

When I was playing _Tales of Graces f_ , if Pascal and Cheria were in the
party, there would be a victory scene where [Pascal would comment on Cheria's
knife work](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUEuQvJAlCU&t=247s) and questions
if she's hiding anything else

> **Pascal:** That's some fancy knife work, what else are you hiding from us?  
>  **Cheria:** I'm not hiding anything!

At first I passed this off as being some in-game joke with how Cheria
obviously had feelings for Asbel but tries to hide it and is being called out
by Pascal who can be a bit oblivious (eg. thinking Hubert's confession of his
feeling to her was him reminding her about Asbel's and Cheria's future
wedding)

However while playing _Tales of Zestiria_ I came across the same sort of
victory scene, this time between Edna and Rose which plays out much the same
with Edna taking Pascal's place and Rose taking Cheria's. I've only just
passed dealing with Cardinal Forton and at this point Rose, aside from being
coy when she gets intel from the Scattered Bones, has been fairly upfront
especially when it comes to killing people. And in both of these cases Cheria
and Rose don't seem like your typical shady thief types (the party keeps
pointing out how unlike assassins the Scattered Bones are, particularly Rose)

I am wondering is this actually some sort of joke or [word pun that was lost
in translation](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/11697/1587)? If so what is
the meaning behind it?


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Why do people think people with good knife skills are hiding things?


Usually, the cliche is that someone who is really good at using a knife while
cooking is hiding that he is really a Ninja or something like that.

So noticing someone being good at using a knife in battle and alluding he is
hiding something, it's most likely his cooking skills.

Or it could just be a diss. "Usually you are so bad at this, but now you show
some skill. What else have you been hiding?"

Here's the [Japanese
version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saj4riFLHXQ&t=698s) of the scene for
reference.


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