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**NTA obviously. Sono-G and the cat have interesting parallels outside of him literally being the cat, as well as the connection potentially foreshadowing Sono-G's true nature. The events we were shown of Aoko bringing the stray cat to Grandpa Aozaki to revive him, and the failure to bring it back from death, made Aoko truly understand the unmoving reality of life and death. Aoko knowing this and still using Magic to revive Sono-G at the immense cost of accelerating the death of the universe showed the courage she developed in the course of Mahoyo, as well as the monumental importance Sono-G had in her heart. But this still leaves the question of why it worked in the first place when it couldn't bring back the cat, which is where I claim: Sono-G attempted suicide by hanging, hence the bandage around his neck, and has been "dead" ever since. His NP line from FGO has Sono-G referring to himself as a wraith, which points towards him being dead and yet alive. Whether this is a metaphor or if Sono-G's soul is truly stuck between a state of life and death after a close attempt at suicide, there's clearly something here. Therefore, it follows that if Sono-G was dead before and after the Fifth Magic was used on him that it shouldn't break the rules. It parallels what happened to the cat (dead before -> dead after). This theory is supported by Grandpa Aozaki claiming that he had no interest in the dead when Sono-G met with him near the end of Mahoyo. And before you say "erm, but all this wraith stuff and the thing gramps said occurred after he was revived by fifth magic, so that's obviously what they were referring to," no, throughout the entire story there are hints towards what I suggest. Sono-G's lack of ego and near-inability to color the world with his own will shows that, by the VN's own messaging, he's never truly "lived". When Beowulf looked into Sono-G's eyes during their battle, Beowulf was mortified by their lifelessness and compared him to an insect. Sono-G's general state of being "stuck" and unable to change bares similarities to Nasu's other exploration of living in the first Kara no Kyoukai movie, where Kirie was aimlessly floating without a real purpose and ended up committing suicide because she couldn't truly live/fly.
I've posted a similar theory on /alter/ before, and I still like it a lot.**