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A Surprise Inside! Tengu Chocolate
Valentine's chocolate from Kiichi Hogen.
There's a surprise inside! It's a Tengu's mask! Or so it seemed! But it's actually a tengu mask-shaped chocolate! It really does look like a tengu mask carved expertly from wood. And it's perfectly sized to fit a person's face.
Teacher Kiichi says, "You're welcome to wear it."
But, for so many reasons, would that really be okay to do?