Although the fat woman and her lover had been caught up in the battle on the park lake, it was later proven that they had truly only been used as bait. After pulling them from the lake and confirming that they had suffered severe memory loss, possessed no valuable information whatsoever, and did not even know about the subsequent battle, The Church released them after a thorough examination.
The tone the two used as they spoke made everyone nearby who heard them frown. The viscountess's habit of calling Rhodes Cards "little scraps of paper" caused more than one person to look at them in surprise.
Yet they felt no embarrassment under everyone's gazes and simply continued chatting among themselves:
"Madam, you're so good to me. Not only did you give me the entire card set the viscount left behind, but now you're even willing to help me add to it. I truly don't know how I should repay you~"
As they spoke, they walked off to one side. Shade now fully understood why Wei Ge had called them the laughingstock of the local social circle.
However, Shade did not wish to comment on how the dead viscount's card set had ended up in his wife's lover's hands. He frowned slightly only because he sensed a familiar power on Lady Connaught—a power she had not possessed last Friday.
"Desire."
This power was incredibly weak, far weaker than that of the true Apostles of Desire. It could not grant her any supernatural abilities, at most making her look slightly younger.
Therefore, Lady Connaught had likely come into contact with some person or item connected to "Desire" through some means and had thus been tainted by its power. Considering that The Church could not possibly have allowed her to leave the area recently,