No, it's really not your fault. I appreciate what you were trying to do, and you were right to try.

[He's quiet for a moment, grateful that they're not face to face, so he doesn't have to worry about what expression is on his face]

But if we ever talk and I seem the same as I did then... don't try to deal with it yourself. Find Hijikata, instead.

[It's not a warning he really wants to have to give, but the way he'd feel if something ever happened to her because of him overrode the shame he felt about it.]