Oil Paintings and the Metal Coffin

The tables and chairs that had originally been in the meeting room had long since been cleared away. Now, rows of folding chairs with red soft cushions had been arranged throughout the room. Against the wall facing the terrace stood a mahogany platform, with a table placed atop it for the auctioneer to use shortly.

The auction items were displayed around the room. The Rhodes Card that interested Shade was near the entrance, clearly not the star of the show.

"Let me take a look."

He stopped before a glass display case and looked at the card resting on its red velvet lining, then smiled.

"A special Queen of Suits card. How interesting."

History of New Continent Colonization · Pioneering Wind, Queen of Suits. (Note)

When this card is drawn, randomly draw one card from the remaining deck. If it is a Sun Flower suit, History of New Continent Colonization · Pioneering Wind is treated as a king. The drawn card's effect is invalidated and discarded; it is not returned to the deck and is considered to have been drawn normally.

"The Queen of Suits is only lower than the king and twenty-one to begin with. Turning the Queen into a king doesn't mean much."

Unlike other special-rule Rhodes Cards, beneath the rules was another line of fine print, written in both Delarion Language and Kartherian Language:

To commemorate the great geographical discovery of the New Continent, a turning point for civilization. May the pioneering wind sweep across the world.

The "History of New Continent Colonization" series had been released around half a century ago and reprinted every five years thereafter. However, the special cards differed with each reprint, so they were also known as "History of New Continent Colonization I," "History of New Continent Colonization II," and so on.