You'll be blind until the transformation is complete. The length of time depends on you.

[Notably he answers the easier question first, and folds his arms across his chest while considering how to answer the other. 'Kratos thought you were enough like him that you might be looking for a place to die' seems like a terrible way to go about it; even Yuan can tell that much.]

Kratos has several reasons to care. Not least of which being it would make Lloyd sad, were you to die.

[This is utter sentiment; but it doesn't sound bitter, coming from Yuan. Only dry, as many things are.]