@Ceereus I'm pretty sure they became friends, earlier, though..
I don't know why but I'm softening up to the dude, I might just end up shipping them but he still has a lot to do to apologize. Until then, nope.
I still hold the ML in contempt for so many of these things. If he hadn't blackmailed her in the first place she wouldn't have faced another inferiority complex in life and I'm sorta hating the ML for it.