Nice to meet you, Fushiguro-kun, [he says with a little wave of his hand, and there isn't any meaningful stress on it at all-- just, you know, he already yoroshiku'd, so maybe the repetition in and of itself could be considered a little snarky. Really gotta hold this guy's hand through this whole process, huh? It's fine, Natori's having fun, and that's what really matters.] Mm, well, I guess it depends on what you consider 'alive.'

[Is it an independent entity, capable of moving on its own? Yes. Is it sentient? Probably. But spirits can always be a little hard to classify.]

It's an ayakashi, if that means anything to you. [Based purely on this truly excellent good boy who isn't even tearing up the remains of his paper supply, he'd guess that it probably does, but this place did have a habit of messing with his assumptions.]