Although some of them were still poisoned, Jade decided he didn't have time to cast another Esuna. The exchange of blows around Arthur was getting more and more heated; keeping everyone's health up took priority right now. After quickly assessing who'd taken the brunt of the counter-attacks, Jade cast Curaga on Cloud and Sparks.

He didn't see Arthur looking at him before it was too late. Once he did see the attack coming, there was little he could do but prepare for death. He had survived Excalibur earlier, but with Desperation activated multiple times, there was no way he'd--

Suddenly Sephiroth was there, blocking his line of sight. Acting on instinct, Jade likewise spread his stance and raised his arms -- either to help brace his friend against the incoming might of Excalibur, or to catch his dead body. Hopefully it would be the former.

"Hngh... That's three times you've saved my skin now," he said, voice strained. And to think Sephiroth worried about not being heroic enough.