honestly, I think the stronger play would've been "hey, wanna know why she was an hour late yesterday? because she passed out on her way to meet you. if I hadn't been stalking her, there would have been no one there to catch her, and she would've fallen down her stairs. and then she wouldn't have just been late, she would've been in the hospital"
whether the jirai-kei would care about that? who knows
but I'll take weird love triangle shenanigans