Strange Cards

Chapter 400 is already like a canopy.

Shi Yu looked at Liu Yu, who was like a frightened little animal in front of her, hesitated for a moment, and then hugged Liu Yu in her arms.

Qi Wu looked at the two people embracing each other without saying anything, but shook his head at his wife and daughter, signaling them not to come over.

"The scene of a long-awaited reunion is always very touching."

"Let them have a proper talk."

Liu Yu looked up at Shi Yu with her beautiful, tearful eyes filled with a pitiful expression. Her tearful look softened Shi Yu's heart.

Liu Yu grabbed Shi Yu's hand and said pitifully.

"Brother Shigure, why are you only coming back now...?"

"Don't you want Xiao Jiu anymore?"

"Are you going to throw Xiao Jiu away?"

Shi Yu looked at Liu Yu in front of her and realized that she and Liu An were starting to look more and more alike.

Shi Yu hugged Liu Yu and murmured.

"No, I want Xiao Jiu."

"I won't lose Xiao Jiu."

"I won't."

Qi Wu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Shi Yu did not deny his name.

At least for now, his identity is not that of a being from another world.

Feeling the warmth emanating from Shi Yu, Liu Yu burst into laughter through her tears.

"Really!"

"Is my brother going home?"

"Give!"

As Liu Yu spoke, she took out Shiyu's Hunter Card and Xie Zhi Token from her person and wiped her eyes.

"This is something my brother asked me to keep safe before he passed away."

"Now that my brother is back, these things should be returned to their rightful owner."

Shiyu looked at her Hunter Card and Xie Zhi Token, hesitated for a moment, and then accepted them.

Shi Yu knew that there was no way he could ever return to the Hunters after what he had done.

Even if she could go back, Shigure would not go back for the sake of the continuation of this world.

Accepting these things now is merely giving this poor girl a sliver of hope.

When tomorrow dawns, Shi Yu will still be the boundary, still the hunter's enemy.

Now, let Liu Yu enjoy her evening.

After hugging for a while, Liu Yu took Shi Yu's hand and picked up the cup from the ground.

"Brother Shiyu, you should try it."

"This juice is made from the loquats from the loquat tree you planted back then."

"I've tried, but I can't keep fresh loquats; I can only keep frozen ones."

"Frozen loquats don't taste good, so I can only juice them."

Shi Yu looked at the glass of bright yellow juice, opened the lid, and took a sip.

The sweet and refreshing juice went down her throat, but Shiyu felt that this sweet juice was full of bitterness.

"It's a bit bitter."

After taking a sip of juice, Shi Yu put the cap back on, while Liu Yu, as if she didn't believe it, opened the cap and poured a sip of juice into her mouth.

After taking a sip of the sweet juice, Liu Yu scratched the back of her head and asked in confusion.

"That's impossible, I'm the one who takes care of those fruit trees."

"I managed it according to the method Yanyun found out, and the fruit that grew was big and sweet."

"It couldn't possibly taste bitter!"

"Brother, look, I don't even find it bitter when I drink it myself."

Yes, how could loquat juice possibly taste bitter?

It was just the bitterness and sorrow in Shiyu's heart that were causing the problem.

Shi Yu looked at Liu Yu in front of her and gently patted Liu Yu's head.

"Are you taking care of that tree?"

How big has that tree grown?

Liu Yu took a small button out of her pocket and pressed it.

Suddenly, light emanated from a large tree in the distance.

Those were strips of lights wrapped around the trees. The person who wrapped them was very careful, making sure to wrap every single branch.

Those places that glow in the night represent the branches of this big tree.

Liu Yu looked at Shi Yu and gestured with her arms outstretched.

"It grows very quickly, so I just prune the branches as usual, fertilize it, loosen the soil, and water it."

"When you left, it was just a sapling, but by the end of that year it was already half the size of this tree."

"It grew to about this size in the second year. This year, it's all growing branches, like a big umbrella."

"So beautiful."

Shi Yu looked at the loquat tree and the ground beneath it, as if she could see the scene of planting the loquat tree all those years ago.

Under the loquat tree, a white-haired, blue-eyed figure smiled sweetly and turned to look at Shi Yu.

"Let's plant a loquat tree at home, and once it grows up, we can enjoy delicious loquats every year."

"Master, are the loquats delicious?"

Shi Yu looked at the figure smiling at her and nodded heavily.

"It's delicious."

"It's just that you're no longer here."

The white-haired figure smiled and then disappeared from Shigure's sight.

Liu Yu gently tugged at Shi Yu's hand.

"Brother, who are you talking to?"

"It's nothing."

"Let's go eat."

Shi Yu led Liu Yu to the dining table, while Qi Wu looked at Shi Yu, served her rice, and then poured her a glass of wine.

"together..."

"Just call me boss, like before."

"I am no longer a headhunter from the South, and you are no longer an otherworldly being."

"My name is Qi Wu, and your name is Shi Yu."

"Tonight is just an ordinary dinner."

Shi Yu nodded, sat down, and began to eat.

In reality, Shigure doesn't need to replenish his energy. The thirteen mysterious spade cards form a self-circulating system within his body. If Shigure wanted to, he could be sealed away for ten thousand years and still not starve.

At the dinner table, Liu Yu kept serving food to Shi Yu, and even Qi Nannan, who was holding the now-grown tortoiseshell cat, was serving food.

Qi Nannan also highly approves of Shi Yu as her older brother, but Qi Nannan's dependence on Shi Yu is ultimately not as strong as Liu Yu's.

The clinking of glasses at the dinner table finally brought a smile back to Shi Yu's face, which had been sullen the whole time.

Shiyu noticed that her smile was very stiff, and upon reflection, she couldn't recall the last time she had smiled.

After finishing his meal, Shigure noticed that Tanuki and Sanka had somehow ended up nestled at his feet, staring at him expectantly.

After Shi Yu got up and found a place to sit in the yard, the two cats jumped onto her one after the other and nestled on her lap.

So many years have passed, and the two cats have grown old.

When Shiyu brought them back, they were already over a year old. A year after bringing them back, Shiyu left again for more than three years.

By that calculation, these two cats are already over six years old.

At six years old, a cat is almost halfway through its life.

Sanhua and Lihua meowed twice in succession, and then some cats emerged from the surrounding darkness one after another until they piled up all around Shiyu's feet.

Cats are very intelligent and perceptive. Even if they are not very bright, they never forget the time when you brought them home and gave them food and shelter.

Looking at the cats, whose average age was three to five, Shi Yu suddenly realized that so much time had passed.

Shi Yu looked at the loquat tree, which had grown into a canopy, and then glanced at the cat beside her.

"In a hurry."

Time really flies.