[... and that immediately takes a bit of the wind out of his sails. He does love Neku, and seeing him like this doesn't feel good, even if he's still feeling his own hurt over the situation. Neku has... been through a lot, hasn't he? The memories that the Truth had resurfaced tell him as much.]

... trust your Partner, right? And I do. [Echoes of something Neku told him once, however indirectly.] I trust you, and I love you. But it does hurt, knowing you would prevent telling me the truth about myself because you wanted to keep living in a fantasy that I wasn't aware of.