Narrator

One day, an urgent report interrupted Gonta's training at headquarters. He hurried home to the Takaga Woods to face tragedy. [Gonta arrives at the edge of a hill, and is greeted by the sight of miles of barren wasteland, with only a bulldozer and an excavator sitting where the woods had been] More than half his childhood home had already been ravaged by destruction. [Gonta stares in horror. He lets out a howl of despair] Gonta went mad with grief.