First summaries for today. Was gonna make more but I was studying, making a K-On! blog post and coaching a Starcraft 2 game.
This summary start begins from Kinzo telling his past up to the Italian submarine.
Spoiler for Summaries!:
Flashback(?)
- Will meets what looks like a younger version of Kinzo tat Leon recognizes(Who looks exactly like Battler).
- Young Kinzo introduces himself. Kinzo laments how he never wanted to be the successor, but as the best possible candidate he became the new head as the other successors bickered over the inheritance.
- He says he was chosen for his sixth toe (polydactyly), which was considered a sign of good luck. He retells his story of being chosen.
- Kinzo says he wants Leon to be the successor as Leon seems to have inherited his mentality, as proven by the silver ring. Will wonders about people becoming puppets for financial gain.
- Narrator (Kinzo?) explains how when one gains entry into society at the age of 20, he is subjected to people's intentions and controls for personal gains, and how one is used until one is completely exhausted, like a doll. Kinzo's past was likened to this doll.
- Kinzo narrates how his marriage was arranged and how he never really loved his wife. He fathered a child (children) even if he never loved her. He was merely a puppet. He felt miserable.
- Leon could not believe that such a man of high esteem would live under such a shadow for most of his life. Kinzo said that while he wanted to live he also wanted to die, but could a puppet sever his own strings? Death would be liberation.
- It was WWII and he was chosen to succeed the family after its collapse. As a puppet he tried to find ways to cut the strings that controlled him.
- He wanted to find a place to die. Will asks if he wanted to die in war.
- Kinzo says he preferred to die some sort of honorable death in the war. Leon says that due to his knowledge and engineering skill, he was part of a group to form an engineering corpse in the army.
- He says that the US army bypassed the island he was in. He would meet Beatrice in this island. Leon asks how there was an army base in Rokkenjima at the time. Kinzo says they are thinking of the wrong place. He was a guard in a cave in that island.
Taiwan/Saipan 1944 (?)
- Kinzo was part of a crew to build a submarine and submarine base from Hachijo island. The survey team took to Rokkenjima (?) to find a place to make a base, but Kinzo found it funny since they had no more submarines to use. The base construction was never completed. After it was abandoned the top brass forgot about the cave. He spent his days fishing and planting crops as the days pass. The war ended without him seeing combat.
- Kinzo contemplated things while asking why the Americans wouldn't come to this island. He spent his days meandering about without some sort of purpose.
- He is apparently yelling over the cliffs in his exasperation, screaming a challenge to the US forces to come and fight. I think he's drunk?
- He gets recalled by a Lieutenant Yamamoto who is the base CO. It would seem that he gets some degree of respect for his brains and status.
- The CO seems to have a complex on Kinzo who is a well educated person. The CO asks if he has experience in foreign languages (?).
- Kinzo wonders why an interpreter is needed in this island. He gets assigned to be the CO's interpreter (Italian?).
- At the submarine dock an Italian sub arrives. Leon asks how this is as the Italian government of Mussolini have capitulated in 1943. Kinzo says these were some of his supporters, the RSI. Will says this is the Italian Socialist Republic. Kinzo says the assumption of 1943 was wrong because even then Italian forces fought all the way to 1945.
- Leon asks why the Italians would come here. As Kinzo continues, the CO says that there was something wrong with the submarine's Chlorine filters.
- They greet the crew. A young crew member greets them, suggesting that maybe the officers were killed in the accident. Kinzo asks who on the crew speaks English.
- One of the crew answers that someone can speak English.
- Just as they speak, a loud cough is heard. It is a woman's voice. A beautiful woman of golden hair alights from the submarine. She speaks English.
- (THIS GIRL LOOKS A HELL OF A LOT LIKE BEATRICE!)
- Woman says the submarine CO died. Kinzo offers help. She says the crew needs some rest. She says she is the only one who speaks English.
- The CO wants an update and screams at Kinzo. Kinzo updates him. He tells the girl that apparently the CO is pissed only he is taking the beautiful girl's time, jokingly.
- She says she's glad Kinzo's the one who speaks English and thanks him for the compliment.
- He introduces himself as Kinzo Ushiromiya. SHE INTRODUCES HERSELF AS BEATRICE CASTIGLIONI.
As the content implies, we get a background not only on Kinzo's past but, more importantly, the first indication of a possible truth as to how Kinzo met Beatrice.