Pity that. It seemed that Murphy's Law had inevitably struck again.

Rufus is a little taken aback by that news, realizing a moment later that he had never outright condemned the resurrection of that project. However, after the episode the planet had gone through, Rufus assumed that the people under his employ were intelligent enough to steer clear of anything that would cause ShinRa's shame.

Obviously, he thought wrong.

"I gave no such order," Rufus stated, not a declaration to Reno but a statement of fact. "I take it you were doing a little spring cleaning?"