Who else is disgusted with Shoden's inactivity? What a let down! All that build up!
Or possibly, he wasn't lying about the Narwhals. Maybe, in his confusion, he just thought they were the mythical Narwhal creature, when in actual fact they were hungry alligators, and now Shoden is being slowly consumed by these dreadful slow eating alligators.

Why, oh, why, does cruel destiny have to take Shoden away from me again?