I'm not doing anything I'm not supposed to be. [It's snapped, undercut with aggravation.] Unless you mean in an abstract timeline way, which I doubt since you don't seem to be any kind of an abstract thinker. Or a thinker at all, what kind of idiotic question is that?

[Asking Aerith to cast anything would mean having her in range. He's here to pick up things, so it's those things he goes looking for. Something with a lot of spiciness. Soup maybe? Fine, if Cloud wanted the truth, he'll get it.]

What would keeping on fighting have done? I wasn't there to try to hurt you, I wanted your help. I thought you were there to help, Mr. Valentine's stories always paint you to be a real hero who does the right thing no matter what. I guess he's as biased about you as he is about Mother.