Last time Dimitri was in Fódlan, it was ten days or so before the White Heron Ball. Then he would have learned about the Flame Emperor's connection to Duscur; then he would have watched his professor lose their father. That was the start of his spiral, and it only grew worse from there ... but this Dimitri hasn't seen any of that. His memories from Garreg Mach feel like they belong to someone else, some other lifetime. If the 'duplicates' theory is true, he supposes they technically do.

"Thank you. I believe you, but ... I'd prefer not to have that hanging over me." All his life, Dimitri's status has poisoned every relationship he's tried to have. It may not matter here, but those lessons have been ground in too deeply for him to believe no one will care -- if only through disdain, or alienation.

Claude lightens the mood before Dimitri can get too morose about it. The corner of his mouth twists up. "I trust you'll think of something equally frustrating."