[he's quiet for a moment because he actually doesn't know how Rin and Romani were like with each other and only has his own experiences with both to really work with--neither of which he's really wholly confident in due to his own lacking in certain areas of understanding why people do the things they do.]

I think... you knew that she was just a girl trying to protect those she cared about before she could do them harm.

Even if that meant doing herself the most harm.