Eiji needs to think, somewhere nobody will bother him. The best place for that is the beach, and he knows his way there better than anywhere else--he's made sure of it, after losing his sight on the way home more than once.

But Ankh is still following him. He manifests his Greeed arm and sends a wave of energy back toward Ankh--he'll block it easily, he knows, but maybe it'll buy him some time to get far away.