Note, if you see the light from this close by, it is already too late. And from that proximity. You're already dead, you have maybe a few days to two weeks at best, and most of that time will be spent at the hospital experiencing the worst pain humanly imaginable.
I personally feel greater affinity for Holdfast than CoD, keeping the line with a bunch of other fellows that can get one shotted by a stray musket ball like you hits different. Literally.
Apparently Kawakami's jockey did a head count at around the halfway point, and realized "where's the two front runners!" and realized he's screwed, which feels poignant since he pulled off a similar stunt with Ingrandire and Seiun Sky at the same race course before