It was an honest mistake really; a misunderstanding, a simple misconception. And really, who could blame him for jumping to conclusions so fast; these were the three aliens who had tried to invade earth, after all. It was a mistake made with good reason.
But Ryou Shirogane couldn't afford to make mistakes when it came to the mew project.
He simply stared at the young lady, about his age, sitting on the opposite side of the café table. What could he say to her, "We no longer require your services, sorry for fusing you with the DNA of an endangered animal?"
No, no. That would be insensitive.
He could just tell the girl the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. He could just explain that when he and his partner, Keiichirou Akasaka, found that the three aliens Kisshu, Taruto, and Pai had returned to Earth they assumed they would be trying to take over and that they would be even more powerful then before (they were scientists, they drew conclusions about power levels all the time). Therefore they began a new mew project. It seemed reasonable.
And it still seemed reasonable when the three aliens walked through Café Mew Mew's doors claiming they had only wanted to take a relaxing vacation in Tokyo. It didn't, however, seem reasonable after four palm readings, six rounds of hypnotism, and ten lie detector tests that proved that the aliens, in fact, only wanted to take a relaxing vacation in Tokyo.
But he couldn't tell her that because he'd look like an idiot, which he was most definitely not.
But he had made the girl sitting across from him the new unneeded mew project and he supposed it wasn't fair that she'd gotten so many weird problems forced upon her when it wasn't even necessary.
So his only real option was to tell her the truth.
"Miss…um, Rice was it? Well there is a simple answer to all of this…"