On one hand, it's...charming to have made that connection. He doesn't know how a humanoid turtle would know such a quote, but some things, apparently, go across dimensions.

On the other hand, a connection between them risks...well, that connection being used against him. Used to learn things he doesn't want to reveal.

Such as his name.

There's pause, there, because in all truth he'd only given so much thought or care to what people called him. To buy a bit of time to think, he reaches down to gather some of those clips, taking a small handful up in hand and letting it fall through his fingers...

"Yokai," he settles for saying, looking up slowly. "I will."