"I just want to swim with my friends"
This makes me so sad, not just for Haru, but for Rin, too. Rin’s been trying to make both of his dreams work: making it to nationals and swimming with his friends, and what’s the one thing Sousuke told him before?
He can’t make both work.
And Haru just snapped at him and said he just wants to swim with his friends, that he’s not like him at all. So I bet Rin’s thinking… that you really can’t do both, can you? If the person who helped him so much last year feels like this, then…