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About a fifteen-minute drive north of the small rural area in Tohoku was a residential neighborhood that was only slightly more developed. There was a community center and Sendai Elementary and Junior High, which were right next to each other.
There was also one large gymnasium, which was a community sports center used by students and residents. It was said it could be used as an evacuation space in case of an emergency, but none of the residents of Kagayashiki thought that it would ever be used for that purpose.
“There are quite a lot of people in the gym. Most of them are elderly people who didn’t evacuate earlier and stayed in town,” said a first responder as they were driving toward the gymnasium.
Masumoto and Kyohei sat on either side of the body in the emergency vehicle.
“We will give you time to say your goodbyes to the deceased later, but for now, please go to the gym and get first aid. There will be hospital transport vehicles coming soon, which you can take to get checked out,” the first responder said.
“Your grandmother’s body here will also have been exposed to quite a bit of radiation, so we will have to treat her separately.”
“Did she die because of the radiation?” Masumoto asked.
“... No. I’m sorry.”
The first responder dropped his head in guilt.
“Just before the nuclear plant exploded, a local evacuation order was issued. We were evacuating people, but the roads in this town were not well-maintained and were too narrow for rescue vehicles to pass through easily,” he said.
“We couldn’t visit every house, so we put out an announcement from the village hall asking the elderly to gather at the town hall. We rescued...
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