Raphael was terrorizing a group of nobles and their Beyonder bodyguards. This was also his second attempt to actively digest his potion.
This time, Raphael was impersonating Viscount Cade's former wife. According to the information Audrey had provided, Viscount Cade had secretly murdered his original wife so he could marry a new viscountess and resolve his financial problems at the time.
He had carried it out in great secrecy, but shortly after the funeral, the viscountess's corpse had actually crawled out of her grave on her own and written the words "Cade killed me."
Several nobles visiting their relatives' graves happened to witness this, and the story spread within a small circle.
Later, Viscount Cade had asked the Church to clear his name, claiming someone was using the viscountess's corpse to slander him. Every noble who was buried had been soothed through a Requiem ritual, so their corpses could not possibly rise on their own.
He had then buried his wife again and bitterly denounced whoever had desecrated a noble's corpse. That had been the end of the matter.
Still, an explanation alone could not dispel the suspicions surrounding something like this, though no one could use it to bring charges against Viscount Cade either.
After that, no one discussed the matter in public, but the nobles often talked about it in private.
Viscount Cade, however, seemed to have stopped caring, as though it had never happened.
When Raphael read this information, he knew the viscount was a ruthless man who might feel no guilt over murdering his wife.
So Raphael had prepared a special gift for him. Now, a corpse with gray skin and tattered noble attire suddenly pushed open a window. She opened her blackened mouth, swayed a little, and said in an eerie voice, "Hello, Cade. How