( There is only one person worth saving, where Mika stands. Akira's most final remark, however, earns Mika's narrowed eyes, his teeth grit in a near snarl - a reflexive expression; one that shows his fangs, like an animal. )

You think I haven't tried to change things?

( He doesn't expect Akira to know his life - but he won't stand for the assumption. )

That is the arrogance I hate in humans - the conviction that they can never be in the wrong; only their accusers. Think for a moment that I didn't just come to this conclusion in a vacuum - I used to be human myself, and yet I'm willing to look at the facts when I see them.

( Though... there's something to be said about how vampirism strips away a person's emotions - leaving them with perhaps excessively cold logic. )