[Listening intently, Rei remains quiet throughout, silently stewing on the information. Tadashi was, quite frankly, an idiot. There was no other way to put it. He...was...a...moron. He had a new chance, an opportunity to be happy, and to make someone else smile. And he'd squandered it out of some sense of misguided kindness. Urgh. She has to fight to keep a sharpness of her tongue, and she smothers it in Ami's hair, kissing the top of her head.]

He did show things that could be taken as tokens of affection. You aren't an idiot. That's not how these things work. He's a fool, not you. You wouldn't have said anything about it if you weren't...willing to accept his past.