I give some comments at RPGwatch also even though I got the Short Blade skill I was never able to equip any found daggers.
Since the Cure and Bless Spell books require Soul Magic a Trainer in one of the areas would be nice.
To make the game a little easier there should be a healer in the first village
There also appears to be an asset missing because the game log states:
0.000000: variant_get_info error: stat affect variant '27' is not found. => line: 11492, file: base.cpp
163.774002: variant_get_info error: stat affect variant '27' is not found. => line: 11492, file: base.cpp