Dimitri & Gilbert B

Gilbert
Your Highness. It falls to me once more to instruct you in the ways of battle.

Gilbert
It does not befit a leader to fight on the front lines. I would ask that you refrain from such conduct in the future.

Dimitri
I've not had to weather your lectures in many a year. And here I thought you were avoiding me.

Gilbert
That is...a separate matter. You have a duty to consider the value of your own life.

Dimitri
Your words ring true, of course. I admit I was a bit careless out there.

Dimitri
However, I have always been a man who is good for nothing but war.

Dimitri
To best support our cause, I must carve a path through the battlefield with my own hands. I truly believe that will lead us to victory.

Dimitri
Why the dark expression, Gustave? Do my words trouble you so?

Gilbert
You remind me of your father. His Majesty once said the same thing, more than a decade ago, during the northern campaign.

Gilbert
In you, I see his manner, and I hear his words. You grow more like him with each day's passing.

Gilbert
And, in you, I am reminded of my failure in my duty to him.

Dimitri
I do not wish to speak of that matter. As I said before, I feel no resentment toward you.

Gilbert
Even so... You have changed since that fateful day, Your Highness. Perhaps too much.

Gilbert
I worry that in your pain, you have locked away your true feelings. Your passion is dulled. And your vigor faded.

Dimitri
You want to hear my true feelings, Gustave? Then let me ask you this.

Dimitri
Why did you save my life that day? Why did you not allow me to die along with the others?

Dimitri
If you truly wish to atone for your sins...

Dimitri
Then take my life, here and now.

Gilbert
You would ask me to perform the unthinkable!

Gilbert
You are the future of Faerghus. Your Kingdom needs you alive.

Gilbert
That I was able to save you...is my only sense of salvation.

Gilbert
Your Highness, I repeat myself—consider the value of your own life.

Gilbert
If you continue risking all, be it on the battlefield or by issuing mad orders such as this, I will be forced to save you from yourself.

Dimitri
I see. So, you will continue to protect and serve me, will you?

Dimitri
In that case, when I assume the throne, I will order you to work for me in the Kingdom.

Gilbert
Your Highness? No... Please...

Dimitri
My father would be happy to see such a day. Perhaps I will ask you to instruct me further in the ways of battle when that time comes.

Gilbert
If I wish to atone for my sins, I must take your life? Deception has never been your strong suit, Dimitri. Or do you think I cannot see?

Gilbert
You must know I would take my own life before I let anyone harm you.