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Fake mask can be tricky

Getting inside a seemingly dangerous group was not part of his future ideas, but from what he learned from Maria, fate was mischievous. As long as his mask was open, it would be difficult for fate to know and decide your future.

Maria always told him, that the people he will encounter may as well wear a mask and trick your mind. That was why he needed to learn how to distinguish masked people.

He may encounter a person who had a perfect mask like him, Maria explained to him, even thought it was rare. Professional fake masked people would mostly recognize each other.

Skull listened and only thought that it was rare so he may not meet one just like him. He was still too naive because he surprisingly, did, and that person was a woman who had a weird shaped hat with a smile that seemed kind and gentle.

The moment she laid her eyes on him her pupils shrank a bit before turning back to their original size. Apart from the small shock, Skull knew that he met a fellow fake person just like him, it just took a mere glance to their eyes to know that they had a mask. Then depending on how they acted next, they would see if they were a threat or not.

As for him, he did not bat an eyes and even his pupils stood still. He did not reveal some simple clues that he had a mask. But she still was able to notice he had one.

The woman only continued her act to be welcoming and kind while Skull continued to act clueless and loud just like he always did.

To have a perfect but not too perfect like mask, learning which physical movements to make was necessary. Every inch of the body could be controlled, eyes, mouth, shoulder, everything. Which was why it could be tiring to the body if they were inexperienced, that was why most mask user had a better endurance than normal people. But, no matter what they couldn't let their mask down, unless they were sure they were alone and that nobody could walk in while they were letting their true colors out.

Emotions had to be controlled as well to make their mask even more real. Otherwise it would be acting like an empty shell, the physical movements were convincing but no emotions were put inside to be even more believable.

Other than the woman who had a perfect fake mask, the other also had a mask but it was more to conceal their emotions and predictable movements. Maria explained that there was a lot of different type of mask and their uses could be infinite.

Even thought their emotion conceal masks were perfect, some of their physical movements were sloppy. For other it could be difficult to see their true motive under their mask, but for a fake mask professional, they could see all the mistakes made.

After the long meeting when everyone left, he was invited by the woman whose name was Luce. Once they were sure they were alone, they started to talk to each other through their mask, eyes by eyes so that they could figure out each other.

Maria always told Skull, that people may not have only one mask. It was possible for them to have more, like that when their first mask were broken, there was still the second mask underneath. So, he always said to Skull to prepare one or two in case, he didn't need to use them it was just for emergencies.

Back to the discussion with the woman, she did something that surprised him even thought he did not show it through his eyes.

She let down her mask.

Skull also did and for safety he used another mask to cover the first one. Maria always told him to never trust a person who could also fake a mask perfectly. He also said that eyes could be sometimes tricky, they could reflect one's true emotions while they could also be fake.