Yeah, he's not really sure how else to move around this. Even after having a little more time to figure out his words.

"...It's just as I said before. I had to know if I really am affected by them," he repeated that part again. And for awhile, it didn't look like he was going to say anything else. "...Although..."

"I guess we were expecting they would be easier to manage."

As far as others getting caught in the mess though... Well, there was less than handful that Emizel would actually cared for if they did somehow drop dead (If some of them weren't already missing). But all of them seemed perfectly capable of handling themselves. For everyone else, he'd figured would be bright enough to stay out of it in the first place anyway.