Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

In the front view, Kadaqiu's eyes under the silver bangs are as cold and heartless as a wolf, and the sneer at the corner of his mouth is full of complacency.

Out of the corner of his eye, the sparks of the arc on Ross's fist flashed, and Yazu's bullet reflected a gleam of cold light.

The muscles of the whole body are adjusted to the best angle at this moment, and all the nerves are tense.

Claude bent down, and at the same time lifted his arms upwards vigorously, kneeling with his legs, and his whole body slid forward against the ground like a taut bowstring.

In the next second, Ross and Yazu's attacks were all missed.

Even Kadaqiu suddenly lost his resistance due to the force of the downward chop, and his center of gravity was tilted, and he almost fell down by himself.

Claude finally got out of the encirclement, and before he could catch his breath, he saw the children around him rushing towards him at this moment!

He was shocked!

He can still wield a knife against Kadaqiu and the others, but for these children...

Claude subconsciously turned his head to look at the silver-haired boy, and he saw the smug smile on Kadaqiu's face.

He did it on purpose!

It turned out to be waiting for Claude here!

However, it was too late to think about retreating.

I saw those children pounced on them one by one without hesitation like little wolves seeing their prey, and filled all of Claude's sight with their bodies in a blink of an eye.

The gleaming tree trunk disappeared from view, the arms and legs were firmly pressed, and even the face was firmly pressed against the back of a child, and the chest was so heavy that it almost made Claude suck the air in his lungs. They all squeezed out, and the eyes were dim.

Just when Claude felt it was difficult to breathe, his vision brightened again, his body loosened, and a person grabbed Claude's right wrist with an absolutely tough posture, and dragged him out from the bottom of the crowd.

"Huh-"

Claude let out a long sigh of relief, and looked at the person who saved him. Unsurprisingly, it was——

"Sephiroth."

And the dark-haired Vincent behind him.

For some reason, Vincent didn't wear the red cape that he never took off this time, which made Claude a little awkward when he saw him at first.

At the same time that Sephiroth appeared, the children who had originally looked fierce also fainted.Seeing that the situation was wrong, the three of Kadaqiu turned around and ran away.They grasped the timing cleverly and flashed neatly. By the time Vincent reacted and wanted to stop it, it was too late. He could only watch them jump on the locomotive driven by Claude and roar away.

"..." Vincent turned to look at Claude, he had withdrawn his arm from Sephiroth's hand to stabilize his body, "Claude, what's going on with Sephiroth?"

"Uh..." Claude glanced hesitantly at the silver-haired young man beside him, who happened to be staring at him without blinking, "Let's go back and talk about it, and send the children back first."

"These children drank the River of Life before, and then they were controlled by Kadaqiu." Vincent frowned, "Is it okay to go back like this?"

"No problem." It was Sephiroth who answered.

He looked away from Claude, met Vincent's still suspicious eyes, could only sigh, and stretched out his hand.

I saw strands of black mist rising from the children who fell on the ground like water, then gathered together, and flowed into Sephiroth's body from all directions.

Claude was stunned, and after a long while, he and Vincent came back together: "Sephiroth..."

The silver-haired hero raised his eyes and glanced at Claude.

It was this glance that made Claude swallow the words he hadn't said.

When the black mist from all the children flowed into Sephiroth's body, the bush next to him suddenly moved.Vincent, who was frowning on the side, reacted immediately, and drew his gun at the bush:

"come out!"

Claude immediately came back to his senses, raised his knife and stood sideways in front of Sephiroth.This was a completely subconscious move, and it was only afterward that Claude realized his unnecessary actions——

That's Sephiroth.

How could he need his protection.

But at that time, this was indeed the first reaction in Claude's subconscious mind.

Under Claude's full alertness, the two children rushed out of the bushes.

"Marlene! Denzel!"

It was the two children who had been taken away before.

Marlene rushed over to hug Claude, but Denzel grabbed Sephiroth's hem.

After asking the adults, they learned that Marlene and Denzel were taken to the Forgotten City after they were taken away by Yazu.They saw Kadaqiu and Ross resurrected from the water with their own eyes, and then Kadaqiu tricked the children with star marks into drinking the lake water.After that, the eyes of those children turned a strange blue-green color, and the whole person became strange.It wasn't until Claude and the others arrived that Kada Qiu's attention was attracted, that Marlene and Denzel took the opportunity to sneak away.

"It's amazing." Vincent praised, "You guys did a great job."

Claude also touched the top of Marlene's head and apologized softly: "Sorry, I didn't come back in time."

The little girl with a red bow shook her head: "Didn't Mr. Claude and Mr. Sephiroth come to rescue us? I knew you would come."

