[If Natsume were less polite, the face journey the poor girl just went on would've made him laugh. Instead he looks very serious and apologetic, absently fiddling with a strand of his overgrown hair.] I'm...very sorry if I've disturbed you, but...ah, I'm in a similar...agreement with a spirit in my world, and if he was bothering people I'd absolutely want to know, so I could correct it.

[Then he nods, looking surprisingly relieved.] That's very good to hear. As I said there are...similar beings where I'm from, and though I've grown very attached to many of them, it's always better to have...an agreement in place. [Spirits and demons and the like are capricious things, but they are loyal to their word, whatever else can be said of them.]