But as she sat waiting in the medical office after her session with the doctors, she did something that some of the students in her class wouldn't have realized that she would do.
She listened.
Normally, she wouldn't have done this, but given that even her own attention could be caught by some things, hearing her name spoken by the Commander as he stood outside the slightly open made her take notice. "Of course I considered having Rei do this. Having someone like her, someone who would do what had to be done would be an asset."
"Even if what she is being asked to do is what you've decided to do here?" Fuyutsuki asked.
"Especially then. I know where her loyalties lie, old man. As it stands, she wouldn't be caught up in petty diversions, and would understand that getting close to and creating a relationship with the boy would be what she had to do."
"You do realize what you would be asking her to do with the 'Third Child', don't you?"
"That is the point of the mission."
"I see," the Vice Commander murmured thoughtfully. "Then, you wouldn't mind her acting on it as you wish."
"Obviously."
"This could prove to be rather uncontrollable...."
"Which is why I decided on this course of action," Gendo replied, shutting the door, and starting to walk away with his second in command.
Not that Rei thought that she needed to hear any more. The Commander had been discussing a plan to have a female form a bond with the 'Third Child'. Her name had been mentioned in association with this strategy, which meant that she had been considered for implementing it. That meant that she was going to have to see what she could do to have relations with the pilot of Unit-01.
She would just have to find out how to accomplish that first though.
"After all, if we use the pilot of Unit-02, then we won't need to worry about the fallout if she gets too emotionally involved," Gendo continued as he and his subordinate walked down the hall after his visit with Rei. "We can even use that, if it should come up."
Fuyutsuki raised a brow at the other man. "Manipulate them through their affections for each other?"
"Exactly. And we could do the same if it goes the other way."
"As for Rei...."
"She doesn't have the knowledge and experience for that sort of work," the Commander commented, his face showing no sign if he found that fact disagreeable.
"But this 'Langley' girl would have more in that area. Except.... Can you rely on her actually trying in this?"
"She may consider it to be something that she doesn't like, but that doesn't matter to me. As far as she is concerned, she is supposed to 'befriend' the boy, with an option open to use any 'feminine tool', including romantic advances, to keep the boy under control."
"With just enough information about him to make her know that he tends to be a bit... untamed."
"Exactly."
"Should prove to be interesting," the Vice Commander commented dryly, while:
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