>>40555947>>40555871This to be quite honest. The way she says her new goal is to help you improve, that particular dialogue made me realize how much of a meme the "Respect you as a friend" thing was. If you are about to start a relationship, of course you are going to want to feel respected and admired. Rivalrena comes to accept that she feels those two things for the MC and that's why she accepts these feelings as a north for her newfound goals, which coincidentally have the MC as their core.