[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: A woman leaves the mountains of Hiroshima and a man leaves Matsuyama in Shikoku, both traveling naked at the same time. With the Russo-Japanese War just around the corner, modern Japan was on the verge of its peak of prosperity. The two young men, both of whom were engaged in loading and unloading coal at Moji port, were brought together by the threads of fate as they floated through the bleak Kyushu harbor, and began a life of tra...
