[Well, if it's coming to this, and she can't just shrug off what she'd said...then she'll go with it.]

It is better that she's gone. Because Haruhi had a normal life at home. She's alive and not being tortured. And that's an improvement over Luceti.

[Rei takes a step back, folding her arms across her chest and looking away. The whole mess, the emotions from earlier, all of it...it just bubbles up. Her temper threatens to explode, but...that's not right. No, Kari doesn't need that, and it won't help the situation, but she can't help the sharpness in her tone.]

Unlike her, not all of us are so lucky. [And then her voice gets very quiet, the edge departing as quickly as it'd come.] I know I'm not...