[The sudden movement towards him made him instinctively back away, but at least he let go of the skirt even if it was to try and ward her off]

H-hey! You're supposed to be going the opposite direction! It's just a skirt, if it gets damaged yell at the cats for forcing it on me in the first place! It'll be their fault!

[Not that he was actually planning on damaging the skirt anyhow, but the point still stood, right?]