Chapter 151 149. Golden Eyes? No, It’s the Apostle’s Corrosion
“Ikari-kun?”

Hearing a voice calling his ear, Shinji Ikari subconsciously reached out to hug her, but his hug was empty. He opened his eyes dazedly and saw Rei Ayanami sitting beside the bed, looking at him with concern.

Dream?
No, he has returned to reality.

Although this is still a white ward similar to the one in the dream, this time there is no familiar school emblem above the wall of the ward. In the morning, the scorching sun outside shines into the room through the window unscrupulously. Fortunately, the air conditioner neutralizes this extreme temperature.

“Ayanami…” Ikari Shinji asked hesitantly, “How long has it been?”

Although it was just a dream before, the time spent there was too real. It has been more than two weeks. He was really afraid that he had also spent such a long time in reality. Who would understand? When he woke up from a sleep, more than half a month had passed. He was not a hibernating bear.

“It’s been five days.”

While answering, she pressed the call bell beside the bed. The unconscious driver finally woke up and needed doctors and nurses to check him again. Ayanami Rei lowered her head, making it difficult to see her expression.

“Yesterday, Ikari-kun just came out of Unit 0. He was in a coma for a day and just woke up now.”

Fortunately.

It’s only been five days.

It’s an acceptable range. Ikari Shinji couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. If it took longer, he might have missed something. This thought flashed through his mind. He wanted to recall what his original plan was before he piloted Unit 0, but he noticed something wrong with the girl.

“Ayanami?” he asked cautiously.

“…”

“What’s wrong? Even if you’re worried about me, I’m fine now, right?”

“Blame me……”

Ayanami Rei said lamely.

“…blame you? What are you talking about…wait, you don’t think…?” Ikari Shinji sighed. He grabbed the girl’s thin shoulders with one hand and pulled her over. With the other hand, he pinched Ayanami’s soft face. The two of them looked into each other’s eyes.

Last time when she was exposed as a clone, Ayanami was still in a state of anxiety, but now the girl’s face was clearly filled with the words “I did something wrong”. The girl who always remained calm in the past, now had a rare touch of melancholy and self-blame on her beautiful face. What was this silly girl thinking? Did she think that the accident of Unit 0 was her responsibility, and that it was she who caused such an accident?

“This has nothing to do with Ayanami.”

“…”

“This has nothing to do with Ayanami!”

Shinji Ikari had to emphasize it again.

But Ayanami Rei didn’t take his comfort seriously at all, and she was still listless. She was supposed to be a girl who obeyed him, but this time she didn’t listen at all. Ikari Shinji took a deep breath and thought about how to convince her: “Ayanami didn’t think this would happen before, right? Before the experiment started, no one could have predicted it. If anything, it’s not Ayanami’s fault…”

“Ikari-kun…”

Ayanami Rei said gloomily, looking like she was just about to cry.

If tears really flowed, Ikari Shinji would have no choice but to scold himself, because he knew that the girl did not take his words of comfort to heart at all.

“Really? Don’t take this kind of responsibility on yourself.”

He pinched Rei Ayanami’s face as a small punishment, and watched the girl’s face deform in his hands. He was a little eager to do something, but footsteps were heard outside the ward, so Shinji Ikari had to give up his unhealthy attempt and decided to wait until he was discharged from the hospital.

When the time comes, you can decide how to roll it into a round or flat shape.

And a few seconds later.

A large group of people and a large number of instruments suddenly rushed into the ward.

Various doctors in white coats began to check the data. Some of them looked at him with shining eyes, as if he was some world-class rare species. Ayanami Rei had to leave the ward. Even Ikari Shinji was shocked by the scene. Although he had been tested when he was hospitalized before, this was the first time it was so exaggerated. He didn’t lose any limbs or anything.

Shinji Ikari looked over with a strange look in his eyes.

The originally busy scene paused for a moment, but everyone subconsciously looked away… He suddenly felt that something was wrong.

“Sorry, I need to go to the bathroom.”

Shinji Ikari yawned, and then used the excuse of going to the bathroom. Thank God, he was in good health, at least he didn’t need help to go to the bathroom. Shinji Ikari walked into the bathroom with his feet firmly on the ground, and observed himself in the mirror. The boy who was dissolved by Unit 00 and was in a coma for a day did not look weak at all, but very healthy. His facial features, which were gradually becoming tougher and sharper, were like those of his age. But there was an abnormal point that could not be ignored.

