Well, that was a very helpful response, wasn't it? But he couldn't blame him. This had been an ordeal, and he knew from experience just how frustrating it could be. So he set aside the question of pain management for the moment, and answered the question, though he knew Hijikata wasn't likely to be happy with the answer. "Thursday. The twenty-third," he clarified after a brief pause. There had been a few Thursdays in there, after all.