After Mutsuhiro Watanabe arrived at Omori, “he became a monster. He beat POWs every day, fracturing their windpipes, rupturing their eardrums, shattering their teeth, tearing one man’s ear half off, tying another to a tree for days” (174). Watanabe constantly abused POWs, and became one of the most vicious guards in Japan. Some speculated that torturing the POWs gave him power that his rank did not; he did not get the rank he expected and desired, and that caused his mind to derail. As American bombers kept dropping bombs near Omori, “the Bird’s mania deepened... The Bird would snap, running with sword in the air, wailing, foam flying from his mouth, face purple” (192). Evidently, he panicked when the bombs were falling, and the Americans were getting closer. After being introduced to Watanabe by the farmer, “The woman was taken with the handsome waiter and lingered in the coffee shop to be near him. He kept his identity secret from her…. After much thought, Watanabe decided he had to leave her. All he told her was that he had a burden that would make her unhappy” (260). Due to what he had done before, Watanabe had to leave the woman he loved, since it was not safe for either of them. If he had stayed, he would have been caught. Watanabe may not have always been this way, but his mind seemed to derail terribly during the