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Deciding to look at things from a different angle, Mireille looked up Chloe's 'parents'. From the perspective of Chloe's records, there was nothing. The parents mentioned in the file didn't exist. The parents of the Chloe that Asuka remembered did exist. Or rather, they had existed. They had both been killed in a massacre in Austria, along with a number of other people, less than a year ago. Mireille looked at the exact date and place. It seemed familiar. Then it occurred to her.

If Asuka's aunt and uncle had died at that time and place, then they had to have been Soldat agents. If that was the case, then their child could very well have been given over to become Noir. There was a very good chance that Chloe really was Asuka's cousin. Somehow, the people who created her identity for her current assignment had created a fake ID with her real name on it by accident and then sent her to the one place in the world where there was somebody who remembered that identity. The odds of it happening by chance were astronomical, but the only other explanation was that Les Soldats had created Chloe's obviously forged background on purpose. Kirika's background had been poorly forged in order to draw the attention of Mireille, and she had been placed somewhere where it was unlikely that anyone else would bother to examine it in depth. The chances that somebody would delve into the background of a close relative of an indispensable and irreplaceable part of an organization responsible for humanity's survival that appeared out of nowhere were just about certain. They wouldn't make a mistake that stupid.

Also interesting was the cause of death for Chloe's parents. Given the time, place, and cause of death, the identity of their killer was fairly obvious. Maybe she could use that knowledge to her advantage at some point…

On a whim, Mireille decided to look up Rei's file. What she found was very strange. The other pilots whose files she had looked up had occasional blocked off sections in them. In Rei's case, it was more like her file occasionally had sections that weren't blocked off. The only unclassified personal information on her was her description and some basic medical information.

The classifications couldn't all be due to her job, or Asuka and Kirika would have ended up with similar looking files. So why was so much about Rei secret?

The Black Hands of NERV, Chapter 14