Four years away from their world. That wasn't an insignificant amount of time and Rufus briefly wondered where Elena was at before arriving in this city. He planned on asking her more about those details at a later point, but he was fine with moving onto the situation they needed to address right now.

Even though he heard about Sephiroth from a couple different sources at this point, Rufus still found it odd to hear him be talked about so casually. Well, he was more of his hero self in this place, so it made sense. But it didn't erase the fact that the general almost destroyed Gaia a couple of times now.

Regardless, he nodded as she finished her report, mostly satisfied by what she said.

"The healing rain cured me just not too long ago. A month at most. Before you left Gaia, was I still afflicted with the disease?"