[Ah, but Homura can't risk leaving her with that lingering opportunity for an excuse. Otherwise his efforts will have been for naught, all brushed aside by a new form of denial.]

No, I suppose you wouldn't. After all, of the two of us, I'm not the one so dangerously close to breaking because of that weakness.

[Yes, it's cruel. But so often that cold mockery is necessary for someone to grow stronger, or so it's been in Homura's experience.]