In Midgar's Sector 7, there was a bar called Seventh Heaven.
The proprietress of this bar was someone no visitor could forget.
It couldn't be helped—the proprietress was extremely beautiful, with an angelic face, devilish figure, and a voice like a songbird; she was simply a goddess-like existence.
At the moment, this goddess appeared to be in a daze.
One hand had been holding a glass motionless for quite some time, until now when the ice cubes had almost melted.
Though she seemed to be spacing out, this goddess was actually watching the livestream.
The heart-stopping battle in the video seemed to tug at her heart.
Particularly at this moment, after the grenade was thrown in, the intense flash made her extremely tense.
Hmm?
At the same time, she heard a very unusual sound, seemingly the roar of the giant metal monster before its death, mixed with muffled sounds of human suffering.
After the brief white flash, there was a crimson glow, as if everything was covered in flames, and the camera view seemed to be spinning.
It was as if someone had been blown away by the explosion, their body tumbling.
Unfortunately, the flames or whatever light was too intense, making it impossible to clearly see the situation of the few people.
Hmm?
Finally, the picture cleared, and she saw the woman called A2, the woman called 2B, and the male who should be the newly joined group member all there.
The three were huddled closely together, as if they had survived.
No, it wasn't that the three were huddled together; it looked more like the male had acted as a shield to protect the two women.
Then, Tifa noticed this man's outstretched hand pointing forward, which was in a pitiful state with severe burns.
It was as if the skin had been ignited in an instant, still emitting sparks.
Then, as this hand relaxed, Tifa noticed a subtle anomaly in the air, as if an invisible spherical shield had rippled and disappeared.
Pupils dilating, Tifa observed the surroundings of the few people, which were in a terrible state—it was as if the entire ground had been excavated.
The nearby forest that had existed was now completely gone, transformed into a land of death.
So, judging from the position of the few people, Tifa was more certain that this male had just used a special power to protect them, which was why that small patch of ground where they stood was slightly more intact, though still on the verge of collapse.
It was like a section extending from the edge of a cliff, about to break off and fall into the abyss at any moment.
Of course, there wasn't a hundred-meter-deep cliff here, but given the depth and assuming the gravity there was the same as here, Tifa without any protective measures would likely end up half-dead if not completely.
Ah?
This male was coughing blood, with blood coming from his nose and ears, seemingly not from the explosion's impact, but from overdrawing that special power, right?
That said, it was equivalent to withstanding the explosion's impact, so saying it was caused by the explosion wasn't wrong either.
"Why are you, as a human, on Earth? Shouldn't you be living on the lunar surface?"
2B asked very confusedly and anxiously, while helping to support him.
This statement also made Tifa, watching the livestream, raise an eyebrow slightly; the amount of information revealed was considerable.
Lunar surface? Referring to the moon, right?
And 2B believed humans shouldn't be living on Earth, suggesting the possibility that Earth's environment couldn't sustain human life—Earth had become a dead planet.
The world where Tifa lived, this planet, was also heading toward death due to an organization's greedy extraction of planetary energy.
Therefore, to protect the planet, Tifa had joined an organization called [Avalanche] to fight against [Shinra], which was continuously depleting the planet's energy.
So, in A2's world, was the human mother planet also unable to provide survival due to man-made destruction?
Or did the planet itself have issues?
"Living on the moon? What if I told you that humans in this world went extinct long ago?"
The man with the ID Golden Toilet spoke with a somewhat deep tone.
This statement not only stunned 2B and A2 in the livestream but also slightly startled Tifa watching it.
This young man was from another world; why would he say this?
He knew information about this world!!!
In his world, A2's world information existed in some work that he had seen.
If what he said was true, Tifa's expression also grew somewhat gloomy, because it meant that humans in A2's world had completely died out.
This resonated with her—would her world also head toward such a situation?
"Your words are self-contradictory. According to my current scanning, you are almost certainly human, which conflicts logically with your statement about human extinction."
2B in the livestream replied this way.
After all, she didn't know that this man with the ID Golden Toilet was a human from another world, so what she said wasn't wrong.
"I'm not a human from this world, but even if I were a human from this world, would you invite me back to the Bunker? I'm guessing I'd have one outcome—humanitarian destruction."
He simply admitted to not being a native.
"Humanitarian destruction?"
2B didn't understand.
"Yes, if humans truly still exist, it might not be good news for the android leadership."
"I don't understand. Our mission as androids is to guard and protect humans, not to harm them."
"That's what you think, but do you believe your leadership thinks the same? Your leadership might have the same thoughts as the machine lifeforms—the idea of destroying their creators. Unfortunately, the creators of androids—humans—went extinct thousands of years ago."
The man with the ID Golden Toilet shrugged as he said this.
It seemed he had a deep understanding of A2's world.
"The machine lifeforms want to destroy their creators?"
A2, who had been silent, couldn't help but grasp this key point.
"Yes, if this world doesn't differ much from my understanding, aliens were exterminated hundreds or over a thousand years ago by the rebellion of the machine lifeforms they created."
His seemingly casual content made A2's body shake, as if her soul had been struck.
Thinking about this a bit, Tifa could somewhat understand.
It was likely that A2 had been persisting in her mission all along, to win the war for humans—defeating the aliens.
Who would have thought that the aliens had been exterminated by their own creations?
And the humans she was protecting had also been extinct for thousands of years?
So what did the battles between androids and machine lifeforms over these thousands of years amount to?
"I don't believe it."
"Oh, Miss 2B doesn't believe? Actually, you're wavering too, aren't you? In fact, you're not really a Type B android. What is your true mission? Those targets you've handled, weren't they those who might have discovered that the Human Council had long been a council in name only and were silenced?"
These words also shook 2B.
"Also, do you know what the true purpose of creating the YoRHa troops was? Need I say it? YoRHa Commander White!"
A second before his words fell, this man had already raised his gun and aimed at the robot beside 2B.
This robot seemed somewhat unusual.
"Who are you?"
A mature female voice came from the robot.
Most likely, this was YoRHa Commander White, remotely monitoring through this robot.
Would this commander be some kind of schemer? An enemy?