"That still tells me very little," Sephiroth replies, arching an eyebrow. "I don't know what you two have talked about, or what conclusions you may have drawn from what he said. I can confirm or deny things he's told you, or theories you've come up with, but I would need to know what those things are to do that."

At the question about his younger self, Sephiroth merely shrugs. "No harder a time than I gave those who reached out to me in a similar manner. Director Lazard - " The formality is simply because Sephiroth assumes that's the only way by which Cloud would know Lazard at all. " - Genesis, Angeal." And Glenn and his squad, but...Cloud wouldn't know them at all, and the squad quickly decided they wanted nothing more to do with them. Why bring them up? Simply to hurt himself with the memories of them? "People who wanted the best for me, but had to deconstruct years of ShinRa's conditioning to help me accept the things they offered. If my younger self is difficult, then it is merely a reflection of how I once was. I can hardly begrudge him...or do any less for him than others did for me."