"Reporting!"
"That's great!"
"Childe, you're finally back."
After Childe had finally managed to shake off the Millelith pursuing him and explain the situation to the two travelers from Mondstadt, winning their basic trust, he returned ahead of them to the Northland Bank, the Fatui's base in Liyue, and waited for them to show up. To his surprise, one of his subordinates, dressed in the Fatui's standard red-and-black uniform and wearing a mask, arrived at his office first.
"Hmm?"
"It's Vlad..."
He had barely sat down and hadn't even had a chance to drink his tea when his subordinate barged in, clearly impatient. Knowing something must have happened again, Childe sighed and gestured for him to speak.
"Go ahead!"
"What is it this time?"
The Traveler probably wouldn't show up anytime soon, so he figured he still had some time to take care of internal matters.
"..."
But to Childe's slight surprise, his subordinate didn't say a word. He simply stepped forward a few paces and, with a loud bang, slammed a bag of coins down on the elegant fragrant-wood desk.
"!!"
"This is..."
Seeing the familiar-looking bag, Childe furrowed his brow slightly. He instinctively tugged open the drawstring and reached inside, pinching two coins between his fingers from the several hundred or so in the bag.
Before long, he saw that the two heavy Mora coins were indeed brand-new, without a mark on them. And, sure enough, the symbol in a certain hidden spot was exactly the same on both. His brow furrowed even more.
"Tch!"
"This again..."
After staring for a while at the two identical, heavy Mora coins, both with a face value of ten thousand, Childe couldn't help letting out a sigh. He even used the word "again."
Clearly, this wasn't the first time this had happened,