Rufus allowed himself to be pulled up by Reno, not having the strength or energy to really protest even if he wanted. The injury was painful and the young Shinra temporarily closed his eyes before mumbling a reply to the question.

However, his usual calm voice was traced with pain and had a certain weakness to it.

"Someone finally disagreed enough with my presence to try something like this..." Honestly, they probably did this because death was now a permanent thing in this world. Before, it didn't last and thus killing him would be rather pointless in the end. Everything was different now though. It was just like any other place where death was something not so trivial.

He felt himself get weaker with every passing moment, the blood was leaving his body at a truly alarming rate. But Rufus didn't think too much about that right now, even as sweat started to bead at his forehead. Instead, he looked up as Elena ran over to them, merely nodding as she tried to stem the blood coming out from him. It wasn't enough, but he allowed Elena to do her job.

"Too long." Rufus didn't know how long he was bleeding like this, but he knew that his current state was anything but good. Was he really going to die this time? He escaped death many times before, but did his luck finally run out? It was going to be ridiculous if he died like this, on some planet he didn't care about.

He wanted to chuckle, but all that came out was a cough with blood coming from his mouth. Gaia, he really must look like a wreck...