He saw the weapons in the display case. A katana: the weapon of the samurai. It was a weapon he was all too familiar with. It was something he was definitely interested.

"I like that katana," he told the merchant, "do you have a bow and arrow set of some type as well?"

Well why not? He needed to practice on that just in case something made it so that he was not able to summon even the shinkenmaru. He needed to be ready for anything at all.