Zack hesitates at that. Feels weird to be thanked for his honesty when he's still omitting so much, but he's being pretty honest considering Sephiroth's whole... everything. He's still a kid, and after watching Sephiroth go off the deep end as a full-grown adult when he'd read too much truth to handle, Zack's not going anywhere near the topic of Jenova. Unfortunately a great deal of his own past and what happened with Genesis involves the Jenova stuff. Makes all of this harder.

I'll do better, he says. How depressing is that, already planning ahead on the dispatch of his future friend. He sure is different from the cool and confident war hero who can get away with just about anything. ...Maybe he'll feel better, knowing that part.

"Actually... I was given that assignment at first because you - or future you, at least - refused it. You didn't want to be the one to kill your friend." And while he's being honest, "And I don't know if he's dead! I kicked his butt and left him to think about what he was doing with himself. He disappeared after that."

Golden boy Sephiroth refused an order, and got away with it. Chew on that one, kiddo.