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I'll answer #3.

Shio is an integral part of the Nova now. It is functionally her main body now. That's why, when you defeat Arius, all of the remaining Nova fragments return to Shio. If she were removed from the moon, it is entirely possible that she would do the same thing: disperse and return to the moon automatically. However, it is also possible that she could exist independently of the Nova, as her core was taken in by the Nova, which is likely what allowed her to reconstitute herself on the moon in the first place.

To address your question about Aragami having souls, I think it's safe to say, if you believe in the existence of the soul, that Shio has a human soul, as she has essentially become human—referenced in Sakaki's proposition to Johannes about whether humans will become God, or whether God will become human. In the end, both happened—the former with the Arda Nova, and the latter with Shio herself.

She was ABLE to take it to the moon in the first place because, unlike the Nova, which is purely Aragami, Shio was able to inject a will into it. Because of the fact that she possesses this human soul, this sense of individuality, that "I am I," she imparted this onto the Nova and allowed it to function as an extension of her, directing it to the moon (remember her line about how the moon looks so big and round and way more delicious than the Earth?  That was her soul speaking in tandem with both her own predatory instincts and the Nova's).