foreigner's journey

Chapter 408 Everyone is waiting for you

Jesse only felt that he was being led by Heather to quickly shuttle between the mountains and forests.

Occasionally, there was a tree branch in the path of movement, and Jesse raised his hand to try to block his face, but found that the tree branch passed through him without hindrance.

It seems that I am just a bystander now, unable to affect anything in Claude's memory, and will not be affected.

Almost in an instant, Heather and Jesse arrived at the magic furnace on the top of the mountain.

After passing through layers of pipes and stairs, they finally came to the core area.The huge metal steps go up all the way, and at the end is the most secret metal door leading to the inside of the magic furnace.

"Tifa!" Jessie was horrified to find Tifa in a denim outfit lying in a pool of blood. She rushed to help her best friend up, but found that her hand had passed through Tifa's body.

"That was Tifa five years ago. She was slashed on the chest by Sephiroth. Not only did she cut off several ribs, but she also injured her internal organs. Until now, she still has a metal plate implanted by the hospital."

Heather stood aside with her hands in her pockets, her voice low and full of anger.

At this moment, there was a huge impact sound from the depths of the door at the top of the stairs, and then a figure flew out from the door, slammed into the outer Moko pipeline, and then fell heavily to the ground. He was powerless He collapsed on the edge of the steps, blood seeped from under his body and flowed down the metal steps.

It's Zack Fair!His Destruction Sword fell to the side, and his body was severely cut, and it looked like it was Sephiroth's handwriting.

"Tifa! Zack!"

There was a scream in the distance, and Cloud, who was wearing a Shinra soldier helmet, rushed over, first checked Tifa's injuries, and angrily punched the ground hard.Then he ran up the steps and found Zack in a coma.

Claude lifted his helmet and threw it aside fiercely, picked up Zack's destruction sword and rushed towards the inside of the magic furnace.

Jesse and Heather followed closely behind and entered the interior of the Mako Furnace together.

I saw a huge cylindrical culture tank in the deepest part of the magic furnace, in which was a naked woman with a beautiful appearance but no arms. A large number of pipelines and strange biological tissues spread from her body and extended outwards. The red light was constantly projecting outward from her eyes.

With his back to the passageway, Sephiroth was gently stroking the reinforced glass on the surface of the culture tank, muttering to himself: "Mom... let's take back this world together..."

Claude raised the Destruction Sword with unimaginable power, and the sword pierced Sephiroth's body heavily, and the tip of the Destruction Sword even pierced through the front of his body.

Sephiroth coughed up a mouthful of blood in disbelief, and wanted to grab Claude back, but the opponent pulled out the destruction sword at once.Blood gushed out from the huge wound, even Sephiroth, who was the strongest swordsman in the world, shook and half-kneeled on the ground: "You...you are..."

"Mom...Tifa...hometown...you took everything from me!"

Claude let out a mournful roar: "I used to admire you so much, why did you do this! Sephiroth!"

Sephiroth wanted to speak but coughed up a big mouthful of blood, the blood was mixed with internal organs, this kind of injury was obviously hopeless.

"Zack! Tifa!" Cloud thought of his friends, and immediately threw down the destruction sword and rushed outside.Now that the culprit has been eliminated, as long as they are sent for medical treatment in time, there must be still time.

He ran to the steps outside, first picked up Tifa and moved her to the wide area in front of the steps, then ran back to help Zack.He had just helped Zack up, and suddenly looked vigilantly at the door at the top of the steps.

I saw Sephiroth walking out staggeringly holding on to the door frame, the huge penetrating wound on the surface of his body was still gushing blood, he was holding an authentic knife in one hand, and a female head in the other.

Sephiroth knew that he could not remove the entire Xenovia matrix in this state, so he chopped off Xenovia's head and wanted to take it away.

Noticing Claude below, the corners of Sephiroth's blood-stained mouth slowly curled up: "You...can't...kill me..."

He staggered down the steps and walked outside, blood dripping all the way.

Claude gritted his teeth, and Zacks' weak voice came from his ear: "Claude...killed Sephiroth..."

"……give it to me!"

Putting Zack down, Claude had no time to go back to the training tank to pick up the destruction sword, so he had to chase Sephiroth desperately all the way.

Eventually, he caught up to Sephiroth in front of a narrow metal passage.On both sides of the passage are abysses, surrounded by continuously rotating gear chains and huge pipelines transporting demons.

"Sephiroth!" Claude yelled and chased after him. He was about to grab Sephiroth's shoulder but only saw the flash of the knife.

Sephiroth pierced Claude with a backhand knife. Even though he suffered such a serious injury, he still lifted Claude slowly with the sword in one hand: "Don't touch her..."

Jesse, who was standing aside, covered his mouth and watched the tragic duel with horror on his face.

Heather looked at the authentic knife and frowned slightly.

I saw blood overflowing from the corner of Claude's mouth, struggling with both hands grasping the blade of the authentic knife.After all, Sephiroth was seriously injured, and Claude struggled to fall to the metal floor of the passage as soon as the blade flickered.

"Drink!!" Claude grabbed the blade with both hands and violently lifted Sephiroth who was holding the knife.

"This...impossible..." Sephiroth showed a look of shock and anger for the first time.

Claude slammed Sephiroth with his knife, and the latter slammed into the high-speed rotating gear chain, and then fell into the abyss below.

Clutching the fatal penetrating wound on his chest, Cloud limped towards the direction of Zack and Tifa.He just walked back to Zacks and wanted to help his friend up, but he couldn't hold on any longer, fell beside Zacks and fell into a deep coma.

At this time, no matter whether the sky, the earth or the flames burning in the distant towns were rapidly dimming, they finally turned into endless darkness.

Jesse looked around: "Fa, what happened?"

"Claude's memories of this place have come to an end."

Heather looked up into the dark distance: "Ah, I found Tifa. I'll leave this to you. I'm optimistic about you."

"Ah? Hey, don't leave me here alone..." Jessie stretched out his hand weakly, watching Heather disappear all of a sudden.

Jesse had no choice but to sit on the spot with his knees hugged, feeling the endless darkness around him.

Suddenly, she found a small light in the distance, so she ran towards the light.When he ran near the bright light, Jesse realized that it was a young blond boy with faint fluorescence all over his body, and it was Claude in his youth.

The little Claude sat on the spot with his knees hugged, looked up at Jesse who was running over, hesitated for a moment and said:
"Jessie...don't come here."

"Claude? Is that you?" Jesse was overjoyed, but was blocked by an invisible wall when he was about to run over: "Claude, let me go over?"

Little Claude shook his head, curled up even tighter:
"Don't come here... I, I don't want to disappoint you anymore. I'm not like I boasted, I'm not Shinra's 1st fighter, I didn't do those heroic deeds. That's all Zack's experience, I Just a mean stealer... sorry I let you down..."

"Don't be stupid, Claude, I love you, not those deeds. You have never let me down, so don't break up with me."

Jessie whispered softly, "Let me go over and give you a hug, okay?"

Suddenly feeling that the invisible wall disappeared, Jesse walked over and knelt on the ground, holding little Claude in his arms.

Seeming to feel Jesse's true feelings, the little Claude also hugged Jesse, and his figure gradually became the adult version of Claude.

"Let's go, everyone is waiting for you."

"……Um."

(End of this chapter)