29.Frequently,mom Aki went to the school to visit Kyuutarou like her family member.Occasionally she brought him some funny toys and tasty food.More than once she happened to see him listening to teachers and then she stood against the window,just watching him,a studious and cute kid.
30.However,Kyuutarou also met some nuisances.Because some kids called him "Sinokid",he often fought against them.Anyhow he was too young and as a result he was always pinned on the ground by other older kids.Covered with dust all over,he cried together with a first-year little girl who was also bullied and called "Damn Foreign Girl" by the others.
31.After Kyuutarou graduated with distinction from the primary school,he was enrolled by a renowned secondary school of the city.As a war orphan,he was financed all the expenses by the government.At the time,he had grown taller with thick dark hair,a pair of large eyes in the resolute face.Still his lips turned up slightly with fluffy moustache,which demonstrated that he was becoming a masculine lad!
32.But,he never forget the tragedy in Hiroshima,which he had learned from the history class.
33.On the day of August 6 every year,Kyuutarou would take a ride to the Square of Hiroshima A-bomb Memorial,for he had known that his dozens of relatives were just buried there.He mourned in silence with his Middle School fellow students.As the young man listened to the narrator about the disaster,his eyes were filled with horrors.
34.Kyuutarou was so diligent that he graduated brilliantly from senior school and entered a university majoring in law.In the university,the government continued to cover all his expenditures.Meanwhile,he persisted to go to the Square of Hiroshima A-bomb Memorial every year like before.He still listened to the narrators with his college fellows,and harbored full of hatred in his soul.With age,his hatred was growing and he started seeking a variety of ways to revenge American.
35.He thought of joining the army.On the very day he grew up to 18 years old,he walked into the recruitment office of the Japan Self-defense Forces.The doctor of the physical examination made a thorough checkup and the doctor said to him frankly,"Mr.Kyuutarou,according to your health report,you can't and will never serve in the army.So please go back."
36.Out of the physical examination room,he went through the corridor with people's discriminations while he braced himself up to set his disabled arm upright and held his head high to stride through the crowds.
37.Failing in the physical examination of the military service,he resolved to go to the Budokan.In the preliminary test,Yamada,a celebrated coach,fought him ruthlessly so that he was thrown to the ground badly more than once.But he stood up tenaciously again and again.Because of his tenacious persistence,he passed the test and became a member of the Budokan.In reality,he was the most assiduous trainee.In order to renew his curled limbs,he usually attached them to the hand ring and then spaced them out under his own weight,for which he was often hurt to be faint.The meticulous guide of the coach and years of hard practice built his body and honed his mental toughness.Eventually,he became an expert boxer and graduated from the Budokan with the first place.However,the very martial arts,later on,brought about great disaster to him.
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38.In the early 60s,Juvenile Delinquency Division of Japanese Osaka Police Station kept records of bad conducts on a physical handicapped youth with only a question mark in the name column:
39.1.In the street,a handicapped youth headed other teenagers to prick the tyres of the U.S.corps in Japan with sharp appliances.
40.2.By the coast,a handicapped youth dived into the sea to drill through the U.S.landing vessel so that the vessel sank and the Marine Corps fell into the sea.
41.3.In drunkenness,a handicapped youth together with two youths at the age of around 20 made a riot against the American Marine Corps and finally fled in every direction under the capture of the Japanese police.
42.On one summer day of 1974,in the wailing siren,Kyuutarou was running hard with the sweat pouring down his face but he still remained calm.As the siren was approaching,he ran for all he was worth in the throngs.In disorderly haste,he rushed into a small barber shop by the street.
43.Mieko,a young comely hairdresser was taken aback by Kyuutarou,disheveled and sweaty,when she was putting away a variety of haircut appliances on the platform."Who are you?What do you come here for instead of haircut?Get out!Stop acting the giddy goat!Go away at once,otherwise,I will call the police",Mieko shouted to Kyuutarou.
44.Kyuutarou hurried to explain,"Don't be scared.I'm not a bad guy but a university student of Tokyo University.Actually,a couple of police are chasing me now because we have hit an American drunken marine who molested a Japanese girl.I don't want to be arrested and insulted by the GIs of the American military base.Please help me.Would you please let me hide here?"
45.With suspect,Mieko asked,"Really?You ——you dare offend the bad American marines?" Toward her suspicion,Kyuutarou nodded slightly and said,"It's true."
46.Mieko was thrilled and dragged Kyuutarou in from the door,crying,"Hurry up.Put on the apron and sit into the hairdressing chair.I will pin up a variety of hairdressing appliances onto your head and you will not be recognized even by your own mother.
47.Mieko pinned up a variety of hairdressing appliances,pasted a facial mask and foamed his head with shampoo.Then they heard the knocking "bang,bang …"
48.As a result,the door was banged open and two motorcycle police burst into the shop.
49.Enthusiastically,Mieko said,"Come in,please.Welcome to come again."