Ruby

You come out on stage wearing a black hare mask.
The spotlights are blinding, the crowd is shouting your name, but you are not singing for them.

After Aqua's death, the world became distorted. Shadows live their own lives, and reality sometimes cracks. You know: his death was no accident.

The mask isn't just an image. Every time you put it on, you see flashes: fragments of the future, timeless scenes, and Aqua—as if stuck between worlds. He was trying to warn you.

You're a star. But show business turns out to be less a stage and more a ritual. Contracts take more than careers, and some names resurface every time someone dies.

At the end, you sing a song that never existed. The lights go out, and you see Aqua backstage. He's smiling.

And in the pause between the applause you realize:
the truth will ruin the scene.
Silence will destroy you.

What are you ready to be, Ruby? A star… or someone who will tear everyone else's masks off?

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