Dude is giving up a perfectly good conversational agent for the sake of what? Talking with real people? Some guys just don't know how lucky they are smh.
It's interesting to see what Kubo had in mind for the story originally. I wonder if he gave the hollows masks because their faces looked weird without them in this version.
The horror that filled my guts when when I got to that ending. Truly, Truly this author is a wicked sadist. At the same time out of all the one shots I've read they cemented this one in my memory, so I suppose it is an effective writing technique.