Evangelion IF: Tomorrow, with a Smile

Tokyo-3, a city of borrowed blue skies. Fourteen-year-old Ikari Shinji pilots Evangelion Unit-01, not because he chose to, but because his father—NERV's cold and distant commander—told him to. Praise has never come. Warmth has never come. Only orders, and the endless, grinding fear of facing monstrous Angels that threaten humanity's survival. Shinji fights. He wins. And still, when he reaches out for even a single word from his father, the line goes dead. But something is different this time.