Shinji disapproved of this, fearing that Sakura will start turning against him. Ī year before the events of Fate/stay night, after Shirou was injured in an accident, Sakura started getting close to him. They started an estranged friendship and frequently invited him over to his house to hang out. At the end of the day, Shinji laughed as if he was having a good time, and exclaimed, 'You may be an idiot, but you sure do good work, at least!'. Shinji and Shirou as friends when younger.ĭuring middle school he met Shirou Emiya, who did menial tasks for people free of charge, and despite Shinji deriding him as an idiot from behind his back, he hung around with him until he was done. After Byakuya's death, Shinji decided to 'take possession' of Sakura and started sexually abusing her. Sakura, in a mixture of pity and guilt, silently accepted Shinji's abuse, which he mistook for her submitting to him. Blaming Sakura for 'ruining his dreams', he started mistreating her, treating her like an object to do with as he pleased. This caused Byakuya to cut all ties with him due to no longer having to hide anything from him. The farce ended when Shinji accidentally found the worm pit, seeing as Sakura was being infested by Zouken's worms. He also didn't tell him about the worm pit or the reasons why Sakura was adopted by the family. Because of that he does not know that his uncle Kariya participated and died, probably because Byakuya (who despised Kariya) chose to hide this fact from him. Not wanting his son to get involved in the affairs of the Matou magecraft, Byakuya sent him to study abroad when the Fourth Holy Grail War started.

At first he was against this because he didn't want 'outsiders' coming into his family but later grew to like and accept her, though due to his selfish, arrogant nature, he refused to show it and teased her instead. Shortly after, Sakura Tohsaka was adopted into the Matou family and introduced to Shinji as his new sister. This did little to dissuade Shinji's determination to become the successor, the boy instead convincing himself that he was special for being born in a family of magi. Unfortunately, Shinji was incapable of sorcery. This led Byakuya, the eldest son of Zouken Matou, to marry a woman with an 'inheritor' sorcery trait, who later gave birth to his son, Shinji. Due to the thinning of their bloodline, the Matou are no longer capable of producing heirs naturally capable of sorcery.

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