and Asuka been exposed to it far longer than you have, I..."

Ritsuko cut off, realizing it would be a bad idea to reveal that she frequently swam in the undiluted stuff right from Lilith herself. "A-Anyways, the thing is... your body has altered itself without me knowing why. One would think you've taken steroids but you've passed all the drug tests available. Furthermore, you've displayed none of the usual outward side effects of such substance abuse. Your senses aren't compromised, they're sharper than usual. Your cardiovascular and pulmonary systems are in perfect condition, no discoloration of the skin, urine sample and blood work were both otherwise normal... You appear perfectly healthy."

Shinji frowned in confusion. "Then what's the problem?"

"It's... actually abnormal to actually state this..." Ritsuko paused as if to ponder the words that she was about to speak. "You're too healthy. It's like I'm looking at the opposite of a terminally ill patient. Rather than slow degrading of one's organs and systems, your's are actually improving on a slow but constant rate. I can safely say that you'll probably never get sick again in your life."

"Again, what's the problem?"

"I don't know how your body is improving, Shinji-kun." Ritsuko stressed. "In a terminal patient, one can actually trace the cause of damage in the body. In you however, there's nothing to trace. Your body just keeps getting better. However, keep in mind that this isn't necessarily a good thing."

'Being super healthy isn't a good thing?' Shinji had never heard something so unbelievable in his life. "In what way is that not a good thing?"

"Improved bodily functions mean increased performance of your systems. Let me ask you this, Shinji-kun. How much do you eat compared to before? How long does your energy last when doing something strenuous? If you work yourself into a passionate fervor, how often does it happen and how long does it take to calm down after your done? How often..." Ritsuko paused to actually glance at Shinji's crotch. "do you now masturbate compared to before?"

That last question should've embarrassed Shinji into stuttering, if not for the already worried look he was sporting.

How much did he eat compared to before? A rough sketch of his memory showed it was easily three times as much. With both his and Misato's salaries, he had actually never noticed the difference, especially as he didn't much weight.

How long did his energy last when doing strenuous activity? He still remembered building that treehouse without very little exhaustion. There was no way he would have lasted as long in his pre-Leliel days.

The adrenaline and the sex bit actually went hand in hand. He hadn't actually turned into a hyperactive sex demon but he did usually 'rise' to the occasion several times, to the point that he was now wearing out his partners by the end of each encounter.

Except Rei. Rei never got tired compared to the others, always being able to keep up.

Asuka was slowly starting to keep up, though...

Shinji turned to eye the mirror hanging on the wall. He could still see the few strands of white hair that had popped up earlier. "...okay. I think I can see the problem now." 'I wonder if I'm affecting the girls I'm sleeping with with something.'

"I'm glad you do. Which is why I'm also going to need a sperm sample to check your reproductive system." Ritsuko produced a small beaker out of nowhere, cutting off Shinji's surprised protests with a raised finger. "I am your physician, Shinji-kun. You are important not only to your friends but to the entirety of Humanity. Please don't protest the good doctor's orders."

"But-" Shinji tried to complain more but was ignored.

"I have a fridge and a cooler right here, and you still have the weekend off. If you want to find out if anything's wrong in short order, you'll supply in short order, won't you?" Resting her palm on her cheek as Shinji protested some more, Ritsuko gave him a gentle smile and chuckled. "Would you like a hand, then?"

The request almost went over Shinji's head because he couldn't imagine hearing it from Doctor Ritsuko Akagi in the context of what they'd just been discussing. He rolled those words over in his head, dissected them, and still came up with the world's simplest word salad.

"…huh?"

"You probably won't be interested in an old woman like me, but..." Ritsuko trailed off as she noticed the tent that had formed between Shinji's legs, causing her a little shame as she felt really gratified by his reaction, which was far more than his father would've shown. With a sensual lick of her lips, she scooted her chair closer to Shinji and pulled his hospital gown upwards, exposing his erect cock. Ritsuko quietly gasped at the size, noting it to be at least twenty centimeters now. Definitely above average.

