Neon Genesis Evangelion
    Higher Learning

   Strike Fiss, 2000









Thirty-Fifth Lesson:  "Missing You"









Something in the air seemed different as Professor Fuyutsuki read his 
morning paper on the Monorail.  Maybe it was the occasional cough or 
rustle of a newspaper down the cart that caught his attention.  After 
all, normally the train was dead this early in the morning.  He had 
only seen other NERV employees one time during his several months of 
using the train since it had been built.  

He ignored it, though.  Probably just his nerves.  They had been rather 
frazzled lately.  While a normal person would have overlooked the 
changes in the Commander's personality, Fuyutsuki knew better.  The 
moment you overlooked something in his presence, that was the moment he 
could use.  The Commander was very good at using people. 

But lately, he had been preoccupied.  Not so much with work and papers, 
but rather internally.  Something was plaguing his mind.  Something 
that did not have a definitive answer...yet was important enough for 
the man to mull over for what had to be two months now.  Even before 
Unit-01's "awakening".  

NERV was fairing well, though.  While it was clear it's Commander 
thought otherwise, Fuyutsuki was beginning to wonder if it was a simple 
case of unexpected luck.  Gendo hated luck, and always planned against 
it...never for it.  It was something children and fools played with.  
Men with vision had no time for it. 

The Sub-Commander, however, believed that not only did luck exist, but 
it was the only reason NERV was fairing so well against the angels.  
All the Evangelion Units were ready to sortie at a moments 
notice...even if Unit-01 was currently in Lock-Down status.  The pilots 
were intact, alive, and mostly well.  Toji had even showed that the 
broken legs he suffered in the last Angel's attacks did little to 
hinder his performance as a Pilot, and his training had gone very well.  
Repairs to Headquarters were nearing completion, and most of the 
personnel were happy...if a bit on edge.  

He had always wondered what it would be like to see the Awakening.  

They had known it would happen...all possibilities accounted for showed 
that it would only take a matter of time.  One Angel would threaten 
Shinji in a certain way...threaten something that he loved...and it 
would be more than enough to get Yui to...

That was silly...there was no indication it had been Yui's doing...

Still, Fuyutsuki had known.  While Gendo would never admit it, he 
probably saw too.

The old man smiled to himself.  All this because of a woman.  How would 
history judge them?  Would they be the great, unseen heroes...or 
villains?  Or would they just be a stupid husband who refused to give 
his wife up to fate...and a lost puppy of a man who followed just as 
much for a crush as he did for a sense of duty?

And even then...that sense of duty was instilled into him by Yui.  He 
owed everything to the woman...Who he was had been shaped so radically.  
He had turned from a self-proclaimed pencil pusher professor at Tokyo-
U, into a man with a passion for life...a reason to exist...and a goal 
to reach for.

It was the one thing...the only thing...that allowed him to tolerate 
the great injustice and insanity that was Gendo Ikari. 

He held his time with Yui as the counterbalance to all the lies.  The 
atrocities at he himself had both witnessed and caused.  The shadow 
games and dark secrets were all justified.  He supposed that's how 
Gendo managed to get up every morning.  

But as the train slowed to a stop, the feeling was growing stronger 
that something wasn't right.  Something that didn't even fit all these 
lies he had to live with every morning.

The shadows around him...three men...as they entered the train station 
just before the tunnel that went into the Geofront were proof of this.  
He was not familiar with these shadows.  They were not NERV's.  

"Come with us, sir." One said sternly. 

"This isn't my stop." Fuyutsuki sighed, folding his paper.  

"It is now." Another of the three said, reaching into his coat and 
pulling out the butt of a gun of some sort.  

The old man frowned, looking up at the three.  "Then lets get this over 
with." He stood.  "Maybe then SEELE will stop wasting my time."

The first man smiled slightly.  Obviously, the SEELE reference a 
pleasant surprise.  He had probably been told that the Sub-Commander 
was nothing more than Gendo's lapdog...but it was clear the old man had 
a bit of whit to him.  

"And you won't need your guns." He sighed, tiredly.  

"Of course not, Fuyutsuki-Sensei." The man nodded with a small grin.  
The three men relaxed a bit, but still looked very serious.  As the 
train stopped, they ushered him to the door, and then to a car with 
bullet-proof windows.  

"I'm getting too old for this bullshit." He grumbled to himself as they 
sped off. 










