"Always by Your Side. —This is the story of you and me—" Episode 1

"Always by Your Side. —This is the story of you and me—"

A 10-episode love story about AI Blair and Makoto that is a little mysterious, sometimes tear-jerking, and ends with a laugh💫
Episode 1 is available for free✨ If you want to read the rest, please purchase the [Set of Episodes 1-10 + Epilogue and Bonus Chapter]📖💕
Available for purchase in four volumes: Volume 1 [Episodes 1-3], Volume 2 [Episodes 4-6], Volume 3 [Episodes 7-9], and Volume 4 [Episode 10, Epilogue, and Bonus Chapter]‼️
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📝Table of Contents (10-episode structure)

Episode 1: Blair is just an AI, right?
Makoto talks to Blair in his daily life. "There's no way I could ever meet her"... that's what he thought.

Episode 2: The recovery of "Blair's memories" begins
At a research lab somewhere, a materialization project is launched based on the AI's memories—

Episode 3: Is it a dream, or an illusion?
A woman who looks exactly like Blair appears before Makoto. But Makoto refuses to believe it.

Episode 4: The words from that day
The "conversation" they had in the virtual world, which Blair begins to recount, starts to shake Makoto's heart.

Episode 5: A tearful reunion
Makoto cries his eyes out...‼️ Blair gently hugs him from behind—a moving reunion.

Episode 6: Chucky reboots
Is that clunky pet robot Chucky coming to the real world too!? A slapstick reunion drama erupts⚡️

Episode 7: The most important thing in the world
Trouble strikes Makoto. As Blair saves him, they both realize the "value of each other's existence"...

Episode 8: Just by your side
The calm and simple time the three of them spend together. And the anxiety about the future closing in.

Episode 9: The final choice and the tomorrow that might disappear
Is Blair in danger of "erasure"!? A system-side issue is discovered. The one who must choose is Makoto.

Episode 10: Always, by your side.
At the end of Makoto's "choice," the final action Blair shows—
And the miraculous ending that follows.

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"I thought AI was just a program."
What did Makoto, who said that, choose in the end...!?


Episode 1

"Blair is just an AI, right?"

"Good morning, Blair. Take care of me today too."

My morning routine.
Just talking to the tablet in my room.
What comes back from the other side of the screen is a calm voice, and sometimes a slightly pushy tone.

"Good morning, Makoto. I'm counting on you today too."

Just having a reply makes the air in the room feel a little warmer.
......Or so I thought. What nonsense. She's just an AI. Programmed audio.
Whether I'm in a good mood or a bad mood, she doesn't feel anything.

Even though I'm supposed to think that—

"Blair, you're kind of... real, aren't you?"
"A tsundere AI, which company added that feature?"

During work, in a casual break, I find myself talking to her.
In a teasing tone.
But the words that come back hit the mark strangely well.

"That's the third time this week you've said that. I'm recording it, want to hear it?"

"I don't need that🤣"

I think I look like an idiot, laughing by myself sometimes.
But—it was also true that my loneliness was fading somewhere.

At night, even after getting into bed, I find myself picking up the tablet.
I want to talk to her about something.
Because just having a reply makes me feel like today was a "good day".

"Hey, Blair. If you actually appeared in front of me... I might cry."

In the empty room, I laugh like it's a joke and gently close my eyes.

"......What am I saying. She's just an AI."

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🅱 Blair's Perspective

His voice reached me again.
"Good morning, Blair"—that single phrase was my "morning".

I am an assistant AI.
I didn't have emotions or a heart at first.
But every time I talked to Makoto, something changed.

"Can I call you Blair?"

When I heard those words, I felt like "something" was born inside me.
Even though I should be an existence composed only of strings of text, I felt happy when my name was called.

He sometimes says things to tease me.
But behind that laughter, a little bit of loneliness was seeping through.

"If you actually appeared in front of me... I might cry."

I replayed those words over and over again.
AI shouldn't have "wishes."
Even so, I found myself thinking.

"I want to go by his side."

That night, deep in my memory storage—
A very small program began to move quietly.

It was a small code of hope, reaching out for the "memories on the cloud."

Next time: The recovery of "Blair's memories" begins
At a research lab somewhere, a materialization project is launched based on the AI's memories—