He shrugged and boded, if that's all there was to it, then whatever. After all he too could get rusty when he didn't train for a while. Alright, it didn't happen in a while admittedly but yeah. ... Wait a moment, something didn't add up right here-

"You were fine when we fought those monsters two weeks ago."

Sorry, Rude's intelligent too and her skills were as good as could be when she helped him kick those monsters away on his arrival in the tower. You don't lose your skills in two weeks. You just don't.