[Zhongli returns that smile with a pleased one of his own, both from the sound of laughter and the praise for Liyue that leave Kazuha's lips. It's a good sound.]

I am glad you think so. Perhaps I am biased, but I have always been fond of my homeland's art and cuisine. Our poets and storytellers are quite talented. [As well as.... well, almost everything they produced really. But that's a complicated conversation.]

It has been some time since I have been there, but Inazuma is a beautiful country, with a landscape worthy of poetry in it's own right. ...It's mountain peaks in the light of sunset are exquisite. [He lets out a sigh, as if reminiscing.] I do hope to see it again someday, if I get the chance.

[And isn't that the irony--With his retirement he could go anywhere as long as he pleased, and yet--]