Souji smiles brightly, shifting his skirt a bit as he negotiates his tail over a fallen log, and then putting a hand on the hilts of his swords as he edges past another clump of brambles. "Well, you don't look like you've transformed at all." Souji certainly isn't going to obfuscate about this at all; what would be the point? And surely most newcomers got to know what would happen to them pretty quickly, even if some of them understandably refused to believe it.

"Oh, and it seems like almost all newcomers will get lost in this forest at least once. Although..." He looks around with an embarrassed little laugh, shrugging. "...it still happens to me even after more than a year here, apparently. Don't worry, we'll be let out eventually."