Spencer was often too afraid of in some way hindering his hero's functions by getting too close. Not that he didn't trust Sephiroth to swing a sword and not clip him if he was close, but Spencer was much too cautious to take the chance. Besides, more often than not he knew his hero operated best when he wasn't having to worry so much about anything but the battle in front of him.

"Hm." It wasn't as if Sephiroth had been living with the apparent immortality as a crutch, either. He'd died perhaps once, if he recalled it correctly, and that had been very early on under circumstances he knew he didn't want to recall right now. The fact that it had turned his crystal from red to blue had been enough of a warning to avoid that potential outcome as much as possible.

All said and done, considering how many conflicts he'd seen, Sephiroth had either been exceptionally skilled or incredibly lucky. Over time he had been swayed into thinking more of the latter where his confidence had waned away.

"What concerns me more, is exactly what else that might have been connected to, metaphysically speaking..." In other words, what did it mean now for the Calamity, and for their so-called assimilation to Crystallis...