"Where is Miss Galina?"
As the appearance of Origin · Silver Moon left the Seer Association group in awe, Shade quietly asked the Black-haired Maid beside him. She looked at him in surprise.
"Miss dislikes meeting strangers, so she will only see you after you win tonight's match. What is it? Do you need to see Miss now? I can go ask for permission."
"Not for the moment."
Shade said, then reached out to shake hands once more with the enthusiastic Mr. Mark.
Before the game began, both players' decks had to be inspected to prevent counterfeit Rhodes Cards from appearing. The old duke's deck had long since been checked, so only Shade's remained.
Shade's deck had originally contained only three special cards, and Miss Galina had given him two more this time. After the maid handed them to Shade for inspection, they were directly swapped into his fifty-four-card deck.
The two cards were Mark Nine from the Original Steam Engine Series, Sun 10, and Tis Lake from the Eastern Continent Scenery Series, Flower 8.
The former's special effect was that, when this card was drawn, if he already held at least two cards and all cards in his hand were of the Sun suit, he could adjust this card's number between 9 and 10.
The latter's special effect was that, after drawing it, he could guess the number of one unrevealed card in his opponent's hand. If correct, after the opponent revealed their cards, he could choose whether to forcibly increase that card's number by one. If the opponent flipped their card first, then Eastern Old Continent Scenery · Tis Lake would have no effect at all.
In terms of utility, neither card was naturally as useful as Shade's Silver Moon. Like Match Girl, they had more entertaining effects.