"Yeah, I know. Ended up picking this form or slight variations of it with different names. It lets me party with human college kids a lot. That's kind of how I like to treat things unless I really have to."

Kei had been similar, which makes it easier to accept that maybe that was his version here... but the kid was rebelling, not celebrating. There's a key difference there. "I'd rather laugh than cry, and I'd rather be around people than be alone. Tanuki... there's supposedly some that have lived away from humans, but I'm not sure how possible that is nowadays. I ended up... shit, like five thousand miles away from where I first appeared? More than that, probably. But I fit in with other people. I don't... I have an attachment to this body and face because I've worn it so long, but it's not 'me'. I don't spend much time in my real form, but... it's still what I really am. I can pretend to be human, but I'm not."