Well -- I was a god of death back home. Nothing like this! We were just salarymen, but you get the job after you die.

It's been a while!

[He tries a laugh, which sounds a little more convincing, and draws furrows in the carrot cake's icing with his fork. It's just weird, describing these things to people. Aren't all the shinki here dead, too, anyway? And Tsuzuki wouldn't bet on the mortals being alive. Mortals don't become gods without dying first, as a general rule.]