[It's a lot to process, and if not for his own experinces SHIFTing, would be completely alien to him.]

So it is similar to what Aoi was attempting here- altering the timeline to try and find the outcome he needed. The one where you lived. And until you do, you are always, in some version of it, dying.

...

[Is he living now breaking a timeline? Or was him living now meant to keep it flowing? He can't even begin to understand it.

Regardless, he shows no shock or horror at her telling him that she was behind Aoi's 'crimes'. If anything he expected it to some degree.]