[There's a long, long pause before Shinji responds.]




...Is this some of that fucking parallel universe bullshit at work. Because 'channeling demon aspects' feels like the kinda thing you should would have mentioned in the sales pitch. [He stands by that deletion glitch. That should be in the sales pitch - but he's also confident it would have been if it were part of the package. Mitsuru's too blunt to sugarcoat that big of a drawback.

(Probably one of the reasons he likes her so much already.)]

It was definitely 'here, stop pretending you're not suicidal and fight monsters as a fringe benefit.'