Sabaody Archipelago, Marine base, medical room.
On a white hospital bed lay a half-reclining orange-haired girl, her right hand wrapped in bandages and a piece of gauze stuck to the right side of her face.
She seemed to be thinking about something. She stared blankly out the window, tears welling in her eyes.
Sephiroth, dressed in a black suit beneath his Justice cape, entered the medical room, pulled over a chair beside the white bed, and sat down to look at the girl.
He spoke in a very gentle tone.
"Little sister, have you eaten breakfast?"
The moment the girl saw his face clearly, she recognized the silver-haired young man. He was the one who had recklessly rushed into the fire yesterday and saved her.
"Big brother... thank you for saving me..."
Thinking of what had happened yesterday made the girl think of her mother again...
After waking from her coma, she had still clung to a faint hope that her mother might be alive, rescued by the Marines.
However...
When she saw her mother's half-charred body in the Marine morgue, that unrealistic sliver of hope was utterly crushed...
Tears slid down the girl's face, and her voice became thick with grief.
"Why are you crying? Does something hurt?"
Sephiroth pulled a tissue from the box on the bedside table and handed it to her.
As the girl wiped away her tears, she choked out:
"Mom... she's dead... sob sob sob!"
"My condolences... Do you have any other relatives?"
"Mom was my only family..."
"..."
Hearing that, Sephiroth could not help sighing, feeling somewhat melancholy.
The girl's mother had perished in the sea of flames, while the pirates who had caused the fire were inseparably connected to Vergo.
The Donquixote Family had created this disaster solely to pave the way