Cloud looks up as Sephiroth looks down and promptly looks away again, in a way that's almost like trying to soften your footsteps so as not to frighten away the birds pecking around on your lawn. If he focuses too hard on him, maybe he'll remember he's fucking crazy and start trying to kill him again. As much as he doesn't want to be suckered in by any bullshit about whatever joke of a life Sephiroth was living before he killed everyone he ever loved, this is... preferable to the alternative. Maybe? Whatever, he's getting exhausted of going in circles with it in his head.

"Is that why you wanted to leave? Because of what happened to them? ...It makes sense," he adds, tacked on at the end there. Who wouldn't want to leave, after seeing something like that happening to their friends? As absurd as it is in his mind to think of Sephiroth ever having friends. He was a person once, too, he guesses.