Kyoko looked down at her hands, full of soggy spinach. "Something... like that."

Protect herself, and protect her secret, and protect Kaito and Shinji from herself and that secret--that was what she had wanted to do. Would she have failed on so many of those counts if Shinji had left her alone? ... Maybe not, but it was hardly something she could blame him for. He was used to a Kyoko who freely shared all kinds of things--how could he know this situation would be so different?

"But hurting you too wasn't right. I didn't want that at all."