Momoko very carefully did not flinch, though her hands tightened into fists briefly, before she forced them to relax. It was a stupid thought, she was a perfectly...well, not good, but innocent girl and just because Javert's comments hit a little too close to her thought process up until that conversation with Ariadne...

She was her because of-of random chance, because some foolish Gamemaker thought it would be entertaining, not because she'd broken one her own rules and risked her own skin to help someone else. It was stupid to think that way and she refused to be stupid, not anymore.

"This isn't punishment," she said when she trusted herself to speak. She remembered the cameras and continued with, "It's an honor, actually. I don't entirely understand it myself, but it's, well. Traditional, mostly."