[ nope. why is she blushing? why does she keep getting so flustered?? how talk to women without them going red and weird?? ]

... [ um. does he bring this up? ]

Are you... feeling ill? You look rather red.

[ But he's fairly well distracted when she talks about sparring partners! In a good way! ]

I would be happy to! I can foresee I will not be fighting quite as often here, and would hate for my skills to go to rot.

[ I mean. There's no question he will fight Masamune whenever he can, but it would help is own skills if he can learn new techniques to surprise his rival with! ]