Speaking of capacity for handling torture…

Ouma is similar in this, with his ability to brush off strangulation almost entirely after the fact. He also suggests outright to be able to withstand high levels of trauma from torture, appearing to laugh in its face.

Whatever he and his brother went through would appear to meet, even exceed the hell Maki was prepared for, as we are shown evidence that he’s more than capable of taking it. But even Ouma would have his limits, as contact with bugs would be traumatic enough to trigger a seizure.

Curiously… wasn’t it said just then, that ‘dying was the nicer way out’…?

Imagine [what would become] of someone who didn’t have a way out.