Miss Sasaki watches men haul corpses out of the factory and waits for help. Her leg is swollen, putrid, and discolored, and she has had no food or water for two days and nights. On the third day, friends come looking for her body and find her alive. Later, men put her in a truck and take her to a relief station where there are army doctors. After discussing amputation, the doctors decide against it. Miss Sasaki is sent to a military hospital where they keep her because she develops a high temperature.
People are both entering and leaving the city. Father Cieslik goes to the city looking for Mr. Fukai, the secretary of the diocese, but he cannot find him. That evening, the theological student who was Fukai's roommate says that Mr. Fukai had told him a short time before the bombing that Japan was dying and that he wanted to die with her. Evidently he has received his wish. Dr. Sasaki works three straight days with only one hour's sleep. He worries again that his mother will think him dead. He gets leave to go to her home where he ends up sleeping for 17 hours.
Official news finally breaks, but the survivors are too busy to listen. It is now August 9, and at 11:02 a.m. an atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki. As this news breaks, Mr. Tanimoto is in the park helping victims. He takes a tent from his home to help shield survivors. His former neighbor, Mrs. Kamai, still holds her dead baby and seems to be watching Mr. Tanimoto. He suggests that she cremate the baby, but she simply holds on tighter and continues to watch him.
