[ Speaking as a leader whose men were singing his praises in the Kingdom Army camp before he'd even joined that side— ]

I think it's safe to say charisma only gets you so far.

[ He could tell from cursory observation it was more than that. Yuri will go to whatever lengths he must for the Abyssians, but he doesn't fashion the lot of them as some overlarge family. That part rubs him the wrong way, and that's merely a surface-level detail.

Maybe Yima genuinely cares for her followers as family. Yuri doesn't know. But what Claude speaks of sounds more like the seeds of fanatacism, and that's more than a little worrying. ]

But, at the risk of sounding hypocritical, don't forget you aren't by yourself in this mess.