"I could have died, if the first time I was thrown into the Metaverse had gone even slightly differently. That alone made it clear just how willing he was to throw me away if he could gain something from it. And then, despite promising me he wouldn't arrange a marriage if I did that, he arranged a marriage. Whatever was good in him died with my mother."

The difference is that Noir, and other less fucked-up variations on the theme, still had hope that her dad was somewhere in there, and believed he was worth saving from himself. Haru can extend him no such charity.

"You have a partner?"