Because--

[Because I know you. Because I know what you're capable of. Because you've already helped so many people.

He can't tell her any of that. It's too much, and risks causing her very real harm.]

We've got a connection, right? As god and shinki. So-- I can already tell you're worth believing in. I can just feel it.

[That was true enough. Even without his prior knowledge of what she was like, that feeling would still be there.]

It doesn't have to be the other way around. We can protect each other. I said we were gonna be a team, right?