[FF7] Those things after marriage

"No."

Lance spread his hands, then turned his back to Esther and began to tinker with something on the jar.

"If it was so easy to get rid of it, the ancient species would not be almost extinct."

"What about the corresponding drugs? Vaccines or something?"

Esther bit her lip and continued asking.

Since it is such a dangerous thing, there must be a way to restrain it, right?

"No. People's current understanding of it is still limited to how to use it, and they have never even thought about restraining it—let alone clearing it."

While continuing his work, Lance answered Esther's questions absently.

In the room surrounded by metal, only subtle sounds from Lance and her own breathing could be heard, which made Esther very uncomfortable.She couldn't help but also walked forward, stood below and looked up at the huge tank.

She doesn't understand those high-tech things, so she doesn't understand what makes her attractive - in her opinion, the Xenovia in front of her is just a corpse that makes people feel uncomfortable to look at.

The cold feeling in the room made her rub her arms involuntarily. Just staying here, a chill gushed out from the bottom of her heart and slowly spread to her limbs.She watched Lance do a lot of hands and feet around the tank. Although she didn't know what he was doing, it vaguely gave her a sense of danger.

"...how long are we going to stay here?"

today she receives

The amount of information is almost more than that of the past five years, so she feels that she really needs to find a quiet and warm place to sort out the known situation quietly, instead of staying in this cold place and being spooked by a female corpse. look at.

"Immediately." Lance brushed away a strand of hair hanging from his cheek, and concentrated on installing the 'little thing' in his hand.This is a special prop for Shenluo to destroy corpses and traces, and it took him a lot of effort to get them all out.

Although there are many partners, their ultimate goals are not the same, and some people's ultimate goals may even be just the opposite.Therefore, in order to achieve their wishes, they are all on guard against each other while cooperating.Naturally, he couldn't rely on his allies to provide these small things—if they dared to provide them, he wouldn't dare to use them because he was afraid that there might be some things that shouldn't exist.

But it is also because it is not easy to handle, so he only has this one set.But having said that, he probably has this one chance... a set of materials comes with only one chance, so it's also predestined.

Perhaps, this will be the only chance in his life.

Destroy the source of Xenovia and end this decades-long entanglement.

Of course, the diffused Xenovia will not be destroyed along with the main body, but once the main body is destroyed, those people can no longer easily obtain the original samples.Without Hojo who was obsessed with it and the original samples can no longer be obtained, this catastrophic experiment will come to an end.

People of their generation have walked in its shadow for too long, it's time, it's time to see the sunrise.

After installing the last part and confirming that the line was unblocked, Lance patted his clothes and stood up and walked towards Esther.His expression was unprecedentedly relaxed, as if he had let go of some heavy burden.

"Okay, let's go, I'll take you to find Sephiroth—you've had enough troubles."

Esther, who was led by Lance and walked out, was a little unresponsive.

They were obviously talking about some very serious things... The shadow of Xenovia still hangs over her heart, and the problems of Sephiroth, Angel and Genesis have not been resolved yet, right?Why did the atmosphere suddenly become more relaxed?

How to solve these unsolvable problems?How to explain after returning to Shinra?

These are the most important questions, right?

"I'm a bit confused—how come..."

"Oh... don't mind these little things, and when I get back—"

The red-haired man waved his hand indifferently, and led Esther out of the room to the long corridor.

"I don't know, your so-called cooperation is just leaving your allies behind to take advantage, Lance." The blond man stood in the middle of the corridor, looking at the two of them indifferently. "Sneaking away is not a good habit."

The red-haired man who was caught by the 'alliance' for breaching the contract didn't look guilty at all. He let go of the arm around Esther's shoulder, shrugged calmly and walked forward.

"However, since you are also here at this time, it proves that I am not the only one who sneaked away. Since you all think so, then Lazard, your accusation is just a joke."

Lance approached Lazard nonchalantly, as if he didn't see the disgusted expression on the other side, he put his arm on his shoulder and continued:

"You will not act alone like me. Although you are the supervisor of the special forces, you have not experienced the incident at the Shinra mansion in Nibelheim. You don't know the situation of the underground building. It is impossible to sneak into it silently." Yes, so there must be an 'informed person' behind you... so let me guess who your collaborator is. Hedda? Zeng? Or... Dr. Holland who disappeared with Genesis?"

It's not hard to guess.

Few of the insiders from back then have survived to the present, and there are only a few who pick and choose, and still miss this place.

When he said the last name, Lance keenly felt the muscles in Lazard's arm tense-although it was only once, it was enough for him to know the truth.

"Sure enough, it's that guy Holland again."

