 O-tane takes the boy to Chigasaki, where she learns that Kōhei and his father had been living in a rented room after their own house at Hachiōji was destroyed in the bombing.The landlady tells O-tane that the two had left for Tokyo a few days previously as Kōhei's father, a carpenter, hoped to find work there.She does not expect him back and does not know how to contact him.