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My house was burned down and my family was lynched and killed!

The era of nonviolence has come to an end.

I told you. I won't resort to violence.

Johnny! Are you still not gonna fight back?

Stop! What good is gonna come of us fighting each other?

Stop!

Despite it being nearly a hundred years since Lincoln freed the slaves,

discrimination against people of color was still happening openly.

The person to finally overturn that was Reverend Martin Luther King.

He preached nonviolence.

The civil rights movement that occurred in an effort

to let black people have rights as American citizens

would shake the souls of white citizens.

On July 2nd of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed,

declaring the end of racial discrimination in America.

At least, legally...

April 4th, 1968, Reverend King is Assassinated

Black Jack

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Episode 7: Painless Revolution Part 1

Summer, 1968 Chicago, Illinois, America

Birmingham Memorial University Hospital

Here we use the radial artery from the arm

and create a bypass.

This concludes Dr. Risenberg's exhibition surgery.

What an amazing surgery!

Did you see how flawlessly his hands moved? No unnecessary movements!

Senpai...

It was a work of art! No, the advent of God.

I understand how you feel.

I got really excited

watching him work with the scalpel.

I know, right?

I'm very thankful I was invited.

By the way, I'm so relieved that you came back from Vietnam safely, Hazama-kun.

There's always hope so long as you're alive.

Yes... You're exactly right.

Nothing less from Dr. Risenberg... Look at all that press.

No, I think it's something else.

Who is that?

Someone famous?

Is he an athlete?

No idea.

Maiko! Maiko!

Tiara... Tiara!

I haven't seen you in forever!

It's been too long!

What are you doing here?

I'm an intern here.

Huh?

I see...

This takes me back to when we were in school together!

I know, right?!

Hey, Tiara!

Heya!

He's my childhood friend, Johnny.

Tiara!

Apparently you're more than meets the eye.

Oh, stop. It's not like that.

He's an activist with the civil rights movement.

Huh?

You might not know this,

but it's only been four years since black people like us

were able to sit wherever we want at a restaurant.

The signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

legally declared the end of racial discrimination.

However, discrimination has continued in the schools and workplaces.

Most of the black people sent to the Vietnam War

are assigned to the most dangerous front lines

and yet the white people are trying to say everything's been resolved.

That's right, Johnny.

Why don't you wake up already, Johnny?

My house was burned down and my family was lynched and killed.

With the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King,

the era of nonviolence has come to an end.

Help us out, Johnny!

No!

No matter how many times you ask me, the answer's the same.

I told you. I won't resort to violence.

Oh? Not even now?

Stop! Stop! Stop!

Please, stop!

Johnny! Are you still not gonna fight back?

Stop! Tiara has nothing to do with this!

What good is gonna come out of us fighting each other?

Just stop this!

Damn it!

Stop!

Tiara!

Tiara! Tiara! Tiara!

We need an ambulance! Please hurry!

It appears that most of the bleeding is arterial blood.

She should be fine as long as we can stop the bleeding.

Really? She'll be okay?

Yeah. More importantly...

Huh?

You haven't noticed?

Huh?

Ow... Ow! Ow, it hurts!

Tiara...

Tiara's fine. More importantly...

Your arm needs to be operated on right away!

R-Right...

This isn't good. They have surgeries lined up one after another

so they don't have any doctors available.

Oh, no... But if his arm is left alone...

I'll do it.

Dr. Risenberg?

The medical office called me.

You're going to perform surgery on a fracture?

Let me see the arm.

Oh, um... Ow!

This will be a race against time. Who are you?

I'm an intern.

There aren't enough people; I'm going to ask for your help.

I'll help, as well.

Hazama-kun, you're still just a student.

Shh.

Young Black Jack

Young Black Jack

Catheterization.

Yes, sir.

What? The IV's not dripping. Did it not work?

What's the matter? It's not in.

I-I'm sorry... Um...

I'll do it, Senpai.

Eh?

Hold the needle just like that.

Doctor, please begin the surgery.

Indeed. I'd like for you to widen the area.

Yes, sir.

Pull that a bit more.

I was going to set the bones with pins, but I'm going to go with plates instead.

Sweat.

Yes, sir.

35 millimeter screw.

Yes, sir.

That was close...

The broken bone had directly hit the median nerve.

The pain should have been so immense that he should have fainted.

I can only think that this was possible because of his strong will to free his comrades.

You know Johnny?

I've seen him on the TV news many times.

TV?

Ever since the assassination of Reverend King,

the civil rights movement seems to be headed toward the path of violence.

However...

However, among those people is a man named Johnny Bassett,

otherwise known as Immortal Johnny.

It is said he tries to solve everything peaceably.

Could that be true?

Please observe the footage that our crew managed to get.

Immortal Johnny...

Good job, Hazama.

You seem happy.

Senpai, I...

More importantly...

He's not normal, right? Johnny-san...

Tiara's surgery went well.

She's sleeping soundly right now.

I see... Thank goodness.

