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Hi there! I'm not the developer, but I'm a mac user.  It looks like you're on macOS 26, which I'm not, and that may be relevant to your problem, but a couple of questions for you:

1. Are you using the itch.io launcher?  If so, have you tried downloading & running the app independently of the itch.io launcher?
2. How much free disk space do you have?
3. Do you have a "CosyCafe" directory in ~/Library/RenPy/?   Mine looks like:  `~/Library/RenPy/CosyCafe-1642864769/`   If you do not have that, what happens if you create it and then try running again?

Talking with the dev in Discord, Miya and co have been family friends from the start. Some dialogue was added to make that even more clear in the latest release, but that’s always been the intention.

Disagree - talking with the dev in Discord, Miya and co have been family friends from the start. Some dialogue was added to make that even more clear in the latest release, but that’s always been the intention.

yes

You want the Episode 8 file.

You can always restart and choose “skip all, even unseen”. Shouldn’t take long.

Hi! It is released on itch.io, you should be able to see the download links above.