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“Then that part is cleared. - But it wasn’t a cursed fatal bullet that was sent. Ultimately it’s normal senses stimulation.” “In other words, enough feeling to stop a heart... Probably things like taste, smell... light and sound...Right? Let’s talk about them one by one. First sense of touch, feeling on the skin.” I paused with the speech, and pressed my right thumb into my left palm. Earlier, what I had eaten was not chocolate cake as I had thought, but ice cream, I remembered I was shocked then. “...What would happen, if you sent the full body to the limits of its cold tolerance? Like if you jumped into a bath full of ice water. Could that stop a heart?” “Aah... Jumping into ice water could stop the heart, as the difference in temperatures would cause shock to the body, and body’s blood vessels would contract, which would over-stress the heart... It couldn’t be that.” “- Then, I guess we can’t go down this line. Even if the brain feels the cold, the capillaries of the other body parts won’t feel a thing...” “Then, how about this?” This time, Kikuoka rubbed his hands together while speaking. It probably was a mistake on my part, but Kikuoka seemed to smile heartlessly. “Super small insects... Smaller than a beetle, somewhere in the long worms category. Something like a caterpillar or centipede, the feeling of being dropped into a hole filled with those. Of course, it’d be accompanied by video. Urgh, just imagining it gives me goose bumps. “ “...”