Taro had Ame-no-Uzume out, much to his irritation. Normally he wouldn't be up this early, but... well. There were other factors involved. With all this panic around he had to get back to the others, and the best way to do that would be with his Persona active in case he needed to escape from battle.

... Though the kid with the owl was kind of a surprise. He stopped, looking over at him. He was in his human disguise, because tanuki legs didn't go very fast, so hopefully he could make this conversation easier.

"Hey. Are you okay?"