A foreigner's journey

As a 'former 1st warrior', Claude naturally knows something about summoned monster crystals.

In ancient times, those extremely powerful fantasy creatures turned into the flow of life after death, and the flow of life left the mark of the most powerful period of their lives in the river of life. By chance, the flow of life condensed into the river of life through nature. In solid form, this red magic crystal carries the 'shadow' of a certain fantasy creature.

If you are a strong warrior, you can resonate with the summoned beast magic stone when fighting a strong enemy, and use the power of the magic stone to summon the thoughts of the summoned beast.

Even if they cannot exist in the world for a long time, those powerful summoned beasts usually have the terrifying power to reverse the situation and even capture the army. Some powerful summoned beasts are even named "gods".

‘Fire God’ Ifrit can freely manipulate and create flames. The terrifying fire storm and breath of fire are nightmares for the enemy.

'Ice God' Shiva can freeze water vapor in the air, and can also create huge ice spears out of thin air when necessary. He is like a mermaid swimming in the ocean of ice, unpredictable.

‘Thunder God’ Ram summons thunder to crush the enemy.

The ‘Earth God’ Titan creates super powerful earthquakes.

‘Water God’ Leviathan sets off a huge tsunami to swallow all enemies.

There is also the so-called strongest summoned beast, 'Dragon God' Bahamut. Legend has it that when Bahamut appears, all things will come to an end under the illumination of billions of dragon flames.

Generally speaking, the same summoned beast magic crystal can exist in plural forms in this world. When Shinra and Wutai were fighting, there was even a spectacular scene of Ifrit fighting between the two sides. But with the war, fighting, loss, and ultimately nothingness, many magic crystals were destroyed or lost in some corner of the world, including the summoning stone.

I wonder if the more powerful the summoned beast is, the harder it is to condense it into a summoning stone. Since ancient times, there have been very few Bahamut summoning stones recorded. Even the Shinra Corporation, which was at its peak during the war against Wutai, only kept three Bahamut summoning stones. Two of them were lost after the war, and the remaining one is currently being kept at the Shinra Corporation headquarters for scientific research. department.

The Ifrit Summoning Stone in Jesse's hand was an unexpected treasure she got when she traveled around the world with a theater troupe in her early years. She kept it well. Even her mother didn't know that her daughter had such a summoning stone. stone.

Claude looked at the red summoning stone in his hand, and there seemed to be faint flames flickering inside. This is the summoning stone of [Vulcan] Ifrit. Claude hesitated but did not refuse Jesse's invitation. He carefully placed the summoning stone in his arms and prepared to find an opportunity to embed it into his metal giant sword [Destroying Sword]. above.

Seeing that Claude decisively accepted the 'love token', Jesse felt extremely happy. She took the opportunity to get in front of Claude and agreed on a time and place to meet. Claude pushed Jesse away because of his short hands. In addition, Jesse was a super-high-level beauty, and he didn't feel like it. I felt a little secretly happy consciously.

Soon, the time came to the next night.

Claude and Jesse meet at the station, only to find that the train doesn't arrive on time. Not only that, there was no one around the station, so I didn’t know what was going on.

Just when the two were in trouble, Biggs and Weggie struggled to push two motorcycles over.

"Huh? Biggs? Weggie? Why..." Jesse was very surprised. He clearly didn't tell his two best friends about his plan tonight.

Little Fatty Weggie gave a thumbs up: "Biggs saw that you were distracted and guessed that you planned to go back to Qifan Street to see your family before your next move, right?"

"There are no trains today. Shinra has moved up the time of the last train. I borrowed a motorcycle and will ride it to the upper city."

Biggs smiled and nodded.

Jesse covered his chest and smiled: "Really, I was completely seen through."

Biggs patted the motorcycle: "Although it's a bit cheeky, I hope you can let us two parents without parents experience the feeling of being filial to our parents."

Jesse felt warm in his heart, knowing that his two buddies were afraid that something might happen to him when he went uptown, so he insisted on following him to help. She turned to look at Claude: "Where are Claude's parents?"

"...No more." Claude's expression dimmed.

Jesse looked at Claude's somewhat sad expression, and his heart seemed to be hurt. She patted Claude on the shoulder and deliberately used a cheerful tone to liven up the atmosphere: "Okay! Then let's go together and share the guilt of unfilial children!"

"Oh oh oh!"

Biggs and Wiggy immediately raised their arms in response.

Then the allocation of motorcycles was very simple. Claude and Biggs drove one each, Jesse took the back seat of Claude's motorcycle, and Weggie took Biggs' side.

Hugging Claude around his waist, Jesse chuckled twice with a slightly red face, and said softly in Claude's ear: "My safety is entrusted to you, Lord Knight."

