User:MTN1996/Sandbox/Volume 1 (Angelic Days)

This is the first volume of the spin-off manga Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days, which is adapted from the video game Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel 2nd

Synopsis
A new student, Rei Ayanami, has transferred into the Children's school. Despite bickering with Shinji Ikari, she quickly begins to feel attracted to him, and her rivalry with Asuka Langley Sohryu over Shinji begins.

Part 1: The Transfer Student
The manga begins with Shinji looking at a mysterious bright figure in the horizon, but then wakes up realizing it was just a dream and returns to sleep.

Asuka comes to Shinji's house and enters his room, yelling at him for oversleeping. After they left the house and started running to school, they notice the buildings growing since there are more people who began moving to the city. While they are running, Shinji notice his friends: Toji and Kensuke running to school for being late as well. Toji then starts to tease Asuka about her relationship with Shinji, to which she replied with his connection to Hikari, forcing Toji to run away with Kensuke. Asuka and Shinji continued on their way, when suddenly a schoolgirl collides with him. The schoolgirl then blames Shinji for what he caused to her, but goes on her way when she noticed how late she is for school.

After arriving at school, they go to their class with Toji noting that they arrived just in time. Kaworu expresses his worrying about Shinji, which is annoying Asuka who starts bickering with him until they notice Shinji yawning, much to Asuka's surprise. Shinji says that it is because of a weird dream he saw, and tell his friends about it, to Toji's horror. Kaworu then says out of the blue "A Giant of Light, Adam", but then tells Shinji not to care about it. Shinji remembers about the girl he met before arriving at school.

The class time has began, and their teacher, Misato, enters thier class cheered up, and Toji asks her about the rumored transfer student, when teacher Nebukawa tells Misato that the transfer student has arrived, whom Shinji and Asuka have recognized as the girl they met before, and she is revealed as Rei Ayanami. Rei then recognize Shinji as the "peeping tom", starting to make noise in the classroom. Asuka tries to defend Shinji and blaming Rei for what happened. Shinji tries to calm Asuka, but she says he should show his honest thoughts. Rei apologize from Shinji and he accepts, but Asuka is against his agreement, leading Rei to feel something between them. Kensuke describes that Asuka and Shinji's relationship is like that of a couple, which the two denied. Misato then stops the argument and tells Shinji to go to the infirmary to get treatment. There he sees Dr. Ritsuko Akagi, the school nurse, and tells her about the reason he went there. Ritsuko tells him stay a little for "check" on his body at the request of "NERV", which seems familiar to him.

Part 2: NERV
Shinji remembered about NERV, being the largest research institute in Tokyo-3 and his and Asuka's parents work there. Ritsuko then asks him some question for aptitude check requested by NERV, and tells him that since she worked with his father in the same section, she has fallen in love with him. During the P.E. class, Toji tells Shinji that Kensuke has also been told to go for the check, and Toji himself as well. Kaworu tells them that he and Asuka were checked on as well. Asuka asks Shinji if has anything after school, and Kaworu tells him that all of them will go to the NERV institute. Rei, who is nearby, had heard their conversation and asks Hikari how to go there, and Hikari told that Shinji or Asuka may know. After everyone has gone, Rei asks him if she could go with them there.

After school, Asuka notices that Rei is with Shinji and asks angrily why is she with him, and refuses the idea, but Rei snatched Shinji and run with him. Asuka tells Kensuke to call her after school to go with him to NERV. Shinji, who was grabbed by Rei, falls on his face after she left his hand. Shinji tells her to move, before they get too late. On the train, Asuka is still angry about Rei's doings earlier, and noting everyone changing along the time. Kensuke, who seems nervous, tries to fall against her but fails. Back to school, Toji notices Kaworu is the only one left at school, and suggests they go there together, but Hikari asks him for help with class duties, and Kaowru goes by himself. He remembers Shinji's words earlier, and claims that "It's coming... at last."

At NERV institute, Shinji who was the only one there, being to asks himself why they were invited there. He meets Rei and waits with her for the others, and while they were talking, Misato tells them to wait for the others somewhere else and they will be briefed about what is happening, when Shinji's father, Gendo, walks in. He asks Misato about the plans for the evening, but passes Shinji without talking to him. Rei asks him why didn't he talk with his father, to which he replied that he doesn't care. Rei tells him that she doesn't understand since she is alone.

