To have someone so independent, with such strong views, still consider himself a Blue Lion... It is enough to make Dimitri's heart swell a bit, with some sort of strange but very fond pride. Is it anything that he did? He would like to think so, but perhaps it does not matter much in the end.

It is almost enough to soothe the reality of their situation, of not knowing when they would be able to return home... Of being yanked away from loved ones.

But for now, he merely shakes his head as Yuri starts to speak, fully prepared that it is nothing he need worry about when he has only recently arrived -