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[[File:2e-1.png|thumb|A2 words during final fight]]{{quote|''The official designation...is 2E. Number 2, Type E.''
 
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A2 words during final fight
The official designation...is 2E. Number 2, Type E.
—A2, Chapter 17-09 9S

A2's rhetorical question during the finale of Route C as well as 9S’ reaction to it clearly indicates that 9S had already long known by that point who and what 2B really was. However, the exact moment he figures out her true nature is ambiguous.

9S words during prologue
Even though to him they had only just met in the Bunker, 9S already begins to question why they had paired him with a combat model like 2B if all command had wanted was intel. 2B however quickly dismisses the question, stating "Orders are orders".

9S is an extremely clever android, and if this iteration was anything like his past selves, it is most likely that 9S realizes at some point during Route A/B that 2B is there to monitor him. This tenacity to learn about 2B's intended purpose is shown several times in A Repeating Prayer.

2B: 9S ... knew that I was ... an Executioner model?
—A Repeating Prayer [1]
21O words after YoRHa Betrayers sidequest
The warning from 21O at the end of YoRHa Betrayers sidequest also likely alerts 9S to the fact that should he misstep, he will be treated just like 8B's squad.
9S words after Amnesia sidequest

It is most likely that 9S figures out that 2B is there to monitor him during Route A/B, it isn’t until the Amnesia sidequest that he learns E types even exist. It is some time after this point, he puts two and two together, realizing 2B is in fact an executioner model herself, 2E.

After fighting beside with 2B for such a long time, he realized that she was “too strong to be a mere B model”. That was the only card that fit. There was no mistaking it.
—A Long Story, Chapter 10[2]

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