Shinji's cock seemed to grow even bigger as Ritsuko unzipped her top and exposed her bra-clad top while starting to fondle his shaft. Precum was already starting to leak from him, covering Ritsuko's fingertips as she slid her fingers up and down the shaft. He let out a soft moan, and leaned against the woman as he rested one hand on her shoulder to steady himself.

"Ritsuko-san… you… ah…!" He moaned as she began to pump his shaft in earnest, her hand gliding up and down his cock, and steadily building his pleasure upward.

"Don't worry about anything else… let it all out..." Ritsuko purred in his ear. She looked down at his cock, now proudly rigid and gleaming from the precum she was smearing all over it from base to tip.

Ritsuko suddenly gasped as Shinji's hand found her bra-clad breast, groping it roughly. The sudden assault left her shuddering, causing her to rub her thighs together in arousal. He had a surprisingly strong grip, which she could definitely appreciate as he pushed down her bra to access her chest fully.

It was with a sudden groan that Shinji came, splattering his cum into the beaker and rapidly filling it up. As Ritsuko disengaged to look at the sample, she marveled at the thickness of it, as the sheer musk emanating from it caused her core to ache dangerously.

'To think that he's been putting this much regularly into Rei... Thank goodness she can't get pregnant.' Ritsuko silently marveled at the potency as well as she held up the now completely opaque beaker towards the ceiling light. If this was a usual quality, he might be able to easily impregnate a normal woman, even on her safe days. 'It's... just Rei he's been sleeping with, right?'

With that though in mind, she quickly sealed it and put it away in the fridge. "How often do you masturbate?"

Shinji, who had totally stopped masturbating after experiencing sex, blushed as he replied. "It's not like a usual thing, but I'm never exhausted after doing it just once. I could go 7-9 times, I think."

If 'having sex' could stand in for 'masturbating', it technically couldn't count as a lie as they both involved ejaculation, right?

'7 to 9 times?!' Ritsuko was incredulous, then shocked after noting the utter honesty on Shinji's face. 'I seriously wonder if it's just Rei he's been sleeping with.'

For a moment, Ritsuko imagined herself taking his fat cock that many times a day, cumming her brains out over and over before he blew that awesome load inside her. She let herself have that intrusive thought–straddled atop him, his cock forcing her open as she bounced on it. Or maybe she'd be on her back on the examination table, her long pantyhose-clad legs up over Shinji's shoulder as he railed into her like a whore–while Rei stood over her, smugly looking down on her as she was put in her place.

Like she was doing now, it was making her so horny it ached. She could cum just from standing here.

'Too much, Ritsuko…' If she let her thoughts wander any further… she'd be on her knees before Shinji, his cock halfway down her throat.

"Ritsuko-san." Ritsuko snapped out of her fantasies, just in time to hear Shinji's question. "Do you think this is temporary or permanent?"

Ritsuko mused over the question as she readjusted her clothes. To be honest, she didn't know.

Frankly, Shinji's body had been a complete mystery to the scientist. After subjecting Rei, someone literally created for the sake of being a Pilot and a tool, to so many experiments with the Evangelions, Gendo had suddenly called in his son out of nowhere - If Misato was to believed, the boy hadn't even had contact with him for many years and had actually believed that he'd been forgotten and uncared for - dumped his nonexperienced ass in their most valuable Evangelion and told him to Pilot it.

And then Shinji, despite the immense trauma he got from it, proceeded to succeed several times.

Ritsuko still remembered asking for permission to have the MAGI fully examine Shinji's body both after the battles with Sachiel and Leliel, only for Gendo to refuse the first time and threaten her the second time with a prepared notice of termination.

Ritsuko had no delusions that a third time would involve a gun aimed at her.

Still, hadn't Mother always told her that she was sometimes too curious for her own good?

"I... do not know, Shinji-kun." Ritsuko finally replied, taking her seat and rapidly typing into her computer and linking up to the MAGI. "But, thanks to your sample, I'm sure I can find something."

Shinji's relieved sigh filled the room as Ritsuko began to create an encrypted program within the supercomputers, ensuring that only her could even notice it, forget actually meddling with it.

