Ah, but that's the difficult part to explain. Not so much in terms of complexity, but in being able to acknowledge and accept it. But please, try to humor me.

[ Because it should be very clear that the ears are not fake and that his tone, while gentle and amused, is not a lying one. ]

If I told you that, as soon as you woke here, you were no longer your vessel... and that over some days, you would also succumb to a slow transformation into a creature not seen in our time... what would you say?

[ No pamphlet could ever cover the things that he or the other former tsukumogami had gone through. ]