[Childe leans back on his hands as Ayato explains himself, listening with amusement. He gives a lot of good points, all of them carefully considered and logically sound. Perhaps he'll refrain from commenting on how being able to come back is more enticing to kill him in a battle to the death, because then they can do it over and over and over again! Those are the best kinds of fights, after all. They can talk about that later...]

Well, a few of those reasons are certainly true. Though whether the Tsaritsa is here or not would make little difference- the Harbingers have been given complete authority, so if they wanted you dead on a whim, there would be no reason to stay their hand. In fact, I doubt she has any reason at all to have you killed off. She may not even know about it.

[But now that he thinks about it, didn't the Knave have her own people in Inazuma too? He's pretty sure they were.]

Any Fatui that came after you was probably a part of some grand scheme, [he says in annoyance, now that he's thinking about his coworkers,] and was probably all in service to some other kind of plot. Of course, none of them would ever dare step from the shadows to see it done...

[It's like venom drips from every word.]