Some time had passed since the "Red Moon incident" that had destroyed Enies Lobby.
The various powers had racked their brains over Bondrewd's "true objective," but none could make heads or tails of it.
Meanwhile, Sephiroth, one of those involved-or the mastermind behind it all-had come to Heaven's Gate Town that day.
Even on the Express Shrimp train, the trip from here to Sky Island only took a little over ten minutes. That made it part of the homeland, not an "exclave."
Sephiroth came over every few days to check on things, even if only as a formality.
The Grand Church in the town center also served, to some extent, as a palace.
At that moment, inside the Grand Church, in the office reserved for the High God...
Sephiroth sat on the sofa by the window, dressed in a white knight's casual uniform, with the glow of stained glass behind him.
Sunlight streamed through the glass, casting patches of interwoven red and blue across the carpet.
The office walls were white, and the furnishings were relatively simple, with only a few decorative touches of gold and red.
Baby 5 stood behind him in a black-and-white maid uniform. Her skirt reached her knees, and her tightly tied white apron accentuated her slender waist. Her long black hair fell over her shoulders. With a calm expression and her hands folded over her lower abdomen, she looked like an exquisite doll.
Buru... buru...
The Den Den Mushi on the desk suddenly rang, and Baby 5 immediately brought it over to Sephiroth.
Even though it had hardly been far away.
Sephiroth had long since grown used to it. At this level, he simply let her do as she pleased.
Click.
Once he picked up the receiver...
The Den Den Mushi sprouted a single red