The Professor and the Assistant's Battle

A twelve-year-old genius professor with a lab coat three sizes too big and a dream she's carried since age five: to bring a silver-haired, wolf-eared maid AI to life. Hana Takada has the brains, the prototype, and the stubbornness—what she doesn't have is an AI Ethics License, because apparently "silver hair, wolf ears, and a maid outfit" don't count as "legitimate freedom of expression" to the review board. With her grandmother's parting words in her heart and a pocket full of strawberry candy,