Their considerateness is due more to personality than instinct, and Konoe takes little offense to her assessment of him. It's true after all.

"It's kind of because we have these." Konoe continues, and he raises one of his hands to show what he means. Touch screens and claws aren't the best of friends, and closer inspection of his device's gentle scarring should hint at it.

"But I wanted to learn because I don't want to show myself all of the time."

He's never been one to draw attention to himself if he could help it, and being a cat on a very human-filled ship hasn't made it simple to avoid.

"I think it would be safer if... we at least knew how."

Bigger than his reason for wanting to learn how to type - odds are it's nothing he need to know back home by a long shot - that's all he wants. A little more security for them both.