At the beginning of the game, the gods tricked Kaido into drinking the blood of evil energy

Next, under Alice's introduction, Rhodes temporarily joined the protagonist team.

Although Tifa, Cloud, Barrett and others were still wary of Rhodes, they finally agreed after Alice's persuasion.

Because Rod agreed to help them deal with Sephiroth, the biggest representative of the Jenova virus on the planet, and also the symbol of Sephiroth himself.

That night, Rhodes followed the protagonist group to an inn to rest.

In his own room, Claude told everyone about his previous experiences in Niflheim and the matter of Sephiroth.

"Wait! You said you went to Tifa's room and opened her closet?" The two girls showed an expression of disbelief and asked in unison.

"Well! I couldn't control my body at that time." Claude said.

"Pervert! Too much!" Alice and Tifa said in unison.

Entering a girl's room casually and opening her closet is truly perverted behavior!

Rhode, who was standing by, burst out laughing. This was a little easter egg.

Is this Claude's choice or the evil player's choice?
Seriously, I opened the closet and found nothing.

Next, Claude began to narrate his own experience, the whole incident in Niflheim, and the group went to investigate the abandoned Mako Furnace No. 1.

After discovering the strange clone, Sephiroth began to have mental problems. After that, Sephiroth locked himself in Hojo's laboratory and kept reading some books.

His mental problems became more and more serious, until he finally committed a crime that angered God and man, turning the entire Niflheim into a sea of ​​fire.

Everyone else was listening with great interest, but Tifa alone had a very ugly expression on her face, and even her eyes were filled with anxiety and confusion!

No, no, this is completely different from the memory she is familiar with, it doesn't match at all!
At that time, Sephiroth did bring a high-level Shinra warrior to the small village of Niflheim where they lived.

However, the Shinra warrior following Sephiroth was not Cloud but another man named Zack.

Tifa served as their guide back then, and still remembers it all clearly.

During the Niflheim incident five years ago, Tifa had never met Claude at all. What Claude described and what happened to him were simply the experiences of another Shinra special forces soldier.

Although it seemed as if he had experienced it himself, Tifa could still tell that something was wrong, even in Cloud's memory, he was killed.

Really, when she was in Midgar before, she noticed that Claude's expression was not right, and there might be something wrong with his brain. He often had hallucinations, such as seeing Sephiroth.

What on earth had Claude been through over the years? Why? Why had he become so abnormal? Why was there something wrong with his memory, and he himself had no idea?

"Cloud! You, you," Tifa began to hesitate.

She really wanted to tell Claude everything, but she was afraid that her words would once again cause her childhood sweetheart to lose his temper.

Claude is very ill now! I must find a way to cure his mental illness.

"You feel weird, right? Claude clearly didn't appear in your hometown five years ago, but he firmly believes in this memory.

This guy's memory has been modified. The memories in his mind are all false, and they are even connected with the memories of another person, and he regards that person's experience as his own. "Rhode said at the side.

I don't have time to play the memory search game with you guys. Let's just be direct and simple.

"Hey! Mr. Rhodes! You mean there's something wrong with Claude, something wrong with his mind?
He took another person's memories as his own experiences!" Alice's face changed and she asked.

"Impossible, I've clearly been there and there's nothing wrong with my memory." Claude shook his head and said.

"Claude! Mr. Rod is right, you were not there. I also experienced that incident, and I, I didn't see you at all, and you didn't return to your hometown." Tifa said excitedly.

Everyone was shocked to hear this, so who had the problem between the two of them?

"Mr. Rod! Since he is a demigod and can discover the problem with you, he must be able to cure you. Please, Mr. Rod, help him!" Tifa came to Rod, bowed, and said pleadingly.

Really, I was a little embarrassed to refuse the request of my childhood goddess! However, this is also to deal with the Jenova virus.

How could I let Sephiroth's plan succeed so easily? I must sabotage it.

