“So those scars... are the price you paid for dealing with your opponents without killing them?”
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Episode 13 is a recap dressed as paperwork: Meryl composing a report for the Bernardelli Insurance Society, the firm that sent her out in the first episode to keep Vash from doing damage that would cost it money. Her whole assignment is an accounting of damage to property. This question is where the ledger changes columns. The scars are costs too, paid by the one party her reports were never meant to cover, and she names the transaction exactly: not the fighting, but the fighting without killing. Vash deflects with a line about girls running away at the sight of them, and she tells him they would not. Setting this inside a recap is the clever part. The episode replays the damage she was sent to limit, and the scars are the part of it no insurer counts.