To begin with, Sephiroth thought that Sparks had the right idea and he too was heading in the direction of the portal back to Aqures; as who didn't have a pile of things on their plate to be getting on with? Plus surely the others who remained could finish the job, everyone who had attacked surely knew what needed to happen now.

But first it was the way that Jack shouted out about the Avatars, and by extension Narayana itself would know one way or the other what transpires here and although every exhausted nerve ending in Sephiroth wanted nothing but to pass into that open portal, he found his feet rooted to the ground as he looked back over his shoulder.

Could they be-

But the discussion, now? Just as it had been before when Rialynn had been possessed. They were all just going to end up fighting each other, again, something which -undeniably- the Calamity seemed to encourage most of all. So Sephiroth listened to those with their opinions as he slowly sheathed his sword back into it's harness and came within conversation range himself. There was a deep frown already pulling between his eyes.

"Perhaps that's exactly what such a being wants to see?" He answers Parasraya, after a beat. "Maybe that's exactly what it is interested in and that might be the wrong perspective. We've certainly been through enough trials, enough games, by various Avatars so far as to indicate such."

A quick look to Lust, though by the look on his face Sephiroth isn't particularly happy to have reached said conclusion. It looked a little like he was trying to eat something really sour. It's clear he'd have been one of the first to put the final blow in if he hadn't thought it was already well in hand.

"Maybe it is a test of humanity. But the answer to that test isn't one that's so black and white."