[When he asks if it's her, she'll remove her mask and her grin turns into a smile.]

I can't believe that took us both so long to figure it out. I guess the masks want things to be all secret or something. I don't do great with that sort of thing, heh.

[But! It was someone she knew now that she was with, and she's already feeling a lot better. Enough to eat the takoyaki she had nabbed, and then he goes and says that.]

Hrk—

[DON'T MIND HER, just casually choking on her food from his sudden complement! Once it's finally not going down the wrong tube there, she'll just stare wide-eyed for a moment, wiping away any sudden food bits that she may have coughed out because that's even WORSE, especially when his complement was what it was!]

S-sorry, you... y-you really caught me off-guard there... I doubt that's still the case after me coughing up some food, heh...

[And if it was, well... that's a problem for immediate future Futaba.]