[He also.... has thought about that. Just a little, although no one he's met has met any Zhongli who is VASTLY different from him, he thinks. Or if they did, they didn't say it.]

.... You had been corrupted by Abyssal poison. I believe it was in the stead of your friend, although I did not wish to press the matter further than that Barbatos was willing to volunteer.

I could tell something was different immediately. The bright teal Anemo energy you house was replaced with a sinister pink one. Even in your hair.