Unsensitive Project
by Naomi

2023… Tomoeda University, where the India was until 1999
Between four brick walls that conform the main classroom is sit a red short - haired girl talking with a thin black short - haired boy.

- Shinji, you moron!. You forgot the lunch!

- I’m sorry Asuka

- Forget it, it was a joke, look!, I have it

- Hehe, I knew it

- Good morning Asuka, hi Shinji. Where is Kozue? – The University’s teacher asked them when he entered and went to the writing desk

- I’m here Mr. Kazama, ah!. I’m sorry to be late – said a brown eyed, brown haired girl as she got running in the classroom and seated near Asuka

- Now you three are here, I want to notify you that you have a new classmate since today

- Cool!, another man at the university!

- He will arrive in one hour, so meanwhile let’s start with today’s class, let’s talk about DNA in animals organisms, like mammals…

- Asuka, How do you feel the new guy will look like?, I hope he’s handsome

- I don’t have any idea, but I hope Kozue does

- Shut up!, I’m trying to pay attention – Shinji told them in low voice, but the teacher stopped his chair because in that moment he didn’t want to listen noises from them.

- Kozue, you’re distracting your classmates again. When are you going to understand?, we have an important task, if you didn’t study the DNA, you will not be able to help the scientist with animal clonation, otherwise you’ll be wasting your time. The youth must reconstruct the world and also…

A dark haired guy made his appearance in the door of the hall. The Teacher presented him with the others.

- You must be Kaworu Hirata. Welcome to the Tomoeda University

- Thank you very much teacher – Hirata said in a polite way

- They are your classmates: Kozue Mitsui, and Asuka and Shinji Langley, you can sit there… Well, we were having a
class about the animal clonation, I hope you know about the theme

- Of course Sir

- Then you will not have any objection to put your knowledge in practice. so we will go to the laboratory

- But Mr. Kazama, what about the theory?

- Mrs. Langley, I thought that you didn’t matter, because you were chatting with Ms. Mitsui, so I’ve decided it’s better to see both, the theory and the practice. Bring your timms*1 in case you want to take notes.

The new student seemed to be expert in the subject, with a little effort he obtained the objective of the lesson, leaving surprised the Principal

- Magnificent work Mr. Hirata. Well, the time has been finished for us for today. I hope to have more assignments from your part tomorrow youngsters – The teacher left them alone in the classroom. Kaworu didn’t take much in following him without saying a word to his classmates

- Seems a strange boy – Asuka commented

- It must be because is his first day, but I never had saw him before, maybe he comes from the Occidental Sector A – Shinji said

- It could be. He looks shy and serious, but he is very handsome

- I also think the same about, Kozue – Said Asuka

- They are going to start again with their non-understandable talks of women. Better I should go from here– Shinji said in his habitual mood

- The school! I had forgotten that I would give a review of chemistry to a student. See ya!

- Good Luck Kozue! – Shinji told her and as soon as he was alone with Asuka he looked her – And then?

- And then what?

- The new guy is more handsome than I?

- hm… I prefer to say that he is more attractive and stronger. You followed him as looking as weak as when I knew you, I’ll give you some vitamins

- The feeding subject again… ok, you can give me the poison

- You’re still an idiot. Well honey, I’ll see you after the class
Asuka and Shinji continued with their working of citizens of the Oriental Sector. Shinji was the teacher of the third group, a group of kids of between 9 and 13 years old kids. That day he had to give them the Contemporary History subject

- Okay kids, what do you know about the third impact?

- That a meteorite rain fell to the Earth and destroyed all the terrestrial life – Atal commented

- My father told me that the force of the meteors caused changes in the pressure of the humans and because of that the humans exploded in millions of pieces, in addition to which many glaciers were melted and converted the planet in an enormous Atlantis – Yoram said, he was the son of a space pilot

- Yes, that was what occurred – Shinji said without any feeling

- But I have another version of the things – Aya said – I was a little girl when the third impact occurred, but the spaceship in which my grandfather and I were traveling was close to the Earth, all were slept, but I was watching through the window and I remember to have seen a lot of giants robots surrounding the planet, I think that they were the invaders that flooded the Earth

- That’s stupid, you must have dreamed that – said Kenji, the smallest of the kids

- Aya, return to your seat – Shinji told her as he tried to look untroubled, it was supposed that all about the EVAs was a secret between Asuka and him – You couldn’t have been more than 5 years old at that time, you could have been confused your memories, the official version is what Yoram said, and until we have another theory, it will continue being the official version

- Good, nobody has ever believed to me, but some day I will prove that the theory of meteorites is wrong

- Teacher, how was the world before the third impact? – Minako asked

- Well Mina, In fact the world changed too much. In the first place the geography was so different. As we saw the last lesson, the world was divided as well in continents and in countries that contained states, cities, towns, and villages… When the first men returned to the Earth, they found that the ocean was bigger and the land was just a few, so they decided that it could be divided in three sectors as we have now: “Occidental Sector A” for the land that once upon a time was America. “Occidental Sector E”, respective for Europe and Africa. And the Oriental Sector, where we are now, from Asia. As far as economy and government, Capitalism is now a little different. A mixture of communism and democracy was created. Before the last impact, the world had Presidents, Dictators, Kings… Now, as you know, the power is in the hands of the olders, every man or woman older than 60 years can take the most important decisions. The feeding is one of the things that’s almost the same on account of some animals and vegetables species that survived. The cities were immense and to go from a place to another one we rode cars, trains or bikes. The sectors are so reduced now that in some steps you can arrive at where you wish. As you see the world has changed a lot.

- My mother always tells me about of how the world was before the third impact

- Yes, the must of us still have many memories. If you don’t have more questions you can take a rest.