Maya reports to Ritsuko that all the candidates: Toji, Kaworu, Kensuke, Rei, Asuka, and Shinji, have arrived.

Part 3: Sad Hearts, Gentle Hearts
The six candidates have been assembled for a synchronization test, with Rei and Kaworu's scores at the top. After the test, the Children are told to come back everyday for the test. The fact came as a shock to Shinji, along Asuka's anger toward him for leaving her and going with Rei, and demands he buys her a very expensive meal as a payback. On their way, they met Rei and Shinji wish her a good night. To Asuka's jealousy, she slaps him on cheek.

Next day at school, Asuka is still angry on Shinji and Hikari advices her to go easy on him and apologize, but she still refuses to admit her fault. In the next period of home economics, Rei asks Shinji for help since she isn't good at cooking and he accepts, stirring Asuka's anger more. Shinji's group begins cooking, but Rei is clueless about what to do, even burning her hand with the metal part of a ladle and Shinji gets hands washed. Asuka's anger has grown more and, with Kaworu trying to advice her on her cooking, reaches her limit and throws the pan of boiling water on Shinji. Afterwards, Hikari blames Asuka for what she did, but the latter doesn't acknowledge herself the one at fault. Shinji tries to make up with Asuka, who gives him a deep apology. Meanwhile, Rei is meeting with Misato and Ritsuko to discuss her life with the society, and she answers that she has no problem. Ritsuko notices the bandage on Rei's finger and asks her what happened, and Rei said it's nothing and leaves, with a smile on her face.

Part 4: Changing Hearts, Immutable Hearts
After having a dream about her and Shinji's childhood, Asuka wakes up confused about her relationship with him but also notices she is late for school with Shinji being the one to go to her house. At school, Hikari notices Asuka being unusually late, with the latter replying she had a strange dream. Shinji notices Rei is absent and asks Asuka about her, and she teases him about being attracted to her, which he denies.

During lunch break, Kensuke asks Shinji if he will go with him to the cafeteria with him and Kaworu joins them as well, but strangely Toji passes on the idea, saying he brought his lunch with him. While eating, Kensuke tells Shinji that Toji is enjoying lunch with his "girlfriend" -the fact that surprised Shinji- who turned out to be Hikari Horaki, the class rep. Kaworu teases Kensuke about being alone, but Kensuke claims he had been with Asuka, and how he likes her, but stops for his fear of hurting Shinji, and goes back to school. Shinji blames Kaworu for teasing Kensuke, but Kaworu claims that when someone is in love with another, he gets separated for others, and asks Shinji about what would he do in such case, but Shinji couldn't answer. Meanwhile in the classroom, the girls invite Asuka to look with them at a love-fortune book and suggest that she and Shinji might be an item, and she denies. She claims that he isn't her type, and that she looks for a more grown-up man. Meanwhile, Rei arrives at school with Kaji who also have a job with Misato and Ritsuko and Misato scolds him for being late. Inside the school, the three gather discussing Kaworu Nagisa, but Kaji says that they lack information about him, although Kaji searched in Kaworu's census records, but no one among those whom he met remembers him.

In the classroom, Ayanami who skipped almost all the school-day, tells Shinji and Asuka that Kaji is in the school, to Asuka's surprise. She found him, and as Shinji describes it, they were "goofing around", with Asuka rebuking him and calling him a brat. After the day ended, Hikari and Asuka are doing a lot of the school stuff, and Asuka notices her classmates with a briefcase near the incinerator, and later in the classroom, they find out that Rei is still at school searching for her briefcase. Asuka goes to the girls who were going to burn Rei's briefcase, who were scheming on burning it and "handle" Shinji, thinking that Asuka hates them and they are doing it for her and saying that it was Asuka who inspired them to do so, which she denied.

Asuka gives Rei her briefcase, which Rei wonders why it is dirty, and Asuka explains to her that doing different things from others gives her nothing but hatred from others. On their way back home, Rei asks Asuka about what she thinks of Shinji, and admits her love towards him. Asuka becomes irritated and confused and ran away, with Kaworu who was observing them comments that "as long as she doesn't change, she will remains alone".