[Just punch 'im: Hakkai's breath puffs out, not even pretending to be a laugh, and he shakes his head.]

I'd rather not punch him. I'd rather not hurt him at all.

[Yes, all right, sometimes he's frustrated enough to want to, but--]

And I don't know how to make him understand me.

[And he isn't sure that he understands Gojyo, either. He isn't sure that Gojyo understands himself, half the time; his explanations don't make much sense, and Hakkai can't tell if the problem is what Gojyo's saying, or the pieces Hakkai's missing, little fragments of assumptions that Gojyo hasn't bothered to share yet.

Or if he's just very wrong about everything. That's always possible.]

That's... the problem. I have tried.