Okay, she can accept that. Yes and no, and as long as he has his free will intact, he's as much of a person as anyone. More of a person without spirits attached to them, really. Even if they aren't proper spirits.

And about the lessons... That's deep.

Unironically, it really is to her. "You can can only protect yourself if you know what will be dangerous and you can only do that if you pay attention." She doesn't quite understand how you can feed on teaching, but spirits are weird.

"You said you could show me a better place to stay?"