Yeah, it's a total mess, what Zack's trying to do for him -- he's holding a certified genocidal barely-human living weapon, and what he did to Wutai for Zack's sake -- he called it for the platoon, but it wasn't personal until it was about Zack -- that's not sane by anyone's definition; but Zack had to keep holding him, carefully, because the alternative of leaving him alone in the world was literally not imaginable. So even if he has to lie about being fine, even if he has to never mention what was wrong with what Sephiroth did for him, Zack's always going to be there because he knows how much he has to be there for the world to survive what Sephiroth would do without him...
which is where the "ikenie" of the title gets complicated in even another direction: is it the original carrier of the virus who was sent to die, or is it the villagers who died in Sephiroth's personal insane race to outmatch the virus however he could, or is it Zack, who's a living offering to keep Sephiroth's questionable sanity in check? Or is it Sephiroth himself, who's been made a human sacrifice to Hojo's amoral scientific curiosity and the President's megalomania throughout his entire life? Yeah...
which is where the "ikenie" of the title gets complicated in even another direction: is it the original carrier of the virus who was sent to die, or is it the villagers who died in Sephiroth's personal insane race to outmatch the virus however he could, or is it Zack, who's a living offering to keep Sephiroth's questionable sanity in check? Or is it Sephiroth himself, who's been made a human sacrifice to Hojo's amoral scientific curiosity and the President's megalomania throughout his entire life? Yeah...
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