nucmednet Chapter 353 Mitsuba Miyamizu
Chapter 353 Mitsuba Miyamizu
Japan, Kyushu Island, Miyazaki Prefecture.
In the dim room, a thin little girl with a pale face was lying on the tatami.
Beside her, an older girl covered her mouth and nose tightly with silk cloth.
She was holding a bowl of gruel with a clear bottom in her hand and feeding it to her sister on the ground one bite at a time.
The little girl lying on the ground kept coughing, and her pale face became flushed due to the heavy cough.
"Cough. Cough...Sister, I can't do it anymore. I think I want to go find my parents."
Listening to the words coming from the little girl's mouth, the sister holding the bowl couldn't stop crying.
"You can't leave me. You are the only relative I have left. Didn't we agree that when you recover, we will go to Kyoto to see you together?"
The little girl wanted to raise her hands to wipe away the tears from her sister's eyes.
But halfway through raising his hand, it dropped down feebly.
"I'm sorry, sister. My parents have already come to pick me up. I can't accompany you to Kyoto. Sister..."
A moment later, a heart-piercing cry came from the room, followed by bursts of desperate sobs.
Outside the room, a sallow-faced grandma shook her head and sighed with sympathy.
"Poor girl, she lost her father when she was a child, and she lived with her mother. Now not only is her mother gone, but her only sister has also died of illness. Alas! She is only sixteen years old, how can she survive on her own?"
A middle-aged man with white temples next to him sighed with a haggard look:
"Our place is a place of divine punishment! It just punishes adults like us, why don't we even let the children go?"
After Tang Xiaoyu attacked Japan that day, more than two-thirds of the Japanese died directly that day.
The remaining people, overcoming the huge psychological trauma, organized themselves and began to deal with the dead bodies.
However, just as Tang Xiaoyu expected.
Despite everyone's best efforts, the outbreak could not be prevented.
A series of infectious diseases such as malaria, plague, plague, cholera, and tuberculosis began to break out across the country.
What is even more desperate is that because of fear of Tang Xiaoyu, various countries have cut off maritime trade with Japan.
As a result, Japan, which was already poor in products, became even worse.
There are shortages of various vegetables, grains, meats, and medicines.
Many people infected with the disease passed away because they could not receive timely treatment and medicine.
In just three or four days, another two to three million people died of the disease.
The little girl who just died in the room died because she was infected with cholera.
The middle-aged man listened to the crying in the room slowly getting quieter, and then he couldn't bear to shout into the room:
"Sanye, carry your sister out. If you don't burn it now, it will be difficult to deal with it when it gets dark."
After a while, there was a reply from inside the house.
This sixteen-year-old girl's name is Mitsuha Miyamizu.
Her father, when she was eight years old, went to sea and was buried in the sea.
That year, her mother was still pregnant with her younger sister.
The poor sister has never seen her father since she was born.
Since she was a child, she has loved to hold her father’s photo and ask her mother,
"Mom, when will dad come to pick us up?"
Whenever this happens, my mother will tell my sister.
"When you miss your father very much one day, he will come to pick you up."
From that day on, my sister always looked forward to the day when her father would pick her up.
A few days ago, the sudden plague not only took away my mother's life, but also infected my sister with this terrible disease.
After fighting the disease for three days, my sister finally died in the house.
However, the only thing that made Sanye feel relieved was that her sister finally waited for her father to pick her up at the last moment.
Mitsuha Miyamizu endured the pain and took out her sister's favorite kimono from the closet.
She gently wiped her sister's body and put the beautiful kimono on her sister carefully.
After doing all this, Miyamizu Mitsuha gently carried her sister behind her back like she did when she was a child.
Pushing open the door to the room, the afternoon sun burned Sanye's eyes like fire.
She followed the neighbor's uncle without saying a word, carrying her sister on her back and walking towards the back of the mountain.
When we arrived at the back mountain, the folks in the village had already dug a pit for my sister.
The pit was filled with thick straw and firewood.
Sanye gently placed her sister on the firewood, and then carefully arranged her messy hair.
The surrounding villagers couldn't help wiping away their tears.
It is hard for everyone to imagine how this young girl could bear this huge pain alone.
After a while, the uncle next door handed a lit torch into Sanye's hands.
Sanye took the torch tremblingly, but could not bring himself to throw it at his sister no matter what.
Scenes with her sister kept flashing through her mind, and her tears could no longer be suppressed and flowed down silently.
The middle-aged uncle took the torch from her hand with a look of reluctance. Sanye protected his sister like crazy, not allowing anyone to disturb her rest.
Although the surrounding villagers couldn't bear it, they still stepped forward and pulled Sanye aside.
The torch gently ignited the straw in the pit, and the hot flames swallowed up all the beauty in the world.
Anger, unwillingness, and hatred filled Sanye's chest.
A figure became more and more clear in her mind.
Mitsuha Miyamizu will always remember that night.
She was sleeping with her sister in her arms when the TV in the room suddenly turned on.
Immediately afterwards, the demon-like figure appeared on the TV.
It was from that moment that her life began to fall apart.
The young aunts in the village took Sanye in their arms to prevent her from seeing their sister being burned.
Sanye kept sobbing, and the fatigue of many days finally defeated the young girl.
She completely fainted from crying.
At night, young people from several nearby villages gathered in the neighbor's uncle's yard to discuss the future.
"Uncle Shunsuke, isn't your fishing boat capable of going to the ocean? We have all agreed that instead of waiting to die here, it is better to go out and give it a try."
Mitsuye's neighbor's uncle's name is Shunsuke.
Shunsuke took a puff of the dry cigarette in his hand and said with a melancholy look:
"Not only have all the countries severed diplomatic relations with us, but we have also stopped satellite navigation. Without satellite navigation, a ship would be like a blind man on the sea. Alas! Where are you going?"
Several young people looked at each other, and one of the older ones said:
"It's better to go anywhere than to wait for death here. Uncle, please help us just once, please."
Shunsuke looked back at the house, threw the cigarette in his hand on the ground and said:
"I won't go out with you at such an old age. You should take Sanye with you. This girl is still young and should not be buried here."