Won't work for you though. You mentioned going for the 'sarcastic' option. Doing that kills that particular quest. I made the same mistake.
Only way out is to reset the Shino quest. You'll have to restart it from scratch, but luckily that's not a very long one.
I explain how to do this here:
https://f95zone.to/threads/mad-island-v0-18-beta-steam-e-made.209671/post-14930983
Note that I mention a quicker way in a PS at the bottom.
The guide above is for the main quest, but for Shino it should be much easier and less risky, as it only involves ONE quest. I can't double-check just now but I'm pretty sure the name you'll want to reset this one is Sub_Shino. Either look for that name in your savefile or use the /qp command as explained in the above linked post.