Under other circumstances, he'd take that 'maybe so' for the kind of answer with some room for him to get his foot back in the door, but right now... he just feels awful. He's doing something to hurt her, and he can't even do anything to ease her worries. He's not sure there's anything more he could say that wouldn't make the whole situation worse, even just abandoning her and running away feels like the absolute wrong thing to do.

But if that's all she can ask him to do, and he doesn't have any better alternatives... then that's that.

"Okay," he says softly, bringing his hand up to cover his mouth as he does. No petals escaping from him just yet. "I'll give you some space, Kyoko."