Book 9: The Rebellious Apostle Chapter 28: Estrangement
When Misato Katsuragi walked in from outside, she found that this was a very ordinary apartment building, not much different from other apartment buildings. Emiya was the only one in the living room of the apartment.
"Please sit down. What would you like? Coffee, tea, or maybe some fat otaku happy water." Emiya sat down on the sofa, crossed his legs, and pointed at the sofa opposite him.
Misato Katsuragi nodded, sat down neatly, and responded: "Give me a cup of coffee."
"Can."
Emiya snapped his fingers, and a cup of steaming hot coffee immediately appeared in front of Misato Katsuragi. "Try it, this is very high-quality coffee, not everyone can drink it."
Katsuragi Misato lowered her head and looked at the coffee on the coffee table. She picked it up and looked at it carefully for a few seconds, then asked, "How did you do that?"
"Of course it's magic."
"Magic?" Misato Katsuragi was a little unconvinced.
"Why, you don't believe it?"
"It's a bit hard to believe." Misato Katsuragi admitted it straightforwardly without any hesitation.
"I understand. After all, you have received a scientific education. It is natural that you will find it difficult to accept magic for a while. If you can't accept magic, I can explain it from a scientific perspective."
Emiya pointed to his head and said, "I can use my mental power to interfere with the atoms that are everywhere, and then rearrange the atoms in a specific way to create this cup of coffee. Can you accept this explanation?"
Katsuragi Misato was shocked and couldn't help asking, "Is what you said true?"
"Of course I'm talking nonsense. After all, I'm using magic, which has nothing to do with science. I'm just saying it in a way that you can understand."
Katsuragi Misato felt that she was being belittled, and couldn't help but say, "In my opinion, maybe magic is an unknown science. When science develops to a certain level, it can be called magic."
Upon hearing this, Emiya couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Misato Katsuragi asked, "What are you laughing at?"
"Nothing, I just think this statement... well, how should I put it? Actually, a long time ago, I also had similar thoughts, but when I learned magic and understood magic, I found this statement to be really funny."
"Funny? Why?"
"Well, let me give you a simple example." Emiya changed his leg-crossing posture and said with a smile: "You know the law of conservation of matter, right?"
Misato Katsuragi nodded, "Of course I know."
"Tell me about it."
Misato Katsuragi rolled her eyes and said, "The so-called law of conservation of matter states that matter cannot be destroyed or created, and can only be transformed from one substance into another."
"Yes, that's it." Emiya clapped his hands and said, "If I tell you that magic can easily violate this so-called law, do you still think magic is science?"
"What?" Misato Katsuragi was surprised.
Emiya smiled softly and tapped his fingers on the coffee table in front of him, casting a transformation magic, and the coffee table instantly turned into a coin the size of a fingernail.
Misato Katsuragi was completely stunned.
"Did you see it? This is magic." Emiya stretched out his hand and picked up the coin on the ground. In his hand, the coin turned into a ballpoint pen, then into a piece of bread, then into a teapot, and finally into a cup of coffee.
"Magic can easily turn the coffee table into coins, coins into ballpoint pens, ballpoint pens into bread, bread into a teapot, and the teapot into coffee. This cup of coffee can not only be drunk, but also like this..."
He picked up the cup of coffee in his hand and tilted it slightly. The scalding coffee flowed out from under the quilt, poured onto the ground and wet the carpet.
A rich aroma of coffee permeates the air.
But soon, Misato Katsuragi discovered that something was wrong with the coffee.
That shallow cup of coffee could be finished in one gulp, but more than ten seconds later, the coffee was still pouring out of the cup onto the ground without interruption.
Then, another minute passed, and the coffee still hadn't been poured out. It was as if the coffee in the cup was endless.
She couldn't help but stick her head out and saw that although the coffee in the cup kept pouring out, the coffee in the quilt never decreased a bit.
Emiya smiled and threw the coffee cup in his hand away, and it turned into the coffee table again. Both the size and style were exactly the same as the coffee table before, without any change at all.
This left Misato Katsuragi stunned.
Emiya smiled and said, "You see, this is magic. It never obeys the law of conservation of matter, and of course it doesn't obey the law of conservation of energy. Although some magic can be explained by science, some magic cannot. Although it is unscientific, it is very magical. Mystery is mystery, and science is science. The two are never clearly distinguished, but they will never blend with each other."
