ROTFL: The comeback

[Xenoproctologist]

“Gendo, I’m about as close to a friend as you have in this world.
I’ve known you for the better part of a decade and a half now. I think
I know a little something about your character.” Kozo pointed one of
those bony old man fingers at his face. “See, you can only do one thing
at a time, and you need that one thing as a focus to obsess on. When I
first met you, it was all about getting ahead. You were just some
street thug going all out for a university degree. Then when it got
that you couldn’t find a job with your precious prize you fell back to
being the best street thug with a doctorate there could be. And then
you met Yui.”
“Shut up, Fuyutsuki.”
“Yui never said a bad
word about you, Gendo. She trusted you in a way she never did with me.
And when I started working here I saw why. You lived for Yui. GEHIRN
came second. Hell, sometimes I wondered if the only reason you got into
bed with SEELE was because Yui was so deep in that muck already.”
“I’m serious, Fuyutsuki.”
“You were also a good father, as hard as that is to remember.”
Except
for that time I was watching Shinji and he almost drowned in the
bathtub. Or when I found him playing with that can of bug spray. God,
Yui never would have forgiven me if she knew how terrible I was at
being a father. “I will hit you and break your brittle old man face.”
“Screw off, Rokobungi,” snapped Kozo. “Let me get to my point.”
“Fine. But only because you’re holding the bourbon hostage.”

Taking Sights, ch. 4 by Lavanya Six