[That feels just as strange as Kratos calling him Master; but where the other would be an uncomfortable mantle to wear, this just seems too close. Yuan will take it, over the alternative.]

...Thank you.

[This is said to Kratos's retreating back, mostly. Yuan takes an extra moment or two to consider exactly how surreal a turn his life has taken. It's better, he thinks, than the alternative. Than the regrets he would have carried.]

[...That doesn't mean it isn't exceptionally strange.]

[Eventually he stops considering it, and moves on to the rest of his day, though the strangeness of it stays with him.]