[Everything can be useful in a fight. Atsushi may not have had a lot of formal fighting training (though he's stepped that up, on and off, since coming here), but he knows how to make the most of what you've got, if nothing else.

Oh... Oh. It feels kind of weird, having his tail touched. It's not bad at all, but something about it is a little... much? Maybe that's not so strange, since it's a whole area of his body that now has sensation when he usually... doesn't even have the body part to feel anything with. It makes an itchy feeling almost like goosebumps climb up his spine.]

Ears...? Oh - you mean tiger ears? [No, rabbit ears, of course!] I've never tried those... It might be harder, since they'd replace my original ears.

[The tiger limbs don't grow in addition to his normal limbs either, after all. What a monstrosity that would make!]

Let's try it.

[There's no real reason to close his eyes beyond concentration, calling out to the tiger in silence, much more specifically than usual. But sure enough, when he opens his eyes again a moment later, there are tiger ears on top of his head, his own ears miraculously disappeared into his choppy hairline.

Not that Atsushi himself can see, of course.]

... Did it work?