[The knife does come out, since Czes simply continues to heal around it, but it only does so to find another entry point. This time it sweeps in for Czes's stomach, even as Firo grits his teeth and tries to hold it back.]

What're you talkin' about? Of course we're alive, that's the whole point!

[Though he knows where Czes is coming from. Monster, vampire... He's heard a lot of words to describe what they are. They're different, that much is certain, but he never stopped to think that they might be different enough from the average human to really be something else.]

Why would we be monsters just 'cause we come back to life?

[Szilard was always a monster, it was just becoming immortal that gave him the power to show it, or so Firo thought.]