Rokuta just stared silently as Valdis spoke, with a flat look that may speak of experience far beyond the apparent thirteen years he looked like, and deciding not to say anything about how people that were upfront about things like that usually weren't being quite honest about how 'selfish' or 'terrible' they were (not that they couldn't be of course). Shrugging, he laced his hands behind his head.

"Need a reason to care for animals? They deserve to not be in pain as much as anyone else, y'know," Rokuta said, then arched an eyebrow, "but a well-cared for and healthy animal can also do more work, if you need an additional reason."

Not that any of these... kirin... were his animals and he wouldn't be getting any work out of them, but if he had to say something more than the most important part, that should do it, right? Also, he wasn't about to say that he felt a weird sense of responsibility since they were kirin, even if they weren't the same as him.