Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

This is perfectly normal. Asking these people, who are the culmination of biological science and therefore advocate science, to admit that there is such a thing as 'God' is no different from telling fanatical Christians that God does not exist.

Even if they saw Junius VII’s extraordinary scenes, they would only try to misinterpret them as something they could understand!

"You might not believe me, and think I'm talking nonsense. Whatever, I'm tired too." Moses slowly stood up, chuckling as he opened his arms.

"If you're looking for the Messiah, go to Mendel. I've spent all the money I've stolen over the years there. No one can stop him now, neither you nor any natural being on Earth."

"We are all life forms endowed with the fruits of wisdom, humanity's completion, the soul's slumber and purification..."

Before he could finish speaking, Moses' body in the video suddenly disappeared, leaving only a pool of orange LCL solution that had seeped out of his clothes.

Soon, Patrick and Siegel were exposed to information and technology that overturned their common sense and understanding.

EVA, the origin of humankind, Adam, Lilith, the Apostles, the Tree of Life...

That night, in the Klein family's study, Siegel silently flipped through the documents. His instincts and common sense told him that these were all laughable nonsense.

How could humanity have originated from an extraterrestrial species? Impact? Soul? Negative universe? Apostles? These terms are nothing but the ramblings and fabrications of religious believers!

But what happened in Junius VII wasn't a lie, so what if, just what if it were all true...?

"Is human peace really to be achieved through such extreme methods...?" Siegel's finger lingered on the words "Human Instrumentality Project," and he murmured softly.

His heart told him that he should go to Mendel at all costs to find out the truth, but reason told him that he could not.

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The L5 space region where Plant is located is separated from the L4 space region by a moon. To send enough troops there, they would either have to pass by the moon or pass by the L3 space region where Orb is located.

How can we send out superfluous military forces to do such a thing when we are about to start a war with the Earth?

If all of this was planned by the Messiah beforehand, exploiting the Junius 7 incident to seize a gap in PLANT's strategy and do this...

Siegel rubbed the bridge of his nose bitterly. Could he really be a prophet?

Meanwhile, in the other room, Lux lay on the bed with her long pink hair cascading down like a waterfall, staring silently at the photo of Tsurugi in her hand.

After spending more than a decade together, Lux thought she knew Messiah, her childhood friend, well enough, but now she realizes that she seems to have never really known him.

Looking back, Messiah was consistent in his words and actions, never hiding his true thoughts from himself or from Aslan and the others.

But on the other hand, isn't such a lack of embarrassment also a manifestation of indifference?

That wasn't love, nor was it hate; that smile was never a pretense, but simply an indifference that was even more hurtful than either of those.

A being high above will naturally not be affected by the insignificant things below.

"Messiah, what am I to you...?"

The faint sound slowly spread through the silent space.

Then, history unfolded as expected.

On February 18th, during a state funeral held to commemorate the victims of Blood Valentine's Day, Speaker Siegel issued the Black Declaration of PLANT's complete independence and a statement declaring a commitment to fight to the end in solidarity with the Earth Alliance. He indicated that priority would be given to providing supplies to nations not participating in the Earth Alliance, and the Oceania Union and the United States of South America, both non-PLANT council members, accepted this recommendation.

The following day, the Earth Alliance launched a ruthless military invasion of the United States of South America and militarily suppressed the Panama Space Port. The South American continent was forced to join the Atlantic Federation, and then on February 20, it declared war on the Oceania Federation, which had criticized the Earth Alliance's aggressive actions.

On February 22, the World Tree offensive and defensive war began. ZAFT deployed a neutron jammer for the first time in actual combat. All colonies in the L1 space zone except the moon turned to dust, and the Earth Alliance's First, Second and Third Fleets were completely annihilated.

On March 8, ZAFT launched Operation Earth Deployment. On April 1, PLAN began to deploy neutron jammers on a large scale to Earth. By launching them and embedding them into the Earth's crust, they successfully triggered a global energy crisis, leading to a shortage of resources, widespread famine, and the peak of anti-Coordinator sentiment.

