[Extreme pain is one thing. Injury, anguish, even dying doesn't faze him much; Nekomaru works in sports, he's experienced every type and level of pain there is. He's taken high school baseball teams to Koshien. Dismemberment would wring fewer tears out of him.
But the last bit of news, that's something else entirely. Killing and consuming humans...even knowing how Tanaka talks, no matter how Nekomaru tries to slice it, he doesn't see that meaning anything but what it means.]
Hold on, Tanaka. Are you telling me, when we turn into these beasts of yours, we have to...eat people?
[That's possibly the worst thing a man could hear, coming right out of Strawberry House. Of everything he's learned about this place so far, this is the first to turn his gut, the first inkling of dawning horror.
Please tell him he's hearing wrong. Please let this be Tanakaese for "our experiences on the island were so traumatic we've all become criminal delinquents stealing food out of the mouths of poor orphans and extorting widows for money." Nekomaru can deal with that. Nekomaru can deal with most anything, but eating people...]
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[Extreme pain is one thing. Injury, anguish, even dying doesn't faze him much; Nekomaru works in sports, he's experienced every type and level of pain there is. He's taken high school baseball teams to Koshien. Dismemberment would wring fewer tears out of him.
But the last bit of news, that's something else entirely. Killing and consuming humans...even knowing how Tanaka talks, no matter how Nekomaru tries to slice it, he doesn't see that meaning anything but what it means.]
Hold on, Tanaka. Are you telling me, when we turn into these beasts of yours, we have to...eat people?
[That's possibly the worst thing a man could hear, coming right out of Strawberry House. Of everything he's learned about this place so far, this is the first to turn his gut, the first inkling of dawning horror.
Please tell him he's hearing wrong. Please let this be Tanakaese for "our experiences on the island were so traumatic we've all become criminal delinquents stealing food out of the mouths of poor orphans and extorting widows for money." Nekomaru can deal with that. Nekomaru can deal with most anything, but eating people...]