Well, he's not being judged or called out, so... Dimitri supposes he can relax, at least a fraction.

Even if that answer has him falter for a moment. "As monks use, sir? Perhaps in your homeland, although I cannot say the same for my own. They were rather varied, in truth, although I knew a priest who used a lance while riding on wyvernback."

As is totally normal to do.

Don't worry about Fodlan's church, it's fine.

"But they are fighting staves, yes, although I am adjusting some of the ends." He doesn't want to make outright lances, but... he can still fiddle with them a little. "I apologize, if I woke you."