Cocoa Island, Chocolate Town.
"Hey! Monster, want me to gouge out that ugly eye on your forehead?
Then you'll only have two eyes..."
A slightly chubby boy with snot on his face and a buzz cut grabbed the three-eyed girl by the hair, leaving her unable to break free.
Then, the snot-nosed boy pulled a pair of scissors from his pocket and waved them lightly before the girl's forehead, threatening and intimidating her.
"Waaah! Please, don't do this!
Spare me!"
The three-eyed girl knelt on the ground, tears welling in her eyes as she begged.
But...
No matter how she pleaded, the children surrounding her all looked at her as though she were a joke or a monster. They mocked and cursed her, their faces twisted and ferocious. The adults on both sides of the street merely stood by, or even watched as if enjoying a show.
Suddenly!
A chocolate ice cream cone flew straight through the circle of children. With a whoosh, it smashed into the snot-nosed boy's face, splattering him all over.
"Ah!... Damn it!"
The snot-nosed boy instinctively released the three-eyed girl's hair and hurriedly wiped the chocolate ice cream from his face. He shouted angrily:
"Who the hell did that?!"
As he spoke, all the children gathered there, including the snot-nosed boy, turned to look in the direction the chocolate ice cream had come from.
Then they saw a silver-haired young man standing some distance away, dressed in a black suit, with an eerily handsome face.
Clearly, he was the one who had thrown the chocolate ice cream cone...
Facing everyone's gaze, Sephiroth remained expressionless as he said coldly:
"You little brats, if you don't want me to beat you until you cry, then hurry up and... get lost!"
As he deliberately stressed the final word,