【Grave of the Fireflies】Chapter 5 Home, there is no more

He had to take his sister and flock to the air-raid shelter on the seaside embankment with the flow of people, until he found an uninhabited air-raid shelter, he was relieved, and his frightened sister Setsuko, only then did he ease up and be frightened, just now the explosion, the sound of fire, the chaos, the roar, made Setsuko frightened, and only then did he respond, and he cried loudly.

Unbeknownst to Seita and Setsuko, as they were on their way to the bomb shelter, a bomb landed on their home, where their mother was buried in flames......

On the side of a sea of fire, Higashijima Sonono stared blankly at the dud bomb that fell to the ground beside him, and cold sweat broke out involuntarily.

Yes, duds!

Higashishima Sonono in this air raid his home was also burned by the bomb, old and frail he carried some belongings on his back, panicked out of his home, just five seconds after he ran out, the home behind him turned into a sea of fire, but Higashijima Sonono can only grieve and indignantly hold the aging body, staggering to the bomb shelter, there are three points of sadness for the destruction of the homeland in his heart, and seven points of worry about his son Saburo.

Just now!

Sou!! Whoosh whoosh !!

It's another rain of bombs, boom! Under the flames, the crowded crowd in front of the Higashijima Garden turned into a human purgatory, the flesh and blood exploded, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the smell of half-cooked meat being barbecued under the sea of fire, as well as the terrible cry of an unknown baby, all of this is a human purgatory.

The bombers that dropped their bombs finally left, leaving only a sea of fire. But this is not the end, these planes have to fly back to the mothership to replenish ammunition again and continue to bomb Kobe. Or the next city......

Sou! At this time, when Higashijima Sonono looked up to watch the bomber leave, he just saw a bomb falling straight towards him!

The sound of breaking the air, as a veteran, Higashijima Sonono was very clear, this was the cry of death, this was the sound of ammunition falling beside him, he was sad and angry, he was old and frail and not enough to avoid the range of this bomb.

"Ahhh......h He fell to the ground and made a loud noise for a long time before he came back to his senses. After touching his body, there was nothing wrong, the only strange thing was that a white ring on his hand flashed a pale white almost invisible luster, and Higashijima Sonono almost thought it was an illusion. But this is not an illusion. Because he found a bomb that had sunk into the ground about ten centimeters or so beside him!

God forbid, this is actually a dud! What is a dud? A dud bomb is a warhead that has been launched and used, but has not exploded, which may or may not explode, also known as a stink bomb, and has a wide range of duds, including bullets, grenades, shells, missiles, and so on. It's all duds that go wrong.

It's not a big odds, but it's not impossible. But Higashijima Sono, who had been in the war, knew that this kind of low-probability outrage might not have one in ten thousand bombs, but today he ran into it, and it happened to be a dud that fell beside him but did not explode, which was simply Lady Luck favoring him.

No, it's not the favor of Lady Luck, Sonono Higashijima touched the white ring on his hand with a shudder, he remembered what happened to him like a dream last night.

Higashijima Sonono's eyes flashed with ecstasy: "It's true, it's true, Saburo, you will definitely come back safely, because Abba's peace is protecting you, Abba won't die, and you won't die." ”

The truth is indeed as Higashijima Sonono thought, his son Higashijima Sonozaburo in the days that followed, in the war on the sea, every time he encountered danger, he would turn evil into good fortune, and even the skin was not scratched, and at the most dangerous time, the warships he was on were already silent, almost all of them died, and he was saved by the people on the defeated Toei warship who were passing by and were about to sink into the sea.

Lucky Saburo, yes, because Saburo's warship was all buried in the sea except for him, only he, at the right time, happened to be found by the people on the passing Dongying warship, threw down the lifebuoy, and thus saved him.

Because he was the only one on the warship he was on survived, he was also given this name, Lucky Saburo.

Higashishima Sono pinched the white ring on his hand, he knew that it was this talisman that blessed him just now, and it was the magic on it that blessed him.

The dusk sky, fireworks, and ashes shrouded the entire city, and the heavy rain after the air raids also fell at this time......

簌簌簌......

The rain fell in the dripping rain, and Higashijima Sonono knew that it was a heavy rain after the air raid, and the gas after the explosion expanded and contracted to the outside world, the temperature dropped, and the water vapor condensed, so the rain was formed.

Of course, this is also the sadness and fear of the people who survived the bombing after the air raids, just like this heavy rain.

Most of the urban buildings in Dongying Kingdom are wooden structures, and they were almost not spared from the fire, and when the people hiding in the bomb shelters returned, they saw only patches of black smoke and dust ruins in their homes.

"Brother, has our home been burned down as well?" 4-year-old Setsuko asked, looking at the ruins on the back of her brother Kiyota.

"Seems so......" Kiyota replied blankly.

"What then?"

"Setsuko, I'll tell my dad to arrest all those bad guys!" Qingtai said this coldly, also to appease her sister Setsuko.

Seita carried Setsuko on his back and walked on the way home, and the scene of purgatory on earth was shown in front of the two children who had not yet grown up.

"Mommy, Mommy...... Whining...... Ahh......h

Those who survived endured grief and rejoiced for the rest of their lives, and began to take care of the ruins of their homes and the corpses of those who died in the air raids.

"It would be humiliating to say that only my house was burned, hahaha...... Our house was burned to the ground...... "A man in a military uniform said ambivalently, self-deprecatingly, first humorously, then in a low voice.

"Mr. Miura, I was hit directly by the bomb......"

"It's miserable...... "One woman discussed.

"Ah, in short, it's more important than anything else." Someone comforted.

Suddenly, there were soldiers on bicycles who told everyone to assemble at the National School, because there was a hospital there, and there was a medical center there.

So the flow of people held back their grief and began to go to the national school.

On the way, a soldier stopped Higashijima Sonono. (To be continued.) )