Burn,Things My Aunt Saw in Hiroshima② "75Years Hiroshima"Dr.SOKO DAY10/50

"Unbelievable..The corpses are rolling here and there. This is not Hiroshima I know ..Scared, but have to go."
"..Anyway, let's go straight to the line and head to Hiroshima",   Nobuko told herself.
The iron tracks looked like a long route to Hiroshima.
There were some houses seen near Kaitaichi station, but to get farer from the station, the houses were tilted and the roof tiles had fallen. Going a little further, the walls collapsed, and Nobuko passed through dozens and dozens of crushed houses and burned down houses. As we went on, the shapes of the house were mostly disappeared.

Nobuko decided to walk simply along the railroad without thinking.
Sweat drips from the tip of the hair.
Suddenly, raindrops wet Nobuko's face.
"Sticky and Hot.."
As she felt a little cool with raindrops, Nobuko saw a white blouse staining in black.
"Rain drops are black...strange"

The black rain was wrapping ash and dust containing radioactive material. People would have been exposed to the rain, which had a high concentration of radiation. People would have drunk the rain containing radiation. It is considered that after the detonation of the atomic bomb, it caused more intense external and internal exposures.

And again, she began to walk silently.
On the track, I passed by a large number of people heading  from Hiroshima to Kaitaichi Station.

A black face.
Bright red eyes.
Hair is shriveled and stiff.
Black and burnt skin. Red blooded skin. 
Is the arm sticking out to prevent the drooping skin from reaching the ground? Or maybe it's because the burned arm and body rub each other and hurt?
No one take a look at each other, they just walk forward.

Nobuko saw a long hair woman. Hair has become curly and swollen  like a large cotton bob. The skin hangs over the hair, from the face, from the eyelids and chin. While raising the sound of a loud breath, she lifted her arms forward, but the skin hanging from his arms was dragged to the ground and torn in the middle. When Nobuko passed by, Nobuko looked back and frozen. Her bare back was burnt and blood was flowing from the cracked flesh. Her breathing sound seemed to be painful.

　Nobuko thought, 

"Grandma told me yesterday not to be late to school. If I was late to leave home then, what would I be doing now?"

The houses crumbled. Smoke and fire was going up. 
A boy seemed about like a first grader of elementary school walked alone on the track from the direction of Hiroshima. He seemed to have no energy to lift  both arms forward, and the skin hanging from the fingertips is dragged over the ground. The boy was moving his mouth.
"Mother, mother,"
said the boy muttering like a spell, with a faint voice. Nobuko tried to make a call, but couldn't find the words to call and eventually passed by.

Burns are classified as I degree, II degree, and III degree according to the depth of the burn. Intense sunburn is degree I .Shallow-degree II causes redness, blisters and swelling, that leave no scars. Invasion-II becomes white, and since the pain sensation is damaged, pain is less likely to be felt. At level III, it becomes painless because the nerves are damaged. The color will be such as white or brown. People such as the pictures of the atomic bomb often describe people walking with their skins hanging down. Many suffered such tragic burns. Those who had drooping skin would have had a degree III burn. Even with all modern medical care, the fatality rate for those who have 10% or more of a degree III burn on the surface area of their body is very high. To reiterate, the burned people that Nobuko saw are suffering from severe burns and also, radiation. Most of their burns are caused by heat rays of 3000°C or higher on the ground, but radiation is also a cause of burns. It is unclear exactly what percentage of burns are caused by heat rays or radiation.

Nobuko couldn't do anything, she even couldn't talk to, she just walked the way.
In the vacant land beside the tracks, pieces of black  masses are gathered あand piled to the edges by gusts of wind.
The burned-animal like smell makes Nobuko feel sick. But unless she I tried to get used to, she could not walk anymore. People were walking without saying anything.
Nobuko  was staggered.She put her hand on the track, but she immediately lifted her hand from the track.
Curiously, the iron track was extremely hot probably because of the heat of a bomb and fire.