He literally said that you aren’t the only girl out there. You’re just a friend to him. Yes he helped you a few times but that’s because he is a nice guy who wants to help others. Even if he did like her in that way, his goals do not match with hers. It wouldn’t be good for either of them.
That’s the problem with some cultures. If you do one nice thing to the opposite gender, you deemed by them and others that you want to like or flirting with them.
He literally said that you aren’t the only girl out there. You’re just a friend to him. Yes he helped you a few times but that’s because he is a nice guy who wants to help others. Even if he did like her in that way, his goals do not match with hers. It wouldn’t be good for either of them.
That’s the problem with some cultures. If you do one nice thing to the opposite gender, you deemed by them and others that you want to like or flirting with them.