Lance called the former second-in-command of the Shinra Research Department "that guy" contemptuously, obviously not paying attention to him.And his attitude obviously angered Lazard, who had been sullen. For the first time, the blond man showed an expression of obvious disgust.

That's what he hated most about him.

Obviously not in an important position, but he can always stand beside them who are at the top of Shinra Company with a relaxed face, and always talk about the things of those people in a casual tone...

Be it Baojo or Holland... these people who make him powerless are not as important to him as one of his employees.

Even when cooperating, I always feel that I am inferior to him.Every gesture is led away by the other party...

He was really fed up with this involuntary life.

"Even if you guessed it was me, so what?" A fourth person's voice finally sounded in the passage.

At the same time as the voice sounded, Esther was also unfortunately held in front of the gun and became a hostage.

Dr. Holland, the second-in-command of the research department who has never had a sense of presence, put a gun on Esther's forehead, pushed her back with one hand and forced her to stand in front of the two.

...It's really a disaster.

After so many things, Esther can't be afraid now.

She just felt deeply helpless.

First she was kidnapped by someone from an unknown force, and then she was imprisoned here again. After going through so many things, she couldn’t escape the end of being a hostage in the end... On the planet, is she destined to have this fate? ?

"Although I don't remember the number one person like you back then, you obviously knew us quite well...Of course I don't have time to care about who you are now, come on, let's meet the 'Goddess' together... ...Although I don't know what you did inside, but according to the current situation, you will definitely not do what we don't want you to do, will you?"

However, the red-haired man was not shaken in the slightest by the presence of the hostages.

He spread his hands casually.

"Who knows then."

He didn't try to counter-take Lazard hostage.The practicability is too low - regardless of the issue of failure, the time it took him to subdue him is enough for Esther to die a few times.

"It seems that you are not as valuable as you thought, Ms. Grant." Holland didn't panic, and just said to Esther in a sighing tone, "Although I'm sorry, it seems that you can only spend money here. End of life at the same age."

"She is Sephiroth's wife, do you really dare to do it?"

Lance stood beside Lazard with folded arms and looked at Holland, as if he was sure that he would not do anything.

"One accident can explain everything... Isn't Shinra always doing this?"

Holland's expression was more calm, but it faintly revealed a taste of madness.

"I've been in Shinra for decades, and it's time to show my strengths, right? No one wants to be oppressed. I was first oppressed by Gast, and then I was oppressed by Hojo, a latecomer. More than 20 years... It's time for me to stand on it."

"But I don't want someone to end my life so casually."

Esther stepped hard on Holland's unprotected toes.Then, taking advantage of the moment when the muzzle of his gun moved away from his body, he raised his hand and struck back hard, and the bone of his hand made intimate contact with the bridge of his nose.Then a lateral step back was an elbow to his back.

Holland hit the ground face down hard, and Esther grabbed the gun in his hand and pointed the gun at him in turn.

"Now, who should return to the planet?"

Although she is a civil servant, she has a man named Sephiroth who can't beat the special forces, but it is not a problem to escape from such laymen.

Thinking of those busy but warm lives, Esther couldn't help but think of the silver-haired man again.

Now, she just wants to go back and live a good life with him... It doesn't matter what planets, past worlds and futures, they just need to go back to their hometown, a place where they don't know these things, and live a good life.

However, at the moment when the situation had reversed, there was a sudden violent vibration in the corridor.Then with a loud noise, the ceiling above the corridor suddenly shattered, and a huge monster fell from above.

The four people who stayed below were also sent flying by the huge impact, and fell tottering everywhere.

"... Bahamut?"

Esther struggled to get up, looked at the huge monster not far away, and whispered in disbelief.

...Why did this thing come to join in the fun?

And following the monster, the familiar white knife light made Esther understand the general situation at once.

The battle between Genesis and Sephiroth came here abruptly.

Although she shouldn't laugh when she's so serious and nervous, Esther couldn't help laughing.

She always finds this scene... quite joyful.

Xi felt that her tense nerves were relaxed, and when she thought of meeting the man who belonged to her, her heart also warmed up.

Seeing him, she has a lot of things she wants to do... such as telling him how unlucky she is recently, such as suing him about Holland, such as... but before these, she wants to give him a big hug, Then kiss him hard again.

That's right, she still wants to-

Gunshots sounded.

Esther only felt a pain in her chest, and her thoughts were interrupted.

She seemed to hear someone calling her name, and seemed to hear someone laughing hysterically.

But these are not important... She was desperately thinking about what she wanted to do just now.

Ahh...she remembered, she wanted to hug him tightly and tell him...

"I love you."