Very headcannon heavy
weird and potentially gross as well
read at your own risk

Mikitaka felt scared. This was a feeling he wasn't accustomed to. Fear, that is. He was often calm in situations where his life wasn't in danger, but right now, he didn't know what to think.

It had started off so simple and innocent. Josuke had wanted to show him how things work for humans on Earth. At first, it was with an anatomy book. specifically, Mikitaka learned of all the intricate little details of the inner workings of the human body. Although he didn't really understand the fuctions of most of these organs, Mikitaka was able to perfect his shapeshifting ability so that his innards resembled and fuctioned as any other humans would. That, oddly enough, was the easy part.

Mikitaka came to learn that humans consumed things much differently than him. There were things you could and coudn't eat, and rather than consuming things based on their size and texture, humans consumed things based on their makeup, or rather, ingredients. This was odd. Mikitaka was used to taking whatever he could into his body in order to sustain himself, but the human body had a much more complex system. Their bodies had to take certain things out of what they consumed in order to utilize it. Or, at least Josuke said it was something like that....