Chapter 9: Tour Guide
Shinji Ikari himself didn't know what he was thinking, so why did he agree? Isn't this the trouble he feared the most? Why did he agree to become their tour guide?
After all, he is still a student and still has to go to school... Well, because of his identity, in fact, whether it is him, Asuka, or Ling Boli, the three of them can actually not be used for school. This is directly directed by R. It doesn't matter whether the three of them come to school or not, but this is not the reason why he agreed to Roger. It's like... it's like Roger has a strange aura that makes people involuntarily agree with his words, and it's impossible to refute... Or is he too cowardly himself?
"Uncle Roger, I only took two days off. Because my father couldn't contact me, I couldn't ask for more leave, so in the past two days..."
Shinji Ikari said to Roger timidly, and Roger looked at everything on the street with interest. This attitude made Shinji Ikari sigh, but he didn't dare to continue to say anything more.
Through the chains of the soul, Ah Xing's voice was conveyed to the minds of everyone in the Daxizhou team.
"...I heard Shinji Ikari say before that Asuka had just moved into his home. From the perspective of time, if the main body of this world is centered on the new theatrical version, then now Ikari Gendo is on the moon. Speaking of which, this period happened to be the most vulnerable time in the whole r..."
Walking on the street, Shinji Ikari began to briefly tell everyone about the name of the street and the functions of each building. Of course, he actually didn't know how to introduce it. He was not a regular tour guide, and he was also very uncomfortable with Roger's shoulders from time to time and looking familiar, so he came to explain and guide, but it was actually not much different from that of him.
“There is the lead over there…”
When Shinji Ikari was still explaining meaninglessly, Roger suddenly patted him on the shoulder again and said, "It's noon, let's have lunch together."
Shinji Ikari rubbed his shoulders and didn't dare to say anything more, so he replied, "Well, okay, I'll bring a meal too..." Before he could finish his speech, the lunch box he had just taken out of his schoolbag was taken directly by Roger.
Roger opened the lunch box and looked at it. Then he laughed and stuffed the lunch box back into Shinji Ikari's schoolbag, and then said, "I want to treat you to a meal because you are our tour guide. The food we bring is absolutely delicious. The ingredients are very precious, which can be regarded as our return gift, hahahaha."
Shinji Ikari quickly said politely: "No, Mr. Roger, I actually..."
"Hmm? What do you want to say?" Roger looked at Shinji Ikari and asked.
Shinji Ikari immediately shivered. For some reason, he just couldn't refuse. He could only nod his head...
"Is it okay?" A Xing said through the spiritual chain: "You are cheating when using the domineering spirit in this kind of place, right?"
Roger made a haha, and went over the topic directly, then took everyone to find a small park nearby, then casually found a lawn and sat down.
Speaking of silkyness, Shinji Ikari was also a little curious about what this group of people was going to eat. His personality was cowardly, but it did not mean that he was a fool. Such a group of people suddenly appeared around him and forced him to be a guide. He also looked unfamiliar with New Tokyo. It was suspicious no matter how he looked at it, of course, inexplicably, he could feel Roger's kindness to him. This was very rare. It was not that people who expressed kindness to him were rare, but that he could feel it very rare, because he had always tried to isolate the outside world with indifference, and did not want to feel the outside world. At this time, he could feel Roger's kindness to him. This was really incredible.
Just as Shinji Ikari was thinking about something, he looked strangely at a woman in Roger's team and kept taking out the ingredients from a small-looking pocket. No matter how you look at it, the volume of these ingredients should be greater than that pocket...
But...ingredients?
"Wait, Mr. Roger, can't he want to make a fire here? It's forbidden here..." Shinji Ikari said immediately, but he seemed to be late, so he saw Roger take out a big pot, a rack, and some tableware, and then ignite the flames on the rack... By the way, Shinji Ikari didn't see where Roger took out so many things from, and these people didn't bring any luggage or anything else.
The woman who took out the ingredients, she cut vegetables and sorted them out, and cooked them in an amazing speed. Shinji Ikari thought she was watching a movie. In just a few minutes, a series of delicious food was ready. Just smelling the smell made Shinji Ikari drool. Although he just looked at it in a daze just now, he was sure that he had seen many ingredients that he had never heard of, or that only appeared in textbooks, such as a kind of meat that looked very similar to the whale meat he saw in his book.
