Chapter 49: Madness

This door couldn't be opened by turning the doorknob, which meant that it couldn't be opened by any means. This was something that both Ke Yin Yu and Mo Yuan had more than enough experience with. At this time, Ke Yin Yu directly stretched out two fingers and put them on his lips, this gesture naturally signaled everyone to listen patiently, at the same time took out his cell phone and started recording, at the same time said to Ming Chen Yan, "Just wait a little while before you translate." "Uh-huh." In this aspect of translation, Ming Chenyan, who had experience in being a subtitle team, was instead more suitable than Kitayama Jinghuang, who was Japanese. Ming Chenyan at this moment was perking up his ears and listening carefully. However, at this time, the room was silent, and there was no sound for a while. I don't know how long it took, but just when everyone was about to lose patience, the sound rang out again. This time, it opened with another broadcast. Akatsuhiko heard clearly this time, this time the broadcast was announcing that Japan had won the right to host the Tokyo Olympics. However, it was not the 2020, but the 1964 Olympics. Last year, Japan happened to have released an okaa drama with the theme of the Olympics, and Akatsuhiko had downloaded and watched a few episodes while passing the time, so he learned that Japan had obtained the right to host the Olympics in 1958. "How time flies ……" The broadcast ended and was turned off, then came the voice of a vicissitude of a middle-aged man, "In the blink of an eye, Tokyo actually regained the right to host the Olympic Games again. We could have hosted the Olympics back in the 15th year of the Showa era. This is a good opportunity for our family as well! Now Japan's economy is decimated, but hosting the Olympics is a chance for us, Japan, to show the world who we are again. We will prove to this world that we are no longer the militaristic country of yesteryear that dragged the world into a vortex of war." Then came the voice of a middle-aged man with a vicissitude, "Family Master, in the blink of an eye, it has been thirteen years since the war ended. To this day, I still remember the days when the American bombers hovered over Tokyo ……" When Kitayama Jinghuang heard this phrase, "It has been thirteen years since the end of the war," she instantly determined that it was thirty-three years in Showa. These two people speaking inside, she already recognized, one was her maternal grandfather, Kitayama Mashin, and the other was the old housekeeper, Takagi Aoe. "Aoe." "Master of the house? Did I say something wrong?" "I still have nightmares from time to time lately. And sometimes I can't tell if my elder brother is still wandering within this shrine. I always feel like he's around me from time to time. I always feel as if elder brother is resenting me, right? Back then, when my father favored me and didn't want to send me to war, he bribed others to falsify my medical records for me. The argument to elder brother was that he at least wanted to leave the family with an heir." "I don't think Young Master Shingo will resent you for that." "Actually, it was me who was afraid. I didn't want to go to war at all, and I begged my father that I didn't want to go to the front anyway.When Saipan Island was lost, he was supposed to be stationed at Iwo Jima. When Saipan was lost, he was supposed to be stationed at Iwo Jima, but he got scared and fled back to Tokyo. He cried and fell on his knees in front of us, saying he didn't want to go to war anymore. Among so many brothers, I was the closest to my elder brother. When he was born, his greatest wish was to become a good samurai, but who knew that the Taisho era would become the so-called last romance of the sword. So what did the brave elder brother go through on the battlefield to be scared like that? Moreover, I realized that he was afraid of more than just the enemy ……" "The head of the family ……" "He said that all the people were crazy, wan all turned into demons …… The samurai he longed for since he was a child wasn't like that …… I didn't quite understand what he meant at that time, but I got it later. " The room fell into a dead silence for a while. "Elder brother at that time liked to be able to stay inside the family shrine, he to the moment of death, hope to return to the shrine it. When he begged his father at that time, he said that even if he died, he wished to die in the family's shrine, in this place where he was born ……" Hearing this, Kitayama Jinghuang's complexion stared as he thought of something. And Akatsuhiko, who understands Japanese, his complexion also changed greatly. As for Ke Yin Yu, although she didn't understand Japanese, but back then, within the apartment, before Kamiya Sayoko formed the Kamiya League, she had still studied some simple Japanese with this famous Japanese detective. So, roughly, she also understood what was meant. After another moment, he continued, "We did something unforgivable to elder brother, ah. Even if he died, my elder brother wanted to return to the shrine, to this place of his ancestral home where he was born. But at that time, father seemed to have fallen into an even greater madness." "In the beginning it was all the old family head's intention …… including the construction of the current Gushikan as well. It was all because of the war, and the war made the old family master go insane." "Yes ……" Obviously, the word "war" pierced the nerves of Kitayama Makinsin: "You know what? Aoe, it's ironic that the war has instead given a boost to Japan's military industry as American troops depart from Okinawa for Vietnam. I just think, what's the difference between all this and twenty years ago in Showa? If World War III ever breaks out, it will　　definitely be a nuclear war, and the atomic bomb will turn our country's territory into ashes." Then the sound of someone standing up was heard inside the door. "It's all war! War! Damned war! Father went mad! That was then, that was when he went mad! It was because he was mad that father did what he did! Mother, the other brothers, and uncle, they either died in air raids or on the battlefield! For a battle that ended in total defeat! For such a battle! Everyone in our family, almost all of them died out, and I'm the only one who survived until now ……" At this point, although other people couldn't understand, some of the words were still understandable to those who often watched Japanese anime and Japanese dramas. Like "war" and "death", they were all common words in Japanese anime. "Master of the house, calm down a bit ……" Inside the door, there was a gasping voice. "I still remember very clearly the decision father made when the change in Zengo's elder brother's remains was discovered. Speaking of which, father was already crazy to the point where even I felt horrified at that time. However, there was no way for me to regret it. I also ate meat …… of my elder brother! After eating the meat, it's the same as being trapped in this shrine." Hearing these words, Kitayama Jinghuang only felt the inside of her stomach flip madly. At this moment, she was incredibly envious of the Chinese people next to her who couldn't understand Japanese at all. "Family head, it's better not to worry too much about the future. After all, we all ate meat, didn't we? After eating meat, we just have to stay in this shrine and we won't die." "It's all because of father's madness at the time …… However, even so, the family members who have already died in the war can't come back." "Still, think of something happy, family head. The Olympics will soon be held in Japan, countless foreigners will enter our country, and there will even be foreigners who will come to invest as well. It's a huge opportunity for us, and we can even introduce our shrine's spirit removal abilities to foreigners as well." "Yes? ……De-spirit' ……" Just as these words were said, the door in front of them, automatically opened. …… The occupants walked downstairs, and the door to the first floor, at that moment, opened. Akatsuhiko had already translated all of what she had just said to them. "What the …… hell is this?" "1945 and 1958, respectively, spanning two times, the voice left on by the people in the past." Ke Yin Yu's face was very serious at this time, "That is to say, the origin of everything stems from that brother of your maternal grandfather." Beishan Jinghuang nodded at this time and said, "I, I didn't expect …… to be that crazy ……" She had heard her maternal grandfather mention countless times that he missed that older brother, Shingo Kitayama, who had died in the Tokyo air raid at the beginning. But the so-called meat, the meat she had eaten, was actually …… "How could it be …… how could the body of someone who died so long ago be preserved ……" "There are two possibilities." Beside her, Ke Yin Yu then analyzed without changing his face, "The first is using salt to store the remains to ensure that microorganisms don't breed, but I'm more inclined to the second possibility, which is the power of the curse." Everyone fell silent. The war where it all originated was an eternal wound for their homeland. Forever!