Ryoko Shinonome (Mystery Files)
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Ryoko Shinonome comes from the future, the destroyed world of 2064. Ever since the battle in 2064, her memories have been getting clouded. As her feelings towards Tetsuya Ida fuel her desire for revenge, she tenaciously seeks the culprit behind the incident. Unless she regularly takes her medication, she suffers an intense headache and amnesia.
(Many of the first year students will call her Shinonome-senpai. Senpai, defined as someone who preceded you in an organization, is used as an honorific here to show respect to a senior or superior. This is often used at schools or places of work.)
Due to The Sentinel Infection Incident, she ends up being force-shifted to Sector 4[1] and questioned by the police of 1984.[2]
Whenever Shinonome sees Shu Amiguchi, she feels a strange surge of jealousy... or affection. She comes to realize that his eyes and behavior are just like Ida's.
Shinonome discovers Ida's true feelings and motive from watching surveillance footage in the underground facility in 2105. Realizing that Ida is attached only to Tomi Kisaragi and has no intention of saving Shinonome and the others, Shinonome finally loses her patience and ends up shooting and killing Ida.[3]
Blinded by her feelings towards Ida, Shinonome falls for his trick and adds DD-426 to Ei Sekigahara's Sentinel.[4] During the 2064 battle, DD-426 infects the Sentinel, and Juro Kurabe, Sekigahara, and Shinonome suffer brain damage. Shinonome went missing for some time after the force shift, losing memories to a point where she couldn't even remember her own name. The one thing she does remember is that Ida chose her for Sentinel No. 14. Morimura tries everything to get the password to decontaminate the Sentinels from her, but ends up failing.[5]
When the kaiju appear in 1985, Shinonome actives Sentinel No. 14 with her memories of Ida on her mind.[6]