[ Yuri waited patiently while this guy seemed to...find himself at something of a stalemate. It couldn't be an illusion, yet it couldn't be real. Had Byleth not been here to greet him, to explain some of this madness as the one person he'd believe it from at the time, he may well have been the same.

It wasn't fun watching anyone struggle to reconcile with all of this... So Yuri decided the man needed a hand up out of the hole he was digging for himself. ]

...Let's set aside the bigger stuff for now, yeah?

[ Taking it in pieces would be better. Easier. That was what Yuri was hoping, at least. ]

Right now, we're here, and it's real enough to us. Has anybody given you the whole greeting routine yet?

[ He suspected not, but... ]