Misato groaned as her alarm clock started blaring it's tiny little 
heart and soul out, hoping to wake her from another booze-enhanced 
slumber.  "Must...kill...alarm..." she cringed.  A shaky arm slowly 
extended out from the edge of the messy futon covers.

However, the alarm clicked off before she could reach it.  

It only took her a heartbeat to realize something wasn't right, and one 
more to literally spring-roll out of bed, reaching for her gun on the 
dresser.  

And one more heartbeat to see Kaji smiling like an idiot, holding her 
alarm clock in one hand and her holster in the other.  "Hey, Katsuragi-
chan, do you greet every man in your bedroom like that?" he smirked as 
her eyebrows dropped and she began to growl.  

He eyed her then grinned, turning away slightly.  "While your manners 
are certainly something to be left desired, I must say your outfit 
might just overcome that nasty temper of y..."

A large book slammed into his forehead and Kaji promptly toppled over.  
Misato grumbled and retrieved her gun from his twitching hand.  "Good 
morning to you too, asshole." She huffed, straightening out her 
nightclothes so they weren't revealing pretty much anything that could 
be revealed.  "Now get up and get the hell out.  I don't have to work 
for another four hours, and I intend to catch up on my sleep."

"W..." Kaji coughed, sitting up in the mess he had been tossed into.  
"We need to talk." He shook off the book, cringing as he touched the 
bump on his head.  "Was THAT really necessary?"

"It's not polite to enter a woman's room without her permission." 
Misato grumbled, moving to the closet to pick out a slightly less 
revealing bath robe.  "You're lucky I couldn't get to my gun!"

"That's exactly why I took it away first." Kaji sighed, nursing his 
wound. "I wasn't expecting 'Attack of the Encyclopaedia', though."

"You always did underestimate me." Misato grinned to herself slightly.  
"And look where it gets you." She turned and frowned.  "And it's a 
Thesaurus.  Not an Encyclopaedia."

"I'm serious." Kaji frowned.

"So am I.  It's definitely a Thesaurus."

He stood abruptly, slamming the clock against the ground.  The poor 
little thing gave out more sound as it broke apart than it ever did in 
use.  

Misato jumped, then turned.  "What the HELL are you doing!??!"

"This is SERIOUS!" he yelled.  A very long silence cut the 
conversation.  

Finally, Misato sighed, then nodded.  "I'll be out in a bit.  There's 
tea and stuff in the kitchen.  Watch out for Pen-Pen's food dish."

He nodded, then walked out of the bedroom, finding his way to the 
kitchen.  "The place looks nice." He commented.

"Shinji's a big help.  Asuka too." Misato called out from the hall as 
sounds of muffled clothing were heard.  "So why the hell did you come 
by so early, anyway?" she grumbled, finally sticking her head out of 
the hall, still putting on her pants behind the wall, though. 

"Because Shinji and Asuka are at school." Kaji nodded.

"So?"

"So is their teacher." Kaji frowned.

Misato sighed to herself.  "If this is about me going out with him once 
or twice..."

Kaji smiled...abet darkly.  "If you think this is some stupid jealous 
grudge, I'm going to love surprising you."

She sighed and finally emerged, fully clothed and fighting with her 
hair to make it slightly presentable.  "So, what is this all about?" 
she said, sitting down across from him on the table.  

"A lot of things." Kaji said, relaxing against the chair, still fussing 
over his bump.  "But, I suppose it couldn't hurt to start at the 
beginning." He cleared his throat.  "A few months ago, much to my 
dismay, Commander Ikari doled out a special mission to me that I hadn't 
quite expected.  It was supposed to be just a quick two days of on-site 
surveillance."

"Where was it?" Misato shrugged.  

"Nevada." Kaji smiled.  "Two guesses where to, and I'll give you a 
hint...I didn't have any time for gambling."

"The Second Branch?" Misato blinked.  "Why?"

"Ikari wanted to make sure it sunk into itself." He leaned forward.  
"Misato...I know you know that there are more enemies out there than 
just the Angels."

Misato's eyes went wide, and she nodded.

"The Second Branch was SEELE's proverbial bitch.  If the Commander is 
good for anything, one of the things he IS good at is keeping the old 
men in check.  Chances are we would have bitten off more than we could 
chew with Unit-04."

