Strange Cards

Chapter 469 I'm always just one point short no matter what I do.

After finishing his drink, Shigure placed the glass on the bar without saying a word.

He just sat there quietly.

After a while, Qi Wu mixed another cup of wine and handed it to Shi Yu.

"Light rain..."

"From now on..."

"What should we do?"

"What should we do?"

"Let's do it that way."

Shi Yu picked up her wine glass, took a sip of wine, and said.

"I'm already in the worst place, it can't get any worse."

"Fortunately, I can use Asura Perception during battle, which also allows me to sense the things around me."

"This counts as...."

"It's a blessing in disguise."

Qi Wu remained silent for a moment, while Ci Yu re-tied the blindfold.

Seeing Shi Yu finish his drink, Qi Wu poured some baijiu into the glass, then filled it with sparkling water and threw in a slice of lemon.

"What about Xiao Jiu?"

"Aren't you going to be honest with her?"

"She knew when you used your power to fight, and she also saw your eyes after you went blind."

"She asked me to ask you about this today too."

"..."

"That girl, Xiao Jiu..."

"It's better not to be honest with her. It won't do her any good and will only make her more sad."

"In the end, I'm a person who has never been competent."

"My sister entrusted Xiao Jiu to me back then, but I have failed her expectations."

"Heaven has already punished me severely, and I don't want Xiao Jiu to be heartbroken for me anymore."

"These days of companionship are the last gift I can give her; I must leave her."

"Only if I leave will she have a chance to live."

Upon hearing Shi Yu's words, Qi Wu suddenly stopped holding his wine glass and slammed it onto the table.

Qi Wu looked at Shi Yu with an incredulous tone.

"you...."

"Did Gu Nian tell you?"

"no."

"After I joined the Otherworlders, I came to believe in fate."

"Only fate can explain the misery of my life."

Shi Yu placed the wine glass on the table and gave a wry smile.

"My parents never loved me when I was little. I felt like I was just a freebie after a one-night stand."

"The butler who took care of me since I was a child died because of me, and after coming to Nanhai City, I lived alone for twelve years."

"I was diagnosed with cancer when I was eighteen. If I hadn't unexpectedly won the Ace of Spades, my life would have ended when I was eighteen."

"But I didn't die that year; I survived."

"And the price I paid for surviving was the death of those around me."

"I almost saved my sister, and I almost saved Miaomiao."

"I almost saved Bai Yu. I almost did everything."

"The people who are most important to me have all left my side, and I can only stand like a scarecrow in a field."

"I could only watch them leave; as one of the strongest in the world, there was nothing I could do."

As Shigure spoke, she clenched her fists so tightly that she didn't even notice that her palms were cracked from the excessive force.

Fresh blood flowed down from between Shi Yu's fists, dripping onto the ground.

"Xiao Jiu is my last hope in life, and my last thought."

"If it weren't for Xiao Jiu still being alive, that would be the last bit of hope I had left."

"In that battle at Nanhai Mountain that year, I was determined to drag the Joker down with me and take that damn thing to the underworld."

"Xiao Jiu is my last hope. I've already become a ghost, so I should cut off everything and take revenge at all costs."

"But my human emotions still got the better of me; I wanted to see her."

"See how she's been doing lately, see if she's still happy."

"I didn't expect my departure to have such a severe impact on her, and all I can do in the end is to stay with her for a while longer, as much as I can."

Even if it's only for a short time.

Qi Wu listened to Shi Yu's words and instantly grasped the key point.

"Wait, Xiaoyu."

"You said you..."

Before Qi Wu could finish speaking, Shi Yu raised his right hand, which then transformed into a ghost hand.

"That's right."

"I am no longer human."

Shi Yu seemed to see the shocked expression on Qi Wu's face through her blind eyes and eye patch, and chuckled softly before speaking.

"What, is it hard to accept?"

"I admit that it's not a pleasant feeling to become a demon, but if I don't become a demon, I won't be able to obtain the power to fight against the Joker."

Qi Wu tentatively extended his hand, and the moment he touched Shi Yu's hand, Qi Wu, a hunter for many years, instantly recognized the feeling.

That was the ghost's hand; Qi Wu was all too familiar with it.

"Light rain..."

"Why did you...?"

There's no reason why.

"If I hadn't become a ghost, I would have died in that battle at Nanhai Mountain back then."

"At that time, I forcibly fused with thirteen strange spade cards with a human body, sacrificing my own body in exchange for an absolutely explosive attack."

"But after the attack ends, I, who have no body, will slowly dissipate. It was the severely injured Steel Claw who voluntarily gave up his life and gave me his body."

"He gave me the chance to continue living, while Steel Claw calmly faced death."

"He could have broken off his pact with me, escaped, found a random place, and lived freely as his own ghost king after his injuries healed."

"But he didn't; he chose to give me the chance to live."

"When I took him in from Gong Long, he was loyal to me. Even when it came to life and death, he did not choose to abandon me and run away."

"He remains loyal to me; he would even calmly face death so that I can live."

As Shiyu spoke, she thought of the loyal companion who had always been by her side back then.

But what Shigure didn't know was that it was Shigure who gave Steel Claw enough respect, and it was he who improved Steel Claw's strength.

Every cause has its effect; Shigure's kindness towards his companions earned him a chance to live many years later.

"After dying once, I realized that my life from now on is no longer entirely my own."

"I carry the last wishes of the dead on my shoulders, and I will burn my life to fulfill those wishes."

"My final days will only turn me into firewood, as I fight those monstrous things to the very end."

"Only in this way can I be worthy of those who died because of me."

Only in this way can my heart find a little peace.

"That's good."

Qi Wu looked at Shi Yu, who smiled as if relieved and leaned back in her chair.

"My sister was right all along."

"These thoughts can't be kept inside; if they're bottled up for too long, you'll really go crazy."

"It feels much better to talk about it."