[ kind? Madoka doesn't know if she could expect being called something like that now, especially from Mami. ]

M-mm, of course. Mami-san, you always been so kind and reliable.

I have to tell you something else. When you first arrived, I lied to you then too... [ it really was a web now, wasn't it? it was becoming hard to find where one began and one ended. her mother had been so proud of her, but now... ] In the timeline you come from, we never meet and you never become my mentor but...

But I still want to be your friend, or at least... I hope one day I could be worthy of being your friend.