"Yeah, yeah! That's exactly what it is. I said Hero Tutor, not Cooking Tutor... even if he was also good at that, too. It'd be pretty hard to fight the Dark Army if I couldn't actually fight."

It's still quite hard to fight the Dark Army, actually, but he'd rather sound proud and confident after his panicked first impression.

...He doesn't want the otherworldly mages to think that Master Avan's a bad teacher, okay?