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Fairies don't die; they're just immediately reborn. If anything about them gets damaged, it's their morale. Without death being a big issue to fairies (and with them not having the mental capacity or raw power to really have any scarring effects), the reasoning behind their treatment is an entirely different animal from the way human people are treated.

As for almost-youkai, objects and living creatures can become youkai under different circumstances. If a cat lives long enough, it grows another tail and becomes a youkai like Orin or Chen. A human who extensively studies magic can turn into a youkai like Alice Margatroid. An umbrella, a localized cold front, a dark patch on the ground, any inanimate object or concept that gets constantly mistaken for a monster or living creature can be born into a youkai as an embodiment of belief. That's not to say that the birth is immediate, since in a fantastical world, there's a very blurry line between people's imaginations and people's beliefs.