Chapter 4 Part One She Didn't Reconnect With Him

She did not fall in love with him again. She wandered through the streets.And he followed behind, as if he was following a woman he had never met before.At a certain point, he catches up to her and asks her to stay in Hiroshima as if in a narration.She said "no".Rejected like everyone else.She has the cowardice common to all. Indeed, for them, the big picture is settled. He doesn't insist anymore. She strolled towards the station.He catches up to her.The two of them stared at each other like ghosts. Since then, they have not exchanged a single word.Her imminent departure plunged them into a dreary, gloomy silence.

This is love.They could only remain silent.The last scene takes place in a cafe.Viewers will see her with another Japanese man. We see the man she loves sitting at a table, motionless, unable to respond to anything other than deep despair.This hopeless emotion was physically more than he could bear, and he could only bear it.It was as if she had "belonged elsewhere".But he could only express his understanding. At dawn, she returned to her room.After a few minutes, he knocked on the door.He couldn't hold back, couldn't avoid coming, he said apologetically, "I can't not come."

In the room, nothing happened.Both of them are in a terrible situation where they can't do anything. The conventions of the "secular order" still exist, and they no longer disturb the normal order around them. They didn't talk to each other.No more moves. They just call out to each other again.What are you calling for?Nevers, Hiroshima.In fact, in each other's mind, they are still nobody.They only have place names, which are not names of names.It was as if the catastrophe of a woman with a shaved head in Nevels was mirrored precisely in the catastrophe of Hiroshima. She said to him, "Hiroshima, that's your name."