Hm. I'll just talk a little to myself in that case.

[Turning away from her, Douman looks at the horizon, arms crossed behind his back in a typical old-man or teacher manner.]

Where I come from, everybody likes to call animal youkai stupid. And they really are, in a sense. Maybe it is because they are originally animals with weird powers, but if any of them ever manages to get as much as a passing grade on one of their tests that's more than a little miracle. Why, there are even many, many adults of them who can't even properly write their own name!

.....But one of the teachers at Hyakki Academy is an animal youkai, and a damn fine one at that. Even if he can't spell his own goddamn name.