[FF7] Those things after marriage

I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you

These three words continued to echo in Esther's mind.

So much so that I didn't even notice when I returned to the house.

She couldn't even tell whether she was shocked when she said 'I love you' to Sephiroth or if Sephiroth said 'I love you' to her.I always feel that no matter which one I can't help my body temperature rise.

Although they should have said this sentence a long time ago, but because of shyness and busyness, they never said it... just comforted themselves in the bottom of their hearts and said: "Even if I don't say it, he will understand." , there are still differences.

Esther sighed and buried her face in the soft pillow.

She felt that it would be better for her to be an ostrich for a while longer.

At this moment, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and a black figure flew towards Esther with excited shouts.

"Esther, you're awake! That's great, that's great! I thought you were going to die, woo woo woo..."

The well-built man threw himself on the side of the bed, tightly clutching Esther's hand in excitement.

Esther felt like she was going to be crushed by such a grip, and she subconsciously sprayed him with fierce words.But when she saw the appearance of the person coming, she was stunned.

Although it still has the hedgehog head, the person in front of him is a little strange.Zacks used to be just a big boy, but now, he can be said to be a 'man'.From a 'boy' to a 'man', it was the first time that Esther clearly felt the four years that had passed.

To them, four years had passed, but to her, it was just a long sleep without even a dream.

Wait, dead?

Esther recovered from the emotion and immediately grasped the point of his words.

"...Dead? Wait, tell me why you are dead?"

"You got shot in the heart, don't you want to die...ah wait, I didn't say anything..." Zacks replied following Esther's words, and then he was depressed as if remembering something She looked at her and said, "... Esther, just pretend that I didn't say anything, okay?"

He will definitely be torn apart by Sephiroth, definitely!

"What did you say!"

Esther smiled and responded word by word.

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Esther, you bully honest people!

You said that I was going to die, how can I keep you from explaining clearly?

Seeing Esther's familiar smile, Zack gave up the idea of ​​taking the opportunity to escape, and sat down in front of Esther honestly, ready to 'confess and be lenient'.

"Because I also arrived later... so I don't know the specific situation at that time." The young man with the hedgehog hair scratched his hair, "Do you still remember... you and Lance were in Nibelheim four years ago? What about the Shinra Mansion?"

Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim...

The name was a bit familiar, but she couldn't recall any specific content... It seemed to be a research institution of Shinra's before?

Esther searched the memory bank carefully, but couldn't find what Zacks said.

"Then... let me tell you what I know."

"That day, I was tracking Genesis and Angel near Nibelheim, and then fought with Angel, and after he defeated him, he told me that you were all in the abandoned Shinra mansion over there. I hurried to catch up... but it was still too late."

"When I rushed to the ground from the hole above, all I saw was Sephiroth, who was shot in the heart, you, who was out of breath, and Genesis, who was seriously injured, lying on the side, ah, and shocked Lance and the bodies of Dr. Holland, whose head was beheaded."

It was a scene he really didn't want to recall.

He has seen many deaths.Even when the Shinra Building was attacked twice, people he knew died, but this was the first time he faced the death of someone close to him.Esther was held in Sephiroth's arms, her pale skin frightened him.

And what frightened him even more was Sephiroth at that time.

Although the silver-haired man didn't show any expression, the despair in his eyes startled him—it wasn't just hopelessness.What's more, it's the terrifying 'despair' that completely lost everything and wanted to be destroyed.

If it wasn't for Lance's yelling later, he might have really done something that made others despair.

"Later, Lance said that Jenova might be able to save you. Because Jenova has the property of protecting the host, if Sephiroth can control Jenova, then there is time to save you." Zacks now talks about the time Scenarios, all with an expression of lingering fear, "I only found out later that you were not dead at that time...but you were just hanging on your breath, and you may really return to the planet at any time."

Really, just barely.

"Later, Lance implanted Xenovia in you under Heda's command... I don't know what happened next, but in the end you survived, just a sleeping one. Until I received Lance's Notification, I know you are awake."

Zack smiled, let go of Esther's hand and patted her on the shoulder.

"Although the eyes have also turned green, but at least I survived... Being alive is better than anything else."

Eyes... turn green?

