Bandages (by the yard)... 50 dollars
Use of oxygen tank (by the day)... 1000 dollars
Skin grafts (by the square inch)... 2500 dollars
Surgeon to administer the skin grafts (by the hour)... 400 dollars
Doctor to monitor the grafting (by the hour)... 250 dollars
Court geisha to distract the patient (by the hour)... 500 dollars
Really strong subcutaneous corticoadrenal repressors, i.e. painkillers (by the dose)... 300 dollars
Holding autographed copies of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" and Macchiavelli's "The Prince" in your bare hands... priceless
There are some things super-human mental and physical determination can't provide. For everything else, there's the Hitokiri's Association.
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