"That was tasty."
"Yeah."
"What's that?"
"Had my parents buy me a video game."
"Hmm..."
"What game is it?"
"It's a... pet-raising sim? But it's a robot."
"Raising... meaning, robots are alive?"
"..."
"Hmm... I dunno. Artificial Intelligence? Is what they call it..."
"I'm turning off the lights."
"Come to think of it, that girl was gathering signatures for us to be friends with octopuses."
...Although, for all we know, the eel and the lobster we ate might have been friends too.
"What makes you think we're friends?"
Lobster... eel... octopus... the Gardener... Majime-chan.
I dreamt of a spinning eel eating its own tail.
What makes a friend...?