——Those were a pair of golden eyes.

Just these eyes alone changed the boy’s originally good student temperament in the mirror. The gentle feeling was completely dispersed by the cold and fierce golden pupils. The elusive golden light in the depths of the pupils was as bright as the scorching sun. Ordinary people would feel threatened by being pricked by a needle just by looking at it.

Ikari Shinji: …

Where did my colored contact lenses go?

Wait, he immediately thought of something. What was his state like outside during the days he was in the dream? Thinking of the past experiments with Unit-01 and Unit-02, the pilots would dissolve into the EVA bodies, maybe the beauty contact lenses disappeared at that time. Of course, the reason why the beauty contact lenses disappeared is not important. The most important thing now is——

Now, how to explain the origin of these eyes?

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and he had no intention of staying in the bathroom to waste time. Instead, he came out quickly. The doctors’ tests were still going on, but no one dared to look him in the eye. As the tests were completed, some doctors began to leave the ward. At this time, Ritsuko Akagi and Misato Katsuragi also came here. They received a call from the hospital and rushed over within ten minutes.

“Shinji, you finally woke up.”

Katsuragi Misato’s cheerful voice rang out along with the sound of the door being pushed open.

Shinji Ikari looked over, and at the moment their eyes met, the two adult women subconsciously avoided his gaze for a moment, but then seemed to realize something and immediately looked at each other without fear.

These eyes…

Although she tried hard to look at each other, Ritsuko Akagi still couldn’t suppress the fear in her heart. It was impossible for a person to have eyes with vertical pupils like a snake. She herself was an expert in biology, but now there was a living example in front of her. She had been trying hard to think of a rescue plan in the past few days, and after Unit 0 suddenly “spit out” the naked pilot yesterday – the combat suit had completely dissolved – she was still grateful for Shinji Ikari’s survival.

But when the doctor tested the pupil reaction, a pair of golden eyes were revealed without any warning.

no doubt.

This is an erosion from the apostles.

“Although the report explained this situation, I didn’t expect that I would feel this kind of pressure only when I really faced it.” Katsuragi Misato said casually, “Shinji, I don’t know if you have ever looked in the mirror. When you were separated from Unit 0, your eyes became like this. We suspect that Unit 0 has corroded you, and we are currently looking for a way to restore you to your original state.”

“Erosion?” he asked.

“Don’t worry.” Akagi Ritsuko said seriously, as if she was making some kind of oath, “You will be fine.”

Shinji Ikari nodded awkwardly.

Ok.

The current situation was totally beyond his expectations. He originally thought that his eyes were exposed during a life-and-death fight with the apostles. After all, the invading apostles were becoming more and more powerful, and one day he would meet apostles that he could not deal with. At that time, he would activate the Word Spirit in his body, and cleanly and neatly deal with the invading apostles in front of everyone’s shocked eyes.

Isn’t this normal development?

By then, I will receive a lot of shocked expressions. Everyone will say, they didn’t expect Shinji that you could hide it so deeply, but now because of an experimental accident, your secret has been exposed.

This unscientific!

Ikari Shinji sighed in his heart.

But there is some good news. Since it is regarded as the encroachment of the apostles, then having a little extra ability should not be a problem, right?
——Yan Ling·Ghost wins.

It was just a Sequence 7 Word Spirit that ordered his body to completely forget the pain and thus exert the power to the limit. After a period of time after the Ghost Victory became ineffective, the huge pain that was previously suppressed would surge up in an instant, and the cost of exerting the power to the limit should not be underestimated.

Shinji Ikari didn’t even dare to recall his past memories of using the Word Spirit.

After all the tests on the instruments brought into the ward were completed, the ward became empty. There were still some tests that needed to be done later. Misato Katsuragi and Ritsuko Akagi visited him and then went back to work. After all, they both had their jobs to do. Ayanami Rei re-entered the ward, and judging from her appearance, she would probably have to stay with him in the ward the whole day.

It seems like something is missing.

Ikari Shinji thought.

He looked at the calendar hanging on the wall and remembered something he had almost forgotten.

…Today seems to be my mother’s death anniversary.

(End of this chapter)