With the robots recruiting so many people, Shinji was sure they'd be a little more backed up then that! But perhaps it was just incredibly good luck that landed his letter in Kai's hands right away, in his own stack of deliveries.

"Yeah?" he replies, a small, hopeful sounding lilt running through his voice. He knows that what he wrote was... a lot, and even though it didn't feel entirely like it was a risky move to be showing so much of his hand, hearing Kai say it was good is a huge reassurance. A lot, but in a good way.

Time to hit the pause button on that quiet murmur of music and pop that other earbud out, let Kai have Shinji's full focus in the face of these feelings. "I meant it, everything I wrote," he adds, a bit shyly, but there's truly no missing any of those words at such a close range.