Chapter 197: 機巧少女は傷つかない
While Ade carefully operated the equipment to inject fluid into the special container, he casually asked, "Rei, I just found that the stock of DG virus is incorrect, check the withdrawal record for me."
"I was the one who took it this morning." Ayanami Rei responded calmly, "It's been registered properly, and there are records in the file."
"You took it? What about the purpose?" Ade glanced at her with his afterimage, "It's not that I don't trust you, but you know the sensitive nature of this stuff, every milligram must be traced."
"After taking it out of the lab, I met Lacus outside and gave it to her." Ayanami Rei paused subtly, as if trying to express some degree of panic, "Ah, I didn't tell her the correct use."
Ade, with a flick of his wrist and nearly knocking over the entire lab table, turned to look at Ayanami Rei incredulously and gulped and said in a loud voice, "Say that again?!"
"I'm sorry, Ade." Ayanami Rei lowered her head like a child who had done something wrong, "I meant no harm."
Both of them are NT, Ade of course knew that she had no malicious intent. He was relieved with a slight turn of mind, "It's okay, it's okay, I was just shocked by myself, Lacus couldn't have foolishly used it on her own without even asking me. I left in such a hurry just now that she probably didn't have time to talk about it. Since she didn't ask now, it means she's waiting for me to return."
"You trust her a lot." Ayanami Rei's voice was still inaudible, "That's nice."
"Isn't it normal to believe in your own wife?" Ade turned around and continued to operate the experimental apparatus, "When you recover your memory someday and remember your loved ones, you will also be like this, but I remember you said before that you seem to … not want to recover your memory?"
"Yes, I don't want to recover the memory." Ayanami Rei replied blandly, "It's difficult to integrate into the relationships of the past, it's comfortable with Ade and Dr. Aeolia, I'm content with my life now."
"That's what you think now, and when you recover your memory and remember your husband and son, you won't necessarily still think that way." Ade sighed helplessly, "Although I and Aeolia both want you to take over our works, life is too boring if there is only scientific research, right? You are not a research maniac. Rei, do you have any ideals?"
"To live a peaceful and quiet life." Ayanami Rei replied without thinking, "All the people I like live and all the people I don't like die."
"We seem to have similar ideals, it seems we can work together? But I have one more ideal than you — every member of my family stops quarreling." Ade smiled self-deprecatingly, "Just don't despise me."
"I won't despise you." Ayanami Rei said seriously, "Ade's existence is special, there's no way around it."
That's the comfort of talking to an NT, not having to bother with guessing the truth and subtext behind every word. Since Ayanami Rei said she likes her life now, it means that she really likes it, and since she said she doesn't despise him, it means that she really doesn't despise him.
"Ade, the surveillance recording about Kaworu Nagisa." Ayanami Rei suddenly changed the subject, "After finding out that they were deceived, is it possible that the angel's target has shifted to you?"
"Most likely, what happened to Alice is proof of that." Ade nodded slightly, "so after separating Alice and Els, I intend to go to Earth to hide. I will leave the moon to Loran and you. Aeolia's body situation is not good, you have to take more responsibility."
"But separating Alice is very risky." Ayanami Rei's volume rose haughtily, showing a rare bit of excitement, "In case the remnant consciousness of ELS survives through Alice and develops antibodies to the DG virus, there's nothing we can do."
"It's wrong to risk everyone's life, but I can't just delete Alice. I can only do what I can to increase the success rate, and I happen to be quite sure of that." Ade gently put the sealed vial in his pocket and turned around, "I don't expect you to understand my caprice, and you certainly have the right to expose my secret plan, but I will still be bent on it."
"I understand you, but I can't accept it. Alice is your important person, not mine." Ayanami Rei stared fearlessly back, "Ade, I will not expose you."
"Thank you very much for your connivance." Ade nodded gratefully, "Today you have a lot of words and expressions, you can do this more often in the future, it's too bad to be so good looking but expressionless all day."
"Ade, are you …" Ayanami Rei tilted her head dully, "teasing me?"
