it's weird how some translators are super attached to that old word and will jump at the chance to use it at every opportunity rather than just properly translate to "normie"
it's always funny when these nobility dramas mess up and forget the state of their setting and show someone with massive wealth, servants, and zero need to work trying to sympathize as an equal with a literal slave off the streets because sometimes they get bullied
so this kid has the mind of an adult and has been raised to exist as a noble and is supposed to be hyper-intelligent, but is completely ignorant of how to behave in any formal capacity and doesn't even know the names or faces of the very few other nobles or his liege? ok then
well ACTUALLY that's a common misconception about fireball, but it isn't actually a projectile. the fireball is conjured in and explodes on the target area, there's no "firing" of it