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"Huh? Oh, um, okay..."
Hiiro's usual exuberance seems like it's been completely sapped.
"Just...just...ughh!!"
Face red and eyes wet, Aira snatches the mask away from Hiiro and puts it on. Perhaps just to hide his angry tears.
"There!! I did it! Now let's go!"
"So stop treating me like I'm some helpless victim who can't even have a say in his own fate!! I don't need those pitiful looks of yours, that tone of yours that says 'poor Aira, you're just a baby swan with broken wings'...!"
"Ugh, I'm so sick of being looked down on like this...! Look, Takamine-senpai even tried to get me to take the mask at first like an ideal senpai, but I smiled and looked cool and proud while I rejected it!!"
"Hey, stop it!! Don't you dare look at me with pity!! I chose this, Hiro-kun!"
"Aira!!"
Hiiro moves fast as lighting, practically ripping the mask from Rei's hands to shove it into Aira's.
"Quick, put it on!! It's not too late!! Hurry!!"
"Oh...so it wasn't a sacrifice game after all."
Sure enough, there's little Aira, face totally exposed.