Kuja can't help tittering, lifting his hand to cover his mouth with the back of it. "Really, Cloud," he says, with considerable amusement. "Do you imagine you need to show me the empty space where the thing you are describing would otherwise be?"

That is kind of objectively silly.

"As for this mako you speak of...it sounds quite fascinating. Such abilities aren't conferred by items in my world*, merely learned and mastered through diligent training. And while I suppose all the life and energy of Gaia stems from its crystal and the flow of death and rebirth that circulates through it, which one might well call the planet's lifeblood where I'm from...things like magic do not stem directly from it as a power source." He taps a finger to his cheek. "But summons...perhaps that is what we would know of as eidolons? Powerful creatures whose strength can be called upon? Those do stem from the crystals, as I understand it."

*Oh yes the fuck they are you useless twink who doesn't know game mechanics