Is that how it is...? Shinji sympathizes, for sure, but can't help but wonder if that's still not the correct conclusion to jump to?
"If that's the case, I guess it would make sense to involve me, too..." He's been a little less reluctant to play along with the whims of the natives lately, at the very least with a select handful of people, but he's still not nearly as open about casual skinship as many of the others here. "But, wouldn't it make more sense to just go after those who are, I don't know, a little happier doing these things?" Surely prying contact out of someone touch-skittish isn't going to net a bigger profit than from someone who's pleased to do it in the first place.
"I can't say for sure, but I doubt they're after you on purpose."
That would just mean that getting roped into being tied together is just a stroke of bad luck, rather than a targeted effort. Is... that... any better? H m m.
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"If that's the case, I guess it would make sense to involve me, too..." He's been a little less reluctant to play along with the whims of the natives lately, at the very least with a select handful of people, but he's still not nearly as open about casual skinship as many of the others here. "But, wouldn't it make more sense to just go after those who are, I don't know, a little happier doing these things?" Surely prying contact out of someone touch-skittish isn't going to net a bigger profit than from someone who's pleased to do it in the first place.
"I can't say for sure, but I doubt they're after you on purpose."
That would just mean that getting roped into being tied together is just a stroke of bad luck, rather than a targeted effort. Is... that... any better? H m m.