Hyouka hadn't spoke to Yuuka since the incident in the Misawa school. She went alone to meet the two magicians in the hospital, they received no report from Yuuka as she imagined. She updated them in the information that Muse was running the school. She was not a treat even though she wasn't the sanest person to run a school. They agreed to accept her as an ally, Muse was someone known in the magical world, and her word was not something to be taken lightly.
When she told Index about who Touma had faced she nearly fainted, after recovering from the shock Touma needed some stitches in his head because Index was absolutely livid of his recklessness. Though she didn't tell her friend what Yuuka had done. VIVIT-r was less scary to her than the one she used to call friend.
She wished she could disappear the same way she had done in the past, but now she was more stable than ever. Even if she wanted she was still stuck in this world, and she started to feel less sympathy for Yuuka since she made her stay in a painful place.
Yuuka in the other hand was used to this kind of treatment. She always did that, anyone she could call friend would soon run away from her. Reimu and Marisa didn't count since she practically raised them when Mima and Kasen were busy, they were conditioned to like her, and even in that case they were distant with her. She had some loyal servants back in her place, but those two coveted her power, and resisted their instinct to run away from their master so they could learn from her.
Now the same was happening at the school, a few girls started to crowd around her, to try to fake their friendship, she could see right through it. Hyouka was not faking, Index was not doing it either but these girls didn't even try to make up a good act. She still was nice to those who were nice to her, and that kept the girls around. Why couldn't she drive away those girls? But the ones who were her true friends always ended running away?
She considered the fact that maybe she was too afraid of losing them. When she was young she saw too many of them pass away. Yama was right, she had lived for too long, long enough to regret it. She knew Hyouka would have to face opponents even stronger than VIVIT-r, and those would not stop when she asked them to. She would never apologize for being too hard on her, the last time she hesitated on it she lost another friend. What was more of a trauma to her was that she didn't get to see her daughter grow up, to become someone she would be proud of.
Yuuka started surrounding herself from flowers, they never ran away. It was clear that her roommate didn't like them, they made the room to cold and humid, but Yuuka kept them in her side of the room, there was no way she could complain.