Strange Cards

Chapter 491 A Brief, Dreamlike Death

The two children looked at the signature on the note and found that it was not the familiar characters "Shiyu" but "Jie".

Perhaps this is why Shigure doesn't want to see them.

They all met Shigure, while the otherworldly being, Kai, was merely a rebellious sinner.

……

While the two little ones were at home lost in thought, Shigure himself went to Xiaoqingshan at dusk to offer incense to his former companions one by one.

Shiyu kowtowed as she offered incense, and by the time she finished the last kowtow, her pants were slightly worn.

Shi Yu looked at the three sticks of incense burning gently in front of the row of tombstones, and after exhaling deeply, she said.

"Everyone...."

"If nothing unexpected happens, I'll be coming to find you soon."

As Shi Yu spoke, he lit a cigarette, then exhaled a thick cloud of smoke.

The euphoria from nicotine numbed Shigure's senses, and at that moment A came out, took a cigarette for himself, and said...

"It's April now, and your birthday is in two months."

"It's my last birthday, shouldn't I celebrate it before I die?"

"No."

After finishing speaking, Shiyu threw the cigarette butt on the ground, gently stomped it out, and then threw it into Xiaoqingshan's trash can.

"Time is running out. If we don't start a holy war soon, a catastrophe will befall us."

"There's no need to celebrate it anymore, since we haven't celebrated it in all these years anyway."

"I've only ever had one truly significant birthday celebration, which was when I first joined the Hunters."

That's fine.

After finishing his sentence, Shi Yu lit another cigarette and slowly descended the steps of Xiao Qingshan.

"I died once, but I came back to life."

"This time, I want to leave only after I've satisfied my desires."

As Shiyu finished speaking, a gust of wind blew from afar, gently ruffling Shiyu's hair and clothes.

"After such a long battle, I have finally found my dream."

"Just like I want to wash all the shirts in the world white, I want to protect the world."

"With my own strength."

"Dreams are like a curse; if you can't fulfill them, they'll keep cursing you."

"Forever and ever."

"I don't want to leave with regrets."

After Shi Yu finished speaking, he walked to the foot of Xiao Qingshan Mountain, and then took out the Fiend Blade and the silver coin that Gu Nian had given him back then.

Shiyu held the two items in her hands and took out paper and pen.

Shigure originally thought she had nothing more to say, but when the pen touched the paper, she realized that she still had a lot to say and much more to tell him.

When Shigure finally finished writing the letter, there was already a thick stack of paper.

Shigure took an envelope, stuffed the letter inside, and then placed the letter and the two items together.

Then Shigure took out the Demon Blade, looked at A standing behind him, and smiled.

"A, do me a favor."

"Help me transfer the Nine Demons of Hellface from my left arm to the scabbard of the Demon Blade."

"I transferred all the Asura power I had cultivated throughout my life into this sword, making it a weapon of Asura heritage."

"Let it be passed on to Xiao Jiu at some point in the future."

A looked at Shi Yu, her expression somewhat unpleasant.

"With my power and the power of the four flower elements protecting us, there shouldn't be any major problems."

"But you will still die once."

"It's okay."

"Having died so many times, one more time won't make a difference."

A nodded, and then unleashed the power of all fifty-two mysterious cards at once.

"Just bear with it."

Shigure smiled and nodded, but he still underestimated the pain of being stripped of the Asura power while still alive.

Because Shigure has been a Shura for so long, the Shura power within him has long since permeated every inch of his flesh and blood.

Forcing out these forces is equivalent to crushing Shigure's flesh and blood inch by inch, and then fusing them back together to sustain Shigure's life.

This extreme pain triggered Shigure's body's protective mechanisms, but Shigure didn't faint; she just became numb from the pain and could no longer feel it.

As the last bit of power was pulled away, Shigure suddenly felt a darkness before his eyes, and then his chest slowly calmed down.

After an unknown amount of time, the already cold body's chest suddenly began to rise and fall slowly, and then Shigure opened her eyes and sat up.

"Phew, that's really weird."

"They say that people can see a slideshow of their life before they die, and I actually saw it this time after I was brought back to life."

"I saw everyone I used to know, and I saw everyone I used to know die in front of me again."

"But I was in the perspective of death, and that strange feeling is something I can't forget."

"It's as if I died along with everyone else."

Shi Yu stood up as she spoke, looking at the Nine Demon Asura pattern on the scabbard.

"But strangely enough..."

"In this brief, dreamlike death, I no longer felt so much pain."

"Just like those days when we used to get together and have fun."

Shi Yu took several deep breaths as she spoke, and after confirming that she had recovered, she gathered the three items together.

Shiyu slowly raised her right hand, and the patterns of Joker and the Ten of Spades appeared on the back of her hand in turn.

Even the pattern of the Ace of Spades was subtly laid at the bottom, and then a black hole, unlike the one Shigure used to travel, was opened.

Shigure threw the three items in, and then the black hole closed. The three items drifted continuously in the spacetime rift until they reached the hands of a specific person at a specific time.

"That's about it."

"So you just sent these three things to the future using a time-space black hole?"

Shi Yu nodded, took out the six of spades, copied it, and said.

"Once upon a time, I used the six of spades to replicate three prophecies with Gu Nian."

"I've already used it twice before, and just now I used the last one."

"Very good, these items have all reached the rightful owners according to the predetermined route."

"It seems the outcome of this battle will be quite good."

"It's good enough to know it's not bad."

A patted Shigure on the shoulder and looked at Shigure's left arm, which had lost all its markings.

"There are only two graves left to sweep; it'll be about time by then."

"The holy war that will determine the life and death of humanity is about to begin."

"Yes, the holy war is about to begin."

"The thought of dying is making me secretly excited."

As Shi Yu spoke, he took out the sunglasses that Gu Nian had given him before his death and put them on.

Looking at Shi Yu standing at the entrance of Xiao Qingshan, A nudged Shi Yu with his elbow.

"Hey kid, what are you standing here thinking about, all dazed?"

"I'm thinking about the past."

Why?

"I have no future, so I can only reminisce about the past."