Illustrator Transparency and Masks Question

Question

I have a circle with a black stroke and a rectangle with a black stroke that I'm using as a mask.

Using the Transparency tab I've been able to mostly get what I'm looking for with those two slices where they intersect to be cut out, but why is there that slight gray where I want it to be completely zero'd out?

Everything is at Opacity 100%. Is this a bug? Is there something about the Transparency tab that I'm just not understanding? I was hoping to still have the rectangle be movable so I can change the size or location of the part that is masked, otherwise I'd simply using Pathfinder. Any advice?

Ton Frederiks · Accepted Answer

And it looks like the document came from a CMYK preset and was converted during or after creation to CMYK.From the metada: Print

Ton Frederiks · Answer

That should normally work.Can you share that example? You can attach it here on a post when you save or rename the file as .pdf

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