an elephant, really?

Kaizen was about to be trampled, but despite it all, he couldn't even wrangle his thoughts into something that even remotely resembled politeness. Not just because it was her but-well, mostly because it was her. Kaizen huffed, ears pinning as he scrambled to his feet and watched with alarm as Lumine fought back, or made an attempt to, Was this even a fight they should take? Reasonably speaking, it didn't feel like one they could win. He had heard the stories, of how his Father had once brought down a massive beast like this, but with a thick coat, from a land inconceivably far away- but Hattori had a whole back behind him and this was... Stupid, it felt stupid, like the bluster behind his attempt at taking down a pack of hunting dogs.

So he rushed forward and lunged to grab a hold of her tail, hauling back her off of the beast's trunk. It had recovered from its moment of shock only to become, somehow, all the more enraged. That it would've torn apart the very heavens and earth, if it could, all crushed beneath its massive foot. They couldn't fight it-well they could, but they'd lose and the risks that entailed were far too great, in Kaizen's opinion.

"Are you stupid?!" He hissed, backing up, before being forced to dart out of the way. They couldn't stay, couldn't fight, what was left? He didn't like her, but he couldn't say he wanted to watch the elephant stomp her till she was nothing but a gutty smear in the grass.