[ Once again, Ryoji is struck by just how...accepting people can be. Many would — should, really — flinch away and keep their distance when finding out what he is, but most people here have just accepted him as he is. Maybe a little surprised, but just rolling with it, all the same.

It's never what he expects, and yet...it's nice in a way still new to him. ]

Sorry. I try to be more upfront about it, so I don't surprise anyone with an uncomfortable truth. It's just been...easy to forget I'm not human around here, sometimes.

[ He's grown comfortable. ]