The future Hitomis were an unexpected blessing. The casual grown up Hitomi felt weird, almost unrecognizable. Maybe cause Hitomi seems unusually prim in a way so the ruffled appearance almost seems like someone else?
@FredFriendly
you got that right
as an Indonesian who lived on Java Island, sometimes I found myself comparing/changing the English translation to Indonesian/Javanese and found that the phrase is better (all of our third person are gender neutral and Javanese in particular have several tiers from polite language to rude language, just like Japanese language)