Chapter 12: Collaboration

Chapter 12: Collaboration is the twelfth chapter of Breathe Deeply.

Characters

 * Oishi
 * Sei Inaba
 * Yuko Kazama
 * Ryo
 * Chief
 * Sato

Synopsis
Oishi tells Sei he can use his polymer gel on her, but he has one condition. If Yuko lives and if Oishi’s research is a success then Sei has to let Oishi reanimate Yuko’s heart.

Sei calmly answers that he will just have to kill Oishi here. It is remembered that Yuko wanted someone to take her hand and show her the way, but it will not be god, it will be Sei.

With that response, Oishi considers that he cannot be dying here, he has a future and so relents. Sei notes Yuko’s cyanosis is bad, Oishi has an operating room ready for him.

They plan to attach the actuator directly to the heart but this will be the first time Sei has tried the procedure, yet there is no other choice.

The Trojan horse cells that are also to be used are capable of finding damaged parts of the brain, they were made from cancer cells but transform into nerve cells and repair the affected area.

Blood will be needed and there are blood types O, B and A available.

Elsewhere Ryo is asked if one were going to die anyway, is it not better to help others live. He is asked where Yuko is and remembers being in class seeing Sei and Yuko together, she did not believe in good or evil, only believing in Sei.

With the operation procedure ready it is noted that the blood transfusion available is strange. Sei observes that Yuko is bleeding and has ITP as well so the blood will not stop flowing and with that they cannot operate.

Reasoning that the ITP is a side effect of a medical drug she was given, Sei elects to mix protamine sulphate into the cardiopulmonary heparin and the operation is to take place within ninety minutes.

With the Pentothal taking effect, Ryo contemplates that is he knew it would hurt this much he would have talked. He is told if he says where Yuko is things will be made easier for him.

The open-heart surgery operation is underway; meanwhile Ryo states that he is allergic to the Pentothal and enters into an anaphylactic shock.

Time is short as the operation on Yuko continues.