Sorry, Seph. Zack would have loved nothing more than to tell him that his very human mother was waiting for him somewhere in the world, and all he had to do was look. But he's not privy to that information, and the alternative is not coming out any time soon if Zack can help it.

(Distantly, he is aware that a trial could bring it into the open, and that could go very badly. But he's hoping that Thirteen will at least give them a bit of time to build some trust before everything falls apart, as it so often does.)

Sephiroth's observation does make him laugh, though. "Worse! It was the Turks! I had to book it out of there so fast."

Although not before reuniting with the director of SOLDIER and a hack scientist who for some reason decided following him to Gongaga was a great idea. All so they could eat Cloud's hair, probably.