Ven nodded once, making note of that. Maybe he could look into getting some other Heroes to train with him, and then try his luck against the monsters outside the city... Either way, for the moment, it could wait.

"So... what do you for fun around here?" he asked more brightly. There was more to life than just training, after all -- even he knew that, as hard as he had striven to perfect his skills in the past. "I heard about the Blitzball stadium, and that Trano place was really neat. Anything else here I should know about?"