Strange Cards

Chapter 487 A Spring Without You

Shigure stared blankly at the spot where Tsubaki had disappeared, and truly understood the loneliness that Tsubaki had spoken of before her death.

Because when Shigure looked back, he realized that he was all alone on the road to the dawn of salvation.

There was no one behind him anymore.

Shigure picked up the sickle and longsword that Tsubaki had entrusted to him to bury, and then went to the back mountain of the Otherworlders.

There is a small sea of ​​flowers on the back hill, with rows of tombstones inside.

All the tombstones stand silently amidst the sea of ​​flowers, as if waiting for their destined ones to arrive.

Shiyu's gaze quietly swept over each tombstone, clearly knowing that each tombstone represented a sinner who sacrificed himself for the future of the world.

Shi Yu looked at each tombstone one by one, and saw one familiar face after another on the tombstones.

Gu Nian, Kuang Lei, Cang Li, Zhao Guang, Ye Xue.

Even Sun Miaomiao, who had met Shi Yu once, was lying quietly inside.

Shi Yu saw a name she had only heard from others among the tombstones in the sea of ​​flowers: Gu Ri.

Gu Nian and Gu Yue's eldest brother, the first descendant of a criminal.

He was also the initiator of the grand plan to save the world.

This great man, who could be said to have rewritten the fate of the world, did not have his life's dramatic events recorded on his tombstone.

The large tombstone bore only the simple inscription "Tomb of Gu Rizhi".

There was nothing else besides that.

Shi Yu gazed quietly at the tombstone, and then chose to offer a bouquet of flowers to this great man.

At least, this can be considered a gift, a gift for a great man.

Even if he doesn't receive it, even if no one knows.

Shi Yu finally arrived at a clearing that had been specially marked out. Looking at the area where flowers had been planted and the prepared stone tablet, she already knew who had done it.

"That guy..."

"Knowing that she's afraid of being alone, she still kept so many flowers for herself."

After Shigure finished speaking, he dug up the open space, put Tsubaki's sickle and longsword in a large box, and buried it in the ground.

After burying it, Shigure planted the stone tablet in the ground and then personally carved the four characters "Tomb of Chun Ya".

Just as Shigure was about to leave, a gentle breeze blew by, and then Shigure seemed to remember something and took out two ever-burning lamps from his pocket.

After lighting the eternal lamp with a lighter, Shigure placed it in front of Chun's tombstone, then half-squatted down and placed the photo of the two of them together in the orphanage in front of the tombstone.

"You can keep this one; I'll take the other one with me."

"I know you're afraid of the dark, so I left two lights on for you."

"Don't cry."

After finishing her speech, Shiyu returned to the Otherworlder base and took a good shower.

After taking a shower, Shigure cut her hair short again and changed her hair color and pupils back to their original black.

After Shigure was ready to leave the otherworldly base, she suddenly remembered something and took out the bulging letter.

Shigure opened the letter and found that the thick folded paper inside contained all the things that the Otherworlders had done from their creation to their demise.

Looking back on some of the things he had experienced, Shi Yu realized that these events were written entirely from God's perspective.

Being too fair can even lead to merciless self-criticism.

Shigure knew that this was what Tsubaki had entrusted him to keep behind.

Shi Yu looked at the large background stone wall at the entrance of the otherworld base's main hall and chose to have all these things engraved on it.

It took Shigure quite a bit of effort to carve these things into the letter, but after looking at the things that had been taken care of, Shigure breathed a sigh of relief and then put the letter back into the envelope.

However, when Shigure put the letter back in, a postcard suddenly fell out of it.

Shigure picked up the postcard and discovered that its design was the symbol of the hunter and the otherworldly being, and the back was covered with densely written words.

After reading the message on the back of the postcard, Shigure lit it and then turned and left.

Those were Gu Nian's last instructions to Shi Yu, but Shi Yu read them and remembered them.

Shiyu now carries all the responsibility on his shoulders. This battle, which has gambled on the lives of the vast majority of people, hinges on Shiyu.

Although not a single light in any of the thousands of homes is left on for Shiyu, Shiyu is not afraid at all.

Because behind him are the lights of countless homes.

What Shigure didn't know was that the tattoo on his back, which represented salvation, had already changed.

Those tattered wings have become rounded and full, and those soaring wings represent the ideal of taking flight.

Shi Yu lit a cigarette, casually scratched his hair, and then said.

"What should I do next...?"

"Since I'm going to die anyway, I might as well make a list of things I haven't done yet."

After Shiyu finished speaking, she took out paper and pen, made a list, and realized that she still had so many things to do.

Just as Shiyu was biting her pen and thinking, A's voice rang out softly.

"I think you can find a place to charge your phone and turn it on."

"Four whole years have passed. That girl named Liu Yu must have sent you a lot of messages."

"You should at least reply with one message, right?"

Shi Yu was stunned for a moment. After finding a place to charge her phone, she turned it on and was immediately bombarded with message notifications.

When Shi Yu opened her chat window with Liu Yu, she found that the girl would send her a message every day asking when she would be back.

Then came holiday greetings, my birthday wishes, and the birthday message Liu Yu shared with me.

There are also photos of Liu Yu during her life, as well as some other photos.

Shi Yu slowly calculated and finally discovered that Liu Yu had sent him more than 10,000 messages over the past four years.

Shi Yu paused for a moment, then quickly typed out a message, but after thinking for a while, she deleted it.

"Forget it, I'll go back tomorrow and settle all my unfulfilled wishes."

"But I have something to do today, so I won't be going back."

"Is there anything else?"

"Where are you going?"

Shigure took out the Sin Sword from behind her back, then took out the two books, one large and one small, and transformed them back into their original book forms before speaking.

"I'm going to see an old friend."

"An old friend who has been a great help to me since I first joined the Hunters."

"I can even say with certainty that if it weren't for the help he gave me before he died, I would never have come this far."

"I'm very grateful to him, and I'd like to see him."

"Even though he's been dead for so long."

A roughly knew who Shigure was going to see, and without saying anything, simply nodded slightly.

Shi Yu looked up at the flowers gradually blooming on the tree and then said.

"A spring without you."

"here we go again."