"I see… " The mechanical maiden nodded. Her skin was white except for her face. Her face looked human. "You came here to relax, but got involved in unpleasant things."

A tiny orange crab was coming out from under the rocks.

The android knelt down and moved her face closer to better observe the crab family. "You do not want romantic relationships, so you refused to join the operation."

Minato nodded and touched a tornado shaped shell on the sand.

"Thatcheria mirabilis. Japanese Wonder Shell..." The android fixed her eyes at what Minato was interested in, her blue eyes spinning like gears. "A beautiful sea snail. Marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae."

Did she just search the internet for that? She was an android, right? So it's like, a computer doing its thing. Minato noted it for later. It might be useful.

The robot lifted her head and looked at two teenage males talking with random women. "About their operation, what is your opinion on the possibility of success?"

"No chance."

The blonde turned to him. "Why is that?"

"Wrong people doing the job, it just won't work." Minato shrugged.

"Your dorm mates say you are hard to understand."

"People just never try to understand me, being in the four percent and all."

"Are you referring to the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator?" The robot asked.

Minato nodded. He didn't expect her to know. She probably searched the internet again. From a distant, they saw Junpei and Akihiko running away from something.

"Shame," the blonde said. "Your deduction seems to be correct."

"You want to see them succeed?" Minato asked.

The android nodded. "It would have resulted in an interesting outcome."

They walked back with their heads hung low.

"We were close…" Junpei clenched his fists.

"We failed..." Akihiko looked down.

"As expect," the duo said in unison.

"You're so cold, Ai-chan…" Junpei sniffed. "You too, bro…"

"I cannot see why the operation is difficult." The robot looked at the two males covered in fear. "Or frightening."

"That was scary…" The senior wiped off drops of sweat. "Aigis, you wouldn't understand it if you didn't experience it."

"Your mental states are unstable. I suggest you all rest for today," Aigis said.

SEES were having fun.

"Karaoke? Let's rock!" Junpei shouted. "Ai-chan, can you sing?"

"I can," the android said.

"Oh, oh!" Junpei grinned. "What song can you sing?"

"Every song in his mp3." Aigis took the microphone. "I've never felt like duh-dud dun dun dunn."

Minato blinked. He didn't teach her to sing. Did she... hacked his mp3?

Ponk! Ponk!

"You are good at table tennis!" Akihiko said.

Ponk! Ponk!

Aigis did a backhand drive. "I am."

Ponk! Ponk!

"Oh, spinning ball?" Akihiko swung his arm with all his might, blur line of bright yellow shooting forward.

Ponk! Ponk!

Aigis returned it with a faster one. "That's a powerful hit."

Ponk! Ponk!

"Clever!"

Ponk! Ponk!

"You, too."

Ponk! Ponk!

Watching a ping pong ball moving back and forth at rapid speed is confusing, so SEES decided to leave them be.

Junpei had these card games. One was called True Mind, then Innocent Eternal, and Festival. Weird how they were all the card fighting games. Fuuka and Junpei were really into it.

After a while, Akihiko switched place with Junpei and played the game with Fuuka. He found himself thinking about last night meeting. He himself didn't worry much, but he wondered what went through other people's minds. Being an orphan, he didn't have the right to tell them how they should feel about their own parents.

"Third day..." Yukari looked at the cloud in the blue sky. "I want to play a bit more, but I'm so tired…" She leaned back in the beach chair.

Fuuka was making a sand castle with Aigis. The umbrella was big enough to cover them all. The android stepped back and observed the building. "The center of gravity is too much to the left... I think it is more appropriate to call it a tower, since it is not suitable for living, and it is tall."

"Okay, it is a tower, then," Fuuka said.

"Then I shall make it look like Tartarus."

"Umm you don't have to."

Mitsuru was sitting on a beach chair She raised her eyebrows. "How do you know about Tartarus, and its appearance?"

"There is data about the Dark Hour in my memories," Aigis said. "I have the datalog I could note the information in as I see fit. It is how I learn new information. I have an objective for my existence. It is to destroy Shadows."

"You can use a Persona too," Fuuka said. "Palladion, right? It's amazing how a robot can wield a Persona."

"I am a machine, a machine that is created to destroy Shadows. A machine is created to fulfill human desires," Aigis said. "If humans wish to destroy Shadows, then killing the Shadows I shall."

Minato never asked much since he knew no one's going to answer, so he kept all the questions to himself.

He looked at Aigis. That android. She was so curious, something the boy had lost long ago. Aigis asked a lot of things. Some questions are simple. Some are complicated. Some are something simple, but people never talk about it. Some are complicated, but people define it in simple words that are not enough and leave it as that.

She was awkward around others. No, others were awkward around her. They talked for less than thirty seconds and stop. They were too different. There were no reasons to talk. The way she talked, questions she asked. She didn't understand a thing despite having the electronic brain.

He wondered if he was like that toward others, too...? Being too different, feeling like you are so far apart… To understand each other is impossible... She's not normal. You could even say she's weird. But, somehow, he wanted to know her more.

An anti-Shadow weapon, Aigis… This is one souvenir from Yakushima that is…