Shinji come on, this is a chill story with a happy ending.

"Well!" Kyoko desperately keeps up the chipper tone, inwardly cursing herself for letting any of this slip. Not that it needs to be a secret or anything, but jeez, she's upsetting Shinji again. "I guess it was so I'd be easier to handle, and she wouldn't get caught, so--for convenience!" That is obviously not what he meant.

"But she got caught anyway, and I was rescued just in the nick of time! So everything worked out!"