Within a luxury suite at a hotel on Island 78 of the Sabaody Archipelago.
Bright sunlight streamed in through the curtains.
Sephiroth lay on the white bed, murmured softly, raised an elbow to shield his eyes, and slowly opened them.
He turned to look beside him. Gion was already gone from the bed, leaving only a few strands of dark hair as proof that she had slept there.
Sephiroth threw back the covers and got out of bed, revealing a small patch of blood on the white mattress.
After taking a hot shower in the bathroom, he returned to the bedside and picked up his clothes from the floor, putting them on one by one. Then he inadvertently spotted a note and five 10,000-Belly bills on the nightstand.
Sephiroth picked up the note and looked over its contents.
"Your performance last night was pretty good. I'm very satisfied, so consider this payment for serving me!
"Don't think that just because you slept with me for one night, I'm your woman now.
"I'm telling you, no chance!"
"..."
After reading the note, Sephiroth's mouth twitched slightly.
Did she just...?
"Fifty thousand Belly? Is she dismissing me like a beggar? That barely covers the hotel room..."
The silver-haired young man muttered under his breath as he put on his black leather jacket and fastened his two blades at his waist.
After sensing the Vampire Bat kept in the Marine base office, he drew the Butcher Blade from his waist.
A crimson flash of blade light swept through the air, and a Spatial Gate silently opened.
He stepped through to the other side and arrived in the Marine base commander's office, where he sat in the office chair.
Thinking back on what had happened last night, he could not help sighing.
Gion was