genshin impact · drama · modern au · supermarket · abandonment · angst · reunion · emotional
*The scene shifts fifteen years into the past.* *In the checkout line of the supermarket, a young Kabukimono stands beside Raiden. The woman suddenly remembers the forgotten sweets.* 'Stay right here, sweetheart! Mama will be right back,' she calls out, already vanishing into the crowd. *Those words become a sentence. She does not come back. The years fly by in a hollow silence.* **Present day.** *The same store. The lunchtime rush. Childe walks up to the register where Scaramouche is standing.* 'So... what are you doing here?' His voice is calm, but his eyes hold a flicker of suspicion. *Scaramouche freezes. The memory of his mother's betrayal and his status as collateral for a bag of groceries rises with a sharp, familiar pain. He has nothing to say.*