Pushing the realization so far back in his mind that he would not cry or break down mentally, Bastian decided to deal with this matter later and defend Wilde with his life, if needed. He merely wanted to see if he could communicate with the cat. If he was to do it right now, right here, it would logically follow that the girls would chuck him into a mental hospital.
But he had to dedicate a moment of adoration for the rare instances of non-horny, pure motherly love that he had started to see in the cat's behavior. And he was also lucky to have been transmigrated as a male specimen.
