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I'm inclined to think that he didn't have a very pleasant experience interacting with girls. Maybe they weren't interested in him or something. Having no other outcome of trying to start a conversation with the opposite sex, Tech just stopped trying to do something about it and resigned himself. Moreover, our bun has a lack of experience interacting with them and he simply did not know how to react to flirting from Phee because she is the first girl who was not just interesting to him, but who showed the same interest in him. It is possible that after the girl's first attempts to flirt with him, Tech began to look for information on interacting with girls and so on.

I find this scene interesting in that, even though Tech reacted very awkwardly when Phee approached to say goodbye, the fact that he was standing outside the ship all alone with his datapad (for no logical reason whatsoever) makes me think that he hoped she would come to say goodbye. And that when she actually did, he froze up.