[Even if Sephiroth could still overpower the kid by way of literal physics, he has the hunt to be preserving his energy for. Besides, the rules had stated hunters couldn't turn on each other until the first two prey were killed. Sephiroth doesn't want to be the one to test at the rules, bad things tended to happen when Ruana felt someone was cheating at her game.

Besides, he could win this, fair and square.

What a light-addled fool, he imagines Nesir would have said, and it is such an accurate way of putting it. Typical hypocrisy all the way, putting ones so-called friends on a plateau when really it's the morality behind protecting them that props up so many otherwise insignificant personalities.

Besides-]

He's learned his lesson, however a bitter one it might be. He hasn't crossed me in a long time, and right now at least we all have more pressing matters at hand.

[Not least, this hunter/prey game.]