"Bella is just so adorable! And she's so good to me!"
"Right..."
Sephiroth sighed softly as he watched Hancock gush, looking as though he could barely stand to watch.
Make no mistake, Hancock wasn't swooning over Isabella.
At their first meeting, Isabella's "provocative" appearance in a wedding dress had nearly made Hancock bite her handkerchief and burst into tears.
But then Babylon's Regent had offered something Hancock couldn't refuse-photos of Sephiroth as a child!
And! It was a complete set, from age five all the way to sixteen!
Sephiroth himself hadn't even known some of those photos existed.
Hancock was actually five years older than Isabella, yet she had sincerely started treating her like an older sister.
As she admired the photos, she kept letting out exaggerated gasps like an actress in a stage play, looking as though she might faint.
"...So, what exactly are those photos of? I really want to know."
"...Um... well..."
Blushing furiously, Hancock clutched her waist pouch and refused to let go.
-Seriously! What was in those photos?!
Of course, Sephiroth wasn't going to snatch them from her. That would be far too tasteless. He could only follow the original plan and take Hancock on a quick tour of Babylon first.
It would help her find her way here in the future. Their transport was a Hover Car.
Its design was modeled on the Hover Cars in Cyberpunk. Of course, the technology wasn't nearly as advanced; it mostly just had the look.
The entire Kingdom of Babylon consisted of one Main Island and three Satellite Islands surrounding it.
Fixed transport links connected them. Apart from a few restricted areas, travel between the islands was completely open.
Servo Angels with two-head-tall proportions could be seen everywhere.
Because they possessed a degree of intelligence and emotional capacity,