"I as well," Sephiroth acknowledges. Even though he has no one waiting for him, no one who would be worried about his disappearance if he didn't return to the same point from which he left. Well, perhaps Merlin would. And he still has so much work to be done, so many places left to search for Zack. And ... if he was still going to try to help Cloud ...

"I understand it being different for anyone who may have forged close bonds here. When this is all over, I wonder if they will be given the choice of staying on, if they wish."

Although of course that wouldn't help in Gladio's situation. Sephiroth could try to take him to his fiance's world, perhaps, but would the fiance even remember Gladio?

A depressing thought.