Although she wanted some water, Daichi poured some fruit punch into a plastic cup for Uran instead as his phone started to ring. Using one hand to get the phone out of his pocket, he checked to caller ID before answering.

"Good afternoon Doctor Minee, how are you?" Daichi answered rather coldly into the receiver.

"Do you still have the bug?" a very loud voice on the other end hollered, causing Daichi to flinch before turning the volume down on the phone a bit to compensate.

"You'll have to refresh my memory sir, which bug do you mean? I think I'm coming down with a viral bug- mostly draining mucus, really, it just sits at the back of my throat and gathers enough bacteria to..."

"I MEAN THE BUG YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO GIVE TO ASTRO!"

Daichi flinched again from Minee's dying cat screeching before taking the time to respond. "Ah yes, that bug. I think I might have it. But, just to remind me again, why am I trying to slip a nanite into a harmless android's system again?"

On the other end, Minee gave an annoyed growl that made Daichi silently snicker. Although he was less than amused with the boy, Minee still answered- grumbling all the way, "The potential in that robot is the greatest the world could have ever seen." Minee told Daichi. "I want to know what makes him that way. However, since his blueprints are one of the few still placed under a high security allowance, I've found a way to discover that blueprint without having to bypass several security codes and getting caught in the act."

"And you're using me to do this because my father rejected your miniaturization machine? How devious."

Minee grunted, but said nothing further. Daichi was smart, he knew he was being manipulated. If anything, the discussion should have been on why the boy was complying with the loon to begin with.

"And what if I give the nanite the Astro's sister Uran?" Daichi then asked, looking at the fruit punch as if it had given him an idea. "They say she's roughly twenty-five percent robot herself, and all that robotics reveals the entirety of the Kokoro Theory. She's the reason Astro exists; could the nanite extract the same information from her as it could her brother?"

"No." Minee told him shortly. "There is nothing is Uran worth anything. She's useless."

"Interesting..." Daichi thoughtfully spoke out loud. "Very interesting..."

"Deliver the nanite." Minee then reminded Daichi. "Call me back when it's in so we can move from there." and with the that the scientist hung up his end of the line. With a shrug, Daichi tucked his phone back into his pocket and went back to Uran. He gave Uran the drink without much thought or wanting an ounce of gratitude, but she gave it to him any way with a weak smile.

"Thanks." she mumbled before started to sip the drink. Daichi waved his hand as if it wasn't a big deal before his eyes drifted over to Astro, who in turn looked at him with an unreadable glance. An invisible wave length was sent between them that summoned Astro to get closer.

"Are you alright Uran?" the android instinctively asked his sister as he found a place to sit next to her. Hilariously enough, where he sat was between Uran and Daichi. Could it have been for protection... or the start of an unnerving form of jealousy?

"I'm fine." the girl insisted before taking a sip of the punch. "Astro this is Daichi, he's going to come to our school soon and his dad knows Dr O'Shay."

"It's nice to meet you Daichi." Astro greeted as he turned to the human.

"Same."

For several moments, the boys stared at each other as Uran simply sipped away at her drink, almost choosing to ignore them.

"I've been protecting Uran since it was made official that she's not human." Astro said, almost sounding like he was giving in to peer pressure and wasn't sure of what he was saying. "It's always been a rumor before, but when the truth came out everyone wanted a piece of her or started to ask her questions that made her feel uncomfortable. I stopped a lot of people from making Uran feel bad. Because of people like that, she's not comfortable around crowds anymore… or strangers."

Daichi raised an eyebrow at Astro while Uran gave the android a confused look. Confidently, Daichi offered a smile before letting out a small chuckle. "I wondered how Uran would react to all that attention, especially considering that much of it had been defused behind her back by several secret workers hired by her mother. That reminds me, Uran, I'm glad someone was with you with Ambassador Zoran passed away. I lost my mother at a young age, and although I don't remember much of it, I didn't have much support from someone in the family. My father was busy with business, you see, and everyone else seemed to think that I was too young to understand what had happened."

The teenager let out a slightly sullen laughter, earning an equal look from Uran and Astro that expressed some degree of sympathy and subtle interest.

"It's nice to know that the weak always has someone to help them, isn't it?" Daichi asked, talking in a tone that almost made it seem he was talking to himself. The only response he got was more stares from the siblings. Daichi then turned to look at them again and his gaze fell on Uran's now empty cup.

"Would you like some more punch?" he asked her quite calmly. "I can fill it back up again for you."

Uran looked at her cup as if she were suddenly aware of it before giving him a nod and handing him the cup. Daichi took the cup and made his way back over to the drink table.

Generously filling the cup almost to the tip this time, Daichi took a quick look around before he placed the cup on the table. He then checked underneath of his finger nail for the nanite Minee had given him- it was still there, now active because it had sensed Astro in close proximity. Carefully, Daichi scrapped the nanite from underneath his fingernail and into Uran's drink. There wasn't a way in the world that Daichi was going to give Astro that nanite, and even Minee was sure that it couldn't harm the girl so this was arguably the best way to go about it. Right?

Truthfully, there wasn't much time to think this out properly, but Daichi knew that whatever happened to Uran wouldn't be as strong as what it could be to Astro. The nanite was supposed to abstract as much information as it could from Astro's electronic brain then dispose of the contents as it forced it to shut down. Uran didn't have an electronic brain.

Daichi took one last look at the drink to make sure the nanite had landed into the blood red liquid before picking it back up again to take to Uran.

Uran… please, please, please forgive me...