“Beautiful angel calling you from afar, brave boy go create a miracle!”
Walking on the road staring at the phone screen, the boy felt death so close for the first time.
Because the Mandarin version of the Japanese anime song in the short video was so catchy it almost sent him away.
“But it should be a spoof, looking at the comments section this anime seems pretty good.”
“This protagonist seems to have created a new world in the end, does this mean he became a god at the end?”
“I’ll go back and binge-watch it tonight.”
The boy seemed to hear someone screaming, and taking off his earphones, he found the pedestrians around him moving away from him in panic.
An extreme sense of oppression struck from behind, and looking back, a truck was speeding towards him, the driver in the seat hurriedly turning the steering wheel.
Perhaps answering the saying that courage is humanity’s anthem, but the boy felt he probably just did not have time to react.
The large truck, like a steel dragon, pounced on the warrior who did not run away until the end, and an impact force of over a hundred tons knocked the boy flying.
As an ordinary person, such power was enough to completely destroy and crush any known carbon-based biological structure, so the boy peacefully closed his eyes.
Opening his eyes again, the color before him was a pure white.
An unfamiliar ceiling.
He turned his head and saw a young woman with short brown hair clinging to her face, her eyes revealing an intoxicatingly deep affection.
Who is this?
Do I know you?
Hugging me right from the start.
Having been an orphan for over a decade, the boy had never been looked at with such eyes, and he wanted to push the woman away, but froze when he raised his hands.
So small.
The woman laughed when she saw his raised hands looking like a hug, and then noisy sounds came to his ears.
“Have you thought about what to name the child?”
“This kind of thing…
you decide.” The man said with a constipated look on his face.
“Since we agreed that a boy would be called Shinji and a girl would be called Rei.
Then Shinji it is…
What do you think?
I have decided, he will be called Shinji, Ikari Shinji!”
“Shinji?
Or God’s child?” The man whispered in Japanese that the child could not understand.
(Note)
…
Spring is one of the best seasons in Tokyo-3, although no matter which season it is, it is actually the same for this land of eternal summer.
Walking from the street full of dilapidated buildings onto the weed-grown ramp, layers of greenery covered the area, and the wind blew the leaves rustling, as if comforting the otherworldly traveler’s fourteen years of loneliness.
“So this is Tokyo-3, but this town can only be considered the border, didn’t they say someone would come to pick me up?”
Ikari Shinji walked out of the station, taking out a photo, the purple-haired woman making a peace sign seemed to be looking at him.
Coming to this city, he had an inexplicable throbbing in his chest, often recalling memories before coming to this world.
Except for that unstoppable “steel dragon” that sent him to this world.
And the giant mecha seen at the end of the video, as well as the creator god with a halo.
Even now, Ikari Shinji doubted whether he had transmigrated into an anime world.
This world is too peaceful.
Except for the sea turning red, and news reports stating government claims of unknown threats attacking cities.
That was the news on TV a few days ago, and then yesterday someone claiming to be a subordinate of Ikari Shinji’s father called and asked him to come to this city.
Ikari Shinji took the woman’s photo to an old telephone booth, the back of the photo had the woman’s name written on it—Katsuragi Misato, and a phone number.
A few white clouds floated in the blue sky, lush woods and weeds covered the small town, and the streets were empty, quiet, and peaceful.
He could not feel the tense atmosphere of the main theme of world destruction and creation when the end of the world comes at all.
There were even cute blue-haired girls everywhere, and Ikari Shinji subconsciously looked towards the cute girl.
Okay, he saw it wrong, it is not a girl, it is a giant.
But that black giant walking from afar also gave a silly and cute feeling.
“Wait, giant?”
Ikari Shinji raised his head abruptly, the originally somewhat decadent boy’s eyes suddenly became energetic.
Looking at the raging humanoid black giant lifeform in the distance, his eyes revealed an excitement like a killer whale hunting.
…
In the seaside town, a blue Renault A310 sports car was driving on the road.
The driver was a purple-haired beauty in a leather jacket.
While holding the steering wheel, she adjusted the sunglasses on the bridge of her nose and looked at the black giant not far away.
“Appearing at a time like this, what a pain!”
The ground was trembling, and on the empty street, only the blue Renault sped alone, the tires rubbing against the ground making sharp sounds.
Katsuragi Misato picked up the phone, preparing to contact headquarters to understand the specific situation, but found she could not get through at all.
She suddenly had an ominous premonition.
Looking up, she suddenly found a dark shadow sweeping across her line of sight, a heavy fighter jet gliding overhead and exploding.
A humanoid creature that seemed to be wearing a white mask appeared with a halo on its head, and its huge body of seventy or eighty meters rose into the air and swept across the sky.
She instantly understood that the biggest source of interference was too close to her, and the conventional electronic equipment on her body had completely failed.
At the same time, on the other side of the battlefield, the UN heavy fighter jets of the United Nations forces roared into the sky.
A harsh metal friction sound rang out on both sides of the fighter jet, and then countless aviation cannon ammunition and missiles shot out from it.
Not long after, the tank units deployed on the winding mountain road and the riverbank not far behind opened fire at the same time.
Katsuragi Misato stomped on the gas pedal, and the sounds of explosions and falling rocks striking came from behind.
She looked back, only to see black smoke rising from the buildings of the seaside town behind her, and buildings everywhere were tilting.
In front of that giant, conventional weapons had completely failed.
Fighter jets could not lock onto the target, missiles lost guidance, and the tanks’ fire control systems malfunctioned.
The result was that the firepower that the giant was supposed to bear was transferred to the entire town.
The crashing ruined walls blocked the road ahead, causing the old road in disrepair to crack.
Before she had time to sigh about her good luck, a long black leg landed next to the car.
With just a casual movement of that calf, a building immediately shook, and the walls collapsed.
Katsuragi Misato stepped on the gas to the bottom, and the blue Renault rushed out in a puff of smoke, turning into another road.
Impacts and smoke were in hot pursuit, and the massive buildings created by modern craftsmanship were like a torrent of rocks after being destroyed.
The town kept collapsing under the devastation of the giant and artillery fire, and it was a dead end ahead, Katsuragi Misato had to stop, the car stopping with a beautiful drifting motion.
Whether it was the roar of artillery fire or the surging stone flow, the noisy sounds were in hot pursuit behind her, and Katsuragi Misato watched everything around her shatter.
In a daze, she seemed to be in a dream.
She seemed to see her father, who had died long ago and was impossible to see, once again standing in front of her, blocking death from that thin body.
Recovering from the suffocating death, the smoke filling her eyes slowly dissipated, and her vision gradually became clear.
Her eyes widened as she saw a familiar face.
Although she had never seen this boy before, Katsuragi Misato recognized him.
“You are Miss Katsuragi Misato, right?
I am Ikari Shinji.”
The boy turned around, holding up the photo and looking into the car window, locking eyes with Katsuragi Misato inside.
It was as if a transparent wall stood behind the boy, making this place feel like an inviolable sanctuary of a god.
Note 1: In Japanese, the pronunciation of Shinji is shinji, the on’yomi of God is shin, and the on’yomi of child is ji, meaning child or toddler.
Combined, it is God’s Child (Shinji), but this is not the standard pronunciation.