Ah... [scratching the back of his neck] It's a bit embarrassing, actually.
Suzaku came to ask me about the whole -- incident with General Cross, and I mentioned that I'd made the energy potion. I didn't intend to keep it from him, I just hadn't said anything yet because it wasn't tested. I wasn't even sure it would work, but when the Noah needed to be handled I thought we had to at least try to use whatever we had at our disposal.
And well, he was a little irritated about my working on it without him knowing. But I think what really got me on his bad side is when I said I wasn't comfortable with Defense Force members being inside my lab to guard it.
I guess it sort of came off like I don't really want to be part of the team. [which -- is true, in a sense. He just never realized it would come off quite that badly.]