[He really isn't. He's just saying what he genuinely thinks and if that helps her calm down then that's just a good bonus.

Though he has a feeling he's going to upset her even more with the answer he's about to give.]

They said they would tell the bosses that you've been hiding me all this time. If they'd done that, it would have been next to impossible to get the chip out of Yoru and who knows what else would have happened...

[Yeah, Utau's thoughts about this were right. You can call him an idiot, but he wanted to protect you.]