"What?"
Ishii's eyes widened when he heard Yamada. "Mr. Yamada," he said, staring, "you're a leading authority on Chinese medicine for our Great Japanese Empire. How could one trip to China scare the courage right out of you?"
"I'm not scared. I'm facing reality."
Yamada gave a bitter smile. "That young man... he's too strong. So strong it makes me despair."
He then vividly recounted what he'd witnessed at the Feng City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, especially the part where Li Xu used the Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles and the Ten Thousand Year Old Agarwood to snatch a man from the jaws of death.
"Ten Thousand Year Agarwood? Bringing the dead back to life?"
Fujiwara and Ishii were dumbfounded.
"Th-that's impossible! It's not scientific!"
Ishii shouted.
"There are many things science can't explain."
Yamada said somberly, "But I saw it with my own eyes. That fragrance... it still lingers in my mind. Compared to that, the medicines we have are utter trash."
