"I know, you're almost right on time for the next painkillers." They have gone with actual medicinal help for the back end of this, since his healing has already lost some of its initial power. Jayce needs to rest his abilities anyway, he purged many of them in the surgery, and he's resting. They have plenty of options from Nadine.

He lets Viktor have his hand and smiles tenderly at the kiss to his palm. Their fingers intertwine and he rubs the back of Viktor's knuckles with his thumb affectionately. Jayce is overwhelmed by those three words, they knock into his heart and make it hurt in the best sense. They already knew it worked, worked enough that he was planning the destruction of the Hexcore, but for Viktor to say it like that. For Viktor to be able to actually breathe again.

He'll say grateful things to the Hexcore before melting it into dust.

"Your lungs have been going strong. No hiccups. All within perimeters. Better than perimeters."