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that trains at Hiroshima station are in service. Instead, we had better crossthe Atago railroad crossing and go to the Yaga area.” We agreed with himand began walking.The movie theater next to the Koujin Market was burning fiercely, andboth sides of the street to the Atago railroad crossing area was in flames. Itseemed to be impossible to go through it. But we still tried to go through it,not once but twice. Then we gave up and said “It’s impossible.”On the right side of the streetcar street, we could see the HiroshimaStation building faintly over the fire and smoke. I was not sure but it mighthave been the Shinyou-Kumiai Bank, the building which had a reinforcedconcrete structure which interrupted the spread of the fire. We judged thatwe would manage to make our own way there and we began to walk to thebank building. Then we met two elder students who were wearing blackcloaks. To my surprise, they seemed not to have been injured. I felt like I hadcome across a strange space for an instant.“You look seriously injured. Where are you going back to?” The studentsasked us. I answered “We are going to take the Geibi line and go home.” Theytold me “Hiroshima Station was completely destroyed, and trains are not inservice. We can do nothing for you but eat these and never give up.” And thenthe student gave us three peaches from his cloak.We devoured the peaches without even appreciating them. The sweetjuicy peaches quenched our thirst the most.(This scene has been a very special memory in my mind. The peaches wegot must have been what they were supposed to eat themselves. Thoughevery food such as rice was short at that time, they kindly shared them. Itwas like magic that they put their hand into their cloaks and handed usthose peaches. I will never forget the peach and its taste. I regret we didn’task the names of the two elder students. I believe that peach might havesaved my life, and the fact that I met the two students and received thosepeaches must have been destiny. My thanks to them never fade.)When we got to Hiroshima station, we found that the conditions therewere just like the information the students had given us. Looking towardMatsubara-cho area, there wasn’t so much fire. So to some extent we couldsee through parts of it. The three of us talked for a while and made a roughplan to walk to the Yokogawa area and then go to Yaguchi via Nagatsuka. Webegan to carry out our plan, but none of us believed in the possibility that our