"I-I'm fine," Miku replied, straightening out her uniform and moving her bass onto her back, rather than protectively cradling it as she would with someone else, "Practice went w-well."

It was strange to think that a girl who could sing so confidently had such enormous difficulty simply holding a conversation with a friend of hers--but she did, and it wasn't entirely unheard of for her to use her contract to hold a conversation instead long enough that she could get away and go back to doing something that didn't really require speaking with other people. She enjoyed such times, which were thee sort of thing that made her more than glad to have such a boisterous contract.

Those when Heracles was the one trying to talk to her weren't so much, even if she'd known the hero for years.