There’s no answer. Chikusa’s lips merely thin, and he pulls out a scalpel stolen from the Corvi’s supplies before pausing at Ken’s words. Right… He’d almost forgotten, in the face of all of Ken’s injuries. Carefully, he sets the scalpel down. So much, too much… but this is important. He has to keep pushing.

“I’m going to have to go again to get something from up in the kitchen…” So that Ken knows. It’s the kind of thing that will only take a second, but Ken had panicked so much before.