[ So Kaeya and Diluc were being truthful. That's the biggest takeaway as of yet. It's also one conveniently left unspoken as he holds up the loaf bag for Mona's perusal. ] Want the rest of it once we're through here?

[ He sees you... making googly eyes at that piece of bread...

Anyways, ripping his own slice to shreds and offering the crumbs to the pigeons roosting in the pavilion, he wanders over to the nearby grove of trees to wait it out. ]

I only knew Mr. Zhongli before arriving here. [ May as well get that out of the way. ] Much like you, I hadn't heard any news of his disappearance before winding up here. [ He'd also been in an entirely different nation upon abduction, but whatever. Semantics. ] Looks like we're back to square one. We can at least confirm one thing: time is being manipulated to make it seem as though it isn't passing back in Teyvat. That, or...

[ The world is fake? The sky isn't real? It's all an elaborate Samsara cycle? ]

We aren't actually from the same place.

[ Different universes or continuities, how fun. Mull over that existential crisis a bit as Tartaglia rips up another bread slice for the birds. ]