【Grave of the Fireflies】Chapter 4 Five years of life for five days of peace

"Huh...... Mr. Higashijima, I am indeed not a demon, yes, I suddenly remembered one thing, as the first pawn customer of the Infinite Pawn Shop, the pawn shop has a gift for you. ”

Wang Daoyi took it from his pocket, and a simple silver ring was handed to Higashijima Sonono's hand.

"This is? ......" Higashijima Sono took the ring suspiciously and asked.

"This is the magic talisman ring I learned from the Western world, the equivalent of a peace charm, with the power of magic on it, which can bless you with peace for five days."

"Five days?" Dongdao Yuanye is grateful for a Dongying person's unique ninety-degree bow and bow: "Thank you for the love of Wang Jun, you have the benevolence of a gentleman in the Central Plains culture, thank you!" "A certain gentleman, originally from the Central Plains cultural etiquette, Dongying also inherited this aspect of the etiquette, called Wang shopkeeper or polite words, called Wang Jun, proving that Dongdao Yuanye is sincerely grateful.

"Haha, I'm ashamed to say that. Well, by the way, Mr. Higashijima, if you want, you can also exchange your life for the next five days of peace. ”

"Really! Wang Jun?! "Who really wants to die? Higashijima Sonono didn't want to die, and now that he heard that he could exchange his life for the next five days of peace, then he didn't have to die, which was naturally the best thing.

"Mr. Higashijima is now fifty-seven years old, and he should have sixteen years to live, if he wants, he can use ten years of life to pawn ten days of peace, and now with my ring, it will be fine in five days, that is, as long as he pawns another five years of life, you and your son can survive this death."

"Five years. Enough, good, good. Wangjun, I do! ”

As a result, Higashijima Sono once again signed a pawn contract to exchange five years of life for five days of peace.

Five years, five years of life but only five days of peace, seems to be a very uneconomical thing, but things are not calculated like this, if not changed. If Higashijima Sonono died in the past five days, those sixteen years of life are equal to nothing, and now it is equivalent to avoiding death. To live for eleven more years is a very lucrative thing.

If it weren't for the special nature of the East Island Garden, Wang Daoyi would not have had the time to make so many twists and turns, and he and the East Island Garden would not be related to each other. Why are you asking for trouble? For mortals. There is a huge difference between dying now and dying again in sixteen years, but in the eyes of the immortal who has already attached, it is not much different from dying now and dying sixteen seconds later.

When time, after so many years have passed, the moral law of the royal road has already transformed to the level that the immortal should have. Maybe he wouldn't be so evil as to trample on mortal lives at will, but he has long lost the sympathy of mortals. Pitiful, wait for the weak to have emotions.

In the infinite journey forward, ordinary mortal beings will inevitably be more and more indifferent to the immortal and immortal, so whether it is a god, a demon, an immortal, or a demon is actually indistinguishable in essence.

If you have to, it's just the difference between the good and the bad among mortals.

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The next day, during the day in Kobe, the sky was full of terrible air raid sirens sounding over the entire city, and the government gave an early warning, and soon the air raid was coming!

The residents of Kobe panicked and fled to the air-raid shelter with a bunch of salutes as if fleeing the famine, guided by the government.

In a residential area of the Dongying military in the city, a 14-year-old boy wearing a juvenile military uniform, Qingtai, was packing up the valuable things at home, food, some of which were packed, and some of which could not be taken away, he did not panic, he dug a pit in the yard, wrapped the things that were not easy to take away, and buried them underneath.

Kiyota's father was a senior admiral, and as his father's son, he had already received military training, and his father had told him how to deal with these things.

That's why Kiyota can handle these things like a little adult.

Kiyota's mother, a pale and somewhat weak woman, she is a weak woman with heart disease, at this time she put a hood on her 4-year-old daughter Setsuko, 4-year-old Setsuko shouted unwillingly: "No, it's so hot." ”

"Setsuko, you're a good boy, bear with me." Reluctantly, Setsuko had to ask her mother to put a hood on her, and then Setsuko naughtily jumped out of the yard and ran to her brother's side, watching her brother Seita put the belongings and food that he couldn't take away into the pit and bury them.

Qingtai's mother sighed secretly, looked at Qingtai and Setsuko, and said, "You two hide in the air-raid shelter first, be careful all the way, be faster." ”

She said softly to Setsuko, "Setsuko, you have to listen to your brother obediently."

In fact, she has already made up her mind not to go to the bomb shelter, she has a heart condition, she can't exercise vigorously, and the air raid is coming soon, if she goes to the bomb shelter, her heart will not be able to stand it, if she has a heart attack on the road, what should Kiyota and Setsuko do? Maybe it's better to stay in the house, God willing, Seita and Setsuko are safe, I'll be fine.

Qingtai waved a shovel to bury the pit, turned to his mother and said, "Mom, don't talk about this, go and prepare." ”

"Okay, okay." She replied with a soft smile: "Qingtai, you go first, and I will arrive later, and wait for me at the air-raid shelter in Nihonmatsu." ”

"Well, Mom, did you bring any medicine?"

"I've brought it, it's all in my bag."

Kiyota picked up her sister Setsuko, found a bandage, carried her on her back, wrapped it tightly with a bandage to prevent it from falling, and then began to look for clothes in the house.

And by this time, bombers had already appeared in the sky over Kobe!

"Hide! Hide, everyone! The planes are coming, the air raids are coming! ”

Time was too late, and the raid actually came early.

Whoosh whoosh ......

Kiyota heard the sound of a bomb falling out, and he panicked and carried his sister Setsuko to the window to take a look.

Hundreds of enemy bombers flew over Kobe Castle.

Woo woo woo ~ woo woo ......

The sound of airplanes is getting higher and higher, roaring overhead of the city, swishing ~~~ The murderous bombs created by human beings are constantly dropped from the planes!

Rumble! Boom ~ boom ~~~

Flames rose into the sky, and half of Kobe's residential area was enveloped in flames!

Qingtai ran out of the house with her sister on her back in a panic, and ran to the air-raid shelter on the outskirts of the city, halfway through, Qingtai suddenly stopped.

"Mom, Mom, how did I forget Mom'......!!" Qingtai pinched his head fiercely, at this time the street was already panicked, everyone carried, carried, with children, saluted, fled to the direction of the bomb shelter, in the flow of people, Qingtai wanted to go back to find his mother, but there were too many people, retrograde is not good at all. (To be continued.) )