Howard's hurt, partially because he just doesn't feel like he should feel bad about it and partially because he'd been hoping, irrationally, that Zouichi would back him up anyway, because to Howard that's what friends are supposed to do. He would back Zou if Zou did something distasteful or wrong. He knows he shouldn't have expected it of Zou, because Zouichi has these weird things like 'standards' and 'morals', but it still stings.

"Between Rory and Carson I'd had it up to here with being harassed." He starts to load the Terminators back into the box. "I guess I'll have to dig through this place for more of those things later. You need anything else I might have?"