[Ohhh, but the twitching is just part of the cuteness...! Matoba, mesmerized, reaches with both hands to take Kai's paws gingerly in his hands, and uses his thumb to lightly stroke and squeeze at the pads of his paws. The squishy palm, the soft toebeans, the fuzzy fur inbetween...!]

[He is certainly much too distracted to be properly listening to Kai the first time around, which results in a good long minute of awkward silence hanging in the span of his question. The man finally realizes after it's been a little while that Kai was staring at him expectantly, and that's when he looks up from his enjoyment to level a surprisingly business-like gaze of his own.]

Oh? Do you mean the, ah, "memes"? [It's said so aloofly that Kai might as well assume he's mocking him. Or just sounds like some out-of-touch oldtimer. But he goes on right away,] Ah yes, I did a little research after you told me, and I think that I have seen something like that when looking at pictures of kitty-cats.

It seems the trendy thing is to put jokes on the pictures of cats. Although I don't quite understand what the connection might be to an ayakashi.