Cute... It certainly isn't a new action by now, but after having expressed a more honest mindset surrounding it all, it's easier to let those vague thoughts settle into more concrete appreciations of just how charming he finds Kai to be in instances like this.

That sure is quite the question to be asking him, though! He gets that it's nothing Kai had apparently given any thought to in the past, but it's not like Shinji has a whole lot of experience to go off of, either.

"P-probably, yeah." They could decide to do whatever they want in a relationship, right? If they both wanted more of this, it could very easily be more of this. "I don't see why it wouldn't be."