#maybe on poms advice not to even ask lest she give up her training early because shes too sad

[musubiki]

Since sulluvan visits her during the time skip, do they become friends at all?

i would imagine they do!!!! its kind of a weirdly developed friendship, the kind where sulluvan keeps bothering her about marrying him, and mochi finds it annoying but she cant completely cut him out because she needs to maintain a good working relationship, and all their run-ins do lead to a "friendship"

though they dont hang out like mochi would with coco/lime/oscar/taffy. if they were ever to go out anywhere, it would be a "date" (by sulluvans fault), and otherwise its him hanging around the cat cafe (pre-timeskip)/the bookshop (post-timeskip), with mochi just kind of letting him hang out

but the timeskip period is kind of uh.....special? its a time where mochi is particularly alone and its a time for her to navigate being a full-fledged witch, really also a time to get more confident in who she is and what she can do, and the only companionship she really gets besides pom and the merchant (though its very npc-like) is sulluvan coming to see her, bringing her little gifts, they play chess or little board games or something when she has downtime (he insists. she actually cant get rid of him, and she doesnt have anyone to hang out with, so she obliges)

(lime is absolutely livid when he finds out about this. "Oh so this asshole can see you all he wants, but I have to bend over backwards trying to find you?? I see how it is." kind of thing)