Corpses litter the ground, and barely-alive bomb victims with half-melted skin wander the ruins of their city, crying out for water to soothe their scorched throats. But all around him is death, wrought by the Americans' atomic bomb. It is up to Gen to find rice to feed to his mother. Nakaoka is starving and unable to produce milk for her baby. Gen's mother survived and gave birth to a new baby girl, but even the newborn is in danger: Mrs. Gen Nakaoka has just witnessed the deaths of his father, sister, and younger brother as they burned alive, trapped under the ruins of their house. The city is on fire, its structures flattened, its citizens vaporised.
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