CHAPTER 571: CHAPTER 347: EPILOGUE (PART 2)_3

A moment later, Gu Zhuo Case was the first to speak, breaking the silence that enveloped the bookstore:

"Father-in-law, what’s wrong with you?"

"Zhuo Case... Are you surprised to see me like this?" Su Wei hunched over, speaking softly, "My Celestial Driver can keep me young, but if I use the ability to measure the future too often, I might revert to my original state... Yes, it will be better in a few days."

"Let’s leave first, the people from Rainbow Wings might come at any time."

"I... clearly promised that kid." Su Wei said hoarsely, lowering his eyes, "I said I would keep it hidden from you, but I made a mistake. I shouldn’t have done that, I shouldn’t have been so foolish. Turns out that kid had it all planned from the beginning."

He paused, lowering his head, "That kid worked really hard, he did so much for you... His personality is very much like Su Ying, full of quirks and clever ideas, he’s the one among your children who resembles Su Ying the most... I quite liked him, this kid is both smart and loves reading, I even thought about asking him if he’d accompany me to run the bookstore together when I got older, but there wasn’t a chance... I not only failed to protect my own daughter, I couldn’t even protect her child."

Gu Zhuo Case fell silent, he began to not understand what his grandfather was saying.

"My... child?" he murmured blankly, "Grandfather, who are you talking about, could it be..." At this moment, a black shadow suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Zhuo Case, I don’t know how to tell you... I am indeed too cowardly. I never expected I would still be so cowardly at my age." Su Wei shook his head, "But you all have to know, someday you all must know."

He slowly lifted his eyes, his dim eyes looked toward Gu Zhuo Case, "He is... your son, Gu Wenyu, I shouldn’t have kept it from you."

"No... impossible," Gu Zhuo Case was completely bewildered. After a while, he silently shook his head, "Absolutely impossible..." Then he staggered backward step by step, disappearing into the shadows.

Finally, he suddenly raised his head, his slightly reddened eyes looking at the dejected Su Wei. At that moment, there were indescribable emotions in Gu Zhuo Case’s eyes, fear, confusion, sadness, anger, yet it seemed like he was pleading, sincerely pleading for the other person to say something, but Su Wei remained silent. In the end, a layer of vague crimson seemed to gradually rise in Gu Zhuo Case’s eyes, covering his pupils, followed swiftly by a distortion in his face.

A hoarse howl suddenly resounded, tearing through the night, echoing across the sleeping street.

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August 15th, 2:30 AM, Osaka, Japan, inside a long-abandoned deserted building.

Dark storm clouds drifted over from afar, and outside the window, a torrential downpour was underway. Flickering neon signs were shrouded in a gray rainy mist.

"Are you really human?" Urushibara Ryuri took a deep breath, looking up from under her wet bangs, exasperatedly gazing at Black Cocoon, "Did you seriously drag me from the Deserted Island to Japan without a boat? Couldn’t you have prepared a boat in advance?"

"Where’s the boat?" Black Cocoon shrugged, "I can’t fly, so how else could I cross the sea other than swimming?"

"I almost drowned, don’t Salvation Society’s prisoners of war have human rights? Landing in your hands is surely my fortune."

"Miss Liuli, first of all, I must clarify, I was the one swimming, and you were merely dragged along like a fish caught on a hook the whole time." Black Cocoon said indifferently, "If anyone should complain, it should be me, not you."

As Black Cocoon spoke, he wrapped his entire body in the restraint belt, covering every inch of his skin. Then he took off his black trench coat, wrung out the water with the restraint belt, and put the coat back on.

"Is this how you treat a woman?" Urushibara Ryuri sighed, "I see your admirers on the internet all call you ’Awakening Woman’, a true companion for women."

"I never respect my enemies; only excellent women like Swallowing Silver deserve my respect." Black Cocoon said, "So here’s the question: why does my ’Restraint Truth’ not work on you? I must find the answer."

As he spoke, he extended the pitch black restraint, tightly binding Urushibara Ryuri.

Then he activated the ’Restraint Truth’, yet the situation was exactly the same as on the Deserted Island—no matter how many times he repeated the activation command in his mind, the restraint simply ignored it.

"What’s your real name?" At this point, Black Cocoon acted as if the Restraint Truth had already taken effect and brazenly asked.

"Urushibara Ryuri, satisfied?" Urushibara Ryuri coughed twice, coughing up a mouthful of seawater.

"Alright, then where is the Salvation Society’s base?" Black Cocoon asked word by word.

"Hmm... Why should I tell you?"

Black Cocoon patted his head, letting out a heavy sigh, "I knew it, it doesn’t work on you, but why exactly doesn’t the Restraint Truth work on you?" He rested his hand on his chin, pondering deeply.

"The ’Restraint Truth’ you mentioned can’t affect the dead, can it?" Urushibara Ryuri said quietly after a moment of silence.

Black Cocoon was slightly taken aback.

Then, he slowly narrowed his eyes, looking into Urushibara Ryuri’s eyes, "Do you mean to say you are not alive?"

"Yes, haven’t you figured out what I am yet?" Urushibara Ryuri sighed.

Black Cocoon stared into her eyes for a long time before slowly voicing the answer in his mind: