——2015.10.16——

NERV staff quarters.

【Congratulations! Celebration party for Misato Katsuragi being promoted to Major!】

Banners composed of exaggerated squiggles, balloons and ribbons hung randomly, and various snacks, snacks and drinks placed on the coffee table made the dormitory, which was not neat and orderly, even more messy.

"Uh, what, I am promoted to major. I want to thank Commander Ikari, Deputy Commander Fuyuki, Dr. Akagi, all the EVA pilots, Ibuki, and the others." Misato Katsuragi, wearing a strange crown, held a quilt.

He put the microphone into his hand and spoke a little incoherently.

"Hey! Why are the others waiting?" Aoye Shigeru protested loudly.

"That's right, every time Ms. Katsuragi gives an order, I'm the one conveying it, okay?" Hyuga Makoto followed.

"Maybe it's because he looks like a stranger," Maya Ibuki complained.

"Hahahaha!" Everyone laughed cooperatively, and the air was filled with joy.

"Congratulations." After the laughter stopped for a while, Shinji Ikari was the first to stand up and applaud.

"Congratulations." Asuka also clapped her hands.

"Congratulations." Ayanami replied expressionlessly.

"Congratulations." Qingye Shigeru.

"Congratulations." Hinata Makoto.

"Congratulations." Maya Ibuki.

"Don't be like this, don't be like this. It's so formal all of a sudden. I'll be embarrassed to exploit you in the future." Misato Katsuragi waved her hands repeatedly.

Doesn't it matter if you tell the truth?

Just when Shinji Ikari wanted to complain further, the door to the dormitory opened loudly. Instead of wearing his usual white coat, Ritsuko Akagi walked in from the door wearing casual clothes: "Congratulations on the promotion, Misato."

Before Misato Katsuragi was about to say anything, Ryoji Kaji, dressed in casual clothes, walked in behind Ritsuko Akagi: "Oh my, I've been promoted to major. It seems I will have to call you sir in the future."

"Why are you two together!?" Misato Katsuragi glared at them with her hands on her hips.

"Ah... I just came back from investigating the cause of the previous power outage, and Ritsuko's work of analyzing the organization of the Ninth Apostle also came to an end, so we came together." Ryoji Kaji spread his hands.

"So suspicious." Misato Katsuragi narrowed her eyes and stared at the two of them.

"So suspicious." Asuka also stared with her hands on her hips.

Isn't it already suspicious? Shinji Ikari drank in silence and asked the instigator to investigate what he had done. It would be surprising if he could find out something.

Hmm... No, if nothing can be found, wouldn't dad have a reason to demote him and assign him to a new job? So for the sake of his own position, Kaji Ryoji had to sell a few downlines.

Old and cunning, ahem, I mean getting stronger with old age, getting stronger with age, old and insecure...forget it.

When there was a quarrel over the wonderful triangle relationship, Rei Ayanami poked Shinji Ikari: "I'll cook, and you'll do the job."

"Ah? Huh? We are children, we can just wait and eat." Shinji Ikari said doubtfully.

"Do you think anyone here can cook?" Ayanami Rei looked at him.

"Uh..." Shinji Ikari looked around: "Indeed, it looks like they are all a group of people who are used to eating in the employee canteen, but..."

In the situation where there is nothing in Ayanami's dormitory, can she still cook?

"The furniture is all in the walls," Rei Ayanami said, "I usually cook by myself, obviously."

It’s not easy to show off!

Moreover... Ikari Shinji imagined the scene of Ayanami Rei carrying a basket to buy groceries...

——Give me two boxes each of this brand of instant noodles and that brand of quick-frozen dumplings.

I can only imagine this!

"This is prejudice." Ayanami Rei said.

Don't read minds casually!

"Didn't read it."

Shinji Ikari gave up thinking.

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Chicken, green peppers, salted duck eggs, cauliflower, mushrooms, radish, soybean sprouts, beef, winter melon, spinach, pork liver, lotus root, red dates, peanuts, onions, kelp, cabbage, fungus, leeks, potatoes...

"..." Shinji Ikari looked at the pile of vegetables in Misato Katsuragi's kitchen in a daze: "Did you really carry a basket to buy vegetables?"

"No," Rei Ayanami handed him a kitchen knife: "After placing an order on the internal network, I asked NERV staff to deliver it."

"Uh..." Shinji Ikari held the kitchen knife and was a little at a loss: "What should I do?"

Rather than dealing with these unfamiliar ingredients, he would rather deal with the apostles, even with his bare hands.

