Even though we're not on a mission?

[If Blade has to open himself up a little, Kafka should, too.]

... That's what they keep telling me. There's someone else who got rid of his demon. The method involves going into the Spirit Realm and killing the demon there. If that fails, I die.

[He looks... nonplussed.]

As if that would faze me. If the demon stays, I'll die anyway.

I'm not dying on my knees. [Something he has in common with his past life, he supposes.]