It's the strangest sensation, Senku feeling his paw. Rather than his paw feeling large, Senku's hands feel small, like that of a doll's. They are so much smaller than his. Gentle. Painless. As expected, his health seems to be as healthy as ever. Now backed by minor scientific evidence.

"It's worth knowing whether he was injured before or after he transformed," Tsukasa says. "If injuries transfer over or whether they affect the transformation process." If he gained a bad injury for a person but less bad for a tiger (whatever that would be), would he be better off as a tiger? If he learned to transform into other animals, could he choose one less severely affected? The same injury, but the consequences aren't always the same for all animals. Unless that too translates over. Better to learn when not in a fight.

Another moment of concentration, and Tsukasa looks down at bare arms with hardly any hair on them at all. The beach is cooler without all that warm fur insulating him. He walks back toward his clothes to get dressed, not realizing the tiger ears peaking out of his hair.