[ Dimitri is not used to hearing people praise him recently (or, really, another version of him). He's been told he's too hopeful or not hopeful enough. He's allowed his demons to take over. So the conviction and apparent sincere admiration are very touching to him in this moment. Even if it's for another king in a other place and another time.

He still has that dream, after all. That thought that he can make his people's lives better and turn Faerghus (Fodlan) into a place where people need not suffer. Where the poor are not trapped by circumstance and fate and where lords, perhaps, have less power to ruin the lives of those under them at a whim. ]

I... cannot speak to uniqueness. But that dream you speak of, that desire to change - that is still true of me. So perhaps that endures in me even when I walk different paths. And... doing things right. That's just as important. Especially when you stumble and... do not live up to your own expectations.

[ The soft smile on his face fades a little. As similar as he feels he is to this other him now, there's still the ugliness buried in him. Dimitri fixes Yuri with a look and then seems to take a moment to decide what to say. ]

...you should know I still wrestle with my demons. My emotions. I was angry and despairing for a very long time and... at times that darkness threatens me again.