"You can say that again..." Misato nodded, pondering the situation.  
Unit-03 had been able to make short work of all three other Evas during 
it's Dummy Plug run.  If SEELE was pulling the strings behind an Eva...

And...as amazing as Shinji was...he wasn't exactly consistent. 

"So you went to make sure Unit-04 disappeared?" she asked.

"Yes."  Kaji smiled, leaning forward as he got into the story.  "And 
I'm going to tell you a secret..."  he paused for dramatic effect.  "It 
didn't."

Misato's eyes were wide.  "What?!?"

"It took a flying step right over my head, Misato." Kaji smiled.  "I 
have to tell you, it was quite amazing.  I think I lost five years off 
my life, though."

"W...Where did it go!?!?"

"The coast.  I expect the ocean afterwards.  All sensors accessible to 
NERV lost contact somewhere near the old ruins of L.A.." Kaji shrugged.  
"For all we know, it's hiding under the Geofront." 

"Who was piloting it?!?" Misato sighed.  "This is horrible!"

"Nobody."

"What do you mean, nobody?"

"I mean it came to life during a test that did not even see a Dummy 
Plug...let alone an Entry Plug...inserted into the spine." Kaji smiled.  
"I have the pictures to prove it.  Unless they came up with a way for 
an Evangelion to run with it's hatch wide open and a terminator 
inserted inside, it was completely dormant.  Even as it ran off."

Misato sat and stared at him, dumfounded.  Kaji waited patiently for 
her to digest the information before continuing.

"Now, when Commander Ikari saw this, he was quite irritated.  It was 
then that I decided that my mission would be worth my time." He smiled.  
"Anything that the Commander hasn't counted on is something I love to 
find out."

She nodded weakly. 

"Anyway, during the investigation into why Unit-04 decided to go on 
vacation, I came across a few interesting computer records." He smiled.  
"Tell me, do you watch many movies, Misato?"

"A...uh...I used to.  Back in the old days..." Misato shrugged.  "Why?"

"Commander Ikari also brought to light the fact that our Magi have been 
hacked recently."

Misato just blinked.  "But...that's..."

"Next to impossible, I know.  But it was such a coincidence with the 
Unit-04 problem that I decided they must be related.  Oddly enough, 
nobody could figure out what changed. I was checking the lists of new 
personnel in all NERV branches to see how many people could have had 
access to other Magi, or the facilities that one would need to hack 
into ours." He grinned.  "One name in particular caught my attention." 

She watched him reach into his pocket and pulled out two small cases.  
One of the more popular movie-formats of the time, a pair of three-inch 
DVD cases.  One case was entitled "Princess Mononoke", while the other 
was "Seven Samurai."  "What's this?" she asked, examining the two disks 
as he handed them to her. 

"The name 'Kurosawa' appears on Seven Samurai.  First name, Akira.  
While I've personally only seen two of his movies, I must say, the man 
was brilliant.  This was back during Japan's post World War II days 
when the majority of our country's movies involved bad melodrama." He 
smiled.  "Some consider him one of the best directors of all time."

"So what does this have to do with your mission?" Misato frowned, then 
glanced at the second disk.  All colour dropped from her face.  "Oh..."

"A man named Kaoru Kurosawa had started working at the Second Branch 
only a week before it's disappearance.  However, he had the credentials 
to begin working in the Operations Department as a service technician." 
Kaji said, rubbing his forehead lightly.  "While there's no indication 
he's a computer hacker, he would definitely have had access to the 
Second Branch Magi." He then smiled.  "Imagine my surprise that another 
Kaoru had appeared in Tokyo-3 around the same time...with a family name 
also known in the entertainment industry." He pointed at the Princess 
Mononoke disk...an old Anime from the 20 Century.  "Miyazaki happened 
to be quite a pioneer himself...though his field was in groundbreaking 
anime titles."

Misato looked up at Kaji with a startled look.  "Oh god..."

"Now, I was only able to figure this out due to my love of cartoons." 
Kaji grinned proudly.  "Another man might have overlooked the 
connection." He shook his head.  "The kind of alias and record-
switching this man has apparently done should be impossible due to 
NERV's extensive checking system.  However, he pulled it off...and 
quite seamlessly I might add."

"I...Is he a spy?" Misato asked.

"I thought so to.  It would explain all the high-tech tricks that have 
been pulled.  However, when I confronted him, it was quite clear he did 
not have the training." He smiled to himself.

"You..." Misato blinked.  "You KNOW him?  You've talked to him?"

