Zack hiked his shoulders up a little.

"Maybe," he said, biting his lip. "But I don't think that's all there is to it. You didn't... I mean... Sephrioth makes it look easy, but there's more to it than that. Angeal," and there was a new, different sort of tightness to Zack's voice at that name, "had added the strength and abilities of several monsters to his own, and Sephiroth could have made quick work of him."

Hell, he'd made quick work of Zack, and Zack was the one who had been forced to take Angeal down.