Excellent! It sounds like there'll be plenty of exciting battles ahead!

[Not that he's hot-blooded or anything. Except he definitely might be. Still though, he's just grinning and figuring that now might be the time to ask if ever-]

At the risk of being too forward, might you be interested in training with me then?

[wow that sounds so much like a chat up line but then he follows]

We actually have very similar fighting styles so I thought it'd be beneficial to learn from another.