Neo genezis evangelion 1-6

Hmm, by the way, about Ayanami... We should talk to her somehow, or else she's the only object for development within reach so far. But how? You can't ride up to our Snow Queen on a lame goat — it's too inaccessible, like Mount Chogori... By the way, the Snow Queen is the right word for her! Although, no, she's more like some kind of Snow Maiden... Precisely! So, Rei Ayanami, starting today you will be included in our development under the operational pseudonym "Snow Maiden".

Hey, hey, Victor! Don't get distracted! Are your thoughts sound? Hmm, in principle, you can try the classics... But I'll have to talk only after couples, otherwise I just didn't have enough nerve secrets to open up at school — they might well turn my head off for this, despite my status as a pilot. Anyway, that's what I think.

By the way, if I'm seen with Rey, rumors will spread around the school that I'm dating her... What's in it for me, though? Do I have to baptize my children with them all? Fuck you, gossips! So, it's decided, we're waiting for the end of pairs... Oh, my gosh! Lessons! Les-son-s! You're back in school, kid... Oh, my! You're back at school...

* * *

"Ray! Ayanami Rei!"

The ash-haired girl stopped and turned around, looking at me. Phew... I barely caught up — he's walking fast, um, little sister... Red eyes, or rather only one eye (the other is covered with a blindfold), looks at me attentively, but at the same time completely indifferently.

"Hello, Ray!" I smiled cheerfully, catching my breath a little. "Do you know me?"

"No," she replied indifferently, glancing at me. "Should I?"

Oops... But I'd forgotten about that. Rey, on the other hand, is very taciturn, and I might as well be trying to start a conversation with, say, my Glock...

"My name is Shinji, Shinji Ikari is the Third Child. I, like you, am also an Evangelion pilot."

There was something vague in Rey's gaze, but she didn't say anything. What on earth is this! That's how I, who am not a very talkative person by nature, try to talk to an even more taciturn person? Oh, ho, ho, now my namesake and roommate, Vitka Semin, would be here, he would even talk to a park bench...

Well, well, well. What am I supposed to do next? Well, I didn't run after girls at school and that's it!..

Hmm, that's a thought...

"Ray, can I help you carry your briefcase home?"

Now there's genuine surprise in his eyes.

"But why?"

I look skeptically at her bandaged arm and head.

"Well, you're hurt..."

"My injuries are not critical."

Tell me, is she still a human or a cyborg? Maybe my father decided to make terminators instead of Yu duplicates?

Okay, quickly, Victor, we need to appeal with something... What should I put pressure on? Yeah, she obeys orders without question...

"The NERVE needs you to get back to normal as quickly as possible, and for this you need to overexert yourself as little as possible. This is extremely important." Oh, how bent! Well, will it work or not?

Rey blinked, thought about it, and looked at me carefully... She handed me her battered gray briefcase.

"Good. If it's necessary, then help me."

One-nil, in our favor.

* * *

I walked next to Ayanami, looked at her, and thought a lot. In principle, outwardly, she largely corresponded to her serial image — pale skin, red eye... That is, the eyes. An albino? Hmm, then where is the white hair you're looking for? Although the available ones, I must say, were quite an unusual color, at least not radically blue, as in the series. After all, I've seen a lot of hair colors, but I've never seen anything like that, unless, of course, you count all the colors. As it was, there was nothing unusual about it-Rey's hair turned out to be ash-gray, the kind I'd seen in my life. Although rare, but I have met.

She turned out to be quite developed for her age... In all, gm, relationships. Fourteen (or is it still thirteen?..) I wouldn't have given her any age, at least fifteen or sixteen, certainly not less. Acceleratka, my goodness... The only thing that caused some discomfort was that she suddenly turned out to be slightly taller than me. For someone who has been used to towering over others all his life, like a tower, it is somewhat unusual and annoying, but in general it is still not fatal.

But her clothes let me down-it feels like I'm seeing my own brother kid in front of me, not a girl. Well, she's dressed too sloppily -that's something I don't fit with the female sex, and that's it! Although, as far as I remember, she doesn't have any other clothes besides a school uniform, a swimsuit and a contact suit. Yeah... It's just a man's dream — a girl who doesn't know what shopping is!

