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HELIODOR

[The room is circular and surrounded by a series of ionic columns, the floor and ceiling stretching overhead fashioned out of cracked, white stone. The area beyond the columns is pitch black, and the room itself is lit only by dimly flickering candles. The candles rest on top of a stone table, which sits in the middle of the room.

And next to the candles rest four numbered boxes]

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Why, yes, I have. But it's a stab wound. Stab wounds are livable as long as you're careful and there's a lot more damage that can be done than just that.

They are, but stab wounds are among the most nasty type of damage, Rider-san.

If you are dead set on keeping a task of this nature rather than harming others, my offer stands.

If you are willing to take it, for the team, you must be willing to let me take it, for me to accept your resolve as more than hypocrisy.

It's not hypocrisy, it's being aware.

You just arrived. Getting stabbed isn't fun. Really, really not fun, and having that happen when you just arrived would be a failure on everyone else here because at least we had time to adjust and be mentally prepared.

My first suggestion was because I knew I could take it and I thought healing would work. It doesn't. Had it, I would have let someone like Jason take it if he was willing because he's not new, and with very little hesitation.

But magic didn't work. So I thought 'what is the safest way to handle a stab wound.' Where there can't be lasting damage and no change of bleeding out. Tourniquets can cause problems for limbs for extended periods.

There is no problem when that limb is a stump.

This is exactly the situation and game I recall being recruited for. Don't assume because I've just arrived that my ability to cope is lesser.

It's academic by now, for this round.