He couldn't disguise the little twitch at the questions, staring hard at the ongoing race and finally shrugged, raising his arms to lace his hands together at the back of his head with an almost completely sincere nonchalance.

"Both, yeah." It was a little startling he'd guessed his issues with what was going on so quickly, but he knew some of the myths of Over There, and kirin were special enough there... so if he knew something like that, it wasn't so odd he'd guess. "Even Emperors are only rarely allowed on their backs."

Nevermind tall idiots like his own would be too tall for anything but carting him around while riding the wind, which he could very well use the proper kijuu for instead.