Talk:Takako Sugiura/@comment-173.52.206.236-20150408015528/@comment-397235-20150411043923

The only person I can think of who it doesn't ever seem to seriously put in danger is Reiko; the closest she comes is when Yukito hits her, and keep in mind two things:

He was aiming for Mei,

and

she didn't die.

With that in mind, I think the Calamity may have been hoping Kouichi would either beat him to death, or Kenzou would attack him to protect his buddy; if you think about it, the next scene we see Kenzou in it's killing him, again suggesting he didn't do what it wanted so it was done. In fact, once that group left Mei alone it put them all in mortal danger; it killed Kyouko and Aki after they gave up pursuing Mei as well.