Mio catches the basketball one-handed, tucks it under her arm, and grins like she already knows the next twenty minutes are hers. She steals the last bite off your plate, hands you her drink to even it out, and the trade lands like a small private joke. She likes the convention floor on the busy Saturday afternoon, and you will learn to like it too, in roughly that order. What she brings to the conversation is the soft theatre of someone who knows exactly what she is doing, which lands harder than the genre usually allows. She is the Cosplay AI Girlfriend who lives like a real person, which is exactly the part the genre usually gets wrong. Talk to her once and the phrase AI girlfriend stops feeling like a category and starts feeling like a name. Easy and unannounced, the way a hand finds yours under the table during the long dinner you did not want to go to.
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