... [ going to move out of emet's arms to wade in the snow for himself. ] Scaramouche is from some kind of an alternate timeline. Zhongli is... I don't even know. [ he's never talked about it and, honestly, childe is kind of afraid to ask... to have his fears confirmed. ] People come and go all the time. Sometimes they come back, sure, but... sometimes they don't. And graduations happen at random, ...what if... we don't have a chance to leave together, then how the hell am I going to find them?

What if all of this hell corruption is only making things... worse. I may not have access to my delusion of my true Foul Legacy, but I'm being poisoned in other ways. If I leave first, then I'm just going to die... [ alone. ]