"Thank you, Ritsuko-san." Shinji cheered as he changed back to his clothes and left the office, leaving Ritsuko humming as she set about to work.

Finally, an interesting side project to take her time beyond just the Scenario.

Speaking of which, Ritsuko made a reminder to look through the MARDUK Candidates for the Fourth Child.

Evangelion Unit-03 was on route, after all.

All of a sudden, Ritsuko was struck with the urge to burst out laughing. She didn't believe in the superstitious so she resisted it.


Upon a stoic face, only a popping vein and a constant twitch of his left eyebrow betrayed Gendo Ikari's true emotions at what he was seeing.

Behind him, Kozo Fuyutsuki, the only man in the world capable of getting away with it, was leaning against the wall with a hand as he kept laughing hard enough to cry.

The previously dreary office had been painted in an utter madness of colors without even the tiniest bit of rhythm to it.

Walls? Defaced with literal splashes of paint, some of it still dripping.

Ceiling? Several bits of clay were stuck to it, a bit even squashing down onto Gendo's shoulder.

Floor? Spray-painted in a way that looked like a child had gone sliding all over it, not even bothering to completely do it and leaving clear 'splotches' all over the mirror-like ground.

Gendo's desk itself? Absolutely covered in stickers of all sorts. Some pictures, some quotes, all annoying.

"They will pay..." Gendo growled as he crushed a 'Heart' sticker in his gloved fist. "Slowly. Painfully."

Kozo kept laughing as he picked up a 'Remember to Smile at least Once Today!' and tucked it into his breastpocket.

"I will show no mercy to this culprit! Whomever they may be, I will find them!"

Well, that's what you get for fully investing in super durable walls, glass and doors but not in actual security cameras for your office.


23: Play Volleyball

"What did I do to deserve this?" Shinji darkly muttered.

He was currently at the beach with his friends and was supposed to be playing a volleyball game with Toji Suzuhara. However...

"Shut up, Shinji!" Kensuke Aida hissed, his eyes not leaving the girls in their swimsuits. "If anything, we should be grateful to Toji!"

"I just wanted to play a simple game with you guys!" Shinji hissed back. "But then Toji had to enter another fight with Asuka! Why did you guys have to use my List for this?! Also, you're not even playing with us!"

"I'm the least athletic guy here!" Kensuke didn't even have the dignity to look at Shinji as he replied, too focused on memorizing the unexpected sight of Rei Ayanami in a swimsuit as she stretched her long, pale legs. "Take one for the team, Shinji!"

"I'm gonna break your glasses after this!"

"Quit whining, Ero-Shinji!" Asuka Langley Sohryu smirked. "I'm just gonna beat this stooge's ass real quick!"

"Asuka!" Hikari Horaki warned. "Is this really okay? You have a track record of overdoing things!"

"Please, Hikari... Your flattery won't stop me from crushing your stooge boyfriend!" Asuka leapt high into the air and spiked the ball, shooting it hard enough to smash into Toji's face and knock him onto his back in the sand.

"One point." Rei tonelessly cheered.

Asuka herself flipped her hair in arrogance. "If you've finally realized your place in the dirt, be sure to stay there, okay?"

"That's too much from you, Asuka!" Hikari protested from the side, her hand crushing Kensuke's face as he tried to stare at her butt. "Toji may be athletic but the rest of you are used to actual life-or-death battles! He can't match you guys in intensity like that!"

"That's where you're wrong, Hikari." Asuka scoffed. "No matter what kind of contest it is, Asuka Langley Sohryu will never pull her punches and do things half-assed."

Asuka then turned to face Toji's fallen form. "Of course, if Toji himself can't handle it, he could always just surrender."

Shinji sighed as Toji rocketed up from where he laid. "Did you just say to me what I heard you say to me, bitch?! C'mon, Shinji! Let's beat their asses!"

"You do remember that both Rei and Asuka have far more physical training than me, right?!" Shinji retorted.

"We've got raw power on our side!" Toji snapped back as he tossed the ball to Asuka.

"True. Shinji-kun does possess more power than the two of us." Rei noted as Asuka caught the ball and gripped it tight. "And Suzuhara-san is very determined as usual."

