Oh. This is a reverse hug. This is much nicer than the potential smack upside his head he was expecting. They want to reach up, but they also don't want it to like...move either cause...actually this is nice. Really nice. They relax slightly at the touch, arms wrapping around their legs again.

It's the words that make him feel sad. It's been feeling the same? "Oh." That makes not reaching up even more difficult. "I didn't know that's..." He frowns. "Because of back home, right? And people like...treating you different because of...you know the whole AI thing?" There's another knee-jerk reaction to insist that SecUnit is so much better by default, but that's stupid. "Guess we missed the self-confidence day at school, huh?"