[She doesn't have to try very hard. When she shifts positions, Shuichi turns his head and ends up looking her right in the eyes. It's hard to tell if that was intentional or if that's just naturally where his gaze fell but, either way, she has his attention. Eye contact and all.]

[He blinks a few times, then nods with a small smile.]

Mmm, and that's why it's okay. [Okay, truth be told though he is a little relieved to hear that she's still only thinking about the possibility of playing with other girls. If she'd asked another boy...kind of a different story. That would have stung a little bit.] Even if you complete some squares with your friends...I'm still the only person that you want to be intimate with without having the card involved, right? Plus, it's not like you have to have sex to complete a square. So it's okay. I trust you, and I'm pretty confident that your feelings for me won't change if you sometimes play with another person. I know mine won't, if and when I meet someone else I'd be comfortable playing with on occasion.

[Don't feel like garbage, Kaede. If he were more of a social butterfly like you, he probably WOULD have given it more thought by now. But he absolutely doesn't want to play with strangers, so...there's really nothing to think about at the moment.]