Okay. Point. Zack would have thought of the points Reno brought up, too, if he hadn't been so angry at Sephiroth's past betrayal. Future betrayal? Though Zack guessed it didn't matter by this point, only that Sephiroth was not allowed to do so again.

"Someone had to be," Zack shot at Rufus, very much implying by his words that the ShinRas had something to do with the need for that protection. And gee, Sephiroth and mini-boss ShinRa deciding to team up; it was obvious that Zack couldn't leave them unsupervised, even if on the surface, the protection of innocents seemed to be the motivating factor for Sephiroth. Zack couldn't quite trust that yet, couldn't trust that it wasn't another game to the man.

Zack stared at Sephiroth with hard eyes, arms crossing before he declared, "You won't be my master either. Or Cloud's." Zack nodded towards the seated, and mostly silent, cadet.

"Monsters, huh? Forget setting up shop. Count me in for this reconnaissance mission of yours." Zack's hand went to the hilt of his sword on instinct, clamping down on the familiar budding excitement that always came with mission starts. He was there to keep on eye on things, on Sephiroth, not to give free reign to his love for battle.