[Lowering her hand, Naoto looks across as well. Even for an outnumbered foe, all that tackling and headbutting seems pretty one-sided - nope, the furball isn't getting up any time soon.]

It was a surprise. [Without her prior experience of monsters popping up out of nowhere, she might even have sounded like it.] And from what we were told, it won't be the last.

[She smiles wryly to herself.] I daresay that isn't the only detail about this place that seems unsubtle... I wonder what the connection is.