Lucky for Chrom, Takumi is far too wary of the animals they're sitting astride to get particularly offended. He even laughs, in fact, though it's more a bitter bark of sound than anything. Unfortunately he's too wrapped up in spouting a good comeback to notice that his bird is ruffling its feathers and scratching the dirt in a distinct on your mark gesture: "Trust me, I look a lot better after I've been through a waaAAAAUGH--!"

Yeah, that... That's a chocobo taking off with such force that the reins are useless and Takumi is left piling forward to wrap his arms around the bird's neck. This was officially his worst farm-related experience. This was even worse than that time a few years back where he stopped to assist a village near the bottomless canyon and somehow ended up elbow-deep in the placenta of four subsequent ewes (alongside Hinata) at three in the morning. "I hate these things!" he calls over his shoulder, having no way to see or hear if Chrom is especially nearby considering the loud and wild thudding of his chocobo's feet. Where did this oversized chicken even think it was going!? " 'Domestic beast of burden' my ass--!"