An older boy stepped forward, appearing out of nowhere. He was wearing a warding mask, the shape of a fox with a large scar on the right side of his mask. He wore a green kimono with a geometric hexagon design of yellow and a darker green, tied off at his waist with a piece of black fabric, below which he sported a pair of tattsuke-hakama pants and over which a white plain haori.

"Get up, and stop being pity."

The older boy mummered, his tone of voice was like a teenagers.