That explained why she thought things had been easier at the House of Blue Leaves. Not that she was worried too much about her skill being reduced; it would be a rare instance in which she used the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique as it was.

"Like lab rats in the care of an inhumane mad scientist," Beatrix mused. She figured the dampening of people's skills was through a drug treatment they were subjected to upon capture and continued while unconscious.

"I wonder what else they experiment on besides the wild life."