[Mayuko frowns. It's odd to acknowledge that the multiverse could cough up alternates in Confluences. (Loki is a special case all his own.) But it's not the most peculiar thing she's witnessed in her long years. She's more worried for her friend.]

He's not better than you.

[Said as simply as explaining the sun rises in the east and the sea is salty. Immutable fact.]

You've had time to establish yourself here, and you haven't wasted it.