Gozaburo knows that his father is helping people with those metal tanks, that's what his mother tells him, but why do they blow everything up? He wonders. If their helping people than why are they making everything burst into flames? He asks himself. But he knows that they are helping people, that's what his mother tells him, and his mother is always right. He knows that helping people is important, everyone knows that, so he doesn't complain that his father is never around, even when he promises to be home early but never shows up. After all, at least his mother is always around to give him big hugs when she puts him to bed, she always tells him before he goes to sleep "Your father's helping lots of people tonight". He isn't sure, but he believes her.
The idea of being out in the world without his mother frightens him, but when he tells this to his father (When he's around) He always says the same thing. "Don't be such a baby; you'll never survive the world if you cling to your mother for the rest of your life". He doesn't believe his father, but the shouting still scares him out of being at his mother's side for a few hours. He loves his father, but he's always a little happy when he's not around, no one shouts and he can be by his mother's side all day long. Even though his father scares him a bit, he wants to be just like him and help people, he doesn't see how those destructive tanks can do that, but he wants to learn how they do it.
Every night when his mother has left the room before he goes to sleep he sheds a few tears because he fears that his father hates him, why does he always shout at me? He wonders in sadness, than after the warmth of his tears fade away, he drifts off to sleep, but his father is no kinder to him in his dreams than in the real world, every night when he goes to sleep he has nightmares of his father abusing him like his bullies do after school.
He feels alone in the world, he has no friends; in fact no one even looks at him at school, except for the glares of his bullies, waiting for the end of school so they can pounce at him. The only comfort he has in the world is his mother, she is the only one in the world that understands him and cares about him, she is his whole world, and he thinks she always will be, and although he besides his mother, he is alone in the world, he tells himself "Father is alone just like me, I've never seen him with any friends, so mother must be all he has too, and he's still brave enough to help people all alone, so I will be too!" Than he starts his next day in the world.