A foreigner's journey

"Senior brother, Claude, he is..."

Seeing Heather coming this way, Tifa asked anxiously.

Jesse's reaction was even greater. He hugged Claude directly and looked at Heather pleadingly: "Heather, please, Claude never wanted to do this! He, he was... Manipulated!”

Jesse knows Heather's character very well after getting along with her over the years. He is absolutely indifferent and ruthless when dealing with his enemies, and can even be called cruel. His little brilliance of humanity only shines when he treats his friends, and his gentle smile only blooms towards Tifa.

The most important thing is that Heather hates [traitors] the most. Cloud rebelled during the battle and injured Barret, and even fought with Tifa and almost killed her. Heather's character would never forgive Cloud.

Barrett also sat up from the ground with Yuffie's support. He covered the sword wound on his shoulder and said with a forced smile, "Heather, I'm fine. Claude can't hurt me."

Heather is not wearing glasses now, and her ferocious temperament can be called a "ferocious beast" without the suppression of glasses. Just walking around will bring about a strong sense of oppression.

This was the first time Yuffie saw Heather without glasses. First she was attracted by her extraordinary handsome appearance and was distracted for a moment, and then she shrank back in horror. As a genius ninja, the girl is very sensitive to 'power', and now Heather is the strongest person she has ever seen.

Walking in front of Barrett, Heather frowned and looked at Barrett's injuries. After seeing that there was nothing serious, she looked at Claude and Jesse who was holding him. Tifa came over and took Heather's hand, and whispered worriedly: "Brother...that's not Cloud."

"I understand." Heather nodded, and then said to Jesse: "Idiot, let him go quickly, you are about to strangle him to death."

Jesse was startled and quickly let go of Claude. Claude was still holding his head and wailing. It was obvious that the pain was so intense that he, who was always calm and tough, could let out such a miserable howl of pain.

Heather's right hand suddenly turned into a whip and whipped it towards Claude, hitting him precisely on the back of the neck. Claude groaned and lay down on the ground without moving.

"Take him with you. This guy's situation is very complicated. We'll explain it later when we get to a safe area."

Heather carried the fainted Claude on her shoulders and led everyone along the shuttle ladder that was not affected by the attack and fire to the second cable car hall below, where the Red Comet and their vehicles were stored.

Fortunately, only the upper areas were affected by the war. The venues on the lowest floors were still intact, but tourists and staff were in panic. It's no wonder that when you are having fun, you suddenly encounter a fight between gods. Anyone caught in the aftermath of the battle will immediately return to the west, and everyone will panic.

However, no tourists asked to leave by cable car, because there were constant lightning and thunder in the sky outside the venue just now, and there was a terrifying scene of giant beasts fighting each other. Isn't taking the cable car to go out looking for death?

Ignoring the persuasion of the staff, Heather and others boarded a cable car with half request and half coercion, and transported the vehicle and the red comet away from the Golden Butterfly Amusement Park.

Under the night sky, two cable cars flew downward along the track. Looking out through the window, the originally brightly lit and luxurious Kingdee Playground was now burning with blazing fire in the top area. Several venues on the upper floors either disappeared or burned into flames, and screams and cries resounded through the night sky.

"Is this our fault..." Alice covered her mouth, her face pale.

Heather glanced at Alice, not wanting her students to blame themselves too much: "Don't take the blame for yourself, it is obviously Sephiroth's responsibility. Remember, we are protecting and fighting for this planet, Sephiroth Ross is the enemy of the planet, and if there is a battle, there will inevitably be damage, so don’t put unnecessary extra pressure on yourself.”

Even so, everyone remained silent.

In this silence, the cable car arrived at the cable car hall at the bottom of the mountain. Everyone ignored the inquiring staff and left Mount Corel in a vehicle.

It wasn't until they were far away that the convoy set up camp and rested in the wilderness.

