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Kentaro blinked, and stepped out from behind Rei. "Okay, fine," he
muttered.
Ryunosuke raised an eyebrow. Well, that was easy, he thought. Wonder
why he gave up so quickly.
He's learning what it means to be a man: doing incredibly harmful things to
impress the chicks.
Rei calmly ran over and caught the ball.
Kentaro opened his eyes and saw Rei carrying the ball. "Uh... All
right! Way to go, Ikari!"
Rei handed the ball to Kentaro. "Here. You know what to do with it."
Kentaro nodded, walked over to the center line, threw the ball, and
beaned the dumbfounded Ryunosuke.
hehehe.
"Hmph," Mihoshi said, "a real Galaxy Police Officer doesn't need
leads or clues or anything like that to bring in criminals!" She thumped
her chest. "All we need is for our hearts to be pure and our cause to be
just!"
Kiyone blinked. "O-kay. No more sentai shows for you, Mihoshi."
Except Mihoshi probably could find their suspect. That's just the way her
luck runs.
"Kyusaku?"
"Yes, that is my name."
"Kyusaku, it IS you!"
Kyusaku lifted his bangs with his left hand. He was greeted by the
sight of a blond woman in a lab coat seated at the end of the room.
Oh heh. This should be good.
Akiko's grandfather always warned her about government contracts
being especially difficult to negotiate. Perhaps these people thought that
they could come away with a discount simply because they were in charge of
those little fiefdoms they called 'countries'.
Nice look inside Akiko''s mind. One I can see too. :)
"Money is not an issue."
She raised her eyebrows. Well, she thought, that's new -- I've never
heard THAT one before. "Also," she continued, "such immense power and such
deadly precision tends to be frowned upon by the global community. There
are many treaties, many global agreements to consider--"
"What the rest of the world thinks is not an issue, either. I
represent the authority to override any legal fictions you can come up
with.
I wonder if Akiko is going to fall in love. :)
In fact, if NERV so wished it could simply conscript your stockpiles
of armaments."
Akiko: Not if they want them to work right. Surely you don't think we'd
leave our best material without some sort of safeguard for them to be used
against us, would you?
pain in the ass to keep importing from Germany. There's the distance, then
there's the problem of logistics, of espionage...
Gendou: At least until we kill Kaji.
He chuckled. "Wow. Mature. I never thought that word would ever be
used to refer to me. I suppose fatherhood does that to you."
"Oh," Ritsuko said, a little too quietly. "Who's the lucky woman?"
Heh. Potential here, I see.
"Hey, I remember that, back in college." Kyusaku's mouth curled into
a wry smile. "You came up to me in the park and said you needed a light."
"I only did that to break the ice between us. That was my
honest-to-goodness first cigarette."
"I guessed that from the way you were hacking up a lung afterward."
hehehe.
"No! Look, I did it on my own, all right?" Ritsuko said earnestly.
Kyusaku blinked. "Really?"
"Yes." Ritsuko crossed her arms. "There. Are you happy?"
Kyusaku paused.
Ritsuko raised an eyebrow. "Well?"
"Yes."
"What?"
Kyusaku chuckled. "Yes, I am."
Could be the start of something, all right.
Ryunosuke blinked. "Um, okay, then, if that's all, then let's --"
"However," Rei added, "I am worried about the added weight."
"No problem. I can handle it," Ryunosuke said smugly.
"I'm not talking about you. I'm worried about the tires."
Heh
How? thought Ryunosuke, mentally kicking himself on the backside. He
was blessed with a superior intellect and a superhumanly strong and agile
body. He wasn't at all ugly, he liked to think. He could calculate the
speed and trajectory of an object within milliseconds of visual contact.
He could throw a car hundreds of feet into the air, and could thread a
needle with his eyes closed on the first try. So how in the world could he
foul up something as simple as giving his friends a ride home? What were
all these gifts for if they couldn't help him with simple human
interaction?
Actually that is simple human interaction. :)
happened to be the way they were. His heightened senses and intellect
allowed him to see the patterns that other people couldn't see. To him,
everything had a cause, and everything had a reason, and everything had a
proper time and place. Nothing ever 'just happens', he thought.
And then the sirens rang.
Except that.
I think that does it. Now it's time for you to put out more.
D.B. Sommer