Claude held the handle of the motorcycle with one hand and held the giant metal sword on the side of his other hand. He nodded slightly: "Hold on tight."

Two motorcycles traveled through the huge brightly lit tunnel at very fast speeds.

Jesse is very good at high-tech technologies. The water purifier is a practical device she developed. She also forged many ID cards to deal with various occasions. This time she just brought enough new ID cards and distributed them to everyone in order to cope with the ID scanning level that would appear in the tunnel.

The lights in the tunnel quickly flew behind Jesse. Even at such a high speed and with only one hand holding the handlebar, Jesse still felt that the motorcycle was more stable than ever before. He was really a good man worth relying on.

"Can you hear me?" At this time, Claude's voice came from the front.

"Well, you can hear me, what's wrong?" Jesse hugged Claude's waist, rubbed his whole body forward and almost pressed against Claude's back, and said with his mouth close to Claude's ear.

Claude seemed to want to break away from Jesse's bear hug, but considering that he was driving at a high speed, he had to give up. He turned his head slightly to prevent the hot breath from Jesse's mouth from hitting his ears, and asked as calmly as possible: " Who is that Heather?"

"Heather? When I came to Qifan Street, Heather and Tifa had been running a bar together for more than a year."

Jesse thought for a while and said calmly: "I've heard a lot of rumors about him. Some say he has at least dozens of lives under his command, and some say he is the underground king of the Qifan Street slums. However, The Avalanche organization has always had a good relationship with him, probably because of the relationship with former leader Helmer?"

"He and Tifa are brothers and sisters?" Cloud finally asked the question he wanted to ask.

"Aha, I finally asked. I was still wondering how long you were going to wait before asking."

"...Where's the answer?"

"Luckily for you, Tifa and I are good sisters. Of course I have asked her this question. Yes, Heather and Tifa are indeed brothers and sisters. They have the same master. Tifa just passed away five years ago When she came to Midgar, Heather took on the responsibility of her guardian and took care of her. Tifa was usually gentle and gentle, and rarely got angry. But if someone dared to speak ill of Heather in front of her, she would You will really lose your temper. You like Tifa, right?"

Jesse's sudden attack caught Claude off guard. He was silent for a moment and then said, "It's nothing."

"What does it matter whether you admit it or not? I'm not blind, and you are not the only one who likes Tifa. Looking at the Qifan Street slums, who doesn't like Tifa? It's just that no one has ever been able to win the 7th Heaven poster girl My heart, guess why?"

"...because of Heather?"

Claude's tone was a little bitter. He has been secretly in love with Tifa since he was a child, and even resolutely joined the Shinra Company in order to become a hero in her mind. After reuniting after a long separation, he thought he would be able to impress Tifa as a 'former 1st warrior', but he didn't expect …

"Despite Heather's mediocre appearance, he is actually a very outstanding man. His skills are unrivaled, he cares about the people around him, he is a good cook, he has money and he never spends it arbitrarily. He doesn’t bully the weak either. The most important thing is that he and Tifa have been together day and night for five years. Isn’t it strange that Tifa likes him?”

Jesse patted Claude's waist: "If you are really Tifa's hometown friend, then you should know her character very well - once you like her, you won't change easily. Although it is not completely stated, But she does like Heather. You don’t stand a chance, handsome.”

"…………"

Claude stopped talking and just twisted the handle of the motorcycle to accelerate the motorcycle again.

At this time, several red grid-like lights were flashing in front of the tunnel. Jesse hugged Claude tightly and shouted: "It's an ID scan! Be careful!"

"What's going on? Didn't you confidently say that the ID card you made is foolproof?" Claude was a little panicked by Jesse's shouting, and he raised his sword hand.

"There is no problem with the ID card. But appearing in the tunnel at this time is the biggest problem in itself! The Shinra Army stationed nearby will definitely send someone to check."

While the two were talking, the red grid had already passed over them and the two people behind them, Bigswidgee.

Soon, the sound of several motorcycles was heard in the tunnel behind.

Claude looked at the left rearview mirror and saw that at least six more advanced motorcycles carrying heavily armed Shinra soldiers were chasing after them.

The leading Shinra soldier shouted through the on-board loudspeaker: "The motorcycle in front of you, pull over immediately and accept ID scanning and verification! Repeat, pull over immediately and accept ID scanning and verification!"

"Whoever stops the car is a fool!" Jesse stuck out his tongue at the Shinra soldiers behind him, and then said to Claude: "Send them away quickly before they report to their superiors."

Claude picked up the metal giant sword [Destroyer Sword], his left arm muscles bulged, his eyes were cold:

"I think so too."