He'll want to talk to Kyoko as well, sooner rather than later, but Kaito's got the priority at the moment. Innocuous vegetables and girls will be left alone for the moment.

Unsurprisingly, just seeing him sets Shinji's mind a tiny bit more at ease. "Sure," a good place for them to score a bit of privacy, so that anyone busy making meals can have their concentration unbroken by wherever conversation this leads. Into their room he goes, closing the door behind him.

Before trying to untangle anything too complex right away, though, there is something that's on Shinji's mind that he wants to get out of the way. "Just... a moment," he mumbles gently, closing the gap between the two of them to slip his arms around Kai's middle to pull him into a hug.