EVA: Shinji Ikari Returns from the Dragon Clan

Chapter 183 181. A fragile girl during her menstrual period

“Unpleasant!”

Asuka said with a huff.

But when she said this, there was not much dissatisfaction in her tone, she was just talking back as usual. Ikari Shinji thought to himself, you are not the short-haired and glasses girl in a certain animation, the heroine's catchphrase is "unpleasant", Asuka, you have neither short hair nor glasses! Seeing this, Akagi Ritsuko gave her a smile that said you should thank me, which confused Asuka and she didn't understand what she meant.

"Are you here to visit, Ms. Ritsuko?" he asked.

"That's part of the reason." Akagi Ritsuko nodded at him, then looked at Asuka. There was an indescribable heaviness in her tone, and even Ikari Shinji became nervous. "But the main reason is that I came here to tell Asuka about something physical... It's bad news."

bad news……

Asuka's beautiful eyes lost focus slightly, as if covered by a shadow. It was really a double whammy. Not only was Unit 3 scrapped, Unit 2's synchronization rate dropped, but now even her own body was in trouble.

Shinji Ikari sighed in his heart. He scratched his head and got off the bed.

"Then I'll go out and avoid it for a while."

Although he didn't know what the bad news was, he thought it was related to the parasitism of Unit 03 by the Angel. Since it was a physical matter, it would be too much of an invasion of privacy for him to sit in on it. But Akagi Ritsuko stopped him. She said indifferently, "No, Shinji-kun, you can stay and listen."

Shinji Ikari glanced at the silent Asuka.
"It's better not to."

"It's the erosion from the apostles." Seeing that he seemed to want to leave like this, Akagi Ritsuko directly revealed the answer, "That's why I said you can stay and listen."

"Erosion?" He had to stop.

Asuka's eyes instantly lost their warmth, and her long eyelashes slowly blinked up and down.

"Well, Shinji, you guessed correctly before. The angel did parasitize in the cockpit, and then parasitized into the body of Unit 3 through the cockpit. Although you rescued her in time, Asuka was still corroded by the thirteenth angel in the cockpit, and her genes were changed." Ritsuko Akagi said seriously.

Different from him.

Asuka is truly corrupted.

Shinji Ikari couldn't help but worry. He didn't know what the consequences of the erosion were, but it was definitely not a good thing. However, Asuka looked very healthy, and she didn't lose any limbs or anything. Although she had phantom limb pain, it was a normal injury. He looked at Ritsuko Akagi, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"It doesn't look like anything serious..."

Akagi Ritsuko shook her head upon hearing this.

"Although there is no external manifestation now, Asuka has been eroded by the apostle, and it is the left eye."

"What will be the consequences?" he asked.

"It's hard to say, maybe my eyes will become like yours, Shinji-kun."

--impossible.

Shinji Ikari silently swallowed these unspeakable words, but Asuka, who had been silent all along, suddenly brightened up with her eyes.
"Like Shinji?"

"It's just a possibility." Ritsuko Akagi said without comment.

But Asuka's energetic expression didn't care about the "maybe" at all. She probably thought she could definitely become like that. It seemed that this girl really wanted a pair of such majestic golden eyes, and didn't even care about the dangers contained in it.

It is indeed bad news that your body is being eroded by the apostles.

Shinji Ikari originally thought that Asuka would be more depressed, but unexpectedly, because of her eyes, she was not so sad. For a moment, he didn't know whether this was a good thing or not.

"Well, that's all the news I have to tell you. Other tests can only be carried out after Asuka is discharged from the hospital." Akagi Ritsuko informed Asuka of the plans after her discharge and said goodbye. "I have to go back and analyze the genetic results of the apostle's erosion. Katsuragi will come to visit later. I'm leaving now. You two should get along well."

After saying that, Ritsuko Akagi left.

Shinji Ikari and Asuka were left looking at each other.

"...Still chatting?" he asked carefully.

"Not interested in."

Asuka said.

She had just said she wanted to chat with him because she was bored. Girls' minds are really changeable.

So both of them lay on the hospital bed bored and looked at the ceiling. The ward fell into a long silence. He and Asuka seemed to be playing a game where whoever spoke first would lose. Shinji Ikari felt that this game was not fun. If his former dormitory senior, the talkative one, were to play this game, he would probably be so frustrated that he would vomit blood.

He looked at Asuka, whose eyebrows were twisted and she was enduring the pain. Her pretty face was slightly distorted, and suddenly, her face turned extremely pale.

"What's wrong?" Ikari Shinji raised the white flag of surrender and announced his defeat.

"…fine."

Asuka said this while getting up with difficulty, as if she wanted to go to the bathroom. Ikari Shinji hurriedly helped her. This time Asuka didn't refuse at all. When she came out of the bathroom and returned to the bed, several minutes had passed. But her pale face didn't get much better, on the contrary, it got worse.

She tossed and turned on the bed, holding her stomach.

Asuka's phantom pain wasn't so obvious before. Could it be that her injury has worsened? Ikari Shinji couldn't help but ask:

"Does your stomach hurt?"

"…It hurts so much," she said weakly.

"How about some medicine?"

“It’s incurable.”

That's right, taking the medicine will only make you feel better. To prevent addiction, you have to wait a long time between taking the medicine. Usually you take it at night before going to bed.

