Never had he felt such a strain between his desire to trust Robin's tactics, and his desire to pull the dragon's ire on himself, when he saw those teeth come within inches of the pale-haired tactician. The anger on his face was intense, his gray eyes blazing with unbridled contempt.

The moment she gave the order, he rushed forward. His armor weighed him down, preventing him from leaping on the dragon's back as he might have wished, but with the dragon exposing its neck as it had, it presented him with an easy target.

Grasping his sword with both hands, he charged the massive monster, throwing all of his weight into a piercing blow as he rammed the point of his blade directly into the scales. He buried the blade up to the hilt, gritting his teeth until his jaw creaked.

"This is your end!"