The Hollow has absolutely taken other damage tonight too. The armor on one side has been cracked, and seems to have the imprint of a ... car? Did someone seriously ram it with a Volkswagen? Because that definitely appears to have happened at some point. Plus a great big split in the back from someone ramming into it from above, and multiple cracks from just getting the shit kicked out of it at some point. Peter's in rough shape, but this thing is worse off, somehow. This is the very end of its endurance. At the end of this encounter, either it or Peter is going to be done.

But Peter doesn't want to hurt him, still. It's his uncle, and ... And he owes his uncle this. After everything that happened. Everything he's done, everything they've gone through. He has to find a way. He has to.

At Orihime's question, though, his head jerks up. A mask? What? He looks at the growling, horrific thing in front of him, confused. "It's wearing a mask?" He doesn't see anything like that, does he? There's that pale chitinous bone, and then the maw itself, and ...

Wait. No, she's right. It's hard to see, but there's a protrusion of bone just above the the maw that looks very much like a face. He'd assumed it was a long fang, or a beak. "I don't know," he says after a moment. "I didn't realize that's what it was."