"He was right about one thing. He did go to Niflheim back then, and he was right next to you, Tifa. It's just that you didn't recognize him." Rhodes said.

"Hey! Wait! What's going on? You guys have confused me. So who is it, whose memory is wrong?" Barrett asked speechlessly, and Red XIII nodded. "Hey! Mr. Rhodes, do you mean that my memory is also wrong?" Tifa's face changed. Could it be that it was not Claude who was crazy, but herself?

"There is nothing wrong with your memory, but at that time, Claude was just an ordinary soldier of Shinra Company!
After so many years in the army, he ended up returning home as a soldier, so he is too embarrassed to see you!" Rhodes said.

"Impossible, I'm clearly an S1-level Shinra warrior!" Claude said with a frown. His head was hurting again. Some broken pictures kept flashing by, and a black-haired man kept appearing in his mind.

There is even a scene in which he holds the Buster Sword and pierces Sephiroth's heart with it.

"Shinra Warriors are the signature weapon of Shinra Company, and S1-level Shinra Warriors are the highest level of combat power. Every S1-level Shinra Warrior has his or her identity information available, and there has never been a person named Claude.

The truth is, your memory, Cloud, overlapped with that of another S1-level Shinra warrior, Zack, and you incorporated some of his experiences into your own memory.

You don't remember where you were during these five years, right? Let me tell you, you were captured by a scientist named Bao Tiao.

He injected the Jenova virus into you and Zack, attempting to transform you into new Shinra warriors, or monsters.

Later, due to an accident, you and Zack woke up, but you remained in a coma.

Zack led you to fight your way out of a bloody battle, and then faced an ambush by a large number of Shinra soldiers. You fought desperately and defeated all the enemies.

Before he died, he gave this sword of destruction to you and told you that you were the proof of his life, and that in your subconscious mind, you had been fulfilling his wishes.

Because Zack's wish is to leave the Shinra Organization, become a mercenary, and earn enough money to support Alice." Rhode said.

These false memories are partly due to the fact that Claude has closed his heart and is unwilling to face the truth, and partly due to Sephiroth's manipulation.

Now Sephiroth has been separated from the concept of the flesh. Those black robes infected by Jenova, as well as those black robed Faith, can all become carriers of Sephiroth.

Unless the Jenova virus is completely eradicated from the planet, Sephiroth will be immortal.

"You, how do you know all this?" Claude asked.

His head suddenly began to ache, and a blurry figure appeared in front of him: a handsome man with long silver hair.

"Claude, you have to complete my mission. You have to help me find it."

"I'm here, and you dare to show up? Get out of here!" Rhodes, who was sitting next to him, suddenly snorted coldly.

It emitted a sound that could directly shake the soul, instantly shattering the shadow of Sephiroth in Claude's mind.

Are you kidding me? I'm sitting here and you dare to show up. Do you really think I'm made of clay?

Possessing the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit and the mutated and evolved Rinnegan, Rhodes' mental strength is extremely strong.

Once Sephiroth's mind interference body appears, others cannot find any trace, but he can.

"Ah!" Claude suddenly covered his head and let out a scream.

"Mr. Rhodes, what happened just now?"

"That fellow called Sephiroth, his current life form is beyond your understanding.

You can think of him as being everywhere on the planet, and he's always influencing Claude.

It was affecting the depths of his mind. Just now his spirit came over again. You didn’t notice it, but I found him and drove him away.”

Rhodes reached out and pressed his hand on Claude's forehead, breaking the false memory and allowing Claude's true self to return completely.

"I cured him. Let him rest for a while! When he wakes up tomorrow morning, he will be back to normal and become the person you know."

"Thank you very much, Lord Rhodes!" Alice walked over, bowed to Rhodes and spoke.

Rhodes nodded, stood up and returned to his room.

In an unknown gray space, a tall man with long silver hair suddenly opened his eyes, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

"A person who is beyond destiny has appeared. A person who is beyond destiny has appeared!
Who is this person? I have never seen him before, how did he appear? "(End of this chapter)