...Is that from personal experience?

[And anyway, wouldn't it be more natural to envision the target as an ayakashi? Not that he was doing that, either...]

I've...mainly been in vessel form to deal with threats. [And the one time he hadn't been, he hadn't been able to fight back and hadn't been able to run away. But he hadn't...died...]

[He tosses another knife. It strikes the target with too much force and bounces off.]

Well. I guess that has to change. [Now he just sounds sheepish.]