The B.G.S.'s part 20

17th August 2025 Hello Kiki. I’m sorry I haven’t written to you for three weeks, but a lot of things happened since I last wrote to you. During these three weeks my friends and I visited a lot of places to find more B.G.S.’s and we went to these places together, instead of going in separate teams. First we went to Hokkaido for a whole week. There we visited the snowy mountains at Niseko, Sapporo and a farm in Hakodate, and we found twenty five B.G.S.’s in total. The boys had fun skiing at Niseko and the girls and I had fun window shopping while looking through Sapporo. We even looked at all the animals while visiting the farm. After Hokkaido we visited Kusatsu of Gunma Prefecture. You won’t believe this Kiki but we found a dozen B.G.S.’s hiding in the Kusatsu hot spring resorts. The B.G.S.’s really liked the hot spring and so did my friends and I. Next we visited Takaharu Town of the Miyazaki Prefecture, where we found eight B.G.S.’s in the village. After that we visited the Sunayama beach on Miyako Island, where we found eight B.G.S.’s. Professor Largos let us spend the day on the beach as a reward for all the work we had done so far. Next we visited Niigata City of the Niigata Prefecture where we found eight B.G.S.’s hiding between some neighbour hoods. Last of all we visited Hiroshima City of the Hiroshima Prefecture, where we found a dozen B.G.S.’s. The visit to Hiroshima City was a bit of a scary trip because the B.G.S.’s were hiding in the ruins of the Atomic Bomb Dome. The Atomic Bomb Dome is an old building that still stood after an atomic bomb in 1945 dropped in Hiroshima, just to let you know Kiki. My friends and I didn’t know what to do at first because it’s forbidden for anyone to step foot into the ruins. But then the red, blue and yellow B.G.S. Yuko, Shizuyo and I were carrying in our backpacks entered the ruins, and they got the hiding B.G.S.’s out of there for us. It was such a relief Kiki we had other B.G.S.’s to help us in that situation. But we didn’t find just the B.G.S.’s while on our trips Kiki; we ended up finding more families that were broken. At Niseko we met a man named Mr Ougi, whose wife and children left him about eight years ago. What happened was Mr Ougi had a drinking problem and kept on spending most of his earnings on alcohol. He even spent some of the earnings his wife earned too. Mrs Ougi had enough of her husband’s alcoholism and she left him, taking their children with her. Mr Ougi hadn’t seen his wife or children since because his ex-wife couldn’t forgive him or trust him anymore, even though he was sober now. I can’t say I blame Mrs Ougi for that Kiki; with how Mr Ougi caused pain, misery and trouble to his own family, it’s no wonder she doesn’t trust him now. In Sapporo we met a woman named Mami Komaki and she told us she cut herself off from her family when she left home at the age of 18. The reason was Miss Komaki was the middle child in her family and she always felt like she didn’t exist or didn’t matter to her parents because her elder and younger siblings got more attention than she ever did. So after finishing school Miss Komaki moved away at once after having enough of being ignored nearly all of her life. And she hasn’t contacted her family since because even thinking about her family just brings back bitter memories of her life. Makes me believe Miss Komaki will probably never want to see her family again Kiki. At the farm in Hakodate, the farmer and his wife told us about their eldest daughter Sakura, who died a few years ago from a road accident. You won’t believe this Kiki but we were told that Sakura was selfish and unhelpful to her family. She never helped out around the farm and she was one of those countryside folk who want to live in a city instead of the countryside. Of course the farmer and his wife tried to talk some sense into her and make her understand her responsibilities on the farm, but Sakura never took any of their words for reasons. In the end Sakura ran away from home to live in the city. The farmer and his wife were very cross and disappointed with her and they didn’t forgive her for her actions. Even when and after she died from the road accident, a year and a half after she ran away, they still can’t forgive her for her selfishness. If you ask me Kiki, I think getting killed from the road accident was Sakura’s comeuppance for being so selfish. At Kusatsu, just before we found the B.G.S.’s in the hot springs, we saw a funeral going on. A woman who attended the funeral told us the funeral belonged to a sixteen year old boy named Daisuke Iwashita who committed suicide. The story about Daisuke is he had been blamed for crimes he didn’t commit nearly all of his life. In elementary school he was accused for stealing his classmates lunch money, but it was really a girl named Aya Kuroda who did it because she was the type of girl who stole things from other children. In middle school he was accused for bullying another classmate, but the victim Inou Katase lied about being bullied by Daisuke because he was the type of boy who liked getting people into trouble by lying about them. Then in high school he was accused for making a friend of his die from an asthma attack. The friend was really killed by a nasty bully named Mamoru Yamada who just liked watching the friend suffer from an asthma attack. Of course Daisuke tried to tell his parents and teachers about what really happened, but no one, not even his parents, believed him so he always got punished by being grounded or sent to prison. In the end the real culprits got captured and punished but Daisuke