--One of the Kaisou Black Order members? [ sounds strange--wouldn't a black order member know better than to mess with cursed items...? Maybe it was some sort of accident... ] I hope the matter was taken care of.

And hold on, wait, are you seriously saying a cursed item can just... infect regular, non-cursed items with prolonged exposure? [ that fact hits a little too close to home. goddamn. cursed things are just forever not fun???

he does pause to look over the artifact, though, leaning in a bit--

only to twitch a little when Zhongli brings up his pallid appearance. Erk. ]

--Ah, well. It's working, in a way that I'm not... starving, but. I think, over a long period of time, I'll start to get more and more tired until I actually suck it up--

...

Pun. Not intended there.

And actually 'eat' something properly.

[ as in, human blood... ]