The officer realizes Seita is stealing due to hunger and releases him. As they run out of rice, Seita steals from farmers and loots homes during air raids, for which he is beaten and sent to the police by a farmer. She buries them in a grave, asking why they and her mother had to die. The next day, Setsuko is horrified to find that the insects have died. They release fireflies into the shelter for light. Seita and Setsuko leave their aunt's home after excessive insults, and they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. Seita uses some of his mother's money in the bank to buy supplies, but eventually, the aunt becomes resentful of the children, deeming them unworthy of earning her food. The aunt convinces Seita to sell his mother's silk kimono for rice as rations shrink and the number of refugees in the house grows. Seita and Setsuko move in with a distant aunt, and Seita retrieves supplies he buried before the bombing and gives everything to his aunt, save for a tin of Sakuma drops. Seita conceals their mother's death from Setsuko in an attempt to keep her happy, which she later learns of despite Seita's efforts. Though Seita and Setsuko survive the bombing, their mother is severely injured and later dies. In June 1945, a group of American Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers destroy most of Kobe. Akitani Pond: The site where Seita and Setsuko lived alone together
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