"I am flattering you, okay? I hope you will be in a better mood, so that you won't suddenly turn back to Aeolia or Loran one day and tell them the truth." Ade looked around awkwardly, "Well, I have to go first, Alice is still waiting for me."
When Ade returned home, he was surprised to find Lacus chatting peacefully with Alice. But now is not the time to study this, he held out his hand to Lacus, "Give me the DG virus first, Rei has talked to me."
"She said that?!" Lacus was surprised, and quickly regained her composure, fished out the small bottle into Ade's hand from her pocket, "I met her when I came back, she gave this to me, only said that it is useful for Alice but didn't tell me how to use it properly. Ade, is this what you're talking about?"
"That's the one, just the right one to make an extra copy as a backup in case the measurement is not enough." Ade put the two vials together on the nightstand and leaned down to help Alice up, "Let's get started."
"Start what?" Alice asked, confused, "Alice doesn't understand."
"Listen, Alice, I'm asking you." Ade whispered, "What is the most important thing you have and use to judge your self?"
"Memory." Alice smiled weakly, "The memory of me and Ade together."
"Then trust me and cut me your memories that belong only to Alice to me." Ade's gaze turned cold, "Then we will delete all the other memories."
"Ade?" Lacus asked tentatively, "Even if we can just delete it, won't ELS go out of control?"
"Have Rei talked about the principle with you? Good, it saves me from having to explain." Ade lowered his voice, "If I can succeed, with the mass of ELS, it should be captured by Martian's gravity. After that, it will be dead. With the current human technology, it is fully capable of solving it, we just need a few more years."
"It's good that you have a plan, I trust you." Without further ado, Lacus left the room decisively, leaving space for the two.
Ade grabbed a vial and opened it, poured the contents into the AT field wrapped in his hand, then slowly sank his hand into Alice until his entire forearm was submerged in it.
"It feels so strange." Alice blinked and looked at the arm stretched into her stomach and said, "What's this called?"
"Don't break the atmosphere … and don't copy the messy things you studied from the Internet to me, and the songs are not needed too." Ade sighed, "I hope we will never play this kind of weird drama again."
"Ade, you can't say that, that's a FLAG!" Alice smiled and said, "I'll see you later then."
The ELS particles filled with Alice's memories flowed through his arm to his body and Ade received them all without reservation. As soon as the particles entered his body, they were isolated from quantum wave communication by Geass, losing contact with the original body and turning into mere data carriers.
Ade used his unique physiology today to carefully check if there were any strange things mixed in, and everything about Alice unfolded before his eyes without reservation. He soon found memories that didn't belong to Alice at all, and he put aside that memory after a short flick through.
As the time passed quietly, Alice's eyes became more and more strange, sadder and sadder. After several minutes, after Ade had checked all the memories, the unknown remained thing asked in an ethereal voice, "Can't we coexist? Can't you save me by the way? Can't I like you as well as Alice?"
Ade didn't pay attention to the voice, just silently unbind the AT field in his hand, and the virus began to spread unchecked. He took his own body to do repeated verification, and he was quite confident about the effect of the DG virus. Before the destruction of all the pre-determined structures, it will never stop, and will destruct itself after everything is completed.
By the time everything had been completed, the sky had gone dark, and all that remained before his eyes was a hard metal shell. Ade carefully and cautiously examined it and used his own cells to reshape Alice's body, and then pass Alice's data slowly back to the appropriate place.
Ade didn't know how long it took, Alice's skin in his arms gradually became human-colored, her body gradually regained its temperature, and her touch gradually became soft, but somehow she still didn't move.
"Come on, don't play dead." Ade pinched Alice's face, "Can you become the Unicorn Girl again? I want to see it."
"Now it is a touching reunion after several hours, Ade, can't you just hug me longer?" Alice squirmed in his arms, "I can not feel the satellite, I can not feel TurnA, in addition to this body, I can not feel anything. I'm totally useless now. In the rest of my life, I can only, well, only honestly be Miss Music Player."
