"Just because your training started with live blades doesn't mean the others would be comfortable with it," Brigitte reminds him, but gently, taking his words at face value. She doesn't know all the specifics of a childhood at Garden, but she's gathered... enough. "I mean, my childhood involved accidentally burning myself on hot metal because I got started working early, too. But my goal is just to get people used to combat in the first place, with stuff they might be able to find lying around. Some of these villagers started off as office workers back home. Not everyone is even used to taking a punch."

Not everyone was like them, in other words.