...Before I met Yusuke and the others back home, I never let people in. They had to fight to get me to open up at all. I didn't think I deserved friends either.

[When she first came here she thought that time was a lot more recent than she knew it was now.]

But everyone deserves friends. My friends are... they're like my family. Because I was with them I was able to find the place I belong. Besides-- we're friends... right?

[It might be a little presumptuous but, she's seen him as something of a friend ever since the meeting after Yusuke's trial.]