Hamuko just... smiles at him. Calm and composed, because she has faced this level of disrespect and ridicule and worse. Because she wasn't afraid of him, or of being judged.

All of her time in the Velvet Room before was circled around one thing: making connections with other people, to empower herself through the archetypes of the Tarot. To make herself stronger. To make it possible to save her friends.

I can see why Igor has brought you here.

She doesn't say it. She doesn't need to say it.

"I can already tell... Akane-chan and I will be good friends. Don't worry. I won't let anything horrible happen to her so long as she's with me," she promised sincerely, instead.