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>>36503761
Not quite. When she first hears about Satoshi asking her to protect Satoko, she inmediately says she can't bring herself to forgive her. So even when the promise was fresh in her mind, it wasn't enough to make her into Satoko's loving nee nee.

Rather, what made Shion like Satoko was the speech the latter gave in Meakashi right before she died, which proved to her she had changed completely as a person and become even stronger than Shion herself. This precise moment is shown in Matsuribayashi, in a scene where Shion remembers Meakashi and tells Rika what made her change her ways.