[ Shez takes it about as well as anyone can, which comes as little surprise. Yuri suspects that seeing and talking with them will be most beneficial in the long run, because it does well to establish they are different individuals whose lives veered onto a different trajectory. But that'll come later, he has no doubt.

It's just one unpleasant surprise Yuri couldn't let Shez be blindsided by, knowing as he does how rough the business of mismatched memories was for Byleth. The poor guy had the opposite problem — people being so much more attached and familiar toward him than they ought to be.

Somehow, Yuri's spared all this. As best he can tell, little changed for him. That other Yuri apparently never became a mercenary though, so he surely kept his slender figure, lucky dastard. ]

Scouring's still underway, mind you.

[ But he says so lightly, recognizing the banter for what it is and yielding the course of the conversation to Shez's steering. ]

For the time being, I'd say getting the lay of the land. The major powers here are most assuredly throwing welcome parties for new arrivals, which is customary here. They're grappling for power and we're an asset they want, basically.

[ The chances Byleth's there with his satchel stowing food away like a squirrel stocks up for winter are quite high, not to mention Dimitri and Claude are liable to turn up as well. It'd be a good way to see the differences for himself, he thinks, and chances are they'd have their own insights to share. ]