[On the bright side, it's always a good time whenever he can blindside Claude. It helps keep his clever lover humble.]

[And also, it's kind of satisfying to the part of him that still remembers being in the Academy, and having circles run around him when Byleth wasn't helping.]

Well - we have been lovers for some years now, haven't we? Really, many back home would have been bewildered we hadn't been thinking of marriage customs far sooner.

[They'd also be wondering what the hell is going through Dimitri's head, but they were wondering that before, and Dimitri thinks he'd rather it be for love rather than for his really horrible and violent mental breakdown.]