He's not sure he deserves praise for finding a weird book, but he'll take it anyway. Luck is also a skill.

"So it's one of those animals that shows up in a lot of places with variants, like dragons and chickens... You're not scared of them, though."

Popp isn't, especially in a nice safe place surrounded by other people. He's pretty sure he could take one unless he was already in bad condition, and Elidibus is a huge badass if you take him at his word, which Popp is.