The Nothing option states it gives us the chance to ease Yammy's pain by making the torture armour less horrific. Also, we don't need to fix our injuries to fight; we're still capable of fighting at a decent level in the skills our crippling affected, and things like our Cero weren't touched. Not saying that it wouldn't be extremely nice, but it's not a necessity.
Nah, spy bacteria is Mayuri's trick and Szayel isn't on Mayuri's level... yet.
Depends on who we're fighting. I'd really rather have our injuries fixed before fighting a Vice Captain, say. On the other hand, I'd rather not have Syazel be the one to do it, since he'd almost certainly do some tampering and I don't want him watching through our eyes as we read the research we pocketed without telling Aizen and then having blackmail material.
Szayel actually has something pretty similar to Mayuri's bacteria- he loaded his brother with covert spirit recorders (some sort of insect according to the wiki) before he died. It's how he knew enough about Renji to be able to nullify his bankai right off the bat.
The size difference between a bacteria and an insect is pretty immense. And we don't know what the loading process entailed. We probably won't just inhale his spy mechanism. Too bad we don't have a friendly medic to check us for parasite infection after this, he might have done something when he poked us, though, relying on the injury's pain to hide it.
.....a torture device is still a torture device, the amount of torture does not matter, its still torture.
Insects do get small enough that you can't really see them without deliberately looking (less than half a millimeter long), and these things would almost certainly be designed to be hard to spot (so at the smaller end of the insect scale and maybe have some other means of camouflaging themselves).
I'd certainly like to have our injuries fixed, agreed. I'd just prefer to do the right thing more; it feels more IC for Nemo, and if we did let Szayel fix us I'd half expect us to wake up with our stomach altered so it can be ejected as an emergency explosive.
We don't have a way to keep it from being a torture device altogether, but we can make it less of one. If we were the ones who were choosing to strap him in the thing you'd be right, but that decision is out of our control. Because of that, in this situation reducing the amount of torture does matter- it's the only thing we can do to reduce the amount of pain Yammy will suffer. And doing something to help is better than doing nothing.
We don't have time to start working with Szayel before the Gala. I'm almost certain that Nemo will tell him so.
Compare the pain of a sliced finger to being flayed alive if you will. We can lessen the pain. I still think we should refuse, but the other options are fairly moral and in good standing.
