To Daqiang, it was a simple matter of ensuring the lesson was learned properly and the easiest way - barring the ability to drag someone else over to act as pin cushion, and he couldn't guarantee that person would stand there and take it - was to monitor the injury done to himself. It certainly wasn't going to be enough to kill him.

Grabbing Toge's wrist, he jerked it and the blade forward, burying it about an inch into his own side as he responded to the protest with a stern, "Do not hesitate."