never forgave anyone for not believing him ever. Being accused for his high school friend’s death made Daisuke have enough of being accused of crimes he didn’t commit, so he committed suicide so he would never be accused of anything again. I don’t blame Daisuke for committing suicide Kiki. I mean anybody would commit suicide if they’ve been blamed for everything they didn’t do all their lives. At Takaharu Town we met an elderly couple named Mr and Mrs Sumi, who have been raising their grandson and granddaughter, ever since their mum abandoned them two years ago. The story is the mum was married to Mr and Mrs Sumi’s son, but the son died in an accident not long after the granddaughter was born. The mum became so heartbroken after her husband’s death she ended up neglecting her son and daughter. So she left her son and daughter with her parents-in-laws and just left in a great hurry. And they haven’t heard or seen her since. Mr and Mrs Sumi are happy with raising their grandchildren, but they do hope one day that woman will come to her senses and see her children again. It sounds to me Kiki, that woman was a weak woman who couldn’t pick herself up after losing her husband and couldn’t bear the responsibilities of becoming a single parent. Just how selfish can you get? Seriously Kiki I hate to think how Mr and Mrs Sumi’s son in heaven is feeling about this. And there’s no doubt the grandson and granddaughter will hate their mum when they learn the truth about her one day. Mark my words Kiki that will happen. We didn’t meet anyone at Sunayama beach, but we met a widowed man named Mr Okazaki in Niigata City. Mr Okazaki was a downer and he had been like that ever since his son, Tomi, committed suicide five years ago. You won’t believe this Kiki but Mr Okazaki is a weak-willed man you lets everyone around him push him around, and he never stands up for himself. Can you believe that Kiki? Anyway the story is Kiki; Tomi hated his father letting everyone push him around and never standing him for himself. Tomi was the opposite of his dad; never letting people push him around and such. It got worse for Tomi in high school. He kept on getting bullied for no reason by some classmates. Tomi fought them back, which I say is good because you shouldn’t let bullies bully you. But Mr Okazaki, well here’s another thing you won’t believe Kiki. Mr Okazaki said he kept on telling his son to not fight the bullies and just ignore them. My friends and I couldn’t believe our ears when we heard that; it sounded like if Mr Okazaki was bullied he would just let the bullies bully him. Anyway the bullying for Tomi did get worse because there were times he got hit by the bullies, and it didn’t help when his dad didn’t do anything much about it. So one day Tomi died by making himself drown in the sea. I’m sorry to say this Kiki but it was Mr Okazaki’s fault Tomi killed himself; it was stupid of him to not even try to do something about the bullying, not even talk to the parents of the bullies. This is a guilt Mr Okazaki will be holding on for the rest of his life Kiki, believe me. At Hiroshima City we met a young woman named Megumi Yamada. She had been placing lots of paper cranes at the Hiroshima City memorial, hoping that her little sister would come home. The story is her sister Maki disappeared soon after she graduated from high school and she has been missing for six years now. Megumi claims it was her fault Maki disappeared because she got more attention from her parents than Maki ever did. The truth is Megumi was considered very beautiful and was always an A-grade student at school, so her parents were always praising her and giving her a lot of attention because of that. But as for Maki, she wasn’t as beautiful or smart as Maki so she didn’t get as much praise as her sister did. So it’s obvious to me Kiki, Maki got very angry and jealous of her sister and made herself disappear because she couldn’t take it anymore. It isn’t Megumi’s fault Maki ran away; it was her parent’s fault for not being careful with Maki. And it’s very clear to me Maki isn’t going to return home for a long time to come due to her hate and jealousy. These three weeks had been fun Kiki, but over the three weeks I had been thinking about something. To tell you the truth Kiki ever since my friends and I first met people who had sad pasts, quite similar to ours, I keep getting these feelings inside of me. And those feelings had me thinking; ‘am I the same as those people who never made up with their parents, because I haven’t made up with mine yet?’ or ‘am I never going to let go of my hate towards my parents, ever?’ or ‘is my broken relationship with my parents never ever going to mend?’ All of those questions kept on going on in my head. But then yesterday I decided to gather up my courage and tell Professor Largos, Mr Yashiro and my friends how I felt. While we had lunch I told everyone about my feelings and the questions I had in my head all the time. Everyone was silent for a few moments, but then Shizuyo spoke up. “Well I can’t really say we are the same as those people Kyoko,” she said “I mean we haven’t runaway, or broken off with our parents permanently, or made ourselves disappear, or died”. “No we haven’t,” I said “but what if we do, do any of those things in the future? And what if we do end up the same as those people who never made up with their families? What shall we do then?” My friends didn’t reply to my questions because neither of us knows what to do about our situations. My friends and I really do need help Kiki; we need a push or a nudge or anything to help us know what to do.