[ You seem different.

Well, that tells him what he needs to know. Once again, the impossible has manifested. Childe remembers him, but no doubt as the person he used to be, in the life he has left behind. How this keeps happening, he’ll have to ask Nahida, but for now, he can handle Tartaglia on his own. ]

Save yourself the trouble. I’m not the person you think. How pathetic, that you were only able to catch up with me in a world entirely different from our own.

[ A thin smile. ]