"So, let's not say things like science is magic and magic is science."
Misato Katsuragi was speechless for a long time. After all, Emiya's actions just now had completely overturned her three views.
Now she completely understood why Emiya had laughed just now.
After seeing magic, she has understood that magic is magic, not science, although science can do things similar to magic when it develops to a certain level.
But science could never call it magic, no wonder the other party laughed.
She put down the coffee in her hand and asked, "So, Mr. Emiya is a magician?"
"You could say that."
"Then can you tell me why you hate NERV so much?" She hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but ask the question in her heart, "You hate NERV, it's not just because you are a magician and NERV is a scientific organization."
"Of course not. Am I that narrow-minded?"
Misato Katsuragi wanted to say yes, but she didn't dare, "Why is that?"
"Of course it's because NERV is no longer doing its job." Emiya said as a matter of course.
After hearing this, Katsuragi Misato couldn't help but think that Emiya was talking nonsense, "Why don't we at NERV do anything about human affairs?"
Emiya stretched out a finger and waved it back and forth, "No, no, no, I'm not talking about you. In fact, most of you have been kept in the dark and don't know the true face of NERV. The ones who are really doing nothing are not you. In fact, it's Ikari Gendou's group, not you."
When Misato Katsuragi heard this, she couldn't help but ask, "You mean UN?"
Emiya shook his head: "It's not UN. It has nothing to do with UN."
"What is that?"
"Are you sure you want me to tell you?" Emiya looked at Misato Katsuragi with a half-smile, "If I tell you, there's no turning back ."
"What's the meaning?"
"The meaning is very simple. If I tell you the purpose of that group of people who do nothing, then you only have two choices. One is to join them and do nothing together. The second choice is to be silenced by them."
Emiya looked Misato Katsuragi up and down, "From what I know about you, you are a pretty good person. You basically won't go along . So there is only one end for you. That is to be silenced and die in a corner where no one knows about you. Then a group of people will come to your funeral."
Misato Katsuragi remained silent. She admitted that she was a little scared. On the one hand, she felt that Emiya might be exaggerating and trying to scare her, trying to make her back down.
On the other hand, she felt that there was no reason for Emiya to scare her. Perhaps Ikari Gendou and his group really were hiding an unseen darkness that was enough to take her life.
Meanwhile, at NERV headquarters.
The conversation between Emiya and Misato Katsuragi was transmitted back here through micro monitors and eavesdroppers, and everyone was stunned by Emiya's words.
There is a hidden darkness in NERV, and Gendo Ikari and a group of mysterious people are not involved?
Everyone felt that these words were too explosive, even alarmist, no, they were horrifying.
Many people looked at Ikari Gendō eagerly, wanting to see what he would say.
Ikari Gendō narrowed his eyes. Emiya's words had some hidden meaning. He guessed that the other party might have already known about the Human Instrumentality Project, so he said that.
This gave him a huge headache. A magician who didn't know his own limits and Hephaestus . If these two people were against the human completion plan, could he really complete his plan and see his wife again?
Ikari Gendō wasn't quite sure, and didn't know either, so he had a headache.
He kept thinking about how to make his plan go smoothly and meet his wife smoothly. For this plan, he worked hard and climbed to the position he is today. Of course, he would not give up easily.
As for other people's reactions, Ikari Gendou still didn't care.
"Don't be fooled!"
At this moment, Deputy Commander Dong Yue shouted loudly, which spread throughout the hall.
"This is just a trick of the enemy." His old but loud voice was filled with indescribable determination. "Think carefully, what did the other party say?"
Everyone was silent.
Deputy Commander Fuyutsuki continued, "It seems like the other party said a lot, but in fact he said nothing. He kept saying bad things about NERV, but he didn't explain what bad things we did."
"So, the other party is just using a divisive tactic. They are using this ambiguous statement to drive a wedge between you and the commander, making you fully suspicious of the commander, and thus causing unrest in our NERV."
"Think about it carefully. We don't know who the other party is, where they are from, what they do, and even their names were told to us by them."
"Such a person, whose origins are a mystery and whose words are ambiguous, can such a person really be trusted?"
"Are you willing to trust a person of unknown origin rather than your own people?"