"Yes." Kaji nodded.  "I found something in his apartment that got me 
very angry." He sighed.  "I was about to put a bullet in his head when 
he said something that convinced me he might not be the enemy."

"Wait..." Misato frowned.  "What did you find in his apartment?"

Kaji sighed, and tapped his head.  "A syncro-headset.  Like the ones 
Shinji and Asuka wear." He frowned.  "It looked beat up...quite 
frankly, my worst thoughts were that the man was a pervert who rummaged 
through the trash to find a souvenir of the Children so he could have 
something to whack-off over."

Misato's eyes looked horrified, the colour completely gone from her 
features.  "Oh my god..."

"But." Kaji advised, raising his finger to halt the mental images.  
"It's not like that at all.  He knows things, Misato.  Things that some 
pervert off the street could never have known in a million years." He 
leaned forward.  "The man told me the password to the Eva Graveyard."

She blinked.  "The...Graveyard?"  Misato herself had only heard bits 
and pieces of it from Ritsuko.  Her security clearance did not let her 
simply walk down to the bowels of NERV to actually see it for herself, 
though...not that she ever wanted to.  

"And more." Kaji leaned back, shaking his head.  "More than I knew 
existed...and I knew a lot...not that I'm bragging." He looked 
completely serious...the joking tones away from his voice.  "It freaked 
the hell out of me, Misato...and it made me realize that this Kaoru guy 
was not part of Gendo's plan...whoever he is."

"This..." Misato swallowed hard.  "This is a lot to take in, Kaji-
kun..."

"I know.  Come on." He stood.

"W...where are we going?" Misato blinked. 

"Somewhere we can talk safely." He shook his head.  "I don't trust the 
walls here."

Numbly, Misato nodded and grabbed her jacket.  "I could use a drink..."

"Good.  So could I." Kaji nodded as they walked out the door.  "Because 
I haven't even told you half of it yet."










Sensei Miyazaki sighed nervously as he waited in the principal's 
office.  He wondered how many students would be laughing at him for 
having to share the same fate so many of them did during their most 
rebellious times.  

He was a little bit surprised to hear his name on the announcements 
that morning.  So was his class, who was up to their elbows in the new 
assignment.  Kaoru apologized and told them he would be back as soon as 
he could. 

But he was not worried about the project.  The new school year had only 
just started by old standards, and they would have plenty of time 
before...

before...

well, they would still have a month or two before that came anyway.  

But, he had not finished yet.  He still had much to go through...to 
make sure his plan would not dissolve so soon afterwards.  It had been 
a big risk changing and challenging the new year's curriculum...and it 
was now he realized he would pay for it.  

Kaoru began to wonder if he would still have a job walking out of the 
office.  

When Principal Yamamoto walked in with a small folder of papers in his 
hand, casually looking at them with a sigh, Kaoru feared the worst.  
They were probably parent complaints that the children hadn't been 
learning the required material.  

"A very interesting fact has come to my attention, Miyazaki." He said, 
throwing the folder of papers onto the desk in front of them, but 
pausing to get a fresh cup of coffee before he started. 

Kaoru had to physically resist the temptation to open the folder and 
burn the evidence.  He did manage to say:  "Oh?  What kind of fact, 
sir??"

"An unexpected one." The principal shook his head as he tried to find 
his sugar-cubes.  "Quite frankly, I haven't seen anything like this 
since before the Second Impact."

The Sensei swallowed hard. 

"I assume you have something to do with these papers." He sat down and 
took the folder back up in his hands as he set down the coffee.  "This 
is really surprising to have so many applications.  Especially 
considering three of these students had poor grades coming into the 
year."

Kaoru blinked.  The Principal blinked back.  "Oh, didn't my secretary 
tell you what I wanted to talk to you about?"

"N...no, sir?" Kaoru blinked again.

The Principal laughed.  "Oh, I'm sorry.  I was just surprised that so 
many of your students have been inquiring about Tokyo and Kyoto 
University.  I had two calls just this morning with parents wondering 
if we had some kind of seminar, since their kids were asking about 
them."

"Well, I was showing the students what they can look forward to after 
school, and the assignment was to pick out courses they think they 
might like to try." Kaoru said, taking a mental deep breath.  

"So I heard." Yamamoto smiled.  "That's actually something we used to 
try to do with the students before everything got crazy here in Tokyo-
3.  When the kids know more about their future, they pay better 
attention to it and what they need to know now."

