After hearing the story of the black cat, Mr. Shade and Mr. Bernhardt did not speak for a long time. Foreigners don’t understand why animals in this world either don’t speak, but once they speak, they always leave such a deep impression on him.
“Then why didn’t you go then?”
Mr. Bernhardt asked softly under the sunset, and the cat answered naturally:
“Because I haven’t said goodbye to little Janet yet! I was going to stay with her all the time, but now I have to go find my mother. Of course I have to tell her, otherwise she will be sad.”
As he spoke, he licked his fur again:
“You are very good and capable human beings. Without you, it would probably have been a long time before I could see little Janet until she was leaving. Don’t worry, I will see little Janet later. I’ll tell you whatever you want to know.”
Mr. Bernhardt looked at Shade again, and Shade could see that he was also in a bad mood by the story.
As evening approaches, the black fog that originally shrouded the sky dissipates, allowing people to see the increasingly charming sunset. The licking black cat has been standing on Shade’s shoulder, telling Shade and Mr. Bernhardt the stories about it and “Little Janet” during its lifetime. But at a certain moment, it stopped, grabbed Shade’s shoulders, jumped towards the east side of the street, and then exclaimed:
“Oh, it’s little Janet!”
As he said that, he jumped off Shade’s shoulder. Neither Shade nor Mr. Bernhardt chased it, but ordered:
“Don’t scare her!”
At this time, walking from the east side of the street was a middle-aged woman holding a paper bag, followed by two children, one large and one small. She looked almost forty years old, looked tired, and coughed as she walked. The two children behind him, the older one looks to be fifteen or sixteen years old, and the younger one looks to be eight or nine years old.
The bouncing black cat ran over, but the two children discovered it first, excitedly pulling on their mother’s sleeves and saying something. Then the middle-aged woman who seemed to be in poor health looked forward from behind the paper bag she was holding in her arms, and saw the black cat already squatting only ten steps away from them, wagging its tail and looking at her.
The scene of sunset is always so beautiful. The dusk sunlight shines on Yuewan Bay, making the woman’s shadow draw diagonally towards the flowers on the side of the street. There was no shadow of the black cat, but it just squatted there obediently, raised its head and looked at the once familiar girl. The woman opened her mouth, and then froze on the spot.
Shadow and Mr. Bernhardt, who were still relying on illusions to hide themselves, stood in front of someone’s small garden fence and watched the woman react in panic and let her two children take her by the hand. The paper bag in it goes home first. After the children left, she covered her mouth and looked at the cat. She squatted down with red eyes and clapped her hands to the black cat, and hugged the cat tightly that happily jumped into her arms.
The cat seemed very comfortable, curling up in its owner’s arms and narrowing its eyes.
“I didn’t expect that more than twenty years later, that lady still knew that cat.”
Xia De sighed.
“So the cat’s description of its past life was not an exaggeration. When it was alive, it really lived a fairy-tale-like childhood with the little girl.”
Mr. Bernhardt looked at the scene of the cat and its owner reuniting from a distance, his eyes flickering in the sunset, and Shade didn’t know what he was thinking.
“Mr. Watson, to be honest, I was worried just now about what would happen if the lady didn’t know the black cat and the black cat completely turned into an irrational monster. This kind of place is not suitable for a fight. But fortunately, none of this happened. There are still some beautiful things and beautiful stories in this world. You know, I started to like this world again.”
The two of them watched the woman cry and stand up with the cat in her arms, while the black cat had its eyes closed and was being held with a peaceful expression. They must have gotten along like this a long time ago, when the woman was just “little Janet” and the wraith black cat was just “black cat”.
“Have you noticed that the woman’s physical condition is not right?”
Mr. Bernhardt suddenly said to Shade again, Shade did not have the ability to diagnose patients from a distance:
“I can only hear that her heartbeat is abnormally fast, but it may be because of excitement.”
“No, her body temperature is high, and she obviously almost fell when she stood up from a squatting position.”
The vampire closes his eyes as if sensing something:
“Yes, she has a heart disease and a blood disease. In other words, she is terminally ill and may not survive this winter.”
Both of them were silent for a while:
“Natural disease?”
“I think so, ordinary people’s life, old age, illness and death are always like this. It is a kind of comfort that the black cat can come to see her at this time. Wait, what is it going to do!?”
White light spots that can only be seen by ring wizards escape from the black cat’s body. Mr. Bernhardt almost rushes out to stop the cat’s actions, but is stopped by Shade. He had experienced this scene before, but at that time the white light rain on the top of Mount Sikal was even more shocking than now:
“It’s its own choice.”
