[ He's about to reach for his forgotten tea when Kyle meets his eye and whatever motions he'd started Claude stills. The sincerity - and the graveness - with which Kyle speaks is apparent. Then the rest of it sinks in: how if Byleth is at the center of it then that means a god is tied to it, and he can't resist a small smile of amusement. An inside joke with himself, though Claude realizes a second later smiling's not the best reaction here. ]

Sorry, nothing about what you said is funny. It's just... [ But he trails off and when no way to salvage that comes to mind, he waves a hand like that'll push what's tied to his reaction away lest he have to explain how Teach is now Fodlan's religion incarnate thanks to that little merging which happened. That's far too confusing to dive into in the midst of everything else. ] There's some of this that's probably a better conversation for another day, though more importantly you're not wrong about who's involved or how it could be changed.

Fodlan believes in a goddess but other countries in the world where I'm from believe in pantheons where there are gods responsible for different things like justice, wind, and harvests, to name a few of the many. Levels of belief might vary to go with those, but not for the Church of Seiros. But your religion has only one god in it as well?

[ The latter also comes with Claude holding a hand out to gesture to Kyle's cassock. The outfit is rather familiar as something the Church's clergy might wear, and he's not formally asked before. ]