Wait... stomach... When did I stab Unit 03 in the stomach? Ikari Shinji doubted his memory. Did I? No? He was sure he had never done such a thing. At most, it was the neck or the heart... It seemed worse than the stomach. In short, the pain in the girl's body was basically created by herself.

If I hold back a little during the fight... I guess that's not possible.

"I'm sorry." He apologized honestly.

"Shinji, you idiot, don't take it all on yourself. This is none of your business."

Asuka said through gritted teeth.

"Really."

He heard Asuka muttering,

"I don't want children, why should I suffer this?"

well.

not my business.

Shinji Ikari breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that it was just the pain of the menstrual period plus the phantom limb pain. Asuka's menstrual period was originally today... He thought subconsciously, and suddenly felt that he was a little abnormal for noting down the time. But he couldn't help with this kind of pain.

I had thought about compensating her with ice cream before, so should I still compensate her this time?
Shinji Ikari thought about it and decided to postpone the compensation for a while, but there were things he could do. He stood up and walked out of the ward, asked a nurse where the hot water in the hospital was, and returned to the ward after getting a large pot of hot water. In fact, he could just press the call bell to ask the nurse to come. He didn't realize this until he was done.

"Have a drink."

He handed over a cup of hot water with his left hand.

Asuka, who was in so much pain, couldn't help but drink some. She looked better and not as scary as before. Before she took a bite of the lunch box that Rei Ayanami gave her, Shinji Ikari frowned and opened the lunch box.

"You also know that you can't eat on an empty stomach, so eat a little."

"……snort."

Asuka snorted coldly, but this strong action immediately affected her stomach. She took a breath and didn't care about pretending. But with no appetite, she couldn't eat after just two bites. Even so, Asuka felt that her stomach felt a little better, but at this time, the phantom limb pain came up again, and her bones were whining again.

Asuka: ...Or just let me die in pain.

Just when her situation was getting worse, another visitor came to the ward today.

It's Dongmu Guang.

When the door of the ward opened, Ikari Shinji was still sitting on Asuka's bed, handing her hot water. When Hikaru Tomoki saw that the two were staying in the same ward, a strange expression appeared on his face. He only took three days off, which was so short that his two friends had no intention of visiting him. After all, he came to the hospital frequently. Asuka was different. She took half a month off, which made her best friend Hikaru Tomoki very worried.

Seeing this, Shinji Ikari handed the kettle to the squad leader.

"Asuka is having her period," he whispered.

"Uh…oh, sorry sorry."

Mitsuru Tomu didn't know why she had to apologize for no reason. She took the kettle and, as a girl too, took care of Asuka instead. She was not as clumsy as Shinji Ikari. Asuka quickly recovered to her weak state instead of being in excruciating pain.

Then the two girls started chatting.

Over there, Mitsuru Domaki was whispering to Asuka in a girl's private conversation. She spoke in a low voice and no one knew what they were saying. Asuka's face turned slightly red and she glared at him fiercely.

What does this have to do with him?

Shinji Ikari complained in his heart, but with Hikaru Toki around, Asuka was obviously in much better condition.

Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. The monitor had her own things to do and couldn't stay with him all the time. Half an hour later, Dong Mu Guang left the ward with an apologetic look on his face. At this time, it was completely dark outside. The monitor, who was well-educated, would never do such a thing as staying overnight in the hospital.

He and Asuka were so close at night.

The beds of the two were not far from each other, as if they were within reach. All he had to do was take a brave step and he could hold the girl in his arms. But Shinji Ikari had no romantic thoughts. He heard Asuka clenching her teeth because of the pain. After taking the medicine prescribed by the hospital, the girl felt better and was able to fall asleep.

Second day in hospital.

Misato Katsuragi came to visit.

After the female major saw that they were fine, she went back to her own business. Sometimes even Shinji Ikari envied her mental state. Rei Ayanami came over and gave them lunch and left quickly. This silly girl didn't even come to accompany him, which made Shinji Ikari determined to teach the girl a lesson.

Asuka is still on her period.

The time that Hikaru Tomoki can take care of Asuka is limited, so he has to take care of her for the rest of the time. As a result, Shinji Ikari has to carefully observe Asuka's condition throughout the day - he is also a patient! Miss Ritsuko must have known about this and arranged it on purpose!

On the third day of hospitalization.

Today is the day he is discharged from the hospital.

This was a good thing for Shinji Ikari, at least they no longer had to stay in the ward in such an awkward situation. But Asuka would have to stay alone in the ward from now on. She could chat with him to relieve her boredom, and he would take care of her. If Shinji Ikari left, she might go crazy due to boredom... He thought Asuka was not that fragile.

"I will come to visit you often in the future," he said.

"No need." Because of the residual stomachache and phantom limb pain, Asuka could only hum and say, "Stupid Shinji, you should spend more time with the top students. Besides, aren't you afraid that I will treat you as a substitute for my mom and dad again?" There was sarcasm in her tone at the end.

Ikari Shinji shook his head.

Asuka was stunned, not knowing whether his shaking head meant that he was not afraid or that he thought she wouldn't.

But Ikari Shinji had already left the ward, and Ayanami Rei had been waiting outside for a long time. He smiled at Ayanami, and the two walked side by side as usual.

Only occasionally, he lowered his eyes and touched his lips.

(End of this chapter)