[Dimitri nods almost absent-mindedly. There's a lot of things he misses from his past, his time in the Officer's Academy among them. Furthermore, the ability to think about the future is something he's developed recently, so it can be easy to slip back into old habits. Despite that, he's determined to bring the future about with his own two hands.]

I made many irreplaceable friends at the Officer's Academy, and I will do anything I can for them. I can never repay the perseverance and loyalty they showed me, even should I live to be hundreds of years old. Even should I outlive them.