# 34

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I'm going to do it.

I'm going to force myself through this.

Liveplay! Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII.

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Where I last left off!

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Sephiroth and Zack went to Mako Reactor 5 to search for Angeal and Genesis. Angeal showed his appreciation by throwing Zack into the slums. Said SOLDIER is now having a full psychological break down.

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Helloooo!


Hooray!

Zack thinks Aerith is an angel.

She informs him that she's Aerith.

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He has to repay her for saying hello to him.

But she finds the idea of going on a date with him silly.

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And now he's telling her to sell her flowers.




She doesn't seem to understand. It's okay, Aerith. You've been added to Zack's schizophrenic episode battle roulette wheel. I don't need to see you again.

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> go to run on the flowers

> Aerith yells

> suddenly on other side of flower patch

Obviously Zack walked back from the cornfield.

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Aerith asks Zack where he's going.

He tells her that he's not sure.

She says she'll take him there.

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Zack: "... Where?"

Good question, bro.

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Aerith volunteered to lead Zack down the one path toward the central slums!

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"AHH, MONSTERS!" she helpfully shouts, in case Zack can't see the thing happening right in front of him.

Zack is like, "No worries. I GOT THIS." And then he makes a Superman pose.

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Aerith: "I feel so safe with you, Zack."

We are so getting laid tonight.

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Zack asks Aerith if he looked cool, fighting the monsters.

She doesn't know. :(

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Zack: "Aerith, you were supposed to compliment me--"

Aerith: "LAST ONE THERE'S A ROTTEN EGG! :D"

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Subject: Hollander's T-shirt

From: Kunsel

I don't want to read this.

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Kunsel thinks Hollander's apple t-shirt helps him relieve stress.

Kunsel is a genius of thinking, obviously.

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Aerith is afraid of the sky, because she's not used to seeing it. That's kind of adorable.

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I seriously think that is just so adorable. She's afraid of big open sky. ;;; It's such a reasonable, squishy detail....

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Zack was just pickpocketed by a little kid. Aerith know what's up, though.

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WHY DOES EVERY PERSON LOOK THE SAME

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> talk to every single person in the market

> cutscene conversation with a man who tells me, "talk to everyone!"

I guess I'll go talk to them again, sure.

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Zack keeps asking clerks in the slums to help him catch the boy who stole his wallet.

No one lifts a finger.

Is it because Zack is a SOLDIER working for Shinra, a major energy conglomerate that is bleeding the world dry of its lifeforce and probably responsible for the poverty of most of these people?

Zack, let the kid have your wallet. It's not like you carry your materia in there, right?

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After the most annoying chase quest ever, we now go get to fight a monster. Zack, Aerith, and the little street urchin. :D

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I shall call the street urchin... Thiefy McGrab.

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I fought three childer from DA: Awakening, and then Zack did an EXAGGERATED BODYFLOP :D when he discovered Thiefy McGrab has a higher allowance than him.

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"Don't mock me, Junior! I'm going to be a wealthy man soon. Aerith and I are going to sell flowers."

Hey. Hey, Zack. Hey.

Remember your career? Above the plate? That thing?

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He's too busy being adorable to remember any of that.

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Now we're going to make a... flower wagon...

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"Hi, Aerith. Is that your boyfriend?"

"Hmm... I'm not sure yet."

Yeah, smart call, Aerith. You need to spend more than an hour with him before you give him the boyfriend card.

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I'm torn between having no faith in the localisation and having too much faith in Aerith having a clever personality.

But, game. Don't try to sell me a ten minute romance. I will rearrange your face.

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"Then consider it a one-day anniversary gift of our friendship."

THAT IS NOT HOW ANNIVERSARIES WORK

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IT IS WHEN IT'S ZACK.

AND THEY'RE NOT DATING, AREN'T YOU HAPPY?

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Aerith has a pretty string of flowers on the strap of her dress. :D

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Lalala, doing missions, prolonging going back to the place where Genesis is.

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Good call.

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GENESIS

GET YOUR STUPID FACE OFF MY DMW

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I think Cissnei's Lucky Stars is my favourite DMW result so far. I like having three times the attack power!

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See? Cissnei is the best new character.

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Zack went on a mission!

Cloud SOLDIER 3rd Class Lv. 2 was. You know. There. He didn't appear at any point before Zack had defeated the enemies, nor at the beginning of the mission, nor at any point where he could have been of use. I guess we're supposed to take it for granted that he was a thing that happened?

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I am beginning to suspect this whiner is, in fact, not Cloud.

For one, I don't think Cloud has parents.





It's Kunsel, isn't it.

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I finally got a summon in the DMW!

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It was Ifrit, and I got to see the fully rendered Hellfire.