The handsome middle-aged diviner nodded gently:
"You really are familiar with Miss Pawo. That lady is quite remarkable. They helped me a great deal. Though I once betrayed the Seer Association, I am actually a man who keeps his promises. Is that funny? Come, give it a try. A little activity before the banquet—it will not take long."
On the dining table before him, he flipped over a face-down card. On the card, a faceless man dressed in red sat in a pitch-black banquet hall, reaching one hand out beyond the card's surface—
Ding!
The crisp sound seemed to explode directly beside his ear. Someone was striking a bell with a small hammer—the signal that the banquet was about to begin.
Silver and gold vessels containing fresh human organs appeared one after another atop the previously empty table. A thick, bloody mist filled every corner of the banquet hall along with the sweet scent of food, while blood corpses hanging from the ceiling dripped downward upside down.
"Get lost!"
Behind Shade, the silver glow of the "Gluttony" Spirit Rune displayed on one section of his Destiny Ring forcibly interrupted the effect of the diviner's card along with his wrathful shout.
Although Laplace Howard was the one using the card, as the strange Spirit Rune appeared behind Shade, the surging, bloody red mist with its sweet stench instead wrapped itself around Shade.
The Gluttony Spirit Rune absorbed the blood mist in reverse. The banquet hall, whose atmosphere had only just been established, actually returned to its original empty state after Shade's roar, as though an illusion had been shattered.
Under the bright Crystal Lamp, the monocled diviner looked in surprise at the card burning in his hand, then casually tossed it to the floor:
"This card was made from the aura