[He's not tsundere like she is about giving compliments to her face.]

I usually am. [He says this solely to annoy her though.]

Honestly, I am actually quite surprised that taking to the skies as some type of cloudkin was not the first thing you tried. [That sounds just like the kind of horribly reckless thing she'd do. He may regret saying that because the thought stresses him out and it's hard enough to keep track of her when she isn't running around as an animal.

But... to be completely honest if it were his power that would be the first thing he'd want to try...]