'Cause nobody takes kids seriously. [Shinji starts pulling off lids and setting them aside.] And you're not allowed to do anything. Grownups say you should just let them handle stuff and be a regular kid.

Like you can be a regular kid when there's a dome over the city, or your teachers just say the same stuff over and over again. That's dumb. Grownups are dumb.

[He's as much a part of this as any other Retrospec user, whether they like it or not.]