If Toji noticed that Rei had only accepted Shinji in being stronger than her, he didn't say anything.

"Good. It's no fun to crush an opponent who can't fight back." As Asuka reared back her hand, the gripped ball seemed to become hazy as the temperature around it skyrocketed and caused the volleyball to glow with red flames.

Kensuke, somehow the only one to notice the phenomenon, brilliantly spoke. "Eh?"

Asuka tossed the ball up and with a roar, she leapt forward and spiked!

*BOOM!*

The ball shot forward with full intent of beaning Toji in the face once more! However, Shinji predicted Asuka's path and leapt before the ball!

Blocking the ball with immense strength that displaced the air and some of the surrounding sand, Shinji landed back onto the ground and slid to a more favorable position. "Toji, toss it up!"

"Right!" Toji tossed the now normal ball up, allowing Shinji to shoot off, blowing up more sand and soaring high enough to spike the ball back.

"Take this!" This time, the ball was wreathed in violet lightning as it rocketed towards an empty spot behind Asuka and Rei.

However, Rei reacted in a literal instant! The bluenette reached sideways with her arm as she leapt without even looking to follow the ball's path, stopping the ball and tossing it up in a single move!

"Good pass, Wundergirl!" Asuka leapt upwards and once again, spiked!

*BOOMKRAK!*

Toji balked as the Red Ball of Fiery Fatality narrowly missed his head and smashed into the ground behind him, kicking up a plume of smoke and sand as it detonated on impact.

"Tsk! I missed." Asuka muttered before waving and yelling out. "My bad! That was an accident!"

Toji didn't let that shit slide by. "Liar!"

"Based on what, stooge?"

"I clearly just heard you say you missed!"

The game continued on like that in a chaotic yet predictable manner.

Asuka tries to aim for Toji. Shinji blocks and sends it back, trying to actually aim and properly end the game. Rei blocks and passes the ball to Asuka who promptly tries to get back to killing Toji.

And repeat.

"Asuka! Stop trying to kill Toji!"

"Point."

"Gimme the ball, Shinji! I'm gonna brain that bitch!"

"What? I can't hear you over me winning!"

"She'll kill you, Toji!"

"Point."

"AH! That one came too close to little me!"

"Asuka! He needs that to have children!"

"I need that too, Asuka!"

"You're too good for him, Hikari!"

"Why didn't I bring my cameraaaaaa?! Nobody's gonna believe what I'm looking at without prooooof!"

"Point."

"Please, Asuka! Knock it off!"

"No problem! Because it. Is. OVER!"

A final spike ended the game in Asuka's victory, leaving the redhead preening while the jock sobbed in comical despair. Next to him, Shinji facepalmed in frustration while Rei simply next to him and waved a flag in victor-where and when the hell did she get that?!


Toji grumbled in annoyance as he walked home, only for his phone to start ringing from an unknown number.

"Good evening, Toji Suzuhara-kun. My name is Ritsuko Akagi and I have a deal that I think you'll be interested in..."


24: Punch Gendo in the face.

Despite not being the target of his rage, every single person who met Shinji's glare suddenly had the urge to look elsewhere.

As Shinji stalked past in handcuffs while being accompanied by Section 2 agents, he thought back to his fat- Gendo's orders. He didn't blame Maya and the others. They had only been following orders. And he could admit that he had overreacted, threatening the lives of several people just to kill the Commander.

"Shinji."

Shinji said nothing as he glared back at his father, still possessing the rage that enabled him to keep piloting EVA Unit-01 despite his LCL pressure being increased to dangerous levels. He had actually managed to punch a hole through the walls separating him from Gendo before succumbing.

"Disobeying orders, personal occupation of an EVA, childish intimidation... These are all criminal offenses." Gendo tonelessly spoke as he admonished the Third Child right in Central Dogma before several witnesses.

Thanks to the high quality materials Shinji had used, his office still wasn't clean yet, after all.

"Do you have anything to say?"

