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In Episode 6 "Darling in the Franxx" Hiro was anticipated to die. He did for a moment, but long story short he did come back to save Zero Two.

Offtrack for a moment: It seems as if she didn't really care about Hiro, in a comment made in the previous episode when she was talking with Ichigo saying that if he died "he wouldn't have amounted to much" then later she would call him fotter, which is a term to describe someone being used. Even though she was affectionate and playful with him before, she didn't seem to truly love him until the memories of their past came back to them, more than less to Hiro.

This sort of bothered me, that she was treating him like another Stamen to be consumed. But then I realized, in episode 6, first of all that when Hiro was passing on that when he saw Zero Two she looked "so sad." Then after Hiro supposedly died and she began to stampede. She was screaming that "you are nothing but a monster!" It can be interpreted that she was screaming at the massive beast smashing her and the stampeding Strelitzia, but I think she was tormenting herself when she thought she killed Hiro, even before she knew he was her true darling.

It may be a no brainer, or at least it may seem like it once you realize how she does it and why.

She consumes the yellow blood cells. I realized this when driving home and thinking about it. How Hiro had the "polar opposite affect" of the others, which was a major increase in yellow cells.

I believe she does it for the same reason the garden kids are injected with yellow blood cells, it enhances their aptitude. It empowers her momentarily and she is then able to stampede and fight on.

Obviously I don't know much other about yellow blood cells, because they are made up in this universe, but I have speculation that the side effects of low yellow blood cells is profuse bleeding and of course, death. Which was what killed the first Stamin and almost killed Mitsuru.