ROAR–!
The beast was already defensive. It stared Atlas down as he stared back at it. In his opinion, it would be much better if it just calmed down here and realized that his goal wasn't to kill it.
'Then again, I have shown no indication of that idea yet.'
So far, the beast had only seen him fighting, so he couldn't blame it for thinking he was an enemy. He had no plans of being kind to it until its rage had been fully dealt with.
When he first saw the beast egg and felt the hostility in its aura, he gathered his own conclusions. When he faced it after that, he furthered those conclusions and established them as facts.
"Talking" to this beast wasn't going to do anything. Treating it kindly and coddling it from the start wasn't going to work for this beast.
Because as a warrior himself, he could sense the aura of other warriors. He had never been mistaken before, so even if he was looking at a Divine Beast cub, he did not doubt his readings.
