"Would you prefer wizard, instead?" Dragon asks, "the White Wizard doomed him to this, so I thought to avoid it, for your sake. Perhaps it is more apt than I thought?"

Slowly, he begins to shift forms, walking inexorably toward her. "I will decide where I come and where I go, Oriko Mikuni. Kousuke Nitoh was unable to remove me, and so too shall you. Even with foreknowledge, you were too weak to kill me." There's no doubt in his mind that she knew. He doesn't know how, or why, but her expression and attitude had been so determinedly deadly in Haruto's memories that he can see it.