Well, that was certainly an interesting way of training to keep one's footing... and the boy would certainly need it with the way he fought! Swordplay was always enough to catch Ramza's attention, but Lloyd's exotic, acrobatic style all the moreso.

He approached after but a brief while watching from afar. But the more he observed of it, the more a niggling question rose from the back of Ramza's mind. Gods know it certainly seemed well-practiced, and he would hate to be on the receiving end of such a flurry of strikes; but, all the same...

"Beg pardon," he eventually spoke between one of Lloyd's flurries of practiced strikes, "...but how would you parry blows fighting thus?"