"They might also like to know one of their animals aren't completely well." He couldn't help it, every time 'the kirin' was said, there was a not so small part that wanted to childishly stomp its foot and insist this creature was not a kirin.

... Not that he couldn't act more childish than he already did generally by virtue of apparent age if it might get him something he wanted, but over this? No. So Rokuta grimaced, shaking his head.

"Besides, I don't think you're wrong." He could say 'I know you're not wrong', but randomly telling a person soon after he'd arrived here that he could understand the animals wasn't what he was planning to do. So he met her eyes squarely, a bright glow in his own. "What, it's wrong to care about the welfare of animals, now?"

He just could not stand the idea of anyone... or anything... in pain.