Chapter 789

Many people complained powerlessly.

Looking at the degree of recovery, they understood immediately; once it fully recovers, just wait for all of humanity to hold hands and lie in the coffin.

The humans in this world are like children fighting with nuclear bombs; it's all about the thrill.

"Then what should the streamer do? Really hide here? Why do I feel this place is more dangerous than dancing on the Apostle's head?"

Silence.

After a long time, a gloomy message came out.

"Do your best, let's pray for the streamer. Maybe this is the last time we see him."

"Exactly, a real man, at worst, restart; eighteen years later, he'll be a fine girl again."

"Hmm, hmm? Is there something wrong?"

"And what kind of cult Gundam is the EVA, it turns out only Apostles can deal with Apostles, so you just put a shell on it, right?"

"Feels like the EVA has no intelligence and needs a pilot to become one with it? Listening to this blonde woman's explanation, even the pain is shared, and even the damage is fed back to the pilot."

Isn't this the 'Dharma Heaven and Earth' from the East?"

"...... I seem to remember a long time ago, when the Sky Curtain first opened, a giant that crossed over from a broken world seemed to be like this, the person in the nape of the neck becoming one with it."

But it was much smaller; this thing is almost a hundred meters, most giants are only a few meters, ten meters."

"Hiss~ why does it feel even more exciting, this is the power that belongs to us, streamer don't give up, at least send an EVA back!"

"Exactly, streamer should be content, before dying you can still play 'Dharma Heaven and Earth', cosplaying Kakarot."

"That's Sun Wukong, okay?"

"???"

"That's the prototype of Kakarot, if you don't understand, go play Black Myth. Damn, it's been a week, the security guard at the door won't let me in, shit, my Tiger Vanguard is almost starved to death."

"Stop talking nonsense, the streamer is almost crying, mourn, streamer."

Mourn my ass.

Iori Kitahara looked at the live stream room that had already held a funeral for him online, and cursed the bastards in his heart.

At worst, hide thirty thousand, no, three hundred thousand meters underground, and come out after everything settles down.

It's just destroying humanity, it shouldn't affect the underground world, right?

But looking at the introduction that it's not a third-step Higher God, but a fifth-step Supreme level, he fell silent.

This level might not be able to blow up a star, but it can definitely peel an apple for a planet, or even pierce through a star.

Moreover, there's even a 【Rainbow Level - Remnant】 with a huge amount of information?

While he was brainstorming and his mood was agitated.

The blonde woman in the lab coat, Ritsuko Akagi, had basically finished the introduction.

"That's basically it..."

Ritsuko Akagi took a puff of her cigarette: "Human weapons are meaningless to the Apostle; only those who are compatible and pilot the EVA are qualified to stand in front of them...."

Pilot an EVA? This thing?

And compatible people?

Iori Kitahara suddenly came back to his senses, looked at the blonde woman in the lab coat, and said coldly: "If I heard correctly, you mean you want a child to go to the battlefield to face that monster?!"

Dancing on the tip of a knife isn't enough to describe it...

It's completely sending them to their deaths.

Because of the Apostle, and also because of this so-called EVA!

"Me?"

The boy also finally reacted, pointed at himself, and looked back at the city in a sea of fire in disbelief: "Fight the Apostle? Me?!!!"

Before Ritsuko Akagi could answer.

"That's right!"

A hoarse voice came.

Several people looked up, and on the metal wall behind the purple giant's head, a metal door slowly opened, revealing a man in sunglasses wearing a straight black uniform, calmly looking down.

"Long time no see, Shinji."

Shinji Ikari was stunned for a moment, lowered his head, and didn't speak.

"Hmph~"

The middle-aged man chuckled, had no interest in saying more, and his hoarse voice sounded again: "Thirty seconds to prepare."

"But isn't Unit-00 in a frozen state? Could it be Unit-01? Unit-00 can't move yet, right?"

Misato Katsuragi reacted somewhat, turned her head in disbelief, and looked at the blonde woman.

"He's already here?"

Ritsuko Akagi looked at her calmly.

"No way..."

Misato Katsuragi also calmed down and questioned: "Do you know how long Rei and Asuka trained for? Seven months, aren't you bringing Shinji here to train? Shinji..."

Ritsuko Akagi ignored her and looked at Shinji calmly.

"You pilot Unit-01, just sit in it, it's not difficult."

"Sit in it to go to my death?"

"For humanity, for the greater good, there is no other way. You understand, right, First Lieutenant Katsuragi?"

Misato Katsuragi fell silent.

The terror of the Apostle is far more terrifying than expected.

All human weapons are helpless.

Once it cannot be stopped from arriving, triggering the Third Impact, the order that humanity has finally recovered from pain might instantly collapse.

No.

In the prophecy, the Third Impact will be the end of everything.

This "everything" is probably much larger than they imagined.

That is all of humanity, that is billions of living lives, and on the other side, it is "just" a mere boy being voluntarily risked to fight.

But.......

She looked at Shinji.

Shinji Ikari lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Father, why did you call me here?"

Above.

The man in sunglasses said faintly: "Don't you have an idea in your heart?"

Shinji Ikari's voice trembled: "Is it me who has to pilot this thing and fight that terrifying thing from just now?"

"That's right."

The man's tone was light.

"No!"

Shinji Ikari suddenly looked up, tears streaming down: "I don't want to, why do you want me to come now, don't you never need me?"

All the longing and expectations, all the excuses found for his father, the only relative, were shattered at this moment.

The boy even had a moment of confusion.

Does his existence really have meaning?

What does the existence named Shinji Ikari mean to this man?

"So, what do you want to say?"

The man just asked calmly: "Do you want to put your own little emotions above the greater good of humanity's survival? Last three seconds, if you don't go, get out, you are not irreplaceable."

Actually, his original answer was the opposite.

He wanted to use the need for this boy, that it had to be him, to make him walk the path he had set.

It's just.....

"Pfft~ Hahaha, did I hear that right? Greater good? Humanity?"

Iori Kitahara laughed out loud, walked lazily to the boy's side, held down the boy's head, looked up, and mocked: "Your greater good is letting a child stand in front of you without any preparation, protect you, and then die? It's really disgusting~"

He was laughing on his face.

But he was angry to the extreme in his heart.

He had always been optimistic, and for the sake of humanity, he could understand some things that were forced.

But shouldn't such things be voluntary?