Link was more upset at the idea of fire damage than he was a dead body or something spookier that might require an exorcist. He lived with one, in a manner of speaking, that wasn't anything that would be a problem.
Fire damage that extensive, even he knew that it could cause problems for the integrity of the house as a whole, and certainly would add time to how long the renovation process would take.
"The town doesn't keep records or anything like that, does it?" he asked.