[He squeezes her hand back, with a weak little smile at imagining Megumi and seven other people bodily wrestling a monster into submission.]

I was going to see if I could reach it with Azelf's power. But it was a longshot, anyway. It doesn't appear to be acting outside of its right mind. If it's doing this without being influenced by any madness, I can't do anything about it . . . at least, not yet.