Later on 21 September, shortly after the end of World War II, Seita dies of starvation at a Sannomiya train station surrounded by other malnourished people. He carries her ashes in the candy tin along with his father's photograph. Seita cremates Setsuko's body and her stuffed doll in a straw casket. She later dies as Seita finishes preparing the food.
Seita returns to Setsuko with food, but finds her dying. After doing so, he becomes distraught when he learns that Japan has surrendered, and that his father, an Imperial Japanese Navy captain, is most likely dead, as most of Japan's navy has been sunk. Desperate, Seita withdraws the last of the money in their mother's bank account. When Setsuko falls ill, a doctor explains that she is suffering from malnutrition.
The officer realizes Seita is stealing due to hunger and releases Seita. 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. 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 decide to leave the 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. They escape unharmed, but their mother dies from severe burns. In 1945, teenager Seita and his younger sister Setsuko's house is destroyed in a firebombing along with most of Kobe. Incendiary bombs being dropped onto Kobe, the setting of the film
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