He looks at the part of the mural Sayori indicates. Now that he observes it from this perspective, he finds that she's right. It looks sad. It looks worried, too. Everything she's saying has real merit based on what's presented in the image. A dragon could just attack if it wanted to hurt someone.

"It looks like it's reaching out." With that one little paw. He feels . . . confused. And a little sad himself. "But it's not giving anyone any tools, either. Not like the one you met did. So what is it trying to do? It has this book in the next part . . ."