He raises an eyebrow. He's not sure how something that made automatic sense to him is so difficult for Eiji to pick up on, but then, that's been a running theme since they first met.

"I said he died. How could he die if he wasn't alive to begin with?" He holds up his hand now that he's not using it to grab Eiji's face, letting it shift back to its human form as he looks at it. "I'd forgotten just how pathetic an existence it is, not having a body like this."