Never give up until the end!
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"This time, he might not make it?" Ito said after a long silence.
Ikeda unbuttoned another button, pulled his collar, which made him feel much more comfortable.
"Do you have any nitroglycerin?" Ito asked Ikeda.
Ikeda took out a bottle from his pocket and gave it to Ito. Ito took it, looked at the bottle, opened it, took out a pill, and put it under his tongue.
On the video, the tip of the scalpel, under such incredible pressure, did not change in the slightest, remaining stable. This level of calmness was unparalleled.
But the more Ito watched, the more things seemed wrong.
He wanted to stand up, but his knees wouldn't allow it.
"Teacher!" Matsui tried to assist him, but he waved him off and stubbornly stood up by himself, hoping that this way he could see things more clearly.
All the energy in Ito's later years was devoted to research on the tumours of the upper spinal cord and medulla oblongata, but there had been no breakthroughs.
