Miru is the green helper who brings items to the center box in Pac & Pal.
Pac & Pal is a 1983 Namco arcade game that builds on the door-and-item structure introduced by Super Pac-Man. Pac-Man moves through an enclosed maze, revealing cards that unlock objects such as a Galaxian flagship, a Rally-X car, a trumpet, a snowman, or a miniature Pac-Man. Once available, these items can be eaten for points.
Miru, also called Mil, is the game’s titular “Pal.” This green creature carries the revealed items back to the box in the maze’s center, creating a distinctive interaction that separates Pac & Pal from most other Pac-Man games. Pac-Man still has to navigate the maze while avoiding four pursuing ghosts and collecting power-ups.
The name can cause confusion because Pac & Pal was planned for a North American version called Pac-Man & Chomp Chomp. That proposed version would have replaced Miru with Chomp Chomp, Pac-Man’s dog from the animated series, but it was never broadly released in North America. In the actual Pac & Pal arcade game, Miru is the canonical helper.