Hmm, that's an interesting thought... Can you talk to one of the girls in the class? No, it won't do — I don't know anyone close there, and this request somehow looks a little strange. And this is not counting the fact that at school Rey is considered completely lost to society, well, to put it mildly, extremely unsociable, and hardly anyone would dare to talk to her, let alone... It's probably better to talk to Misato or Ritsuko about this...

Okay, that's not what we're talking about right now.

I made the first contact with her, but what should I do next? Honestly? Who the hell knows... What do I even know about her from the series (although I still shouldn't blindly trust him — I've already found a lot of discrepancies...)? Well, except for the general psychological portrait, thrown on last night looking. What should I build a conversation on, from which sides should I approach, what should I focus on?

Mmm! Damn, I think my head is going to burst from the strain... So, then we went the other way... What was it Napoleon used to say? "Get into the fight, and then we'll see."

"Ray, can I ask you a question?"

So, it would be nice to come up with this very question, otherwise nothing comes to mind like evil. Think, head, think, I'll buy a cap...

She didn't even turn to look at me.

"Yeah"

damn, I used to talk to people the same way sometimes... Did I look like the same robot? Oh, ho, ho... There must have been a lot of people who wanted to kill me...

"Have you been in NERV for a long time?" Victor, you're on a roll today! Couldn't you think of anything more original?

"Yes."

Great job. Very informative. Whatever the question, that's the answer.

"Can I ask you one more question? He may, however, seem tactless to you..."

"Tactless?" Rey asked me. "What does it mean?"

Op... Ayanami has a problem with such concepts...

"Well... This means that you may not want to answer it..."

"Why?" So... This dialogue reminds me more and more of the conversation between John Connor and the Terminator. And you can't say that it's "inconvenient" — again, he won't understand. Indeed, a wuman isolated from society...

"Well, because... Because... It will be somehow unpleasant and inconvenient for you..."

Damn, it's gone wrong!..

"You're saying strange things," Ray said it honestly.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything like that... And about the tactlessness... How should I put it? In general, a tactless question is one that you can decide not to answer because... Because you might think that no one else but you should know the answer to it. You can consider this information, well, secret, or something... But this secret will concern only you. I'm sorry, I explained it very clumsily, but maybe you at least understood something?.."

Great. The attack of tongue-tied speech came at the most inopportune moment — great speech, Third Child!..

"I think I get it," Ray nodded. "So what was the question you wanted to ask?"

"Amm"

What did I want to ask? It's already slipped my mind... I'm worried, damn it. It's not every day that you have to communicate with people who are so important to the world around you. If I disappear somewhere, then I'll be able to get Rey as an ally. Into loyal allies. She is (if memory serves me correctly) the key to the Third Strike. If I can pull Ayanami away from Gendo, then Father can say goodbye to his plan!

Are we forming a team to save the world, Victor? What should we call it? Every superhero team needs a sonorous name...

Stand still! What the fuck are superheroes? Is that me? Yeah, right now... It's about incredible superpowers and wunderwaffe (approx. The Wunderwaffe. A wonderful weapon) If you don't leave, it will require organizational, psychological and espionage work...

Cool! Considering that my soul and abilities have never lain in any of these areas, I am simply doomed to success! Okay, if I want to change the future, then I still have to act. At least somehow, but you have to... It's better to do something wrong than to do nothing at all, isn't it, Shinji? Don't you already know what would happen if you were left alone?

Okay, stop. Where did that take me? What was I thinking about? So, question, question... aha!..

"How did you get hurt like that? No, of course you don't have to answer if you want... Considering that I didn't find the scene of his fight with Rey when I was retreating from the advancing Third Angel, it means that this is a purely serial line, and not from a comic-manga. So Ayanami was scratched, most likely, about twenty days ago, during the testing of the Zero...

"You mean the cause of my wounds?" Rey asked.

"Yes."

Oh, oh, oh! Ayanamism turns out to be contagious!

"During the Eva-00 trials."

I looked at her expectantly, but Ayanami didn't seem to be going on with her speech. Damn it, damn it! And she kind of answered, but at the same time she didn't say anything specific. No, this information is enough for me — I already know this story pretty well, but for the character I'm playing... So, we keep pushing.

