[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1 Introduction: "The lightest thing in Manchuria is human life."
The year is 1937. Isamu Hijikata, who came to Manchuria as a soldier of the Kwantung Army, lost the sight in his right eye in the war. As a "useless soldier," he is sent to a volunteer agricultural unit to produce food for the army, and spends his days being mistreated by his superiors, until one day he notices that poppy, the raw material for opium, is being grown in a corner of a farm...
