... I'm never going to give up.

[That much is said with confidence, but it's trying.]

But I can't -- I can't keep lying to myself and say that I don't want to. I can't keep fighting things I can't defeat. And I can't keep seeing the senshi come and go.

Haruka --

[She had flat out told Rei she needed to be more of a soldier. And she had tried. And it had blown up, spectacularly, in her face.]