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eigo13

to run away, but I couldn’t. My skin was so tightened that I could not keepbalance. I stood up only to fall down again.I said to one of my classmates sitting beside me. “How seriously am Iinjured? My skin is very tight and it looks very red. How is my face? ” Heanswered, “Your face looks very purple. How about mine? ” I told him thathis face was equally damaged. And we managed to walk to an air-raid sheltertogether. We worried about our friends who had been on the school yard.Where did they go? How were they? Some of my classmates in the shelterwere also worrying about them. I said “Let’s make a group moving alongthe Geibi line area together, shall we?” And then, two of my classmatesanswered “Yes, let’s.”My face became very tense and it prevented me from speaking smoothly.The part of burnt skin became bigger and purpler and it hurt more. I thoughtI needed treatment anyway and was directed to the army hospital at Ujina.Going out from the air-raid shelter, I touched the pillar at the entrance.And then the skin of my right hand tore, and some transparent liquid randown. Passing through the school gate and facing the streetcar street, anincredible sight beheld me.Most of the people coming from the Hijiyama bridge area were injured,without any clothes, bleeding, with their skins striped, screaming like blackghosts. That was like hell on earth.We joined the crowd and walked to the Ujina area. Then we saw a horseand cart which was running surprisingly fast along the streetcar track. Westopped unintentionally. We watched the horse and cart passing very noisily.The horse was pulling the cart without a driver and a back wheel. Its backand stomach were seriously injured.I said to myself “It must be bigger than an incendiary bomb.” Both ofmy friends nodded it. We proceeded to the army hospital to have treatment.On the way we saw many injured people running away.Walking along the school wall, we saw many houses that had fallendown. From under a house we heard a voice groaning. Suddenly the voicesaid “Help me.” My friends and I looked at each other, and understood therewas nothing we could do.A man came running. He shouted “Gas tanks are about to explode. It’svery dangerous! Run away quickly!” Hearing that, we tried to make hastebut I felt my feet were just too heavy to move. We had different parts of our