"Oh, I'm not considering — I've signed on. If others were afflicted with the same condition, who's to say they'd have your resourcefulness or restraint? What if somehow we were faced with an epidemic, someday? Having a cure would make all the difference." Truly, that's enough motivation for Yuri. He'd survived a plague, so health concerns will never fail to impress upon him, no matter how peculiar they may first seem.

"I'll show you that library anytime you're up for it. I'm the only one in Garreg Mach these days, so it's a quiet place to read or tinker with spells." He doesn't mind disclosing the easily observable. Yuri knows the place better than anyone here.