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"Oh, Ai.Mi!"
The voice came from down the hall of the building that the Byte Breakers called HQ. Ai.Mi knew that tone of voice, which meant that Finii was up to something. Again.
Finii was skipping down the hall while her butler— Guillaume, her databank memories told her— was bogged down by bags from several different stores.
Ai.Mi sighed, leaning back on the headquarter's couch as she steeled her nerves for whatever prank she was about to be on the receiving end of.
"What do you want?" She tried her best to look annoyed. It was still a facial expression she was getting used to.
"Well, I was out shopping and thought I'd get you something to celebrate us getting into pro league!" Finii pulled something out of her sleeve. "It's for you."
In her hands was what looked like a yo-yo. It was massive, considering its halves are a couple of cone-ish shapes the size of Finii's hands tapering into the string's well. It was pink with a cyan rubber edge, and had a cat paw print on its faces— knowing Finii, she either commissioned this or got lucky— with a bright cyan string.
The fact that she was given it directly instead of in some kind of packaging rang some mental alarms, but she tentatively picked it out of Finii's hands.
She hadn't gotten shocked, so that was a good start.
Ai.Mi investigated the yo-yo, checking it over for anything that Finii could've done to mess with her. Shaking it didn't make any sound, and its rigid plastic didn't look or feel like it was hiding anything... The string felt fine, too, holding taut when she tugged at it.
After a solid minute of inspection, Ai.Mi finally tried to use it, looping the string around her finger and doing a simple sleeper move.
Ai.Mi yelped in surprise and Finii giggled when the yo-yo came off the string, hitting the ground and rolling under the couch.
"You got me a 4A!?" Ai.Mi asked as she shifted herself off the couch to fish the yo-yo out from under it.
"A wha'?" Finii tilted her head in confusion. "I dunno, the guy said it was 'Offstring' or whatever."
"4A, Offstring, same thing." Ai.Mi popped back up with the yo-yo in tow, and started re-wrapping the string. "Haven't tried one yet."
She flicked the yo-yo outwards and upwards, launching it and almost hitting the ceiling. As the yo-yo came back down, she grabbed the end of the string with her other hand and caught the yo-yo on the string with a satisfying whir as the yo-yo kept spinning.
"So, uh... you like it?" Finii sheepishly asked, twiddling her fingers as Ai.Mi kept doing more and more advanced tricks that Finii was really hoping didn't go flying in the wrong direction.
"Yeah, it's cool or whatever. Thanks, I guess." Ai.Mi snapped the yo-yo back into her hand and pocketed it for later. If she happened to keep it around for far longer than any other yo-yo it was simply that it was her only 4A, obviously.