#have an angy cholde

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@affarista sent: ❛  i  have  been  generous  up  until  now .  ❜ // pantalone @ childe!

It's a threat if he's ever heard one coming from the regrator, or as the man himself would probably say: a warning. Admittedly Tartaglia's expenses in Liyue may have exceeded his initially allocated budget but what hasn't gone awry with that particular mission? At least on his end - Rosalyne certainly played her cards well. And it is that very circumstance that makes Childe even less contrite about his expenses than he normally would be. His victories tend to speak for him and overshadow his unconventional methods - something he has been robbed of in Liyue, leaving him with nothing but an open animosity from the Geo Lord's nation and glaring red numbers on his ledger.

"Liyue posed some.. surprises," Childe starts his defense without having a full argument in mind yet. It doesn't help that he knows a good chunk of the mora he spent went to entertaining Zhongli, who is a whole other topic and quite the sore spot for him for a whole other reason. It is the thought of the archon that suddenly jumpstarts a deep-rooted spite inside the young Harbinger, torpedoing his tender attempts at diplomacy with Pantalone. "Perhaps if we didn't use each other as stepping stones while executing our Tsaritsa's orders, expenses wouldn't explode and our relations with other nations wouldn't suffer unexpectedly," he snaps.

"By all means. Be less generous. I have other means of persuasion if need be."

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