[Originally? The end of the world. Then Mitsuru's father wanted to clean up the mess that was made, but he was killed by another person who--you guessed it, wants to end the world. Unfortunately, Shinji doesn't know any of that. Whoops.]

There's this thing called Apathy Syndrome. When regular people get attacked by Shadows, they're found later in mysterious comas.

[In case Qrow was wondering about the last piece of why Shinjiro was Stressed about this whole thing.]

The only ones who can fight 'em are people with Personas. That's us.