The snow near Haruto is too high for a proper duck-and-roll away, but he is quickly recoiling the way he came, brandishing that hunting knife of his more like a ward than a weapon. "Woah!" So that's what's been stalking around all this time! He had expected something vicious, but nothing so enormous. He, too, is sure that it might even give Iskierka a hard time.

The big cat snarls and starts to side-step, sizing up this larger opponent. And, perhaps deciding that it's entirely too large to be bothered with and an easier meal may lie with the smaller things around it, it pivots and pounces for Haruto.