Strange Cards

Chapter 413 No one's love is deeper than his.

Shi Yu stood on the high place and quietly watched what was happening in the courtyard.

Shi Yu found that simply looking at Liu Yu calmed her down considerably.

Even if it's just watching from afar.

After watching for a while, Shi Yu suddenly stretched out a pair of delicate arms from behind and covered Shi Yu's eyes with her fair hands.

Guess who I am?

"Brother Shigure~"

As he covered his hands, Shigure activated the Mist Crow Technique, instantly transforming into a crow and appearing on the other side.

Hearing the same voice as Shi Yanlan behind her, Shi Yu immediately recognized who it was.

"Tsubaki."

What are you doing here?

Shi Yu looked at the imposter Shi Yanlan, and suddenly black mist burst out from the imposter Shi Yanlan's body, transforming her back into Chun's appearance.

"Oh dear, little gray fur~"

"How did you recognize me?"

Chun revealed a sly smile, while Shigure remained silent for a moment before speaking in a hoarse voice.

"Because of them..."

"I personally saw them off."

"I personally felt their body temperature slowly disappear, gradually turning from warm and soft bodies into cold and stiff corpses."

"I can't possibly admit I'm wrong."

"They are dead."

"In this world..."

There will never be another like them.

Chun was stunned for a moment, and then seemed so at a loss.

"this..."

"I didn't expect this to happen..."

Shigure looked at the helpless Chun, shook his head, and said.

"I'm serious, don't become like them."

"I also want to see what they look like, but I'm realistic. I know that once they're dead, they're really dead, and they can never come back."

"I don't want to lose control, and neither do you."

"Don't follow me around anymore. Go back to the Otherworld."

"Let me find a place where I can have some peace and quiet."

As Shi Yu spoke, she turned her head and glanced at the island below. Liu Yu, who had just finished watering the plants, seemed to sense something and looked up in Shi Yu's direction.

Their gazes met in the air, and after a long time, they both finished saying what they wanted to say to each other in that short moment of eye contact.

Shi Yu raised her left hand, opened the black hole, and turned to walk into it.

……

The base of the otherworldly beings, the garden in the back mountain.

Gu Nian looked at Chun sitting on the swing in front of him and smiled helplessly.

Gu Nian gently blew away the steam rising from the teacup in front of him, took a sip of tea, and then placed the cup on the table.

Chun lay on the swing, letting the wind sway her back and forth, her lively ponytails also bobbing in the wind.

Gu Nian looked at the flowers in the garden and found that many of them had already bloomed.

Gu Nian looked at Chun, who was looking sullen, and took a sip of tea before speaking.

"Alright, girl, stop hanging around in front of me."

"Tell me, what's making you so unhappy?"

"Even if you fought with Shigure, you should only have suffered minor injuries. That kid wouldn't resort to mental attacks, would he?"

Chun placed her slender fingers on the ground and gently drew circles.

"Boss..."

"Why does Shigure treat those who have died...?"

"So you can't forget it?"

Gu Nian looked at Chun, brewed a cup of tea, and then pushed it towards Chun's position.

Wisps of black smoke emerged from Chun's fingertips, pulling the cup of tea into the air in front of her.

Gu Nian poured himself another cup of tea, took a sip, and said.

"Let me ask you a question."

"Do you think Shigure's current strength is more due to his own efforts?"

"Is it more about strength?"

Chun turned over and looked at the azure sky.

"Power, perhaps?"

"No, it's love."

"It was the power of love that made him willingly become a demon; it was the power of love that made him so powerful."

"He was both lucky and unlucky."

"Everyone in his family and friends provided crucial love to his strength."

"Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to use the power of four cards to sacrifice his life in exchange for the Joker's serious injury."

"You know, the last time Joker was seriously injured, the price was that all the Spade cards in the entire series were stripped of half their power and severely damaged and scattered."

"No one's love is deeper than his."

Gu Nian took a sip of tea, basking in the golden sunlight streaming down from the sky.

"He knew how difficult love was, so he sealed it away."

"Once someone like him..."

"No, it should be him."

"Once he understands love."

"His long-suppressed emotions will then be released."

"The power to transcend all things will also awaken from this."

As Gu Nian spoke, he took a sip of tea.

"But love that is too deep often hides the possibility of going berserk."

"Having learned about love, once he loses that intense love..."

"Love will then be replaced by even stronger hatred."

"That's how Liu An died. If Liu Yu hadn't come and woken him up at the last minute, he would have been dead."

"Not to say his personality changed drastically, at least on that occasion, anyone who dared to stop him was truly doomed."

"Even if my brother-in-law tried to stop him, he would still mercilessly bring down the knife."

"When he loses a significant love, that lost love often returns to him as an even more terrifying force."

"His love for the Southern Base and for Nanhai City made him willingly become a demon, willing to sacrifice his life to take that missile out into space."

"The love of Liu An, Liu Yu, Bai Yu, Shi Yanlan and others."

"The moment he was lost, it transformed into an even more terrifying force that devoured him once more."

"It created the Evil General, it created the Calamity, and it created the Joker who is now one of only three."

"Do you understand?"

"Understood."

"I guess so."

Chun shook her head; she was genuinely unfamiliar with these things.

Gu Nian looked at Chun, whose CPU was clearly overloaded, and smiled bitterly as he looked at the sky.

"If I had known, I shouldn't have let you cling to me like that during those crucial years. I should have sent you away to get a proper education."

"Your love is special; it's straightforward. If you like someone, you like them; if you don't, you don't."

"You may not understand Shigure's love, but the essence of love is the same for everyone."

"You would be willing to give everything for the person you love."

Chun looked at Gu Nian, drank the tea in her hand, threw it back on the table, sat on the swing, tilted her head and looked at Gu Nian.

Does that include life?

"Yes, child."

Gu Nian looked at Chun and nodded affirmatively.

"You would be willing to give everything for the person you love."

"Including one's own life."