[ Yuri had no objection to the plain and simple truth. Anyone who didn't know beforehand would have known well enough after one incident or another of Ashe following him about as his self-assigned morality chain, nagging him about his reckless this-and-that. ]
Once they gave me the option to change sides.
[ Well, that was tidier than knocking him around the fortress and offering him the option of allegiance over death. Considering Yuri felt no fondness for the Empire and was only satisfying himself that his debt to House Rowe was paid in full, the decision was an easy one. ]
Same for you and your old man, wasn't it?
[ Not entirely, of course, considering that whole battle was spent avoiding Byleth like the Faerghan Plague, but the comparison still stood. They'd been working with the Empire for their own reasons until the opportunity came along to change sides... Which likewise they arrived at for their own reasons. ]
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Once they gave me the option to change sides.
[ Well, that was tidier than knocking him around the fortress and offering him the option of allegiance over death. Considering Yuri felt no fondness for the Empire and was only satisfying himself that his debt to House Rowe was paid in full, the decision was an easy one. ]
Same for you and your old man, wasn't it?
[ Not entirely, of course, considering that whole battle was spent avoiding Byleth like the Faerghan Plague, but the comparison still stood. They'd been working with the Empire for their own reasons until the opportunity came along to change sides... Which likewise they arrived at for their own reasons. ]