Unrestrained and insane warfare has successfully dragged humanity into an abyss of destruction.

In this short period of time, Tsugumi, along with Mendel, abandoned the colony satellite and successfully created the 'Black Moon'.

Operation Human Instrumentality Project has officially begun.

The book club forum opens up a whole new world when you turn the page.

989

708. Asuka makes her appearance.

"Baka! Hentai! Urusai!!!"

The girl with orange twin tails stood with her hands on her hips and uttered a classic line.

"Yes, yes, yes, that's the taste!" Tsugumi clapped her hands with a smile as she looked at Asuka, whom she hadn't seen in a long time.

"It's a pity that the voice actress isn't Rie Kugimiya, otherwise it would be even more perfect!"

"I'm not joking with you!" Asuka glared with her big, round eyes, her pretty face flushed with anger, and pointed to the side.

"Why do I have to live with this whole bunch of top students in some other world?!"

Asuka was pointing in the direction of a large group of Rei Ayanami who were working quietly.

Rei Ayanami cleaning, Rei Ayanami moving things, Rei Ayanami conducting biological experiments, Rei Ayanami cloning herself...

Today, Mendel's colony satellites are covered with more than six figures of Rei Ayanami!

A Rei Ayanami clone with the exact same appearance, figure, and expression. The factory price is three thousand US dollars each, but it's actually cheap, really cheap!!!

"There's nothing I can do. After I extracted Lilith's genes, she chose to create only this type of offspring," Tsugumi said, spreading her hands.

"If you don't mind, I can use your genes—would you like to see the Asuka Army?"

"No way!!!"

Asuka wasn't actually that angry, after all, she had long ago understood the true nature of this thing disguised as Rei Ayanami.

Lilith herself had no objections, so Asuka naturally had no reason to get angry or meddle. After all, to Lilith, they were just terminals made of proteins. Moreover, none of them carried Lilith's will; in essence, these clones were merely extensions of Tsugumi's will.

What?! Died from overwork?! Quickly send it to the biomass conversion tank to become LCL solution, then immediately start the new Ayanami Rei mouthpiece!!!

So, if Asuka is angry, it's probably because, after not seeing him for so long, the 'god' she used to worship has not only become younger, but also more irresponsible, and seems to have absolutely no need for her.

The first two are XP issues, but the last one is the key point.

"Well, I can't help it, I'm also very curious whether this world could be the world of Super Robot Wars..." Tsugumi stroked her chin, a playful expression on her face.

Summoning Asuka for help wasn't really necessary; it was just a whim and a bit of laziness. He wanted to see how this world and the world of EVA could be so easily connected.

Well, if you look at it from the perspective of being lazy, then it's definitely necessary. After all, for people, anything that allows them to be lazy is useful!

But for Asuka, this was a reunion after three years, and the fact that it was so hasty and unnecessary left the girl, who had made all the preparations before being summoned, with her makeup done and expectations high, feeling quite aggrieved.

"Alright, alright, you're important, Asuka." Tsugumi patted her twin tails to comfort her, then changed the subject.

"Speaking of which, how has your world been since I left?"

"People in the innocent zone are doing their best to rebuild their homes, while people in the guilty zone are struggling to survive—the reason that fool didn't come over is because he's been fighting the 'beasts' that crawled out of the door in Europe."

When Asuka spoke about her own world, her tone was quite complicated.

After all, it was the 'god' before them who pronounced the fate of their world—neither a good nor a bad one, but rather a result of good being rewarded and evil being punished.

Overall, it was a relatively peaceful ending, and the EVA pilots didn't lose their jobs—and probably never will.

"Yes, that shows Shinji has grown into a reliable man!" Tsugumi nodded approvingly, feeling genuinely proud of having raised Shinji.

"But Asuka, you're also very good; you've grown into a reliable older sister. In that case, I have an important task for you!"

Asuka felt like she'd been tricked, but she still willingly fell for it. She snorted and clasped her hands behind her back, skipping and hopping after Tsugumi.

