Makes sense. [At her surprise, Rokuta shrugs, his smile lopsided.] Yeah. You lose the fight of willpower, you're dead. Makes it a kinda risky business.

[He's suspecting there's a slight difference between the types of beings they make pacts with. Youma are, after all, at the bottom wilder, more... well, hostile than anything else.]

Yeah, I imagine that wouldn't make it particularly eager to agree to a new pact, even after you defeated it.