All that's a lot to take in. Funny enough, it now seems like it's the older Dimitri who needs to take a seat as he considers all that he's told.
"We... I met the Ashen Demon - who I now know as just Byleth - years ago with Claude and Edelgard while running away from bandits." It feels a bit surreal, thinking back to where it all began. Could something so simple truly have changed the course of time's flow that drastically? A single chance meeting that didn't occur and he became this instead? It's a hard thing to swallow, admittedly. While he knew that he turned out differently without Byleth's influence as leader of their class, this is...
He doesn't want to know a reality where they'd never even met except for briefly. He doesn't want to, but it seems this Dimitri has lived it and he has no reason to doubt the conviction in his words. "Alois persuaded Jeralt and him to return to the monastery with us. He was appointed as a professor due to his skill despite his young age. He chose to lead our class and I..." I was so intrigued and intrigue turned to sincere friendliness that eventually blossomed somewhere along the way into a bond so strong he doesn't think he could live without the other man anymore.
"I suppose none of that was the case for you from what you've said."
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"We... I met the Ashen Demon - who I now know as just Byleth - years ago with Claude and Edelgard while running away from bandits." It feels a bit surreal, thinking back to where it all began. Could something so simple truly have changed the course of time's flow that drastically? A single chance meeting that didn't occur and he became this instead? It's a hard thing to swallow, admittedly. While he knew that he turned out differently without Byleth's influence as leader of their class, this is...
He doesn't want to know a reality where they'd never even met except for briefly. He doesn't want to, but it seems this Dimitri has lived it and he has no reason to doubt the conviction in his words. "Alois persuaded Jeralt and him to return to the monastery with us. He was appointed as a professor due to his skill despite his young age. He chose to lead our class and I..." I was so intrigued and intrigue turned to sincere friendliness that eventually blossomed somewhere along the way into a bond so strong he doesn't think he could live without the other man anymore.
"I suppose none of that was the case for you from what you've said."