In return for those taps, Kyoko was going to emphasize each counterpoint with a poke right between his eyebrows.

"Helping out is only selfish if you're hurting people at the same time. There's no way Shinji-san isn't glad you hung out with him. And," oh, this last poke was actually swooping down to transform into a nose boop, "you stopped as soon as I asked, so even if it was more than you needed, if you'd cut it off sooner I would have been super cold!"

Was that last one entirely accurate? Had she really been freezing right up until the end? That... wasn't important right now!