Soon, it was time for another Tarot Club meeting.
It was Raphael's second time attending, and he participated more actively than before.
The Star, Leonard, shared two bizarre cases he had encountered the previous week. In the first, several thousand people from the East Borough had suddenly disguised themselves as vagrants and traveled seven or eight kilometers at night to steal food from the wealthy in the West Borough.
Justice, Audrey, said, "I heard about that too. Apparently, a lot of people died, and the wealthy merchants had a lot of things stolen."
Judgment, Xio, who specialized in intelligence work, said, "Fifty-two people died in total. Most were vagrants and poor residents of the East Borough. Five bodyguards and six police officers died in the West Borough.
"Strangely, none of the wealthy merchants' valuables were stolen. Only their kitchens were ransacked. Of course, to those merchants, the things in their kitchens were hardly worth mentioning."
Audrey folded her hands on the table. In the version she had heard, it had been a riot by vagrants, and the wealthy merchants had suffered enormous losses.
Devil, Raphael, also made a show of joining the conversation. "It sounds like those vagrants and poor people were hypnotized."
"It was worse than hypnosis." Leonard did not suspect the new member, Devil. "Our investigation found that their hunger had been aroused. This should be a Desire Apostle's ability, but stirring up desire on such a large scale was probably the work of a Demon."
Moon, Emlyn, was puzzled. "Why would this Demon lead so many people all that way to the West Borough?"
Raphael thought, Because those two boroughs were so far apart!
He had taken great care at the time to avoid exposing his whereabouts.
Still, he had to thank Backlund for being such an