Inside the prison ship, every Marine had fallen unconscious. Caesar, meanwhile, cowered in a corner of his cell, screaming as though some predatory creep had set his sights on him.
Whatever else might be said about him, however arrogant Caesar was, he knew what a bounty of 1.5 billion meant at this point in time.
"What the hell are you going to do to me?!"
Previously, only Caesar's hands had been secured with Seastone Handcuffs. Now, chains of activated metal bound him, leaving him completely unable to move.
He could only watch as Sephiroth approached him in Bondrewd's outer armor.
"Seeing you so lively puts my mind at ease."
Sephiroth had done this out of caution, eliminating every potential problem before it could arise.
He raised his right hand. Amid a series of mechanical clicks, his right gauntlet opened to reveal the palm beneath.
"What are you doing?! No! You can't! Don't! Please, don't!"
-Caesar, why the hell are you screaming like that?!
Behind his mask, Sephiroth wore a somewhat peculiar expression. Anyone who didn't know better would have thought he was doing something to him.
In reality, Sephiroth had merely placed a hand on his head.
Were you really this much of a coward...? Hissing Caesar, have some shame!
-Let's see what tricks you have up your sleeve.
Ignoring Caesar's hissing, Sephiroth gave him a straight-up village-style head pat.
This round of mind reading was merely a simple scan, not a forced extraction of deep memories.
Scientists were rare enough, after all. For now, Sephiroth had no intention of extracting Caesar's memories regardless of the consequences.
"...Oh~ Now this really is interesting."
Unsurprisingly, Caesar had far too much knowledge in his head. Even with a forced extraction, Sephiroth would probably struggle to collect it all before his brain burned