Listen closely and you should be able to hear

[His voice is quiet and distant, as if he is mostly speaking to himself.]

Is this what you wanted? You wanted to be the one left standing as a human, even after fighting like a-...

It's like you're a living contradiction. That part of you never fails to piss me off, and keeps making me think about things I shouldn't have to.

It's not the same. The only common ground we have is from circumstance... that's all. I cannot say that I ever wish to change, because I hardly even know where to begin in the first place.

... You never should have been the one to stop me, and I won't let that happen again.

[There is little other sound that can be heard, until the communicator is put down deliberately somewhere with a soft clatter. A few footsteps follow, along with the familiar metallic jingle from the rings on Haruka's shakujou and the creak of a door as it swings closed.]

[[ooc Haruka is brooding. Between leaving at the end of his shift at the Northern Lights and returning to his room at the high school, he's been wandering the city in search of Dio or training with his weapon alone. It's been like this for him over the past several days, and so he is likely to have a few cuts and bruises to show for his efforts by the time this entry was posted.]]