Around the campfire, everyone was in a very low mood. Jesse put the soaked towel on Claude's forehead, worriedly caressing the side of her boyfriend's face, and then turned to look at Heather after a long time: "What on earth is going on with Claude?"

Heather and Tifa looked at each other, and when the latter nodded, Heather was silent for a while, and then said:

"According to my speculation, Cloud should have been infected by Jenova just like Sephiroth."

"Jenovia?" Jesse's face turned pale. She had heard how dangerous and terrifying the alien life forms that could destroy ancient species were many times in the past few days. She didn't expect that Claude would also be...

Alice hugged her knees and sat in front of the bonfire. The bright firelight made her little face flicker: "But Claude usually doesn't show Jenova's strong aggression? Teacher, how did you find out?"

"It was Tifa who discovered something was wrong with Cloud in the first place."

Heather used her absolute royal power to pull the bonfire and said:

"Obviously they haven't seen each other for seven years, but when Cloud and Tifa met in Midgar, they said 'they haven't seen each other for five years.' Tifa was very surprised by this at the time, but she just thought it was a slip of the tongue. Then Cloud called himself He is the 1st, but the name Claude Strife has never appeared among the official 1st fighters of Shinra."

"Don't you think it's weird? I firmly believe in fictional experiences as my memory. My name has never appeared in the list of special forces, but my strength is no less than those of the 1st. Then, when I invaded the Shinra headquarters building to rescue Alice, I I saw some confidential information in the Hojo Research Laboratory."

"After connecting these confidential information, I finally figured out the truth of the matter."

"Most of the 1st experiences that Cloud claims to have originated from a 1st warrior named Zack Fair. The real Cloud left his hometown of Nibelheim seven years ago and joined the Gods. Luo Jun, but the experience is not as smooth as he said. Even if a silent soldier has good skills, it is difficult to get ahead. Such unknown soldiers are not uncommon in the Shenluo Army."

"I don't know when Claude and Zack Fair met. One was a taciturn low-level soldier and the other was an enthusiastic and cheerful 1st soldier. The two completely different people became good friends."

"Then, five years ago, Zack Phil and Sephiroth received a confidential mission to go to Nibelheim to deal with the accidental Mako Reactor. Among the accompanying soldiers was Cloud."

"Tifa was leading the way for Zack and Sephiroth as a guide, but for unknown reasons Cloud did not take off his soldier helmet to recognize Tifa."

"Immediately afterwards, there was the Nibelheim tragedy. No one knew what happened in the Nibelheim Mako Reactor, but when Hojo led the Shinra troops and the scientific research team to arrive, they only saw people lying in a pool of blood. Among Cloud and Zack, a large amount of Sephiroth's blood was left at the scene, and his body was missing."

"Hojo realized that this was a good opportunity for experimentation, so he assigned the Shinra Army to bring the dying Zack and Cloud to the laboratory at the bottom of the Nibelheim Mansion, and carried out an inhumane attack on the two. experiment."

"In the end, the two of them were implanted with Jenova cells by Hojo and soaked in the culture tank for observation."

"Hojo has done many experiments related to the implantation of Jenova cells before, but all failed except for Sephiroth, a perfect individual. This time, he did not have high hopes and just regarded it as an ordinary human body. test."

"According to the records in the Baojo laboratory, the last culture tank data record was two months ago, which means that Claude and Zack were still soaked in the culture tank until two months ago. But we I found Cloud in Midgar who was confused and took Zack's experience as his own. Something must have happened during this period, and it must be related to the Jenova cells."

"Tifa and I have been discussing for a long time, but we have never been able to find a suitable opportunity to reveal the truth. I am afraid that it will bring an irreversible blow to Cloud. But now..."

Heather pulled the bonfire and said in a calm tone:

"Jesse, you have to prepare for the worst."

"...What's the worst plan?" Jesse's voice trembled.

Heather stopped stirring the fire, looked at Jesse and said seriously:

"There's a good chance that Claude will never wake up again."