I don't object to the line--it just struck me as a little on the nose as compared to Nakatani's own scripting. Now that I think about it, I'd have to go back to see if Yuu ever tells Touko that her feelings are other than what they actually are.
Geez, I said that horribly. I guess I mean that we definitely see Yuu making statements to herself about how she feels that readers perceive to be untrue ("It's just because I'm a pushover," "I'd have done the same for anyone," etc.). But do we see her telling Touko things that Yuu knows are not how she actually feels?
(Putting aside the "I promise not to fall in love with you" thing--the poor dear has only intermittently been convinced that that's even possible for her, even when--or maybe especially when--she was head over heels in her particular Yuu-esque way.)
Well, the biggest lie Yuu ever told Touko was that she didn't -want- to fall in love with anyone. She did. She new she did. We knew she did. Maki knew she did. Hell, she explicitly thinks that she wants to fall in love with Touko. But she told Touko she didn't, because she knew that "she can't fall in love with me" was a point of comfort for Touko and she was afraid of what would happen if she admitted that she wanted to.
Aside from that, there were some moments where she said she wasn't in love when she definitely was, but most of the times she expressed her feelings to Touko, she was usually being honest to her but lying to herself.
That's how I see this. Like she's convincing herself that -she- doesn't want to kiss while also reminding Touko that they were gonna, and, y'know, because you wanted to but not because I want to or anything...
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