(Cloud and the others are in the inn at Kalm.)
Cloud
"....and that's the
end of my story."
Barret
"Wait a damn minute!
Ain't there more?"
Cloud
"....I don't remember."
Aerith
"What happened to
Sephiroth?"
Cloud
"In terms of skill,
I couldn't have killed him."
Tifa
"Official records
state Sephiroth is dead. I read it in the newspaper."
Aerith
"Shinra, Inc. owns
the newspaper, so you can't rely on that information."
Cloud
"......I want to know
the truth. I want to know what happened then."
"I challenged Sephiroth
amd lived. Why didn't he kill me?"
Tifa
".......I'm alive,
too."
Aerith
"Seems like a lot
of this doesn't make sense. What about Jenova? It was in the Shinra building,
right?"
Cloud
"Shinra shipped it
from Nibelheim to Midgar."
Aerith
"Did someone else
carry it out after that? It was missing from the Shinra building."
Tifa
"Sephiroth.....?"
(A pause.)
Barret
"Damn! Don't none
of this make sense!"
"I'm going, going,
going, gone!"
"And I'm leavin' the
thinkin' to you!"
(Barret stops by the top of the stairs.)
Barret
"Yo, Cloud! Let's
get a move on!"
<CHOICE>
Wait a sec
Right
***Cloud
Wait a sec
Barret
"Cloud, what's wrong?
You just gonna stand there while Sephiroth heads for the Promised Land?"
"I ain't lettin' Sephiroth
or Shinra get to no Promised Land. If they do, then we're all screwed."
"Y'know what I'm sayin'!"
<CHOICE>
Beautiful, just beauiful!
Is that all?
***Cloud
Beautiful, just beautiful!
Barret
"Y'all jes' leave
it to me!"
***Cloud
Is that all?
Cloud
"Oh brother..."
Barret
"Fine! That's good
enough."
<//>
***Cloud
Right
Barret
"Yo, c'mon let's go!"
<//>
(He runs out.)
Cloud
"Oh brother..."
Tifa
".........."
"Cloud...?"
(She walks forward. Cloud turns to her.)
Tifa
"How bad was I when
Sephiroth cut me?"
Cloud
"I thought you were
a goner. ......I was really sad."
Tifa
".........."
Aerith
"I..."
"The Ancients.....
Cetra.... Jenova...... Sephiroth and myself....."
Tifa
"Let's go. Barret's
waiting."
(Everyone leaves except Red XIII, still seated by the window, tail twitching curiously.)
Red XIII
"What a fascinating
story....."
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