Crystallis had certainly done a bit more for Cloud than Gaia had up to the point when he arrived. Belly aside he was getting near the physique that Mako enhancement would grant him after a massively traumatic experience and a few years in a tank being experimented on. Nominally, this was a much better situation for him.

In this world he was getting to become a Hero on his own terms.

"It's not so bad. There was someone I was hoping to speak to but I always seem to be missing her. I know she's around and not in Crystal stasis, but..." He sighed and shook his head, "Sometimes I wonder if I'd be better off letting her go. Back home I was a year older than her but here..." He shrugged and gave her a weak smile. "It's complicated...I'm still happy she's here though."