Along the way, Tsugumi gave her a brief introduction to the background of this world, and made no secret of his idea to carry out the Human Instrumentality Project.

Asuka remained noncommittal about Tsugumi's thoughts; she simply had absolute trust in Tsugumi herself. If she had to bring up the phone call, it was only because of one question.

"Shouldn't your power allow you to achieve your goal more easily? Why go through all this trouble and go through such a roundabout way?"

"Because my friend told me that I am far from humanity but close to God, and in order to prevent me from becoming a god-man, I should save the world using human methods."

Tsurugi shrugged.

"...Are you sure SEELE's method is the way to save humanity?" Asuka glanced at the cross pendant on Tsugumi's chest, raising an eyebrow.

"So what if they don't count? They are indeed big villains, big bullies, anti-D elements and ambitious schemers, but I am not!" Dongjiang patted his chest and said.

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"By killing you, I am actually saving you from all the suffering in the world; though I killed you, I truly loved you!!!"

"In any case, rather than letting the two groups of regulators and natural people kill each other, I might as well send them all to the Western Paradise, which would be a perfect ending."

Asuka blinked her big eyes. She felt something was off, but she didn't say anything or think about it. She just said rather coolly...

"Then what do you need me for? Kam~Mi~Sa~Ma~?"

"It's very simple—I want you to drive one of these vehicles to a location I specify and start killing, then once you've collected enough souls, launch a localized assault!"

Tsugumi snapped her fingers, and the next moment, Rei Ayanami in the dark factory immediately turned on the lights. Accompanied by the sudden illumination and a cold, congratulatory "Oh, so beautiful!", Asuka, squinting to adjust to the light, finally saw what was in front of her.

There were thirteen giants here, with pale bodies, heads that resembled birds or white worms, and hands that held mass-produced spears of Longinus.

"Eek!" Upon seeing these monstrous things, Asuka's face paled instantly, and she jumped up as if by reflex. Although she had never experienced anything like it before, it didn't stop her from feeling a sharp, burning pain in her rectum!

"Originally, I planned to recreate the Angels, but that was too troublesome! Creating Angels from scratch was too much trouble, so I simply put an EVA shell on them and embedded the Fruit of Life directly, creating these mass-produced EVAs!"

Dongjiang pointed at the pale, solitary birds and laughed loudly.

"Asuka, you'll be driving the lead one! Don't worry, I specially reserved a cockpit for you!"

Asuka noticed black tic-tac-toe marks appearing on her temples. Although she had no concrete evidence, she felt that Tsugumi harbored some kind of malice towards her.

"Rest assured, I've made many modifications to adapt to space-based warfare. The psycho-framework has been installed, and the energy circuits of the Apostles have been adapted!"

"...Don't you only save the world using human methods? Then where did you get these things from?"

Faced with Asuka's吐槽 (tu cao, a Chinese internet slang term for sarcastic or critical remarks), Tsugumi smiled without saying a word, but somehow managed to turn a glass of water into wine by shaking it.

[Miracle: Water Turns into Wine]

'One of the miracles of Jesus Christ can turn drinking water into red wine; of course, you might turn into something else entirely.'

On the surface, or rather, in the hands of Jesus, this miracle was merely a skill of a drunkard's ecstasy.

But in essence, the nature of this miracle is the power of 'transformation,' that is, transforming one substance with similar properties into another.

Liquids and liquids, biomass and biomass, metals and metals—they don't need to conform to any scientific principles; as long as they have similar 'terms', that's enough.

This is also why Tsugumi was able to create EVA and S2 Engine from scratch and replicate the psycho-framework in recent years. As long as he has a basic sample, he doesn't even need any resources.

After all, his Holy Son panel still has the miracle of five loaves and two fish!

Multiplication and replication, along with matter transformation, may be limited to things that can be considered 'food,' but who can say that the flesh of the apostles isn't a type of food?

“I am an efficient person, and things like saving the world cannot be delayed, although—I really cannot replicate your world directly and on a large scale.”