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Not necessarily a good reason. Due to her broken mental state, their previous near combat, and general alien nature... You could kind of equate it to the mc trying to get a date by flirting with girls at an abortion clinic. It was a generally a very predatory move that a decent officer should definitely know not to do.

Considering she introduced him into her world, I could most definitely see him latching on her first. That, and the mother laying down vague consequences in an objectively more terrifying variation of "father greeting with a shotgun" should have most definitely had mc gone miko before branching.