[There's such a wide gap of understanding between them. Yuan goes right back to scowling at Kratos, as is becoming common practice.]

[...but, despite that, he manages -- sort of -- to unbend himself enough to explain.]

I can't be any less than that.

I was not -- my own man -- until I had graduated from the officer's academy.

[His mouth is thin, set. This isn't something he likes talking about; but damn it all, Kratos should understand something, even if not the rest.]