[ That's, uh. That's actually exactly what she's going to do. At least, in this case, there's no worry about offense taken; she's had to awkwardly turn down her fair share of meals since she got here. ]

Ah, it's- Complicated. Uhm. [ Rose knows, but it can always be a little tricky explaining to other people just what yokai are. What that means. ]

In my world, ki is life energy. Everyone has it. Us yokai are made of it, actually, but ours is tainted by negative human emotions. That's what makes us demons. My people are born of fear. Specifically, the fear of walking alone in mountain passes at night. If someone trips, we eat them. It's just... what we were born to do. [ Not the most fun of existences. ] In some weird roundabout way, it's almost like keeping people safe? Enough of them get eaten, they invest in better shoes or walk in groups.

We don't have to eat them to survive though. We used to hunt sheep, I was told, but then... people hunted us almost to extinction because of us eating their livestock. So we went into hiding but then continued to eat people as a kind of 'fuck you' to them, I guess. My parents hated humans. I never really got it though.