"Oh, ah, nothing," he waves a hand a bit dismissively and he's not lying, it really is nothing, but it's also not nothing. There's a little chuckle from him, not forced but maybe a little tight.

"They ah, accuse me of consorting with demons," well that probably doesn't sound so bad, he realizes, and he knows Kai is going to point out that he is consorting with demons and he's going to explode have to explain anyway, so... "As in, that I've taken a demon as a consort."