However, when Black Jack manages to find the wire that connects to the power and frees them the politicians refuse to pay. The politicians promise to pay Black Jack handsomely if he frees them. However, while testing it out, Black Jack, the politician, and the politician's potential buyers get trapped. He instead suggests giving Black Jack a suite at his newly built disaster proof hotel. The young man watches the surgery and his passion renewed, decides to become a doctor.īlack Jack goes to retrieve money from a crummy politician but he refuses to pay the 50 million yen. That same worker gets into a severe construction accident and Black Jack does the surgery in exchange for the board dropping charges against him. Triton would come with worse injuries but Black Jack refused to treat him and eventually Triton died.Ī young man contemplates suicide after failing his medical college entrance exams until an older construction worker spends the day with him and convince him to live anew. While he befriended Black Jack, Black Jack grew to realize it was too dangerous for him to stay and begged Triton to leave. Realizing all that his mother has done for him, he agrees.Ĭhapter 3: The Ballad of the Killer Whaleīlack Jack recalls having treated a whale he named Triton who would frequently get himself injured by fighting with sailors and would bring payment to Black Jack in the form of pearls. This same woman is slowly dying from a disease and Black Jack agrees to perform the surgery only if the son agrees to pay 30 million. She paid for it over the years including working herself to death at night and selling her belongings. It is revealed when her son was young that she had a doctor heal him in exchange for 30 million yen. Though relieved, Black Jack is frustrated he could not save the man himself and remembers Honma's words not to underestimate the human body.Īn old woman is driven out of her son's home as she continually asks for money. Black Jack is forced to give up but finds out that the needle managed to find its way out of the man's arm and he is alive. Black Jack performs a second surgery to remove the needle but the needle disappears from the radar. After a man has surgery performed on him by Black Jack, a needle gets stuck in his vein due to an earthquake snapping his IV and causing the missing needle to go into his vein.

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