After Yu Zecheng left the hospital, he immediately took a taxi back to the home of the Yusen couple, and after arriving home, Yu Zecheng went straight to the basement hidden in the storage room according to the memories in the previous flashback plot.

In the basement, Yu Zecheng did not find the remains of Yumori Akagi and Yumori Aya, but only found a letter that Yumori Akagi left to Yumori Wanli.

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Wu'er:

See the letter.

There is a saying in ancient China, pity the hearts of parents in the world, from the day you were born to the present, Dad has too many things to say to you, why work, why struggle, why the danger of the nation and Dad's cowardice, but all kinds of mundane things in the world, you and my father and son have never had a chance to speak seriously.

Dad spent his whole life as a coward and a debtor.

Dad grew up in the war years far more chaotic and complicated than the boom period when you were born, Dad was a good student since he was a child, smart and studious, whether it was theoretical knowledge in books or practical mechanical operations, Dad can be proficient, and it is precisely because of this that Dad was forced to be conscripted into the Imperial Military Department Air Force Special Forces, kamikaze special forces when the war was lost.

At that time, the crazy militarists believed that all the imperial people, especially the good ones, needed to be broken for the emperor and for the country.

In the extreme excitement and confusion, Dad got on the plane of the special attack team, which is amazing, after the plane was out of orbit, after the glass of the cockpit isolated the madness of the outside world, Dad's thinking became clear, and this clarity reached its peak at the moment when the US warship was visible to the naked eye.

Yes, my father became a deserter and became a coward, when I left behind my companions who lived and died together, flew a plane alone, flew to China's territorial waters with only fuel, and became a prisoner of China after a series of experiences such as jumping into the sea and not dying.

The Chinese are respectable, they did not mutilate me like some of our ferocious compatriots, they always treated me with courtesy, and sent me back to my homeland after the surrender of the Empire.

Since then, Dad has been living in hell of guilt and self-blame.

Although my father slowly learned the truth of the war and the madness and selfishness of the militarists, in any case, I left behind my comrades-in-arms, and because of the unauthorized departure from the war, your grandparents were deprived of the right to seppuku and sentenced to sinners by hanging, and your grandmother was sent to the comfort station and committed suicide after being tortured.

All this is my fault, I am ashamed of my brothers, my comrades-in-arms, and my parents.

But it wasn't until the end that I realized that the most worthy of me was you, the only son I loved dearly.

In the post-war years of peace, I worked hard every day with a heart of atonement, hoping to cleanse my guilt in this way, and because of this, I neglected you and did not give you the love and encouragement you deserved in your childhood.

Fortunately, you are a smart and sensible child, and everything about you did not worry me about anything, and my unqualified father was angry with you many times when he was drunk at an izakaya and remembered the past.

Son, if I have really hurt you, please believe that it is not what I wanted.

Thankfully, you didn't leave a shadow on me as an unqualified father, and you went to work smoothly, with an equally good and beautiful wife, mercy, and a child as pure and kind as an angel, little Chiyo.

Thankfully, despite the suffering that Chiyo suffered after she was born, you and compassion eventually found a way to heal Chiyo once and for all.

Thankfully, the great God gave me a chance to redeem myself in my old age as a sinner, Akagi Akimori.

I chose to give up my life, my sinful past, and the unbearable past that fate left to the world. In exchange for the rebirth of Chiyo-chan, in exchange for self-redemption, in exchange for a new future.

Now that I think about it, I should have died in that crazy era, God treated me well, did not let me die in vain, let me die willingly, let me die for the future, not for that ethereal majesty.

Son, don't be sad, you have many greater difficulties to face in your future, and you must be strong. In the future, Chiyo will be healed, she will grow up healthy and strong, she will marry and have children, the kind Chiyo will definitely love her children well, and the descendants of our Yumori family will be bathed in warm sunshine.

You, me, and mercy and your mother Aya, we are all martyrs. Until a better tomorrow comes, I think this is the soul of this nation that regards death as a beauty.

Yumori Akagi is a masterpiece