[ Par for the course, softly stroking the owl feathers while causally chatting about genocide. ]

The other way around. Shiki are failed jinrou, they can't be in the daylight without burning, and they're not as strong or as fast either. They have to drink blood in order to survive, jinrou can get by on human food even if it's...not great.

[ That's why he was extra stoic the first two weeks, smh. Starving kinda makes you cranky. ]