[That interest gets another puzzled look, but when Ryoji's not immediately trying to ask anything else, he assumes the conversation was fine where it was.]

To be honest I haven't, uh, taken care of a lot of live animals. I mean, I had a living cat for a while when I was a kid, but the ones I had before I came here were both ghosts. I've got one now, though, hang on--

[And he's just reaching over to pull a lazily protesting ball of orange tabby fluff into the picture. The cat meows again before settling with a huff, peering at the rabbit on the other side of the feed and reaching up with a paw to bat curiously at the image.]