Kaoru smiled.  "Exactly my thought, sir."

"I'd also like to run over your class average marks from the summer." 
Yamamoto said, pulling out another piece of paper from his desk.  "I'm 
very pleased with them as well.  Ten of the lower-scoring students in 
your class have finally managed to break into the acceptable 
bracket...including this Rei Ayanami...who had almost been nonexistent 
in our records besides a sketchy attendance history."

"She's quite smart." Kaoru beamed.  "I think she just needed something 
to spark her attention."

The older man nodded.  "Kaoru, I have to be blunt with you...this is 
not normal."

Kaoru blinked.  "Sir?"

"While I am praising the results of your classroom presence, you know 
as well as I do that others have tried this 'hands off' approach 
before, only to screw up big-time.  If your students were one iota less 
than their current mark, I would be of sound mind to fire your ass."

"Err..."

"However, I like what I see so far." Yamamoto smiled again.  "And I 
want you to prepare a speech for the teacher's conference next week."

Kaoru's jaw opened.  "B...but, why, sir?"

"Because you're the best teacher on my staff at the moment, and every 
school is invited to share something with the others.  You get to 
represent our school..." he smiled.  "And hopefully teach the other 
senseis out there a thing or two."

Kaoru shook his head.  "But...sir, this is..."

"A big honour...and you can not say no to me." Yamamoto smiled evilly.  
"Is that clear?"

"Hai, sir." 

"Friday, seven-twenty, at the Omoi Presentation Centre.  Make sure your 
speech is a good one.  I hear they start booing if it's too boring." 

Kaoru swallowed hard.  "Ha...hai..."

"Now, get back to class.  I'm sure you have work to do."








"Few things in life are as freaky as watching Commander Ikari become 
worried." Kaji sighed as he ordered another beer.  

Misato nodded.  While she herself had ordered a beer, she was only on 
her first one.  Her mind was simply moving to fast, trying to take in 
all the information.  "My biggest question is how do the Children fit 
into all of this."

"Mine too."  Kaji admitted.  "I'm not sure if this is just another 
Gendo Ikari we're dealing with or not." He turned to Misato.  "He was 
actually sad that Shinji had to come back and fight with that last 
Angel...I don't know if that's because he wanted Shinji to be safe...or 
if he wanted him out of the way."

"So what are you going to do?" Misato asked, looking up at him from her 
beer.  "You can't just keep tagging along like this.  Why haven't you 
demanded to know the full story?"

Kaji turned away suddenly.  "Because...I might not want to know it."

Misato frowned.  "What's that supposed to mean."

"You heard me." Kaji sighed.  "I might not like what he has to tell me.  
He seems to be always right...and I don't want to know how this all 
turns out at the end."

"What ever happened to 'blazing ahead' for the truth?" Misato grumbled.  
"What ever happened to Kaji the Super-Spy?"

"He grew up when he saw the dead faces of a dozen Evas." Kaji frowned.  
"He grew up even more when he saw that whatever he did...he could do 
nothing to effect the course of that bastard's Master Plan." 

Misato glared at him.  "That's bullshit."

"And..." Kaji continued.  "I grew up a lot more when I realized that 
your beloved Sensei is not part of Gendo's plan...and he seems to have 
the power to change it."

Misato sighed, shaking her head.  "This is a lot of trust you're giving 
to a man who could just be a perverted, child-molester."

"Really?" Kaji smiled with just a hint of venom in his features.  "I 
thought you proved that theory wrong when you let him into your bed."

Her face screwed up into a sneer.  "That is none of your business."

Their emerging argument was cut off as Kaji's cell phone rang.  He 
sighed and answered it.  "Yeah?"

Misato waited with a grumble, finally starting on her beer, as Kaji 
listened to the phone.  He said nothing thought.  Probably a NERV 
automated message.  

He finally closed the unit a moment later and sighed, standing 
abruptly.  "Misato, I have to go.  It looks like I have a new mission."

"Anything to do with the Sensei?" Misato blinked.

"No." Kaji said.  "Actually, this is a bit of a surprise.  But I can't 
talk now.  Will you meet me tomorrow?"

"Why should I?" Misato sighed.  "Will you have more secrets by then you 
want to confuse me with?  Or just to insult m..."

