"...Although the erosion traces of cell tissue have disappeared, the possibility of being subjected to the spiritual pollution of the apostles cannot be ruled out, and this is the only way to isolate it."

On the night when the Ninth Apostle was defeated, in a special room deep in the nerv base, Riko Akagi looked through the observation window expressionlessly at a container placed between many red pillars, like a coffin, and said calmly and coldly.

Ibuki Maya looked into the observation window with some difficulty, but the "coffin" that was extremely gloomy and terrifyingly illuminated by the red light still made her feel very uncomfortable, so she immediately withdrew her gaze.

"But... the black cat's consciousness is always very clear, and the eroded cell tissue after we rescued it quickly began to recover. No abnormalities were found in all examinations. The 'spectrum' is not blue, so there is no need to be so cautious, right?

Difficult, is it…”

Speaking of this, Ibuki Maya's face suddenly changed, and she tentatively asked her respected senior Riko Akagi:

"It shouldn't be necessary to 'dispose' her, right?"

"This is a precious 'sample' and cannot be 'disposed'."

Riko Akagi, who had a lady's cigarette between her fingers, looked at the freezing equipment in the isolation room with a calm look that seemed to be looking at biological specimens, and replied casually in an unusually plain tone, then directly pressed the long piece of cigarette rolls into the ashtray full of cigarette butts.

Ibuki Moya's face showed a disgusting expression - her "cleanness obsession" made her unable to tolerate such things, but the object she despised was not her senior sister Ritsuko, but the senior executive who gave such orders to her senior sister Akagi.

"But...will we reply to Colonel Chuxuan like this. Will he accept the Colonel?"

“He would accept it because he is a ‘real soldier’.

and……"

Riko Akagi, who was injured in the explosion at the Matsuyo Second Test Site, turned her head and said to Ibuki Maya with a strange smile:

"And in the 'record', didn't the black cat never recover from consciousness?"

Ibuki Maya once again plucked up the courage to look at the black cat's "coffin". His eyes were filled with pity and sadness.

The practice of the senior management clearly intends to study the black cat as a precious sample that has been partially integrated with the apostles. Spiritual pollution is just an excuse.

Then... the research that must be conducted on it regardless of the will of his or her guardian... is mostly not a gentle study, which does not harm the test subject, and even after the study is completed, the black cat will most likely have no chance to regain freedom.

But despite his sympathy with the black cat, Ibuki Maya would not tell Chu Xuan the truth immediately.

——Now the internal affairs department has warned everyone who knows that the black cat has been very awake after being rescued. Moreover, they not only warn them but also finish it. They once told Ibuki Moya quite clearly that they will step up surveillance of relevant personnel in the near future.

If anyone told Chu Xuan the truth, Chu Xuan, who has attracted much attention in "Super Robot War", may not be a problem, but the person who "stole the news" will definitely not end up much better.

"Why? Didn't it be said that it was just a check at the beginning? Why did the black cat get frozen?

And when will it be frozen? One day? One week? One month? One semester? One year? Or…”

The day after the Ninth Apostle was wiped out, Shinji Ikari, who made an appointment with everyone to visit the black cat in the hospital to visit the black cat, was excitedly waving his arms in the corridor of the nerv base. Chu Xuan, Ayanami, Asuka and Mahibo, opposite him, all had a gloomy face and did not say a word. The smiles when they came had already disappeared from everyone's faces.

"Chu Xuan! Haven't we rescued the black cat? Why do we have to freeze her?

Although I don’t know the technical issues, since all the erosion traces of cell tissue have disappeared, her body has been well! Even if she still cannot wake up, she doesn’t need to freeze it!”

Shinji Ikari said to Chu Xuan with an anxious look, but Chu Xuan never said a word - there was still no expression on his face. This was originally something Shinji Ikari had become accustomed to, but today he suddenly felt an indescribable coldness from Chu Xuan's poker face, as if the matter of the Black Cat had nothing to do with him.

"Chu Xuan, think of a solution! Isn't Black Cat your girlfriend?"

Seeing that he said he was dry, Chu Xuan was still unmoved. Shinji Ikari finally clenched his fists and shouted at Chu Xuan with grief and anger.

Perhaps it was Shinji Ikari's roar that worked, Chu Xuan finally raised his hand and pushed down his reflective glasses. Then he replied in an extremely brief tone that was as smooth and unabashed as ever:

"Not a girlfriend."

Chu Xuan's ruthless answer shocked everyone, but just before they misunderstood, Chu Xuan immediately explained it.

"It's the wife."

"Then, then..."

Shinji Ikari's heart was pulled up hard but was immediately let go, and then he looked at Chu Xuan expectantly while stroking his chest, but this time Chu Xuan was about to disappoint him.

“We have no choice about the black cat – I have raised objections, but the ‘superior’ still decided to freeze the black cat.

Then all we can do is obey orders and wait for the day when the black cat wakes up from the freezing.”

Chu Xuan gave a standard military-style answer. The muscles on his face remained motionless and his spine was as straight as usual. Shinji Ikari always thought that Chu Xuan was very strong and "manly". He always dreamed of becoming a person like Chu Xuan...

But now he felt that the many halos that enveloped Chu Xuan quickly disappeared. What appeared in front of him was a man full of cold and hard as steel, which was no different from his most annoying father.

Father……

Father……

By the way! Father!

"I'll go find dad!"

Shinji Ikari remembered his father, Commander Gendo Ikari, the "superior" of everyone in the organization, and gritted his teeth and ran towards the commander's room.

Although he knew where his father's office was, he never thought about finding his father. But now for the sake of the black cat, he decided to find the one who abandoned his mother after he passed away. Even if he called him to the third new Tokyo city, he was still abandoning his father!

(Damn it! When will the black cat be allowed to freeze?

Even I know that if there is a way in a short time, there is no need to freeze at all!

I must let the black cat freeze and make her wake up!

because……

We have made an appointment to go to the beach together, go to iket together, watch fireworks together, and spend this pleasant summer vacation together!)

Before he knew it, Shinji Ikari's eyes were filled with tears, but he kept knocking on the gate of the commander's room with tears in his eyes, and shouting without fear that his father would see him.

"What's wrong with you?"

Accompanied by Deputy Commander Dongyue, Shinji Ikari finally stepped into the overly spacious command room. A long distance from him, the person he wanted to see was putting his elbows on the table, crossing his fingers in front of his mouth. The glasses reflected light like Chu Xuan, making it impossible to see the eyes behind the lenses clearly, and the sound was as stable as Chu Xuan, making it impossible to hear the emotions in the sound.

A hot feeling surged in Shinji Ikari's chest, who gradually overlapped his father and Chu Xuan's figures. He clenched his fists and opened his eyes wide. He spoke to his father in a clear and firm voice:

"Dad, please remove the order to freeze the black cat... Wu Gengruli."

"no."

Gendo Ikari did not hesitate at all, and immediately rejected Shinji Ikari's unreasonable request as if he was conditioned reflexively. Shinji Ikari, who had already been mentally prepared, announced to his ruthless father with a firm heart:

"If you disagree, I will not fly the first plane again until the black cat is released."

“It doesn’t matter.”

Gendo Ikari replied without hesitation again, Shinji Ikari finally fell silent.

"Go out when it's okay."

After a few minutes, the impatient Gendo Ikari finally spoke to drive people away, but in order to express his determination, Shinji Ikari still stood there stubbornly and refused to leave.

"Call someone to drive him out."
Chapter completed!