Not that older! He... ohhh, because I said he was retired? No, I meant that he doesn't work for the people who... um 'employed' him previously. Technically.

[She knew that he'd helped out the Turks before, but as far as she knew he didn't trust Shinra all that much. And since they were away from all of that, Sephiroth didn't have to run off and fight their fights for them anymore. He was his own person, with his own wants and needs.

And Aerith was truly convinced that they were Soulmates, in the strictest sense of the world. They were bound to each other. How else could they follow each other to so many worlds outside of their own?]

We've been away from our home for a few years now. It's been really nice just to live normal lives, you know? No more fighting... Unless he's being a dummy. And he can be a dummy sometimes, too.