#he finally understood the full extent of the pain and trauma he inflicted on gojo so he feels remorseful about it

[rmorde]

"Geto is the only one who saw Gojo as human"

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. However, want to be reminded of something really fucking painful?

Geto did saw Gojo as a human/person.

BUT!

Geto also implied to Gojo that he is much better as a monster/weapon.

I mean... why else would this be such a traumatic experience for Satoru? This haunted him for the rest of his life.

Sure. Geto was the first to treat Gojo as a human/person. Yet, he still chose to hurt him deeply by asking him that awful question which reduced Gojo's identity into just his strength/power.

And that follow up! "If I could be you" may as well be "If I could be a powerful [monster] like you" (which Geto strove to be in JJK 0 by trying to kill Yuta and steal Rika). It's at this point that Geto stopped seeing Gojo as a person and started just seeing his power. He is no longer a friend that saw Gojo beyond his Six Eyes-Limitless CT. Geto became just like everybody else.

This is a betrayal tailor fit for Gojo Satoru and, imho, permanently crippled his ability to connect with anyone! It locked him into the untouchable and lonely existence as "The Strongest".

Don't believe me? Well... here's that infamous scene again in 261:

So, yeah. Geto had been kind to Gojo by making him feel like he is a human/person first. However, he had also been cruel to Gojo by making him question his humanity to the point that Gojo believed that being a weapon/monster is the only fate for him.