Something in the way she says it earns a considering look. "Is that not common, where you come from?" Most nobles in his experience tended to give their children at least some degree of martial training, though not to the level of the sects. That sort of focused training he'd seen, though, did speak to something more than the basics of a sword just for show.

"It's no bad thing, to know the sword," Zhou Zishu says finally, something like a flicker of amusement in it.