[She turns on the video, and her voice and eyes are cold and firm, but in reality, she's floundering here. She knows the best way to distract Asuka is to get her angry again - unfortunately, she never knows exactly what she's done to make Asuka angry in the first place. She just answers honestly and it happens.
So she says the first thing that comes to mind - and if she's aiming to make Asuka angry, it probably, ironically, is the best thing possible.]