[THIS SUDDENLY BACKFIRED IN THE WORST WAY POSSIBLE]

I, uh--

[What does he even SAY? He's hardly cut out to be a teacher, and he can't sense a lick of spirit energy from her, so this was doomed to fail from the start.]

Look, lady, I was just being a wise-ass before-- there's a lot of stuff involved that I dunno if you're really cut out for.

But hey, I got it on good authority that baseball bats work hella well against these kinda things too, so if you're up for raiding a sports store, we can always do that instead.