[ ν ] - εγλ 0007 (December 23; During FF7)

Elena: "Oh, thank you very much...! I never expected you to come help..."

Reno: "Don't act so weak. You're a Turk!"

Elena: "Y... Yes, sir!"

That was the first thing that Elena said after being rescued by her colleagues Reno and Rude. Along with a younger teenager named Yuffie, she was on the verge of becoming squashed tomatoes just moments earlier, being kidnapped and tied upside down by Don Corneo against the Da-Chao Statue. She was seriously going to die. But from there she witnessed a destructive battle between the Don's pet monster and AVALANCHE, who had climbed up the mountain to save Yuffie. And with Corneo stunned and finally defeated by the Turks, Elena was more surprised than relieved to see them showing up and coming to her aid.

Reno: "Uh, Rude, you can go untie her..."

Climbing the statue wasn't an easy task for Rude; not only was there barely any grip to grasp onto, he found climbing it to be disrespectful to the people of Wutai. When he finally reaches Elena, he first steals a good look of the Turk tied helplessly against the left eye of Da-Chao, her face full of sweat from the sun. Since she was tied upside-down, her Turk uniform and pants had been hauled down by gravity, revealing her tucked-in dress shirt and bare ankles. As soon as Rude begins untying her arms, he notices that her entire body was attached to some wheel fulcrum. (Otherwise, there was no way she could have been rotated upside down if her arms and legs were tied against the statue.) Before he finishes untying her arms, he turns the fulcrum 180 degrees to get her facing right-side up.

When Rude then begins untying her legs, Elena can't help but giggle softly when his fingertips touch her bare left ankle. She laughs louder when they touch the inner, more sensitive side of her foot.

Rude: "What's wrong...?"

Elena: "N-nothing... hee-hee-hee!"

Giggling like a little girl, the 19-year old blonde turns her head towards Yuffie, who too was having her legs untied. But unlike herself, the ninja wasn't laughing at all, as it was her boots tied and not bare skin. When Elena's leg finally gets freed, she stops laughing only momentarily, as Rude wastes no time and starts untying her other ankle. She felt embarrassed for being so giggly in front of everyone.

Elena: "Ah... tee-hee! Eheheheheh!"

Rude: "..."

As the final knot gets released, Rude catches a falling Elena off the fulcrum and holds her until she finds her balance. Together, the two carefully climb down the Da-Chao Statue. When they reach the bottom, she hugs him firmly and the Turks nod to AVALANCHE, showing mutual respect for each other. But as happy as Elena was to have Reno and Rude save her life, sometimes she just hated being so ticklish.