Shinji stayed silent, his thoughts still fixed on Toji's bloodied form being retrieved from EVA Unit-03's Entry Plug. "I understand why you had my control revoked. Bardiel infected the robot, causing Unit-03 to malfunction and attack us instead. And because there was a person still in it, I refused to fight back and nearly died for it, which would supposedly doom the world. But..."

Shinji leaned forward, causing his hair to shadow his face, his teeth baring in a restrained growl as his fists clenched. "This Dummy Plug stuff... Why did you use it in such a manner?!"

His sudden roar startled all of the watching staff, with even Rei and Asuka staying silent in the background.

"Instead of restraining the EVA, why did you make me attack it so ferociously?!" Shinji choked with fresh tears as he raised his palms to stare at them, imagining them red with his friend's blood. "With my own hands, you made me crush Toji! Literally! The EVA was already destroyed! Why didn't you order a ceasefire?! Why didn't you listen?! Do you care so little about us that you had no problems sentencing Toji to death right on his first soiree?!" Shinji stopped to scoff. "Then again, you did the same to me, too. Right on the first day, you told me to get in the EVA with literally zero words beyond a greeting! 'Get in the giant robot that you never even knew existed 1 minute ago and go fight the kaiju out there that shrugged off several missiles and a fucking nuke. Or I'll make the extremely injured Rei do it instead.'! Who the FUCK do you think you are?!"

Asuka turned to Rei with a raised eyebrow, who nodded silently. 'Wait. That's true?!'

Gendo just stayed silent, unsettling everyone as he kept looking down at Shinji until the latter snapped. "Well?! Say something!"

"Shinji. You seem to be misunderstanding something."

Shinji froze in place, his pulse slowing down as he tried to process what he was hearing.

"Oh?" The Third Child snarled quietly. "And what's that?"

Gendo took a moment to take his glasses off and clean them with his gloves, saying nothing until he was done and had put them back. "Do you think that every single word you've just said, justifies the fact that you've singlehandedly caused more damage to NERV than every Angel has before you?"

Shinji grit his teeth as his boiling blood froze over all the more, shame running down his spine. "You are… not wrong."

The Commander nodded solemnly. "Then you should also know that your tantrum, for I refuse to see this as anything else, is futile."

The freezing continued, his veins solidifying all throughout his body as doubt, pitiable doubt of all things, touched him for the first time. Already his hands were becoming stiff and unmoving, but it was to his immense shame that his mouth didn't freeze up either.

"…I know." Shinji murmured, hating the truth of the words coming out his mouth. "I risked everyone's lives due to my indecision... I threatened and hurt so many good, innocent people in my rampag—"

"You're still misunderstanding, Third Child."

The freezing intensified to newfound levels as Shinji's mind stalled, trying to process what he'd just heard… but he just couldn't connect the pieces properly.

"Excuse me?" He breathed, his voice numb.

Gendo scoffed. "Let me explain: you're looking to exact vengeance. Vengeance can only occur when one party has been wronged. That doesn't apply here, as I have done nothing wrong."

The Commander of NERV drew himself up to his full height, positively towering over Shinji's four-foot-and-nine frame.

"Let me make this clear to you, Shinji." Gendo intoned grimly. "Nothing I have done can deny the fact that it has all been to defeat the Angels. You seem to be forgetting that we have been fighting a war. That means that if every single person here had to be sacrificed for victory, I would ensure it. It doesn't matter how they get treated. When the entire Earth is put on the scale, what could match it? So, be grateful that the Fourth Child still lives, Shinji. For if there is ever another event in which his death is necessary for success, I will not hesitate in sending him to it."

…aaand. That. Just about did it.

Shinji's doubts, the ice in his veins that had kept him locked in place, that had been keeping his brain sluggish and unable to think…

In an instant, it had vanished.

Devastated.

Erupted into something that turned his blazing rage into a glacial fury that raced to every corner of his body, penetrating to his very core. And in that instant, something.

Just.

Snapped.

For in that moment? Shinji Ikari finally knew that he HATED Gendo Ikari.

Suddenly changing to an empty expression, which terrified so many people who finally saw the resemblance between father and son, Shinji backstepped silently until he was right next to Asuka by the wall. "Hey. I didn't mishear a single word of all that, right?"

