This is a Matou Shinji Who Grew Crooked

Was this Matou Shinji seriously abnormal? Had he been switched out for someone else?

People could not help voicing this baffling question. After all, this Matou Shinji was so vastly different from the one they knew that he was practically a completely different person.

Fujimaru Ritsuka answered that question with her own words.

"Matou Shinji is a very extraordinary person."

"Or rather, the one I met before was an extraordinarily remarkable person. Like us, he existed on humanity's original first timeline."

"To us, Matou Shinji was essentially a 'person from the future.'"

"However, this Matou Shinji's true identity was far from as simple as we knew it to be..."

As Fujimaru Ritsuka spoke, the scene changed once more.

After the screen went black, all manner of high-tech equipment appeared within the Light Screen's footage. Technologies that clearly looked impossibly advanced, leaving people in the real world amazed despite not understanding them, came into view.

Then, inside a container, a person was shown growing through rapidly shifting time—from an initial embryo into a fully formed infant, before swiftly becoming a child of two or three.

That distinctive head of blue, seaweed-like hair was more than enough to reveal his identity.

Matou Shinji!

The Matou Shinji everyone knew.

This was Matou Shinji's birth!

In the previous Light Screen footage, Matou Shinji had already revealed that his first life had been as a clone.

While that had shocked countless people at the time, the specifics had remained unclear. Besides, other explosive revelations had drawn attention away from the matter, leaving it less discussed than it should have been.

But now, it seemed Fujimaru Ritsuka intended to show this scene to Fujimaru Tachibana, which naturally meant that the entire world would be able to see it as well.

This sequence contained only a deep,