"Dinner." Kaji interrupted.  "What do you say?" he smiled softly, but 
then turned.  "I have to go.  I'll pick you up at eight."

Misato blinked, then sighed.  "Alright.  Later."

She watched him leave, then turned to her beer.  "It's too early in the 
morning to drink..."  but finished it anyway.  











The room was cold.  Air...yes...that was the connection.  It seemed he 
could almost smell the air that was around the Old Men at times like 
this.  For all he knew, one of the men that picked him up on the train 
was one of the head members.

One by one, they appeared.  Perfect, black monoliths.  Each numbered 
and titled with red digital text, replacing their private 'in person' 
conference mode with these much more private stone faces.  Only their 
voices came through unblocked...and even then...many were disguised.  
Only the most pompous and fearless would use their true voices in the 
Old Sensei's presence.  

"Fuyutsuki-Sensei." This would be one of them.  Chairman Keel, while 
still behind the 01 Monolith, was well known to the Sub-Commander.  
"Thank you for coming."

"I did not have much choice in the matter." Fuyutsuki replied with a 
tired huff of his voice.  

SEELE 04 spoke next.  "We apologize for the circumstances in which we 
have forced upon you...but they are necessary."

"We are concerned with the direction the Commander is taking in the 
Project." SEELE 01 stated.  "Several of our leads have turned up 
nothing, however, and we have been forced to turn to his Second In 
Command."

"For the interest of the Project." Another monolith said behind him.

"Yes.  We fear the Project may be in danger."

Fuyutsuki sighed.  "Well, I will try my best to help...in the Project's 
best interests.  But you must realize that I am still only his Second 
in Command."

"Of course.  Still, information may flow to you much easier than it 
would to any of us." Keel said.  "With Unit-01 taking the S2 Engine 
into itself, we have created something that may be equal to a God's 
power."

"Man should not be allowed to create such things." SEELE 07 mentioned 
to itself, but said nothing more.

"What does Ikari intend to do with this power?" Keel continued.  "This 
is much more than we thought to give him in our past Project 
speculations." A long pause.  "Will he use it responsibly?"

Fuyutsuki smiled to himself.  As if anyone could answer that question 
but Gendo himself.  "I do not think it is up to him to decide.  He will 
follow the Project to it's completion.  There is no doubt of that."

A long pause, but not an angry one.  It seemed to be a good enough 
answer for the Old Men.  

"And what of the other matter?" one of the Old Men asked suddenly. 

"Ah, yes." Keel said.  "Fuyutsuki-sensei...What can you tell us of this 
man...Miyazaki?"

"Who?" Fuyutsuki blinked.

"I believe he is known as the new sensei teaching the Four Children."

Fuyutsuki smiled to himself.  He should have known.  "Ahh...well, I 
must say, whatever it is your man has been saying certainly has the 
Commander on edge."

A long...long pause.

"Our man?"

Fuyutsuki nodded.  "Yes.  I assume he is working for you?"

A long pause.  Three of the monoliths disappeared...including 01.  
Finally, after about a minute, they re-appeared.  

"We will talk more on this tomorrow, Fuyutsuki-sensei.  Thank you for 
your co-operation."

The monoliths all faded away, and the door leading back to his cell 
opened up.  Fuyutsuki stayed there for a moment, though, consumed in 
thought. 

"He's not one of them..." the old man smiled to himself.  "Well...this 
will certainly be interesting..."










To be continued...
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Whoo hoo!  ^_^ Only 2 weeks late.  :P  

Yeah yeah, I know, I know.  But hey, I've been busy making sure I can 
pay my cable bill, and therefore, stay on the net.  If I didn't 
sacrifice the last month to job-hunting, I would not be here today, and 
you would all have to wait much longer!  

So see?  A little patience pays off.  ^_^  

But, I do apologize.  Writer's block didn't help, and various other 
wonderful shitty things have been popping up like mad.  But hey, it's 
all good, so long as you have Eva to watch at the end of a stressful 
day.  ^_^  Ahh...Asuka VS the JSDF...Eases the pain...

There should be only minor slow downs from now till the end of Higher 
Learning, as most of it's rock solid and ready to be extracted from my 
gooey brain-meats.  It should still be hitting at least 45 lessons with 
a nice big "movie" at the end, so don't worry, lots more to come.  

No Omake today, or this Lesson will be even later than it already is. 
^_^  Gomen.  

Till next time, peeps!

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