[ if he had a dearth of common sense even as rex lapis incognito, would he have much to lose of it even after memory loss? a good question. ]

That's right, I suspected you either reproduced by fission or someone had concocted you in some obscure ritual. [ all right, he knows this much, it's silly not to have thought that childe would have family. but he'd thought of him as an enemy for the past day, it's only recently that childe has been a bit more... humanized to him, human as he may be.

still, he's much less sly and calculative than he previously was, so the machinations and workings of the fatui and snezhnaya operations would be completely lost to him--for now, perhaps. he arches an eyebrow in mild curiosity that childe would still have another chore to run. ]

I'll wait for you here, then. [ ... ] I'm not entirely sure where would be the way back. [ just don't take too long, or he might be in danger of wandering off again like a stray cat.

that, or more likely he'd watch childe from the corner of one golden eye, observing what he's up to. the walls of liyue have ears, it's just too bad childe knows that better than zhongli does. ]