"Yes."

Snort. "Well I've been following the spell dev lectures I told you about and the next one is in half an hour, you could drop in? Might be a bit dense but you'll catch up. And then, uh, there's this spellforms guy who's been helping me with spell variation research one-on-one in exchange for me collecting some reagents for him so I'll probably go hit up the underwater cave for that stuff—"

"Underwater cave?"

"You'll need something to breathe underwater if you wanna come."

"Isn't it a bit dangerous to go alone?"

"I don't go that deep, he's not asking me for like obeaune eggs or anything like that."

"So you just kinda… do stuff?"

"I mean, yeah."

"How does that become—I mean, what's the, like, path from there to becoming an adventurer."

"No clue."

"...uh."

"I mean, a little bit of a clue, I'm shoring up a bunch of skills that are probably gonna be useful? But I'm, like, not the one with a plan, here, that's a you thing. I figure I'll do some stuff and take on some bounties and when I'm high enough rank I'll see if I can't snag a party."

"Do you not have any candidates in mind?"

"I didn't snatch a hot rogue boyfriend, no," she says with a smirk. 

"—we're not dating."

"But you'll party."

"We might, eventually. But that's for, you know, when we do party."

"Which is when?"

"I... don't know."

"So maybe figure it out, since it's important to you."

"...yeah. You're right."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah. This was helpful."

"Wow, I feel like a proper senpai, all warm and fuzzy."

He grins. "I think I need to find out what lectures there are and who else is around doing what and go from there. Form a study plan."