"Cut half of the chicken into shreds, half into large pieces, cut the beef into small pieces, cut the green peppers into strips, cut the carrots and potatoes into cubes, cut the winter melon into thin slices, remove the yellow leaves from the rest, and tear or break them apart by hand.

, just wash it with water." Ayanami Rei said.

She must be reading from the script of the Information Integrated Thought Body, right?

"Hmm... um..." Shinji Ikari suddenly discovered a blind spot with this pile of ingredients: "There seems to be no fish?"

"I don't eat fish," Rei Ayanami said, "and I don't plan to cook fish dishes."

Hmm... This, combined with her statement that she hates the sea, maybe there is some reason.

"You prepare the vegetables first, and I'll make the staple food." She produced another box of rice and a bag of raw dumplings from nowhere, and put on an apron and a mask.

"Actually, just give them fried noodles or curry rice." Shinji Ikari finally remembered what he should have said from the beginning.

"If you don't want to eat Chinese food, I can make curry instead." Rei Ayanami started washing rice.

"Well, let's give it a try..." Shinji Ikari quickly changed his mind.

It’s not that I’m greedy, it’s mainly that Ayanami’s ability to cook is so amazing, and I want to see the results.

I'm really not greedy.

About an hour later, the participants at Misato Katsuragi's promotion celebration party were already tipsy, and those who couldn't drink had already let go of their reserve and started talking and laughing.

If it were an ordinary club, under normal circumstances, you should go out and find another home wine shop or roadside stall to renew your stall at this time. Although everyone is a member of the secret organization NERV, it does not matter if you abide by such conventional workplace rules.

However, looking at the way each of them peeked towards the kitchen from time to time and their feet firmly planted in place, you knew what they were planning.

"Let, let, let, let..."

Although he didn't play a big role in the cooking process, when the dishes were served, Shinji Ikari still felt inexplicably proud.

Salted egg platter, cold lotus root, kelp with fungus, scrambled eggs with leeks, stir-fried cauliflower, shredded pork with green pepper, winter melon stewed beef, spinach and pork liver soup, cabbage soup, peanut and red date porridge, curry rice, fried noodles and fried dumplings.

"I never thought you had such a skill!"

"Okay, Shinji-kun, keep it hidden."

"Let Shinji-kun take charge of the dinner table from now on."

"Well, she will definitely be a good wife in the future."

That last sentence is dispensed with!

Being treated as a chef... Shinji Ikari was helpless.

These people don't just wait to eat. From time to time, they sneak into the kitchen to take a look. In the eyes of a group of people who don't know how to cook, who is Rei Ayanami, the chef who has been motionless in front of the steamer and soup pot?

Or is Shinji Ikari who chopping vegetables and meat, running back and forth, washing, selecting and cooking like a chef?

In Ayanami Rei's words... No, that should be the information from the Information Integration Thought Body. In the Chinese cooking world, people who do the same thing as Ikari Shinji are called Chopping Board and Dahe, while Ayanami's position is Stove Top and Shangshi.

Although I didn't understand it, it was both head and up, so it was obviously a higher status than him who was both a bat and a bat.

And they say it’s just different types of work, haha.

But, since I’ve done my best, it’s okay for everyone to praise me a little more, he thought, looking at the diners who were feasting.

"Eh? Zero, why don't you eat so many dishes?" Misato Katsuragi, who was happily eating a beer and a cold dish, suddenly turned her head.

Ha? Shinji Ikari also turned around with a fried dumpling in his mouth.

"I can't get used to it." Rei Ayanami, who had changed out of her chef's equipment, was holding a bowl of boiled noodles and eating in small bites.

"Really, how did Commander Ikari become a guardian?" Misato Katsuragi probably drank too much and started talking nonsense: "Come and live with me! You can let Shinji cook every day!"

"Then I'll come here to eat every day!" Asuka raised her hand.

"Oh, no, I am disliked as a guardian." Kaji Ryoji covered his face.

"I don't mind it~" Ritsuko Akagi said from the side.

"Ritsuko, you guy! Don't run away!" Misato Katsuragi activated her radar and immediately turned around and shouted angrily.

No, she is confirming my identity as a chef, okay? How can a chef not eat the food he cooks?

Really, most people's views on Rei Ayanami are seriously skewed, even his father. If he hadn't accidentally bumped into her taking a bath and was hit with the Holy Light before his eyes, I'm afraid he would have been kept in the dark.

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To be continued...