No, no, none of that. If they start to compare who had it worse, there's no way Shinji's ever going to be able to care about anything. He shakes his head - even if it was 'nothing' by Kai's standards, that was still really awful looking by Shinji's.

"Still gonna worry about you," he mumbles. Because he does care, and with Kai's place so firmly settled in his heart, he can't help but want to keep anything like that from happening to him again. He takes a deep, shaky breath in, and lets it out with another slight shudder. "'Cause you're important to me."