Those weak light spots made the black cat’s body become more and more transparent, and when the light spots penetrated into the woman’s body, the woman obviously felt something different from before. She was a little surprised, but the cat quickly jumped back to the ground from her arms.
Still squatting ten steps away from her, looking at her in the sunset. When the woman wanted to step forward and pick it up again, the cat stood up on all fours and spoke:
“Goodbye, little Janet! Take good care of your cubs and make them as happy as you were before you grew up.”
After speaking, he shook his tail and ran towards the distance of the street. In a few breaths, he disappeared completely as if melting into the sunset. The woman covered her mouth and looked at the empty street with red eyes. Then she squatted down, covered her face and cried.
The two children who had just gone home first ran over immediately, and behind her, a man holding more paper bags also came over in confusion, and then put down what he was holding in surprise to comfort his wife.
“Let’s go.”
Shad withdrew his gaze from the family of four, bent down to pick up the weak cat that could barely open its eyes, and left with Mr. Bernhardt. The ghost cat, which had spent too much strength, passed out completely. When he opened his eyes again, he was already facing the sea with two men in front of the pier, looking at the seascape under the sunset.
“You, you are all good human beings.”
It struggled to stand up from Shade’s arms, its weak appearance was completely different from the energetic look when it first appeared in the sewer a few hours ago:
“Little Janet lived a very happy life, and she lived well without me. Finally, I finally said goodbye, and I am going to see my mother.”
It ran up to Shade’s shoulder with great effort, rubbed the side of his face against him, and gave a weak “meow~” sound.
Mr. Bernhard looked at it worriedly. Shade also wanted it to rest again, but the cat still said with difficulty:
“I know what you want to know.
The bad guys and monsters that were originally in the sewers moved to the sewers further away, which is a place I can’t reach. They are using a very strange scale to create monsters that scare me. But what you saw today were just defective ones. The most powerful one got into a woman’s body and escaped. It’s really powerful. Well-meaning humans, please be careful. ”
Although the ghost cannot breathe, the weak cat still gasped for air. The light of the setting sun completely penetrated its body at this moment. Even though it was originally extremely powerful, it has reached its true end at this moment:
“In fact, I don’t know much. Some of them can see me. Fortunately, fortunately, I am more familiar with the sewer environment. I, I have seen them discussing some women who are said to be from a very ancient era. The sentence they left. I know this is important, well-meaning humans, you may like this sentence: The dragon is not important, what is important is justice, and the one who draws the sword will also be righteous.”
This sentence, which seemed to be a “fragment of a poem,” was relayed by Black Cat, which immediately triggered more thoughts in Shade. After Black Cat said this, it seemed that he had exhausted all his energy.
Looking away from the pier towards the sea, the sun is half-sinking on the distant horizon. The black cat’s body is becoming transparent. The originally extremely powerful resentful spirit has finally reached its end in the world of the living because it used up its soul power to cure its former owner.
It lay in Shade’s arms, and the cat, the stranger, and the vampire all looked at the half-sunken sun.
Before disappearing, the cat was still mumbling:
“In the end, I still didn’t see my mother coming to pick me up.”
Shad’s breathing rate suddenly changed. He bent down and placed the black cat next to Mr. Bernhardt on the trestle. Then, with the vampire and the cat looking confused, he jumped off the trestle with both feet. Stepping on the sea.
The dock under the setting sun was still busy. Shade had not activated the illusion, but no one was looking this way yet. Mr. Bernhardt and the cat didn’t know what Shade wanted to do. They just watched him walk ten steps along the sea, then stopped, turned his back to the half-dark sun, looked at them, and then opened his mouth. own arms.
In the horrified gaze of Mr. Bernhardt, a dark crack appeared in front of Shade out of thin air. The instinct of the living creature made him take a step back, while the instinct of the dead made the weak cat take two steps forward and came to the edge of the trestle.
The cracks expanded, revealing a silent beach and a calm black water surface. At the end of the black water surface was a huge silver moon half-sunk on the water.
Somehow, the scene beyond the rift seems to resonate with the scene in the caster’s reality. Although he was obviously afraid of what would happen behind the crack, Mr. Bernhardt was instinctively attracted to it.
Then, the crack seemed to be expanding, but also seemed to be shrinking. The calm black water is overlapping with the real sea surface, and the half-sunken silver moon seems to be integrated with the half-sunken sun in reality.
PS: Additional update 4/5.