"Don't look, this is indeed the little whale meat, and it's the tenderest part. I heard that you Japanese like to eat whale meat very much, and the whales are extinct, so I specially exchanged them... I bought some Dragon King Whale meat. I am very good at cooking, so I'll try it." The woman said to Shinji Ikari with a smile.
The woman's age is similar to Miss Miri in Ikari. She looks ordinary and has a little freckle on her face, but she smiles very gently, looking like the eldest sister next door, which makes Shinji Ikari's originally restrained mood slightly relax. At the same time, he naturally took the chopsticks and bowls handed to him by the woman.
Although the woman said that Japanese people like to eat whales very much, when he was born, there were no whales in this world. Perhaps there were still some, but they were definitely not something that could be eaten. So he picked up the whale meat with chopsticks in anger. The cooking method used by the woman was braised whale tender meat. As soon as Shinji Ikari got into his mouth, a umami smell spread, the meat was tender, and all kinds of flavors exploded on his tongue, which almost made him swallow his tongue. This was much better than the food he made himself. No, it was 10,000 times more delicious, and he couldn't help but pick up another piece of whale meat.
"And this, and this, this is also very good. I specially exchanged the Eye Demon's brain marrow meat I bought, made with this soup, and the taste was particularly fragrant and rich." The woman looked at Shinji Ikari with a smile and ate it. She said this gently while picking it up for him.
"Eye Demon?" Shinji Ikari muttered strangely, but Ah Xing next to him shook his head, and then he glared at Roger fiercely.
"As long as there are captains, there are all kinds of players. Even the newcomers who have only entered the team for only two horror movies have been broken. Why do you have to say that the Eye Demon brain is just an ordinary pig brain? Even if it is Roger's brain, it's also a good brain, and the Eye Demon, why don't you talk about the Dragon and Dungeon?" A Xing lamented in the spiritual chain, and the other players next to him showed a sympathy for him, except for the few two.
Shinji Ikari didn't pay much attention. First, the food was really delicious, and second, he mistakenly thought that he had heard it wrong. He was the type who was most afraid of troubleing others and did not want others to trouble him. To put it simply, it was the type of rejecting the outside world, so he started to eat food silently. However, he was in a good mood now, so he discussed the cooking and ingredients of these foods with women from time to time.
At this moment, Roger, whose mouth was filled with food, suddenly muttered, "Speaking of it, Shinji Ikari, why are you driving a PAR for?"
Shinji Ikari was stunned for a moment. Although his driving PAR spoon was not confidential, many people in the school knew about it, and many people had seen the PA nearby, but when asked, he still didn't know what to say at once. In this way, he chewed the food and said for a long time: "I...If I don't drive, it won't work?"
"Is that right..." Roger swallowed the food, took a sip of wine, and then said, "Because if you don't drive, your father will be gone in the end, and it will be the only bond, right?"
Shinji Ikari silently put down the bowls and chopsticks. The woman next to him suddenly showed pity in her eyes. She turned to Roger and said, "Captain, you are here again..."
Roger scratched his head, and he suddenly patted Shinji Ikari's shoulder and said, "I didn't blame you, actually I think... this is not bad either."
Shinji Ikari immediately looked at Roger, and Roger took another big sip of wine, spitting out the wine, and looked at the sky and said, "Some people fight to survive, some people fight to benefit, some people fight to honor, some people fight to protect their most important people or things, your battle... You sacrifice your life to fight in order to make your father recognize your efforts. This is nothing wrong, it's just..."
"Just?" Shinji Ikari's brows relaxed at first, and he felt a little happy, as if he felt that he had been recognized, but when he heard it the last time, he felt tight.
Roger scratched his head again, laughed and said, "No, it's nothing, let's eat first. These ingredients can't be bought. If you don't eat them, let's eat them all."
"Well" Although Shinji Ikari didn't hear what he wanted to hear or didn't want to hear, he was still quite happy at the moment. For the group of people he met, for this at a loss, for this food, or for what he did, it seemed that he had been recognized by others... He felt that it didn't seem like a bad thing to be a tour guide today.
On the other hand, Roger and Ah Xing knew that that was just what the words behind were...
But when you know that your father has never thought about your efforts and any bonds with you, he just treats you as a tool...
What will happen to your heart?
Chapter completed!