[Ryunosuke blinks, taking a second to register the question and recover from his surprise.]

Oh, no! Not at all... They're just being curious, it's fine. [He eyes Kazuma up and down briefly, the snakes still bopping around on his antlers.] This feels... New? Have you always been able to do that...?

[He thought that being a snake was a Hyde thing? But then again, by that same logic, being a dragon should be an ambitious carp thing. Yet look at him now.]