[He appreciate's the prince's optimism, and the knight squeezes his hand back. However, Childe still wears a worried expression...that wasn't exactly what he wanted to hear, at least about his father.]

You know, the king already suspecting that there's something going on isn't exactly reassuring. Not that I've known him to be an unkind man, but...

[Maybe he shouldn't dwell on it for too long. Childe sighs, looking to the sky and saying a little prayer to himself that this all works out the way he's planned it. He'd much prefer that he can stay with Aether until they grow too old, but there's much work to be done to assure that.

But they'd see it through, he knows it.]

Though, I guess a good place to start to keep the king off our backs is to let Elise have her fun today, right? Let's hunt some boar before we fall too far behind.

[And before his anxiety about the whole situation decides to skyrocket again. He's got a contest to win.]