Chapter 4

You look all done in.

Underestimated me, didn't you? I know, it's the way I talk and act. I come off as just some kind of flunkie.

But you know what? I'm okay with that.

I mean, I'll be honest, it used to bother me a lot. But then I just decided to convince myself that it's actually one of my greatest charms, and that made life a whole lot easier.

Do I sound pessimistic? Sorry. That's another one of my fatal flaws.

That was very informative. Appreciate it!

Wha, !

I don't understand half of what you said about that whole lethal dose crap, but what I do understand is that having too much blood right now will kill me, right?

Well, okay, then! In that case, all I need to do is drain enough blood till my body doesn't think it's lethal anymore.

Oh man, talk about reckless. Yeah, well, the thing is, it's not quite that simple.

Going off your build and physique, you weigh about sixty kilograms, right?

Yo, you should've been a doctor. You're pretty close. Sixty-two, to be exact.

The approximate volume of blood per kilogram is sixty-five-point-seven milliliters. At sixty-two kilograms, that means a little over four liters. If you lose half of that, or two liters, you'll die from loss of blood.

Except there's one catch. I adjusted your lethal dose to be at one-point-six liters.

So in other words, you're either going to have to bleed yourself to death, or do nothing and be killed by your own blood.

I'm guessing that right about now, you're starting to have a hard time even knowing for sure whether you're still on your feet.

You got me. I'm so screwed. What the heck am I gonna do?

Well? Tenjiro?!

Surprise! Tenjiro's hot spring drains out bad blood and Spiritual Pressure.

Wha, !

Well, to be more accurate, that's what the white water does.

So what does this red water do, you ask? It replaces lost blood with completely new blood.

I've been, like, completely reborn. Is that cool, or what?

Yeah, extremely cool for you. For me, maybe not so much. I thought I'd finally won...

I guess I was the one who underestimated his enemy. That was a fatal mistake.