An artifact that is your soul? [It's so strange, so... terrifying but he is still focussed. It's no stranger than a soul housed in a wireframe. Just different.

A corrupted soul meant losing their sense of self.] Those whose soul... artifact was corrupted... they became monsters too? Or were they just... were blank? [He's imagining the retrieval units, no personality or person hood.

He doesn't comment on the last. Being human is... Shion's not sure exactly what he would class as being human, it's complicated]