The children take the recess, Shinji thought in the true of Aya’s version, but only Asuka and he were conscious of the only one real version. When he opened his writing desk he found a letter cover with his name. He preferred to ignore it for a while and continued giving the class. The education also had changed: The basic education was divided in 5 groups; group 1 was for the little ones, as a kinder garden. Group 2 contained the subjects from the first half of elementary school as Group 3 contained the second half. Group 4 was a kind of high Junior school with greater activities and in Group 5 the principal activity was to make professional projects of investigation to improve the new world. Each group was raising the number of years it took, and when a person finished the five groups, he can get to the University where they saw the same subjects but more deep, becoming in addition teachers of any basic education group.

Since Asuka was in charge of group 4, she used to arrive later than Shinji to the apartment where they lived. That day, when she arrived she found a thoughtful Shinji.

- I’m here. What happened?, you have a bad look

- Hi Asuka, Is just that I’ve received another letter

- Still it is anonymous?, What does he says this time?

- The same of the three previous ones .We don’t know anything about he or she, but tell me Asuka, tell me how can he know that Ikari is my real last name?. Everyone knows me like Shinji Katsuragi Langley. We lived 6 years so comfortable, without remember Gendou, but the last month, somebody send me a letter, and then other and another one. Why he didn’t tell us what he wants?

- Calm down!, perhaps the next time he tells you what he wants?

- Next time… I’m afraid it could be something difficult, maybe he’s against life, and I no longer want to know of deaths

- Give him time, maybe he isn’t as dangerous as we thought

- I hope so

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Some days passed by. The new student definitely was shy and that made Asuka to get mad at him. On the other hand Shinji seemed to identify a little with him, they looked alike in the behavior.

Next Friday Shinji was very happy because he was traveling with Asuka to Occidental Sector E to play a concert of Cello. When they arrived in what a time was Switzerland, they were received by the olders with a party and taken to an apartment.

They lay in their room for a while. In the evening they left to give a stroll. The landscape was more beautiful than the one of the Oriental Sector.

- Shinji, do you remember how the world was some years before? – Asuka asked to her husband

- Yes, this place remembered me a lot

- I think this place is wonderful; I’d like to live here when we finished the university

- That’s a good idea. Look! that place seems to be a store of antiques

They approached to go to the store where a man used to sell all kind of things, from toys and electronics to clothes and books. Something called Asuka’s attention - Shinji, look at this! It looks like an EVA

- Wow! What is the price of this piece of metal?

- You! I know you… - said the seller – oh yeah!, I remember, in the daily news, You’re the Cello artist, isn’t it?. Well, this attempt of robot is 90 umes*2, but in your case it could be about… 30 umes

- It’s a good prize Shinji – Asuka told him

- I don’t know, maybe is not useful. To pay 30 umes for something like that and then transport it later until Oriental Sector would be much

- Mr. Langley, an artist like you will surely find any utility on it. I give it to you in 25 umes

- I´m not sure, what about 20 umes?

- Ok, this is my last supply, 22 umes. Come’ on!. You’ll never find something like this and from that size

- Okay, I’ll take it

- It’s a good purchase Master Langley, can I show you another thing?

- Do you have another thing like this?

- No, I only found this in Jupiter, at the beginning I thought it was like a robot but I couldn’t repaired it, I don’t have idea of how to do with that.

- In that case we’ll go back to the building
They get at the apartment with the heavy metal piece and they put it on the floor

- What could it be? It seems to be a little EVA, but what would have to do on Jupiter?

- There’s only a way to find out, it is necessary to arrive at its interior, so Shinji, open it!

- But it could be dangerous and it has a red color, like your EVA

- You’re a coward. This isn’t dangerous, I can touch it in any way and nothing happens – said Asuka as she touched all the armor

- Asuka…

- Now What?

- It seems that you pushed a button. A red light ignited

- I don’t see anything

- It was when you pushed something under the arm

- Where?, Here?

- Yes, press it for a while. Let us see, if we tightened the same one across …

The armor opened as it was a cocoon in the chest

- Is a very small opening, I thought it could be the internal circuit of an EVA, but now I don’t have idea of what’s this

- Wait, here is another button, and also in the other side

They pressed the other two buttons at the same time and the armor totally opened

- Just a lot of cables! – Asuka exclaimed disappointed

- Wait, there is something more

Shinji took out the cables, one by one, until an object with artificial skin appeared

- A human robot! I haven’t seen one since I was a child

- It looks like a boy. What are you doing? Why are you covering it with the cables again?

- We must bring it home in the way it was and there we could watch it better, it is just a precaution in case it is a robot programmed to explode at the contact with oxygen

- Well it didn’t make any reaction now, but you’re right, we will observe it better at home

- I know you’ll understand

- On the following day at night, Shinji made his performance near a pianist and a singer. A cultural event of that kind was a special celebration since the space ships had returned to the Earth and any artist was extremely acclaimed. The next morning Asuka and Shinji got back to Oriental Sector

When they were at their home, Asuka requested Shinji to open the robot again. This time the process to open it was faster and they watched better the android

- What do we do now?

- It must have a mechanism, it looks like a human, but I’m sure it’s a robot

- This part in the chest seems to be a door. Asuka I’ve found the electronic brain!

- can you fix it?

- Sure, it has an easier technology than the one of the EVAs. I remember when Misato tried to explain me the EVA mechanism, but I never understand her at all. Hey, do you have at the hand an energy tub?

- Of what size?

- Maybe one of the batteries that we use for the timms

- Ok, here you have

Shinji placed the new battery in substitution of an exhausted cartridge of energy. The robot started moving, he didn’t need to be repaired.

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