"Yeah...." Very sad. Oh- Uh, about that other bit though. "Mnh- oh. If you don't eat someone when you're hungry, you get hungrier and hungrier until you go berserk," she explains 'helpfully'. "...and then a lot more than one person dies..." The Worst.

"And monsters don't stay dead, and just forget stuff if they have to come back too much, so..." He can probably connect the two dots of manipulation.