He'll take the remark of him stinking like a graveyard as a compliment! Pharos is a strange kid. He nodded, confirming that the demon lord's thoughts were making the correct conclusions.

Pharos is not going for the fear factor; he's simply telling it as he sees it. There are dozens of different aspects of Death spread throughtout the worlds—Kazuya could have met any one of them in his past incarnations. But they all embodied the same thing, whether literally or not. Death. So it was all the same.