"No." Asuka was too distracted by her own shock from the Commander's words to notice Shinji's shadow darkening into an unfathomable void. "I heard it all, too."

"Ah... Great." Shinji exhaled before suddenly moving his arms apart to stretch them, the three separate handcuffs on them shattering like they weren't made of durable metal.

The first step Shinji took dented into the metal floor. The second step dug deeper, with nobody paying attention that as Shinji became a humanoid mass of inky shadows and violet lightning.

*CRACK!*

The third step was unseen, only leaving a superheated footprint in the steel ground as it's sole evidence of existence as Shinji's form blurred towards Gendo and punched.

There was a furious whiplash of unbridled power and clashing wills as several people's eyes popped at what they were witnessing.

AT Fields.

Two of them, completely unlike the translucent, rainbow-colored octagons sported by the Angels.

Shinji's was several different shades of purple, shaped like a six-pointed star as it screeched furiously against Gendo's all black pentagons. Although a few observant ones noticed Gendo's to be emerging from a small black box in his raised hands.

Shinji absolutely abhorred the barrier keeping him from his father and raised his other hand and after clenching it into a fist with arcing purple lightning and swirling shadows, smashed it against the black AT Field.

There was a horrible sound of something shattering as Shinji's AT Field smashed through Gendo's and allowed everyone present to witness him plant his burned fist into his father's face.

After getting hit hard enough to shatter his glasses and crack his skull, Gendo was flung backwards and crashed into a pillar on the far side of the cavernous room, sending a large plume of dust and metal pieces into the air and obscuring his undoubtedly broken form.

"I can't deny that your job is very important, Father." Shinji's quiet words sounded deafening in the area, with not even the blood dripping from his damaged left hand enough to drown it out. "But you forget that unlike Rei, Asuka and Toji who might have willingly gotten into this for whatever reason," At this, Ritsuko awkwardly shifted about but was unnoticed. "I was conscripted and was never a soldier like everyone else. I quit and I never want to see you again."

Shinji turned about and faced the others. "Regarding the rest of you, I don't have any negative thoughts but I really refuse to stay within his reach."

Finally, he looked right to Misato, Rei and Asuka before apologetically bowing to them. "I'm sorry. Goodbye and thank you all for loving me while he didn't."

With those last words, Shinji floated off the floor before suddenly rocketing upwards and smashing through the roof, leaving everyone behind to acknowledge that what had just happened... had really just happened.


Several miles away from Tokyo-3, Shinji slumped down inside a bus stop, groaning as he clutched his growling stomach.

'I knew that Ritsuko-san mentioned my body being altered but how could using so much of my abilities render me so hungry afterwards?!' Shinji dragged himself onto a bench, laying down and covering his tear-filled eyes with his already healed hand. 'More importantly, I finally did it. I actually left Tokyo-3. Will they chase after me? No, of course they will. No matter how much that Dummy Plug thing works, Ritsuko-san always specified the EVAs needed human Pilots.'

Something with a salivating aroma was suddenly held near his face, prompting the hungry Shinji to bite at it. Realizing it to be a cheeseburger, he wolfed it down, only noticing the whitehaired boy after he was done eating.

"A pleasure to finally meet you again, Shinji Ikari." The boy- No, not boy, not human, ally, traitor, what are you- "Easy. Your instincts must be gong haywire around me, especially in your current mental state."

Shinji pulled away from the pale finger that was placed on his lips, grabbing the other cheeseburger that had been nearby. The amusement in the boy's sanguine eyes grew even further. "Sorry if I seem rude but who the hell are you?"

"I AM." The boy(?) seemed to simultaneously relax while drawing himself up. "I Am the Progeny born from Adam the First. I Am the One who originated with the Angels, yet lives with the Lilin. I Am the First Homo Angelus. I Am the 17th. I am the Angel of Free Will. I Am the Will of God. I Am Tabris. I Am Kaworu Nagisa. Feel free to address me as whatever you wish."

"..."

"..."

"...Kaworu-kun, then."


KingVessel: Whew! And Shinji has left the city! And no, he's not going to return for a long time... Please review.