[Shun is more than happy to get to the part of the conversation he considers important, though he has to consider how exactly he's going to phrase it first. He's always a bit cagey about asking for help using those words in that order.]

I've been learning how to fight with a sword since about a month after I got here. I've had a few more experienced swordspeople to work with in that time, and obviously I can train on my own, but I'm thinking I'm not going to learn anything new if I don't find more people more familiar with it than me to pick the skills up from. And you seem capable with it.

[Granted, the types of sword they use differ significantly in things like length and reach, but it's still useful to have general ideas for combating that. Shun kind of had to accept when he decided he wanted to use a sword barely longer than a dagger that he was sacrificing reach in favour of stealth.]