[he can predict it, and it's the easiest to answer.]

For us... Personas are an ability. A way to harness our true selves. They're not spirits, or summons, but something that exists within us, something we have to accept, and when we make those contracts with ourselves, they bestow us power.

[to put it simply.] Haru... she and I both had that ability.

[he's not sure he can explain it better, he's not good at that, but.] The masks are literal. Masks we wore, that we had to remove in order to summon forth that power.

["remove," "literally tear off your face theatrically and sometimes with a lot of blood," same thing.]