They stood there embracing, as if time had frozen at that very moment.
No one knew how long had passed—perhaps minutes, perhaps hours—but Su Yu felt that the two worlds had reached some kind of critical point.
Snap!
Like a rubber band breaking, the connection between the two worlds was severed completely.
Tina, Alijeh, and Cat Morning Star turned into white light and vanished from Su Yu's embrace, disappearing without a trace.
Yet Su Yu remained in his "embracing" posture, staring blankly at the place where the two women and the cat had vanished.
So that was it. He and Alijeh, Morning Star, and Tina had parted forever just like that.
Still, perhaps it was not such a terrible regret. After all, they had shared so much happy time together.
Su Yu's heart was filled with tangled emotions, while his mind was completely blank.
"Kexing, my condolences." Xiao Tian, seated beside him, brushed back her hair and tried to comfort him.
"Mm." With no concern for appearances, Su Yu dropped down beside Xiao Tian and gazed up at the stars with her.
Neither of them spoke again afterward. They simply watched the sky in silence.
Second by second, time slipped away. There was nothing they could do; all that remained was to wait for death.
No one knew how much longer passed. It seemed as though the sun had risen and set two or three times.
Just as Su Yu had grown tired of sitting there and was about to end this meaningless "sky-watching," a thought suddenly struck him!
At that exact moment—4 p.m. on October 28—he suddenly sensed a disturbance in the portal above the Mount Fuji Spring Eye!
Su Yu and Xiao Tian were far from the Mount Fuji Spring Eye, with more than 3,800 kilometers between