Esther finally understood what she felt was inconsistent recently.

the color of her eyes.

"Looking at it from another angle, now you and Sephiroth are also husband and wife, hahaha..."

Esther ignored Zack's joke trying to make her feel better, got out of bed and stumbled into the bathroom, looking into her green eyes in the mirror.

It was no longer the color she was familiar with, but the green of Sephiroth.

She stared fixedly at the pair of eyes in the mirror, as if she saw another pair of beautiful green eyes through it.

Those were Sephiroth's eyes looking at him...

She remembered, everything... remembered.

Including the panicked affection when Sephiroth looked at her at the end, and the meaning of her blurted 'I love you'.

Perhaps because of the impact of the huge memory, Esther passed out again.When she woke up again, there were many familiar faces beside the bed besides Sephiroth holding her hand.

Belia, Zacks, Lance, Hedda, and Alice who only met a few times.

She suddenly felt like crying.Not for others, just for those who care about themselves.

Especially... Sephiroth, who has been running around for her all the time, and finally guarded her unconscious self for four years.Sephiroth had only been away for a while before, and she was forced by rumors and nervousness to doubt her feelings for him, feeling that she would not be able to hold on.

What about him, looking at himself like this, would he also be in despair?

"Sephiroth... sorry... sorry..."

Tears gushed out of the eyes.

Esther held Sephiroth's hand back, ignoring the relatives and friends who were watching, propped herself up with her free hand and rushed over to hug the silver-haired man.Tears could not stop falling.

Seeing this, Belia shrugged, patted the people around her, and drove them away.

——At this time, it is really not suitable for them to stay here with these light bulbs.

After the whole group went out, only Esther's shallow sobbing was left in the room.

She was always trying not to cry, even if she cried, she couldn't make a loud noise. At first she was holding back, but later she couldn't even cry out.

So at this time, she just hugged Sephiroth and cried softly.

The tears that kept pouring out wet the clothes on Sephiroth's body, but he just put his arms around her and patted her on the back lightly.

In fact, he doesn't care about whether Esther recovers the memory of that period. Although she will forget the phrase "I love you", at the same time, she will not remember the scary thing that she almost died.

It was also a memory he didn't want to recall.

As long as the healing magic is a little slower, she will lose her, without Xenovia's strengthening ability, she will lose her, if I fail to control Xenovia, I will...

When he thought that if he slowed down, he would not be able to save her, he felt scared—it was the first time in his life that he felt scared.

Even compared with losing her, his life experience has become unimportant at all.It didn't matter who his parents were or how he was born - he was even a little grateful to Xenovia.

After all, if it wasn't for Xenovia this time, he would have lost her.

Even though he transplanted this thing to her without consent... He was also prepared that she would not forgive him when she woke up.

But as long as he was alive, he still had a chance to be with her.

So no matter what, as long as she is still alive and can continue to stay by his side, he will be content.

Esther cried for a while before finally stopping her tears.

"All Sephiroth, you know... your life experience?"

This is what Esther is most worried about. Sephiroth has always longed for her family, so she treats her family so well.Therefore, she was very worried that Sephiroth would collapse after learning the truth-this was what she was worried about four years ago when she vaguely inferred the situation back then.

After four years, I can finally ask.

"Well, but that's not important."

He once wanted to know his own life experience and wanted to meet his biological parents.

But that doesn't matter now.

He had Esther, and he had many families because of Esther.Instead of pursuing the truth of the past, it is better to cherish what you have in front of you.Now he is not nothing, is he.

After Esther's vital signs recovered, he talked a lot with Lance.

Things in the past, things in the future... and things about his parents.

Although his father guessed that it was Hojo that made him feel sick like eating worms, but after experiencing the fear of losing Esther, he really didn't care much.And his mother, Lucrezia...

It was a poor woman, but to him, she was only a poor woman.

He didn't go to see her, but he felt that with the man found in the coffin in the basement, she should be happy too.

He was familiar with the man's eyes when he mentioned Lucrezia, because he also looked at Esther that way.

As for him... maybe one day, when he really takes all of this lightly, and can say 'forgive' with a smile, he may go to meet them.

Maybe not as close as a normal mother and child, but by then, 'like a friend' he should still be able to do.