its boring….
If you’ve already started it then you’re gonna have to finish it to get your materia back either way.
maybe she will be my 3rd char!
Also its a good change to not have to rely on materia, and suddenly items like the X potion are very handy. (if memory serves, you can get them from fighting the flying bugs on the rocky part of the mountain, good idea to stock up, but dont quote me its been a while!)
So nice to be on a forum where people talk instead of engaging in sarcasm competitions!