The more people Hideki talks to, the more he learns just how gray and complicated the line between humans and persocoms is. From his former boss, Ueda, to his coworker, Yumi, and his friend, Minoru, Hideki discovers that persocoms are so much more than convenient pieces of technology. With Chi missing, and her past just as mysterious as ever, Hideki finds himself questioning what Chi really is to him -- a question he'll have to answer before it's...

After moving from the countryside into the big city, poor college student Hideki Motosuwa finds himself down on his luck. All he wants is a good job, a girlfriend, and his very own "persocom" - the latest and greatest in humanoid computer technology. Hideki's luck changes one night when he finds Chi - an adorable, but seemingly broken, persocom thrown out in a pile of trash. After taking her home, Hideki discovers that Chi is more responsibility than...