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Funeral of Ooishi Matsuno

Dad

Grandpa

Grandpa really cried his heart out.

That was my first time seeing him cry so hard.

That is because your grandfather

really loved your grandmother.

Grandma really had a happy fulfilling life.

But Grandma had a hard time during the war,

Like her ex-husband dying as a Special Attack Force.

Yup.

Ex-husband?

Wait a moment. That was my first time hearing that!

Really?

What do you mean by "really"?

He is my biological father.

Eh?

Yes.

Why are you even sleeping in till this time of the day?

Is that even right for a person of

your age to be doing that still?

Shut up! What do you want?

Remember the talk about Grandma's ex-husband?

Do you want to investigate that?

Eh?

That talk that we had!

Mum said she is also curious about that.

She didn't come to me about that.

Why don't you do it instead.

What are you even saying you silly fool.

This is our real biological Grandpa

that we are talking about here.

Ain't you interested?

I am sorry,

But I am not buying that.

The next year will be the 60th

anniversary for the end of WWII

If we were to pursue this, maybe

we can even publish a book!

Are you listening to me?

I don't want to end my career with

just being a freelance writer.

Please help me!

So that is your aim!

You can go work something out on your own.

I am hanging up.

Wait! wait, wait, wait!

I will pay you for this.

Ooishi

Still the same I see, Grandpa.

You do have a lot of non-profitable cases.

In society, a lawyer is expected to be

a very profitable profession though.

Are you going to be one?

As expected.

After being rejected for 4 years

straight, I gotta re-think about it.

Like if I really suited to take the bar exam.

Well, my resolve is weak I supposed.

I thought I would be able to be like Grandpa...

Right?

I say Kentaro,

You are not here to ask about that right?

You are the one who said

"Grandpa might be against

it" thus you don't want

to investigate further.

Investigate?

Ah..yah.

I see.

I don't like to be investigating this in secret.

No.

I want you to investigate this.

Eh?

It is for your sake too.

Miyabe Kyuuzou.

Born in 1918, Tokyo.

Joined the Navy Air Service in 1934.

Died in the battle of Okinawa in 1945.

Yup. And he also never left a will.

There was barely any trace of his life.

He married Grandma in 1941, and Mum

was born in the following year.

But their marriage life was only 4 years,

And during that period he was

almost always on the battlefield.

He was 26 when he died.

26?

He is the same age as you are now.

What's with that?

This is impossible.

When there is a gap of 60

years in the generation,

it became impossible

to read the writing.

So what's up with this?

Hurm? Ah, I tried finding

a few comrades online and

wrote to them if they know

who is Miyabe Kyuuzou.

And these are the replies.

Eh... that many?

Yup.

Excuse me Hasegawa san, but do you know my grandfather?

Yes I do.

Well, we are trying to find out what

kind of a person our grandfather is.

He is the biggest coward in the Navy Air Service.

Eh?

A person who views his life with utmost importance.

What does that mean?

In short.

He is obsessed about staying alive.

We, pilots, all gave our lives to the nation.

But this Miyabe Kyuuzou, he

is different from all of us.

Rather than winning, his guy's

only wish is to keep his own life.

Even when I lost my arm, his plane made

it back safely without a single scratch.

Not a single bullet pierced through it.

In those chaotic fights, that is impossible!

That guy did not carry through his mission.

He laid hidden in somewhere faraway.

I beg your pardon, but my grandfather

died as a Special Attack Force right?

It is a little weird to say

such a person is a coward...

If it is that guy,

It must have been an order from the

uppers and he went with tears.

The talk of the town menu in

this shopping district is this!

Did something happened?

Mum...

Did you ever ask about Miyabe san?

Yes. I did.

"What kind of a person is he?" I asked.

And?

Your Grandma just smiled and did not tell me anything.

Well it may be because the

marriage wasn't a blessed one.

If...if that Miyabe san did not

have a very good reputation?

Is that so?

No, I meant "if".

Since we are going to investigate about

him, what if such stuff were revealed?

Since she had never talked to me

about him, it might be the case.

He was known to be "the disgrace of the

Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service".

He was always running away in the skies.

He was responsible for

the sacrifice of several

bombers for his negligence

in guarding them.

Let's go.

Well, my grandfather...

Miyabe san was a coward right?

Where did you hear that from?

Everyone has been saying that...

that he was such a disgrace.

Please leave.

I have nothing to say to you.

Wait a moment.

I told you to get out of here!

Just think about it.

If Miyabe was a coward, why did

he join the Special Attack Unit?

You want to quit?

But right from the start, every uncle

has been saying the same things.

"Coward", "Timid", "Fear of dying".

And in the end, even "Disgrace" was mentioned.

So I thought why not just say what they have

been saying, but I was yelled at instead.

We are on our way to another interview,

so just what are you saying!

That's why I say, this shall be

the last I am going with you!

Ah....

Inheriting the bloodline of such person...

"Coward"...

It's true that that's what all

those old guys are calling him.

But that can't be help.

They bothered Platoon Sergeant because of his

good skills of navigating a fighter plane.

His skills were good?

His skills were the best of the best.

If such a person is in the platoon,

He will be expected to led the way head on

with the enemy and shoot them all down.

Escaping to the higher skies to see further.

But what Platoon Sergeant did was to just swerve away.

Right at the start of the battle in the air,

Escaping to the higher skies to keep a lookout.

He hates to be involved in the waging war,

And that is the cause of the malicious rumors.

Ah...

Do you know anything about the Zero fighters?

Ah.. I don't really know.

The Zero fighter...

Is really a great plane.

It is able to turn sharp angles

and maintain fast speed.

It is well equipped with weapons too.

Thanks to that it is able to fly long distances.

In that time when other planes are only

able to do a few hundred kilometers,

But a Zero fighter can do 1800

miles, about 3000 kilometers easily.

When the Zero fighter is paired

up with Platoon Sergeant,

They can be said that they are almost invincible.

But even then,

Everyone still gather and gossip

and made him to be a coward.

Well, I supposed that can't really be helped.

No. 66! Wheels ready, hook ready.

Landing!

No. 66! Landing!

It's coming, It's coming!

Here it is!!

The real landing on a carrier is

different from the training on land.

Landing on the choppy waters

is like riding a wild horse.

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