"What exactly happened?"

Again, Rey didn't even turn in my direction, but I could clearly feel the waves of doubt coming from her. Hmm, maybe she's thinking, is it okay for me to reveal classified information? Then we'll go in from the flank...

"I'm also an Evangelion pilot, maybe I'll need this information in the future..."

After a short thought, Rey gave out:

"There was a critical out-of-sync, and I lost contact with Eva-00. The contact capsule was forcibly ejected, but in an emergency mode. It was on landing that I received these injuries."

Wow! That's a speech! By Ray's standards, it's just a whole lecture! Although... She's the one who's so silent and unsociable in public, but when she's alone, she's just a philosopher and a poet...

By the way, I don't even remember why Zero went off the rails. Did it say something about the pilot's internal mental instability?..

Stop.

Is this Ray's MENTAL INSTABILITY? Well, not a damn thing... Back then, I was probably a psychopath and a dangerous person for society. About the original Shinji (not to mention Asuka) I'm already silent...

The orderlyyy!..

Although it's not for nothing that they say that devils are found in a quiet pool.

Eh-eh-eh... What kind of person are you? Eh, Rei Ayanami?

"Was it painful?" I asked quietly. "I've never broken my ribs or my arms in my life, so....."

"Yes," Ayanami replied simply.

We continued walking towards Ray's apartment at a brisk pace.

* * *

"Ray, do you really live HERE?"

No, of course I knew where Ayanami had to live, but as it turned out, I was completely unprepared for this sight...

Actually, I think I have a fairly stable psyche, I would even say very stable (if you don't praise yourself, no one will...). Besides, I was born and raised in Russia, a country of great extremes and upheavals. Well, as a crown, I almost completely completed the dorm survival course. In short, comrades, it's hard to scare me with a mess and ruin — I've already seen everyone...

That's what I thought.

But Ray's house (not even an apartment, but a house) really shocked me. To be honest, I didn't even think that Tokyo 3, this super fancy futuristic city of the future, could have such outright slums...

A small residential area on the outskirts of the city, which took about half an hour to walk from the school, which is about how long I estimated we were on the way. I couldn't be more precise-I just didn't have a watch.

Damn, I need a watch... No, it's not like that. I STUPIDLY NEED A WRISTWATCH!!! For ten years in a row, I wore them both at school and at uni, practically without taking them off day or night. And now I'm starting to get the feeling that I've lost some vital organ for me. Let's say the liver...

Okay, enough anatomical details, Victor. What am I talking about? Yeah, about Ray's place of residence... So that's what it is... Purely offhand, out of a couple dozen huge high-rise buildings, only a few houses were residential here, and most remained in varying degrees of unfinished construction. Apparently, even an omnipotent nerve can have problems with financing... Ayanami's house was quite finished, but it still looked very little like a residential building.

There wasn't a single car in the nearby parking lot, and the area around the house was frankly littered with debris that seemed to have been left over from the builders. Rocks, sand, some pieces of hardware, and other junk are terrifyingly simple... The lawn spaces remained on paper — instead of the cheerful green grass laid out according to the architectural plan (which, for example, was near my house with Misato), there were only plowed earthen areas bounded by concrete sides...

I don't understand anything... And a wuman should live here who is responsible for protecting the whole city, if not the world?! Well, not a damn thing... Of course, I remember something similar happening THERE, when war veterans were forced to huddle in some hovels, even in their old age without getting proper housing. Personally, this has always not only infuriated me, but simply drove me to white heat!

But I thought it was all the fault of the traditional bureaucratic arbitrariness of one single seventh of the land, but no! It was worth dying (hmm) and being resurrected in another reality to face almost the same thing!.. No, I don't understand — NERV is rolling tens of billions of dollars (or what is the most stable currency we have right now?), has branches all over the world, and wields tremendous power... And at the same time, he can't make a single girl live in normal conditions, and not in some kind of kennel!!! Are they saving money, or something? Well, I'll save them some money... Victor swore, right here and now, that he would fix this nasty situation! Personally, I have always stood, and I will stand, that everything should be fair. And even though I've often suffered for my honesty, that's just the kind of flaw I have...