Facing Kaido's flying charge, Sephiroth moved as lightly as a feather, letting an invisible force alter his flight path. An electromagnetic field pulled him elsewhere in a burst of extraordinary speed.
But in the very next instant, Kaido caught up with him, electricity crackling all over his body. The tip of his Kanabo trailed a streak of purple lightning like a meteor.
It warped the atmosphere, producing extreme heat shimmer, as though it carried a tremendous mass far beyond its size while being swung freely in every direction.
Kaido's wild attacks seemed random, but his battle instincts guided them. His movements and thoughts were perfectly aligned, with practically zero startup frames.
Efficient, simple, wild, swift, powerful. There was a beauty to those raw stats.
No technique whatsoever. His attacks were all feeling.
Sephiroth's Emotion Absorption was completely useless against mindless targets-and against types like this, whose minds were simple to the extreme and who bulldozed through everything on sheer stats.
Moreover, Kaido's reaction speed became even more outrageous in this state.
Without the Zero-Type System's assistance to hold his ground, Sephiroth would have been overwhelmed long ago.
The Zero-Type System did not accelerate his reflexes. Instead, building on his mechanized mind, it specially elementalized localized regions of his brain to perform electronic calculations for "pseudo-foresight."
-Well, under the circumstances, I couldn't ask for much more.
On the surface, Sephiroth seemed to have become completely "rationalized."
But if he had to draw a comparison, his subjective experience was more like "piloting" his own body as a machine while in bullet time.
This mode's stamina consumption was manageable, but its mental drain was immense.
Although he could cheat with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and simulate a computer's calculations, Sephiroth's subjective experience... was about as unpleasant as endlessly solving moderately difficult math problems.
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