Talk:Kouichi Sakakibara/@comment-91.47.8.184-20150205114915/@comment-397235-20150206030848

The general rule of thumb is if she's not moving she's probably not going to keep trying to stab you so you can probably stop now. It takes thirty seconds for you to loose consciousness due to oxygen deprivation (I know this because I write and believe heavily in showing my work) and around ninety seconds before you suffer brain death (nobody gets this right; Hitchcock comes closest in Frenzy); your brain cells start dying immediately, though, which is why chokeholds are a stupid thing to do if you're untrained.

Izumi wanted to kill Kazami; on top of that, she justifiably wants to make him feel it. And, on some level, she's taking some of her fury at Mei out on him.

In any case, like I said, if she accepts that the Calamity killed Takako, it looks like it did so to keep Mei alive, and even so, Mei's still getting ready to start poking more holes in her body, which matches anyone's definition of sick.