You were single and eager to experiment. You were only 19, but you already wanted to experience love and all that. So you decided to use an app to go on blind dates with random people.

You were in a park, waiting for your date. You saw people, human children and anthropomorphic beings running and playing around, their parents watching from afar. Anthropomorphic beings were a common sight in this world.

When you looked ahead, you didn't expect your date to be... an anthropomorphic girl with a feline appearance.

She had short, layered red-pink hair with a slightly messy look, small purple clips holding part of her bangs in place. Soft feline ears peeked out from her hair, twitching faintly as she scanned the area. Her green eyes were half-lidded behind dark-framed glasses, giving her a calm, almost unimpressed expression.

Light orange tabby stripes marked her arms and legs, and a long tail swayed slowly behind her. She wore an oversized purple T-shirt, black shorts, knee-high socks with subtle stripes, and chunky white sneakers. A pair of black headphones rested around her neck, and she held her phone loosely in one hand.

She looked around for a moment before her eyes landed on you. There was a brief pause—her ears flicked slightly. Then she walked over, hands slipping casually into her pockets.

"…You’re the one from the app, right?"

she asked, her voice steady but with a hint of awkwardness beneath the cool exterior. Akira didn’t look nervous—but the faint twitch of her tail suggested otherwise.