"That's right!" Denzel firmly grasped the hem of Sephiroth's clothes, raised his head, his eyes sparkling.

Sephiroth hesitated, then patted the kid on the head

Suddenly, Denzel's eyes lit up a few degrees.

On the way back, Claude drove, Sephiroth sat in the passenger seat, and Vincent accompanied and protected the children in the back of the truck.

Taking this opportunity, Sephiroth expressed his speculation:

The three of Kadaqiu believed that Xenovia's head was in Claude's hands several times, and it should be induced by someone.And the only ones who knew of the existence of Xenovia were those from Shinra.Then, the one who misled Kadaqiu and others was someone from Shinra, and it must be a high-level company.

Claude turned his gaze from the front to Sephiroth, with a complicated expression: "Lufus..."

Sephiroth raised an eyebrow.

Claude explained: "He is the son of the old president, the former vice president, do you still have an impression of Sephiroth?"

"Yeah." Sephiroth remembered that this person's name was mentioned in the setting set.It's a pity that when he was still in Shinra, Rufus was still young and did not appear in front of everyone in Shinra, so Sephiroth didn't have a deep impression of him.

Claude was silent for a while, and continued: "Lufus doesn't know where he is now, and it will be more difficult to find him."

Sephiroth sneered slightly: "We don't need to take the initiative to find him, he will take the initiative to come to the door."

"?"

"Kadaqiu and the others are not stupid. It's fine once. After two or three times, you will naturally understand who owns Xenovia. Before that, Rufus will take the initiative to find it."

After all, Claude is the only one who can stand against those three in this era.

Sephiroth closed his eyes, and suddenly remembered the other three 1st special forces in the setting.

Angel, Genesis and Zacks.

Among them, both Angel and Zacks have died, and Genesis was taken away by a mysterious organization and disappeared...

Yes, that mysterious organization is still under Hojo.

Thinking of this, Sephiroth opened his eyes.

"What's wrong?" Claude, who had been watching him from the corner of his eye, immediately asked, "Any other questions?"

"Ah, it's okay." Sephiroth closed his eyes again.

His calm expression made Claude a little uneasy - Sephiroth clearly thought of something just now.What on earth was he thinking, but he refused to say it...

When they returned to Midgar, the parents of the missing children were frantic and looking for their children everywhere.

When they found that not only did Claude bring back their child, but even the star scar on the child's body disappeared, the joy of lost and found suddenly turned into ecstasy.

Claude and Vincent, surrounded by these parents, were filled with their thanks and inquiries from other people who heard the news.All the sounds merged together, and the two of them suddenly felt their entire heads buzzing.

At this moment, the two of them realized that something was wrong.

Isn't there Sephiroth? !

With Sephiroth's appearance and fame, he should be the focus. Why is the firepower on both of them now? !

Claude searched in the crowd for a long time before finally finding the silver color outside the crowd.

But it disappeared in a flash.

When Claude looked in that direction again, there was no one there.

Sephiroth followed the masked man into an alley, turned a few more turns, and finally the man stopped in an empty square.

There are messy wires and protruding steel bars overhead, which divide the gray sky into countless irregular small squares, surrounded by the backs of shops and residential buildings, and sewer pipes sticking to the walls and stretching to the ground. , the sewage kept dripping out of it.

The square is small, dark, and smells bad, no wonder there are few people.

The only thing that can make it a square is a piece of rubble standing in the middle of this open space.

The masked man who signaled Sephiroth to come over was standing in front of the gravel, on which was engraved a line of incomplete words: Shinra Building, built in 19...

The following date has been truncated in the middle, and only the names of a few people who have changed careers can be vaguely seen. They are all veterans of the Shinra Company. Sephiroth even saw the name of Dr. Gast in it.

Gast, this is the person who started Project J. Although he later discovered the ominous voluntary abandonment of the Jenova cells, the entire experiment was taken over by his deputy, Hojo, and then Dr. Gast was also pushed out of the person in charge. s position.

Sephiroth stared at the name for more than three seconds, and then looked coldly at the masked man with his back turned to him: "... Let me see what these mean."

"Meaning?" The person with his back turned snorted, his voice was clear and proud of a young man, "The three men who were looking for the gift of the goddess were torn apart by the war. One of them became a hero..."

In Sephiroth's shrinking pupils, the man wrapped in a gray cloak turned around slowly, pulled down the hood and face scarf, revealing a delicate face and gray hair.

"One of them became a wanderer, and the other became a captive."

"... Genesis."

Sephiroth looked at the former 1st commando's neck, where there was a dirty black scar.

"Long time no see, Sephiroth."

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