[it's a terrible thing and it absolutely doesn't feel right to just foist it over to somebody else. not when it might lead to yet another trial, depending on the timing. but there's a touch of gratefulness there, when shadowheart says she wouldn't just leave it all up to mizu.]

... Thank you. It's ugly business, but I'm grateful to have you as an ally.

[for better or for worse. this sucks.]

Those six locations should come up if we use the watch on him. In retrospect, the pictures from the booth made it fairly obvious Zhongli wasn't the one running around and hitting those of us who were asleep with his spear. [...] And knowing Claude, I suppose it isn't odd that only the men woke up with bruises that day, Firefly aside.

[but firefly was a known murderer by that point, so.]