This Familiar Knife!

Song Ren had actually enjoyed this part of the train graveyard storyline.

Although the extremely eerie atmosphere had unsettled him at first, the moment Tifa and Alice "embraced him from both sides," that ghostly fear was immediately swept away.

And as the truth about the ghosts came to light, Song Ren saw things differently. The ghost that had found Cloud and the others was actually very lonely and simply wanted to play hide-and-seek with people. They were friendly.

But they had been imprisoned here by an undead spirit that rode a black carriage.

And while escaping the train graveyard and heading toward the slums, Alice had been carried away by that evil undead spirit.

This also brought on a wave of Alice flashbacks, giving players a focused look into Alice's past.

"So The Spirits Within portrayed Tifa and Cloud's experiences, while this scene portrays Alice's past. Are they trying to start a stock war? Alice stock, or Tifa stock?" Song Ren muttered to himself as he watched, especially when Cloud and Tifa tore through the black cyclone and reached Alice at the very end.

This kind of thing was not uncommon in anime and games. Even Nebula Games titles like The Witcher: Wild Hunt had similar setups, didn't they?

"If I had to choose... yeah, Tifa." Song Ren smacked his lips.

Compared to Alice, he still preferred someone like Tifa.

Once he entered the Boss Battle, he found it nowhere near as difficult as the Hell House in the arena. By making proper use of summons and building up the energy gauges—and with Tifa in the party for this battle—Song Ren did not temporarily lower the difficulty to Easy.

Watching the ghosts turn into blue starlight and ascend into the sky at the end, Song Ren fell into thought.

Based