"Maybe. Most of my friends never met her, at the very least, so I can't say they're only hanging around me because of her." If anything, Kasumi's friends are still very annoyed with Sumire, though she did at least apologise for everything she put them through.

"I - did a very thorough job of running from my problems for a while. If you saw any of the notes about 'actualised people' on the board in the Velvet Room, that happened to me, but my friends helped me break out of it before I got here. Someone took me at my word when I said my life was worthless unless I could be Kasumi, and he slapped a bandage on my mind and called it good. Midnight-san... still firmly believes she is Kasumi, and is resisting every attempt anyone makes to tell her otherwise. I can't blame her for wanting to run from the truth, but I spent six months not moving on because I couldn't think about it clearly."