The seemingly mute assistant just looked up from their workout and then pointed to tongs - Poropo seemed to get the hint, "ah, your arm needs to increase in strength again before you work on your own. I will gladly assist!" Poropo did his duty as a diligent monk and grabbed the tongs. The monk then looked around for a piece of metal which the assistant pointed to as well, "thank you...wait, is that not the work I did yesterday?"
The assistant walked over and pushed the metal into Poropo - the monk just grabbed the metal with his hands and inspected the hunk of junk, "right...not great work due to my lack of strength...I understand - we will fix it!" Poropo put the hunk of deformed metal down and used the tongs to re-grab the metal, sticking the thing into the nearby furnace for an amount of time necessary to soften the pure substance.
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