death before dishonor

He made a gesture of grabbing what looked like a pair of tweezers, metals clicking in the chamber. “Toothed forceps,” he explained. “Using this you’ll peel off the skin down to the deep adipose tissue, so we’ll get the layer of back muscle— trapezius and latissimus dorsi, as you should know, are considerably thin. Watch out not to damage the important parts. I’ll demonstrate first, then I suppose you can give it a go on your own after. Are you listening, Hanagaki?”Takemichi whipped his head around, realizing too late he should be watching the human cadaver getting butchered instead of staring at his supervisor’s face.