Haha, well. That I can understand. Perhaps we can discuss semantics and etymologies at some point if you have any interest, since the word demon doesn't fully quantify what I am. Culturally, perhaps, and I'm no scholar, but it certainly does come off as awkward phrasing.

[Not that he knows that much, but he's met foreigners before who do not grasp the connotation of youkai. Perhaps once he realizes that the Mansion has them all speaking in common, he'll be more intrigued.]

At any rate, magic is something to which I am familiar. If you say that magic has animated this place, then I have no reason to doubt. Surely you won't begrudge me my own opinions once I become more...comfortable here.

[Comfortable is a very conservative word for what he'll feel being here. What's better, death or imprisonment?]