A foreigner's journey

When Cloud approached, the Jesse trio were praising Cloud's reliability in front of Heather and Tifa.

Weiji imitated Claude's posture of swinging the giant sword, and kept nagging: "Brother Heather, you don't know how powerful Claude is. Such a big metal giant sword can be swung as easily as a small dagger." Swift."

"Weggie, you said it several times on the way back." Biggs pushed Weggie away impatiently.

Heather brought the tray with hash browns to everyone: "Barrett, what do you think of this foreign aid's strength?"

"It's really worthy of this high commission... Yeah! It's delicious!"

Barrett ate two pieces of hash browns in a few seconds, and drank a whole bottle of iced drink. Then he wiped his mouth: "But there is a problem with the remuneration. The previous 2000 GIL was just a reward for hiring him to assist in this operation. Bar?"

Jesse nodded: "It will be no problem to wait until the payment for the water purifier is collected tomorrow."

"Jesse, how could the scale of this explosion be so exaggerated?" Barrett scratched his head. He also felt that something was wrong.

"I guess it was the bomb that caused the massive explosion of Mako."

Jesse sighed: "But even if you calculate it this way, the power is not up to par... Are the bargains bought on the black market really unreliable? I will change to a more stable bomb for the next operation."

"Ah, [Hero] is back."

Heather noticed Claude walking slowly towards this side, took out a bottle of iced drink from the ice bucket and threw it to him: "Isn't it nice to participate in a team-building activity once in a while?"

Claude caught the cold glass bottle: "The fierce battle and the explosion that affected the entire Mako Reactor are just team-building activities for you?"

Heather twisted a piece of hash brown and took a bite: "Sorry, that's the wrong word. Maybe I should use [suburban picnic organized by kindergarten] to describe it more appropriately?"

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Biggs hurriedly stopped in the middle: "To celebrate, why not hold a banquet?"

Tifa clasped her hands in front of her chest and said in a cheerful tone: "Okay, senior brother and I will be responsible for the cooking. There are a lot of fresh ingredients prepared in the refrigerator. Is that okay, senior brother?"

Heather tilted her head and reluctantly hummed. Tifa, who had lived together for so many years, didn't understand Heather's subtext, so she showed the "OK" gesture to everyone with a smile.

Seeing that Heather agreed, everyone in the Avalanche organization cheered, which meant they could get another delicious free meal.

Cloud looked at Tifa and Heather who were chatting happily, his expression was slightly gloomy, and he turned around to leave. But as soon as he took two steps, Jesse hugged his arm directly, and Claude blushed slightly.

He looked at this brown-haired beauty with an oval face and a high nose who always teased him with words like tiger and wolf, and his tone was unnatural: "...you can pay me tomorrow."

Jesse grinned, showing his pointed little tiger teeth: "Thank you very much, but without you as a great hero, the topic and atmosphere of the celebration banquet will fade a lot. Let's come together, okay?"

Feeling Jesse's sincere concern, Claude felt warm in his heart, and his arm that originally planned to break away from Jesse's arms no longer used too much force. Seeing this, Jesse hurriedly pulled him towards the bar. Biggs and Weggie also ran over, pushing Claude and cheering together.

In this way, Seventh Heaven was filled with lively laughter and the aroma of food that night.

After drinking and eating, the drunk Weggie and Biggs walked back to the rented house hand in hand, and Barrett also left with Marlene, who was sleeping soundly.

Heather looked around the hall with her hands on her hips and muttered bitterly: "Did these bastards run away without even cleaning them up?"

Tifa, who was collecting garbage into garbage bags, laughed: "Isn't this because Biggs is drunk? If it were normal, his favorite thing would be to clean up after eating. Don't be angry, senior brother, I Just come and clean up, go and have a rest."

How could Heather let Tifa deal with it alone? He turned around and whistled: "You two, move faster!"

Jesse, who was caught running too slowly, and Claude, who was living in the basement of a bar and couldn't escape, heard Heather's instructions and had to speed up their cleaning.

There is no way, if you make the boss unhappy, there will be no free and delicious meals to enjoy in the future.

While Jesse was wiping the table with a rag soaked in water, he quietly said to Claude: "Claude, can I ask you a favor?"

"Ah? You want to pay in advance?" Claude, who was lying on the ground and struggling to wipe the floor, raised his head.

"No! I'll pay you tomorrow when the debt for the water purifier is collected, so don't worry!"

Jesse waved his hand vigorously, first glanced at Heather who was helping Tifa pick up the trash in the distance, and then continued to lower his voice and said: "I want you to accompany me to the Qifan Street downtown area, and I will pay you extra." The reward."

"What are you going to do there?" Claude learned the lesson this time. He didn't talk so eloquently but planned to ask about the content of the mission before considering whether to accept it.

"Didn't I tell you? The urban area of ​​Qifan Street is the residential area for Shinra Company employees, and my parents also live there. In addition, I need to replace the bombs required for the next operation, so I must invade Go to the storage area of ​​Shinra Company's warehouse on Qifan Street to steal some 'good stuff'."

Jesse also spent a lot of money this time:

"This operation should not involve too many people. I can hack into the system in the Shinra Company's warehouse reserve area, and you can protect me. The reward is a date with you and a summoned beast magic crystal, okay?"

Claude's reaction was very straight: "Forget the previous one, summoning monster crystals as a reward can indeed be considered."

Jesse patted Claude and said, "Damn it, the one at the back is the culprit! Then we'll meet tomorrow afternoon. I can take you to meet my mother. I learned all my pizza baking skills from her." Yes."

"Wait a minute, what kind of magic crystal is the summoned beast?"

Cloud must ask clearly. The summoned beasts include powerful monsters like [Bahamut] and [Tiamat], as well as mascots with little effect like [Chocobo] and [Gemmon]. There is a big difference between the upper and lower levels.

"[Ifrit], the Fire God's Stone. This is a treasure I got at the Kingdee Playground when I was an actor. Are you excited?"

Jesse said with a smile:

"A weak woman like me cannot resonate with the summoning stones, and only powerful warriors like you and Heather can bring them to their maximum effect."

"Heather also has a magic crystal for summoning beasts?" Cloud looked at Heather who was talking to Tifa in the distance.

"Hmm, of course he does, and the 'resonance' with him is very high."

Jesse pointed at Claude:

"What I want to give you is the Fire God Stone [Ifrit], and what he holds is the Ice God Stone [Siva]."

PS: In the original work, Jesse gave Claude [Ifrit], but it is difficult to explain where she, as a poor Avalanche member, got such a rare summoned beast magic crystal. We can only speculate. Because it was a rare item that she got at the Golden Butterfly Amusement Park when she was an actress in her early years.