The next day, due to eating a large piece of chocolate last night, Honda woke up with great strength in the tree, dug up the soil behind it, found a deep buried kettle, and took a shallow sip.

The day of boredom waiting for death began again.

And when he awoke, a soldier wearing a tattered military uniform and a hagmorrty face was walking out of the trench on foot, shouting outside under the sound of persuasion, throwing down his weapon and throwing off all the equipment outside his uniform.

Honda under the tree knew this soldier, a very ordinary lower infantryman.

For this soldier's choice, Honda under the tree in the heart silently send blessings.

However, when the soldier came out of the trench five meters, suddenly an officer, a major officer, was neatly dressed on his body, without any dish on his face, and he was very healthy.

There was no messy beard on his face, his hair was very clean, and the boots on his feet were shiny.

Facing the junior soldiers who were ready to go out to surrender, the Major took out his pistol and shot without hesitation.

Honda was suddenly startled, but it quickly calmed down.

Isn’t that a reason he never surrendered?

Not to allow the men to surrender, it was one of the tasks of the officers, just to kill the soldiers who surrendered, and the Honda tree was the first time to see it with his own eyes.

From the surrender being shot to the officer himself, the deep fear of the one who would be shot, but not the Honda tree.

Honda wants to end this damn war, he is not a warrior brainwashed by a samurai sword, he is a highly educated elite, knows a lot of political and military darkness.

But he could not do so, because he had his family at home, and he knew exactly what his family would be treated in the country if he surrendered.

In Japan, soldiers captured by the enemy are treated as "traitors" and are marked with a red pen on their hukou books.This is the education that Honda has received.

In the afternoon, yesterday the capitulator appeared again in the trenches, and the first one came to look for the Honda tree, which may be that he felt that the tree under Honda is different from others, and at any time, it is meticulous.

In a brief exchange, Honda asked, “Don’t you be afraid of Major General killing a soldier who is going to surrender in the morning?”

“I want to save more people, we should not die in this place, Iwo Jima is no longer a battlefield, the Red Guards have captured the Philippines and British Indonesia, they have captured the Ogasawari Islands, and they have heard that their targets have been on Okinawa.”

Honda was shocked when he heard the news, but did not ask, because these distance he was too far away, like Tokyo, and his family far away from the motherland.

The capitulator did not talk to Honda's tree, left two pieces of chocolate, secretly gave Honda under the tree a bottle of mineral water and a can of meat, and then began to persuade others to surrender.

Honda under the tree quietly put up these things, buried them, watched him negotiate with others, after each negotiation, all those who refused, he would leave some food.

After half an hour, the capitulator intended to leave, and with his persuasion seven or eight more soldiers left the trenches and surrendered outside.

But just as the capitiser left a piece of chocolate in his hand to the last soldier, and as he left the trench, the soldier who took the chocolate shot behind the captor.

The bullet penetrated the capitulator's moon Hungarian, the man who shot it, tore the chocolate and ate it, and the Honda tree could hear him saying while eating: "Let him go back like this, he will become a traitor, he is pitiful."

The bullet penetrated the capitulator's moon Hungarian, but there should be no fatal attack, and he persisted on the ground to climb out, returned to the observation mouth of the Honda under the tree, and saw two enemy soldiers, coming out of the bunker at the trench exit, bringing back the capitulator who had been wounded and climbed out.

Honda had time to shoot, but he didn’t do it, because not just for him, but for all the Japanese soldiers in the trench as a whole, it was accepted from the heart that the war was over.

In the next few days, people came to persuade every day, and more and more people chose to surrender.

Honda understands that most of the fear of surrender is differing, because he is the same, at first fear surrender, and now he has the idea of surrender.

This transformation has caused many things in the trenches to be reversed.

Last night, in the trenches that had been quiet for several days, a gunshot came, and two hours later, Honda knew that the only major in the trench was killed by a soldier who collapsed in his heart.

Kill the soldier, or the main neighbor, because the Major was firmly not willing to surrender, and even sent the message back to the country, so that the soldier's family became a disgrace to the empire.

Then the soldiers, they killed the general, and in the trench where the Major was staying, the other soldiers found a lot of canned and drinking water, and a lot of things that would keep them alive.

Yet these things, for all people, are becoming very fading, without coaxing and without gunfire.

Because in the trenches, there are fewer than a hundred left, and every day surrenders come in and bring them food.

Also on this day, Honda laid down its arms under the tree, put down everything, took his own notebook, and walked out of the trench.

On this day, a group of Red Police soldiers entered the trenches, and all the remaining Japanese soldiers consciously threw away their weapons.

Entering the camp, the Honda tree was taken to a clean mobile room, and after entering the bathroom, cleaned, shaven, and replaced with the training clothes prepared for him by the Red Police soldiers, he became a prisoner of the army, and he was treated well because of the notebook he handed over.

He was not placed in the closing of a large group of prisoners of war, and after being taken to the cafeteria to eat a lot of things, he met a colonel of the Red Guard Corps.

The colonel gave him a proof that from now on he was not a prisoner of war, that he could return to his homeland at any time after the war, or to choose to accept new jobs in the occupied territories.

Honda made a choice, and on board the ship to Australia, he looked back at the inner island, looking at the trenches and pits that were being disinfected and cleaned, and he slowly closed his eyes.

The whistle came out, and the tanker left the floating dock on Iwo Jima, slowly moving away, and eventually disappeared at sea level.