And, in that instant, as much as Masami tried not to react in an absurd, exaggerated way such as jumping, rolling around or just screaming...
"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH—" just like that, it was as if his voice became a high-pitched whistle. Was he too focused on the door's uhh... "intricate designs" that he was unable to sense when people crawl up behind him in attempt to destroy the poor kid's courage? Masami had seen a glimpse of that creepy paperbag before revealing a real human behind it—all this time, Masami was told to dress-up otherwise the monsters of Samhain will "hunt the little children and eat them alive," and it just happened that Masami wasn't wearing an actual costume. He felt his spirit leave his body in that split-second.
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"Yes... rather, I need to accomplish a task from one of those skeleton booths, so I'd love someone's compa—" Masami twisted the door knob after acting as if he wasn't scared at all, thinking that he'd give off a bad impression to an adult, which will now think of Masami as nothing other than a huge scaredy-cat. When the door
surprisingly opened up, Masami tripped inside, but caught himself before he'd successfully faceplant himself to the old, creaky floors.
"We're going to hunt for ghosts! Somewhat, they gave me this... thing," now, he was inside the haunted house by accident, but it was better to give the image of a completely fine person.
Masami would hold the lacrima cube out,
"I've never seen these, they're supposed to record everything it has seen." He still hasn't found out completely how the cube lacrima worked out, but he thought that it was a better choice to talk about it rather than fill the atmosphere with a child screeching in fear of getting eaten alive for not wearing a costume here in Samhain. At least, he was now sure that the person in that paperbag was human – better converse like a normal human, then?