Crisis Core: Kid, Wallet, and Potion Guide

This Crisis Core: Kid, Wallet, and Potion guide explains how to get the most benefits, like increasing Aerith's important affection score. While exploring the Sector Five Slums in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, you'll face a couple of tricky situations involving kids – one steals your wallet, another wants potions. These moments offer choices that can affect your relationship with Aerith.

Should you get the kid’s wallet back or buy the medicine in Crisis Core?

Shortly after entering the Sector Five Slums area with Aerith in Crisis Core, a child will run past Zack and snatch his wallet. Your immediate task becomes finding this child to get your belongings back. After talking to a few people in the market area, you'll locate the kid.

When you confront the child, they reveal that they needed the money for medicine. You are then presented with a choice:

• Insist on getting the wallet back immediately.
• Offer to purchase the kid's medicine.

Choosing to Purchase Medicine in Crisis Core

It is recommended that you select the option to purchase the kid's medicine. Here's what happens:

• Even after choosing this option, you still need to deal with a monster that ultimately has the wallet.
• However, showing concern and offering to buy the medicine first significantly increases Aerith's affection for Zack. This is the primary benefit of choosing this path.

Choosing to Get the Wallet Back in Crisis Core

If you choose the option to get the wallet back directly:

• You will proceed to confront the monster that has the wallet.
• Successfully retrieving the wallet this way still grants some affection points from Aerith, but less than if you had offered to buy the medicine first.

How to Get Maximum Affection for Aerith in Crisis Core

For the maximum increase in Aerith's affection, you should choose to purchase the medicine first. You will still fight the monster and retrieve the wallet afterward, but this sequence provides the highest affection gain from this particular event. While skipping the medicine purchase only results in missing a few affection points, choosing the kinder option aligns well with Zack's character and maximizes your relationship benefits with Aerith.

Related: How to get the Magic Pot Summon in Crisis Core

Should You Keep Trading Potions with the Kid in Crisis Core?

Also within the Sector Five Slums, players will encounter another child who repeatedly offers to trade items for potions. Engaging in these trades is beneficial, primarily for increasing Aerith's affection, which aids in other parts of the game. So, should you keep trading potions with this kid?

Recommendation for Potion Trading in Crisis Core

Yes, you should keep trading potions with this child every time they ask, until the game stops allowing you to do so.

• Players report being able to trade potions approximately five times before the interaction concludes.
• Each time you agree to trade a potion, Aerith's affection for Zack increases.

Benefits of Trading Potions in Crisis Core

Consistently trading potions with the child yields several advantages related to Aerith's affection level:

• Limit Break / DMW: Higher affection increases the chances of Aerith appearing on the Digital Mind Wave (DMW), triggering her helpful Healing Wave limit break more often.
• Number Guessing Mini-Game: Later in the Slums, you might encounter a mini-game where you guess how many children walk by.
  • If Aerith's affection is high (boosted by actions like trading potions), asking her for help will result in her giving you fewer possible numbers to choose from, making it much easier to guess correctly.
  • Higher affection may also decrease the cost of playing this mini-game.

Therefore, taking the time to trade all the requested potions is a worthwhile investment for boosting your relationship with Aerith and gaining advantages in subsequent mini-games.

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