No..! [ She quickly replies. ] It doesn't.. bother me..

[ Chizuru doesn't think so, anyway. And she's being honest about it. If it did bother her, she might have kept quiet, but she wouldn't have outright denied it by lying about it. ]

It's just that I've never thought about myself that way, so hearing it from someone else is..

[ Hang on, Sarona. She needs a moment to find the proper word here, because there's so many she could use. ]

.. a little surprising..

[ That's putting it mildly. ]