It isn't that it's paltry. It's that it's to be expected from such an ugly thing. The lives lost are lost all the same, though Yuri certainly doesn't cling to many as tightly as Dimitri might... just the nature of the job. He responds to the glare with a careful glance to the side.

"Well... that's a job that I'd be incredibly good at, an excellent choice, your majesty." He winks. But his expression shifts to something a bit more attentive now however. "In all seriousness... what sort of reformations did you have in mind...?"

He wonders if they still align with his own.