But I thought I finally left the hospital

and now I'm right back in a hospital bed.

I don't have any time to be lying down.

Say, Johnny-san. May I ask you something?

Huh?

There's something wrong with your sense of pain, isn't there?

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis.

There are very few cases of it in the world.

It's an illness you're born with where you don't feel pain.

Because they don't feel pain, they become insensitive to danger;

and because of that, they are consistently breaking bones or getting burns.

And it's rare for them to reach adulthood.

I hear that people call you Immortal Johnny

because you can get back up, no matter how many times you get hit.

If you keep living like that just because you don't feel pain,

it's only a matter of time before you die.

I have to keep on fighting.

I have to show them.

I have to show them that I can fight for our civil rights without violence.

To all those people...

All those people?

All the people on the other side of their TVs.

The spread of television completely changed the way we get the news.

It's not like watching old news stories on the movie theater reels.

They can show incidents that have just happened, footage that's still hot.

You can actually watch that at your house as many times as you want.

That impact has the power to move public opinion.

The longest you can film on a 16 millimeter camera

is 10 minutes and 40 seconds.

The cameraman waits for opportune moments to open the shutter.

That's right. Cameramen are waiting for incidents to occur,

and that's exactly where I come in.

No matter how many times I am beaten down,

I get through the pain and stand back up.

I'm gonna show that through the TV!

Black people have been dealing with the pain of injustice for so long!

That pain is not a lie!

Yes, it hurts! I am in pain!

We're all in pain!

There has to be a way to fix it.

At this rate...

With today's medicine, there's no cure for congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis.

What? You're going to give up just because there isn't a cure?

Yes, because it's a genetic disorder.

In the future, humanity may be able to make gene therapy possible.

However, there's nothing we can do right now.

No!

Are you saying that you don't care if he dies?

If we don't give him a proper body, who will?

Proper?

You're going to give him a proper body?

Yes!

You can't be serious! Johnny's body is already proper.

I believe that's something only they can decide for themselves, Senpai.

I heard that Johnny was admitted to the hospital again.

Yes. He broke his arm.

But it'll be okay.

Dr. Risenberg performed the surgery, and it was a success.

I see...

Maiko...

Honestly, I don't want him to participate in the civil rights demonstrations.

At this rate, it doesn't matter how many lives he has.

However, he's saying he wants to fight for his comrades.

That's not how he used to be.

A hero... Immortal Johnny...

When he was little, he was such a coward,

and would be in tears over skinning his knee.

Is that true?!

Eh?

Are you saying that he could feel pain when he was younger?

Feel... Oh, the sense of pain.

Yes, of course.

It's not congenital?

Tiara!

Thank goodness, you're awake.

Wh-What's the matter?

Johnny...

Apparently there's something wrong with your sense of pain.

H-How did you... Did Hazama and Maiko tell you?

Yes.

We told her.

Why would you do something so unnecessary?

It's not! It's very important!

Please, Johnny. Stop participating in the movement.

I always hated it.

Seeing you pushing yourself too hard... You getting hurt...

But I never noticed that you couldn't feel any pain.

And I've been working to become a doctor...

I couldn't even notice.

Hey, Johnny... Stop this. Please.

It's fine. It's my body. Who cares what happens to—

I do!

Why don't you understand?

If... If something were to happen to you, I... I...

Tiara... I-I'm sorry. But I... I...

Johnny-san, you feel the same, right?

Then let's heal your body.

Heal?

Yes.

I'm perfectly fine!

You lost your sense of pain after you became an adult.

Which means, you don't have congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis.

There are cases where people are involved in accidents

and their nerves are cut, and they end up losing their sense of pain.

But that also comes with numbness.

Both of those things cannot be fixed with modern medicine.

But neither of those cases apply to you.

Which means, there's a possibility we can treat you.

Please, Johnny... Let them examine you.

Right. There's a possibility that it's a progressive disease, as well.

Do it for Tiara! The staff at this hospital are top notch.

They'll be able to treat you for sure!

It's no use.

No use?

It's true that my body is special; it's actually beyond special.

No matter how experienced the doctor may be, they won't be able to figure it out.

Just give it up.

Then... I'll do the research.

What?!

Hazama, you're not even a doctor. You must be joking.

No, it's not a joke.

We're only allowed to be in Chicago for three more days.

That's all we need.

Will you give us those three days?

I swear I will figure this out!

Do what you want.

However, if you can't find a cure then, just give up.

America, huh...

I never thought I'd come to this country.

The young American man who arrived at Chicago International Airport with Yabu...

Their encounter with him will greatly change Johnny's fate.

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PTSD.

It is short for "post traumatic stress disorder."

Among its causes, trauma from fighting is universal throughout humanity.

It comes from a horrible fear that one may encounter

on the cruel battlefield and cannot escape from,

or from the pangs of conscience.

"Painless Revolution Part 2."

Painless Revolution Part 2

We all have this chronic disease called war, and the pain is not just shared by soldiers;

it's pain that is shared by us all.