Telling him to relax? There's a grimace of a smile that catches on his face at that, and he turns a little more toward Martel in response.

"Tell you what... I'll play backup." The man's words are a little winded, healed but exhaustion of near-death and the ache of healed wounds still not gone, something that took time to it even with the help he had received.

But they don't need to help much, with Zack defending them so. The the Griffin does get thrown by the attack coming toward them, still alive, but Angeal is able to step forward and raise his sword, to glance the monster off the broad side of his blade for Martel to finish off with her magic.