Oh no he is absolutely about to get totally bowled over by those compliments?? He has to kind of pause, a bit stunned, to really figure out what's happening here, and as soon as he can box up those comments Kyoko's slid his way as probably mostly just a means to loosen up this sash, he starts to think of the best way to turn this back around her way. No need to really, like, absorb and accept them, or anything.

"Okay," Okay yeah he can... he can do this. It'd be kind of weird for him to pull something out of thin air, so for just a moment, he thinks back to their first encounter, over at the wall-repair-site. "You're... a really hard worker, right? I think being able to take on a lot at once is really admirable."