bookpub Chapter 196 I’M Sorry For Being Born Human
Chapter 196 I’M Sorry For Being Born Human
Oda Jiro curled up and tried to tighten the linen clothes wrapped around him.
The sea breeze was so strong that his thin face was already numb.
He looked at the place where the sea and the sky connected in the distance, and silently prayed in his heart:
"Bless me, Lord Yamata, and wish my brother Taro Oda a safe return."
Oda Jiro's elder brother, Oda Taro, was a Japanese fisherman who relied on the sea. After the death of their father, Oda Taro took on the important task of taking care of the family.
At only 14 years old, he first saved a little money by helping others clean up their catches and mend fishing nets, and then bought a small wooden boat that was almost completely damaged and could not go to sea.
After Taro Oda's careful repairs, this nearly scrapped fishing boat once again sailed out to sea carrying the hope of a family.
At first, life was very difficult. Fishing at sea required skills. Although Taro Oda had followed his father to sea since he was a child, after all, he only needed to help out at that time.
Now, he has to drive a boat and fish.
Several times, Oda Taro came back empty-handed and still wet.
When Oda Jiro saw his brother like this, he naturally wanted to help him.
Although he didn't know anything yet, at least the brothers were taking care of him.
But Taro Oda refused. He touched his brother's head and said softly:
"Jiro, mother still needs your care. What should mother do if we both go to sea and come back late one day?"
Looking at his brother who looked tired but still spoke softly, Oda Jiro nodded.
Yes, their mother still needs care.
Their mother should not have been lying on the bed.
Just because he had a few arguments with a supernatural being, he was seriously injured.
At that time, Oda Jiro was still very young, his parents were still alive, and his family was harmonious.
I just don’t know from which day my mother has been lying in bed and never got up again.
He was ignorant at the time and wanted to get his mother to accompany him to dig sand at the beach.
But his mother's tearful face made him understand the dangers of the world for the first time at a young age.
Tears always make people mature earlier, which also made Oda Jiro feel:
Why do people do evil when they have superpowers?
More than once, he longed to have superpowers, but all these seemed to be a luxury.
After he became wise, he listened to his father complaining about the increase in sea taxes again and again, and heard his mother say again and again that it was good for the family to be together.
But when the sea tax increased again, my father had to go to sea late at night.
It was supposed to be a calm night, but in the middle of the night a strong wind suddenly came up.
Oda Jiro was awakened by his mother and asked him to see if his father was back.
Like today, he was standing in a cave by the sea.
He couldn't see anything in the freezing rain.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning flashed across the night sky, and his eyes widened:
In the distant ocean, there seemed to be a huge figure flashing past.
After just one glance, Oda Jiro was so frightened that he fainted.
It was already half a month later when he woke up.
My father's funeral had already been held, and he had been in a coma due to a high fever caused by being exposed to the rain.
At this moment, his home began to fall into disrepair.
But what's even worse is that when his brother started to be able to replenish big fish and come back, the local superpowers got wind of it.
They took away the big fish, and they got a few more years of taxes on them.
This tax appeared out of thin air, no matter how Oda Taro explained it, it was useless.
Oda Jiro could only watch as his brother, who was only a few years older than him, had a lot of gray hair overnight.
One day later, his mother called Oda Jiro:
"Jiro, I want to eat some snail meat. Can you go to the beach to pick up some and bring it back?"
Oda Jiro nodded in agreement, but when he returned home he found:
Mother, has passed away.
She didn't want to be a burden to the brothers, and she apologized to them in her suicide note:
I'm sorry, it's my mother's fault for bringing you into such a world.
I'm sorry for being human.