It helps Popp's ego, if not any potential laundry projects. He's been washing clothes the normal way for years, he can wait for one of the technology experts around to come up with something better instead of having to work on it himself. It's not even that cool a concept...

He thinks over the riddle at hand, scratching his chin and rotating his marshmallow. Sephiroth had an incredibly bleak and sheltered upbringing, it's not hard to believe that both of these were recent occurrences, either. "It doesn't sound all that bizarre, but... you barely believe in magic and you're too upright to go robbing places; it's got to be the book."