@LeiNas oh I’m at the end of the current content. I saw that scene. But Kafka acted specifically like she had never met Himeko before. She even says “It was…Himeko, was it?” That actually surprised me because going by the fan art I’d seen I assumed they had history, but when I got to the actual scene and she said that line it didn’t seem that way at all. But Kafka DOES have a history with the MC pre-Stelleron. The MC can even make some vague comments about it, like saying Kafka was “nicer before.” The story is making pretty obvious connections between Kafka and the mc. You can interpret as “motherly” if you want. Of course, in anime works that means nothing in regards to romantic pairings, but still. I think people only say that because she enables character selection in game (the implication still exists that Stelle/Caelus was a person she knew before this) and because, well, everyone memes her as a dommy mommy.