Lola Bats story 3: Lola vs the Japanese soldier

I have been planning to write down Lola Bats' stories and I'm starting doing so now to keep her memory alive. She passed away after 102 years of showering her family and friends with wit and humour. I will miss her a lot. 

During the chaos of the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines, Lola Bats became pregnant. She was carrying Tito Boy at that time. One day, she discovered that my grandpa, Lolo Bats, was ordered by the Japanese soldiers to start digging his own grave because he was about to be executed.

I imagine that Lolo Bats would have ended up in something like this (found in Lipa, Batangas in 1945) if Lola Bats wasn't able to stop the Japanese soldiers from killing Lolo Bats. (SOURCE: https://www.batangashistory.date/2018/05/atrocity2.html)

Lola Bats, who was obviously not sick with anything contagious, rushed up to the soldiers and pointed at her pregnant belly: in halting Japanese, she said that they were not supposed to kill Lolo Bats because they were having a baby and she needed help in delivering and in taking care for the baby. 

Normally, soldiers didn't care about the living conditions and the circumstances of their captives. But in Lola Bats' case, the soldiers listened to her and cancelled my grandpa's execution. She must have been a superb actress and an effective communicator. Thanks to her daring, Lolo Bats lived on to see the youngest of his grandchildren, Biboy, before he died in 1986.