Chapter 21
Parking lot of Ogiya Inn, Subashiri, Oyama, Sunto District, Shizuoka May 13, 2013 8:14 A.M. Ikeda Kurumi "Mother, the nails hurt," I whispered to Mother as she squeezed my right hand while we watched Father being examined and questioned by the Colonel from the Medical corps of the Ground Self Defense Forces. We were in the dim lighted, makeshift command tent of one of the known remaining groups of Japanese Self Defense Forces in Shizuoka. And the only people inside the place was me, Mother, Father, Ichigo who stood by Father's side acting as Father's assistant just in case, the Colonel and Major Suzumoto in military fatigues. Everyone else was asked to go outside by the Colonel for privacy reasons several minutes earlier, after Father came in and tried to report for duty, wh
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