[ Oh dear. He's blundered into something without even realizing it, hasn't he?

Is this what it's like to be Zhongli? ]

Ali-Rin . . .

How to explain? Barbatos is one of my names, that's true. It's the one Zhongli knows me by, just as I've continued to call him "Morax". They're the names given to us as members of the Seven, in acknowledgement of divinity.

[ Though she doesn't have all the details -- because he never talks about anything, naturally -- he knows she has at least some idea of his fraught relationship with godhood. ]

But . . . that doesn't make it my "real" name. That will always be "Venti," to me.