Adachi Yamada
Adachi, on the other hand, did have time. He always seemed to have time, ever since childhood. This new ability helped things too. It let him know a lot more about injuries he was about to absorb and pretty much gave him time to analyze, be picky, choose what injuries and how much of them to take on. He wouldn't save the girl, that would be the end of him. Her head was exploding. But the cop, he was taking that injury on.
Adachi felt what it was like to shatter into a million pieces, or rather, only the beginnings of such a thing. Perhaps if he were in the same crystalline state as the investigator he would be in small pieces on the ground. Instead, though, the tiny hairline fractures spread throughout his body being healed by his ability as fast as they spread causing nothing more than a truly amazing level of pain.
The technohippies exploded in an expression of the agony of the event, but after a short time Adachi regained himself, none the worse for wear. He looked at the updated situation.
The investigator seems to have recovered from his glassy features upon the death of their inflictor, Tara, who was now laying on the ground, what remained of her brain leaking out of the exit wound left by whatever massive bullet the cop's revolver used. The blood spatter moving along forming various shapes. This part, Adachi mused, was probably the sickness talking.
He gets up slowly, still twitching a little from the pain. He almost hisses,
"You're welcome. Let's save the world now, hmm?"
Adachi looks down and sees the fair amount of blood he had lost decide to join Tara's, weaving along in a rather grotesque rorschach test.