While its true he sometimes failed, and that he didn't fear it, he was usually successful. One time he got into an argument with a
Shimmering Sea Spirit. As the argument escalated he knew, of course, that he would badly lose if it came to violence. But he knew that the Shimmering Sea Spirit was oddly prideful of his drumming ability, and so he challenged him to a drumming contest. But the spirit was tricked because Hubert knew that the sea spirit was currently holding a shield of the tsunami, and that he could never have both his drums and shield at once. This cleverness of Hubert is captured in the spiked seahorse hide belt's +4 intelligence stat (WTS 23k).