Bopsy: ただ、それだけのはなし

Bopsy ~ the concluding part ~


Three years had passed since Bopsy died.
People got to forget about Bopsy day by day, except few people. Bopsy's parent, of course, didn't forget him any time. They still felt extraordinarily sad.
And Fireman Bob was also thinking about Bopsy many times. Bob also wanted to be a fireman when he was a child, like Bopsy because he wanted to help other people. He had thought a fireman was able to help people only when fire or accident, but Bopsy let him know that the fireman could help people on the other way, too. He was pleased himself with what he did for Bopsy three years ago, but unless that, or therefore, he wished he could make Bopsy's dreams come true greatly. He wanted Bopsy to live for long time. He thought Bopsy was his younger brother or child.

One day, Bob got a fire call. There was great fire at the hospital.
He arrived there in five minuets by the fire truck. The fire was so great that the windows of third floor were broken and flamed up. "Are there anyone there?" Bob cried. "No, everybody got out of fire" a nurse answered, "but some of them are badly ill and they need an ambulance". "Okay, an ambulance will come soon".
When Bob answered, he saw somebody moved at the window of third floor. "Did all of them leave the building?" he asked the nurse. "Yes, all of patient had left" the nurse answered. "So, who is the boy standing by the window" he pointed to the window.
"Please help him, he is my boy!" a young woman cried. "We came to the hospital to see grandfather, and he went to restroom alone when fire occurred, so he couldn't get out, please help him"

Bob raised the truck's ladder up to the window on the third floor and climbed up to the ladder into the window. The fire was so hard that he couldn't see anything. He wore his mask and got into the fire room. "Hey boy, I came to help you. where are you?" he cried.
"Are you Bob?" small voice replied. Then the boy ran up to Bob, wearing a small fireman uniform.
"Yes, I am Bob. Are you Okay?" Bob said with relief, "And why do you know my name? And how did you get your fire-suit?"
"I don't know what's happened. I was left alone in the fire, I was crying with fear. Then, a boy like me appeared and gave me a fireman's suit. And he told me a fireman, Bob will come to help me, so I wore the suit and wait for you, Bob"
"Bopsy, it was Bopsy!" Bob excited and cried. "Do you know where he went to? Is he still there ?" Bob asked the boy, but he didn't know.
"Hey, Bopsy, can you hear me? " Bob cried, but nobody answered.
"Do you know him, who was him?" the boy asked Bob.
"I knew him, he was my friend but,,. Anyway, my friend helped you. I'm proud of him. However, it is so hot here, why don't we get out and meet your mother? She was very worried about you " Bob said and walked to the ladder.

When Bob got out of the room, he heard somebody whispered in his ear.
"Bob, am I really a fireman now?"
"Certainly you are, Bopsy" he said in his mind.

It's just that,,,