[ The oddest thing by far is that it isn't a particularly disturbing feeling. He can remember what led to his appreciation— the days he'd spend on his father's fishing boat listening to his stories, then helping him chip through the ice— but it's like his interest just took a swan dive into neutrality.

It is dangerous, after all. Things would've been so much easier if he could've sapped Scaramouche of the will to evade him back in Inazuma. ]

I wonder what decides the baseline.

[ Where does it pull the average from? Is it how he perceives it, or how Ellis does? Has it ever changed? Childe doesn't bother asking. It's obvious that he was powerless before it. ]

Why don't I tell you, the next time we meet? If I still feel this way. [ Not even that he's lost something special, but that he never possessed it to begin with. ] In return, promise me you'll take care with who you use it on. I have a hunch some people wouldn't take it lightly.

[ Might come in handy for himself, as well. No need to mention that, though. ]