The ears came in handy with perception, like how his smell can feel emotions and whatnot. It can hear more than just "sounds". Maybe it is a trait from Skoll, or all supernatural canids have this.
"They are really fluffy; you should've said I could do that earlier, Yraka." Since he first manifested them a few minutes ago, the young man couldn't help but pat the new sensory organs that had grown on the top of his head.
The sheer size of those ears made patting them an easy job, with multiple spots to tap and feel the fluff on it. "You never asked… you seem too happy about it." With a prideful smile, Kyrie ignored the last part of his mentor's speech.
He focused on his big ears again, his ears stood up as the gears of his brain grind. "Now that you speak of it, it is handy but not game-changing. You did teach something, but it is not that useful besides the extra sensory perception… Yraka, you sneaky devil."
