"Well, I couldn't keep it from you. Once the others showed up here, they would have told you. That would have ended badly and I didn't want to hurt you like that. So I figured the best thing to do was to explain everything and try to apologize. Being upfront about shit like that sucks, but it tends to work out better than trying to hide it." He'd certainly found that out the hard way in the past. "But yeah, you can count on me to be honest with you, aniki. I promise."