"If you don't feel pain, you're not going to rest as much as you need to," he replies. "That's one of the things pain is for - it's your body telling you to sit the fuck down and stop doing anything for a while."

Huff. Why else would blades have pain? They might recover supernaturally fast from injury, but they can still get exhausted like any other being.

But on that note, Asch shakes his head. "Nothing I can't recover from with a bit of rest myself," he says. "The ether here isn't great, but I've got enough to spare as long as no one is terminally stupid."