When the sun sets completely, butterflies appear to dance in the city of adventurers, transforming the city into a city of luminous desire, as if to spotlight the butterfly.
Me and Lionel were traveling through the city that night.
"Ketty and Keffin were reluctant until the end."
"I saw Luciel's troubles up close."
Lionel says that and laughs, but when he's already recognized as a troublemaker, his stomach hurts a little.
"I have the funds, tell me if you need anything other than those sisters, talent, things or anything at all"
"Understood."
Passing the Merchant Guild, Lionel and I made it to the auction venue and were able to pass by just a letter of introduction without a body check.
The rule is that if something goes wrong, the store that wrote the reference takes full responsibility, but it doesn't seem to change whether it's Yenis or Grand Dollar who gets the return for that.
At this auction, security guards told me that it would span a wide range of slaves, weapons, ornaments, items, and letters of rights.
"Maybe it'll be a fight."
"It may happen when you hedge, but there won't be a problem"
To my whining, Lionel was more like wanting it.
Seeing that look, I decided to buy the people I wanted and what I needed even if I competed at the auction.
When we sat in the assigned seats, we checked around and then checked the entrance and exit.
Since then the number has gradually increased, but the entrance and exit were sealed when someone appeared who looked like a man in a mask.
And the masked man looks over at the passenger seat and then starts talking.
"Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen who have gathered here, thank you for attending the auction venue today. Let me start the auction now. There are thirty products in all for this entry, so please mention it and join. Then it's the fastest entry number, the blazing sword. This is from the labyrinth of the Grand Dollar of the Labyrinth Nation, a dish that can be expected to have the effect of burning enemies if the sword tip burns when magic is applied and activated successfully."
"I don't need it."
"Yeah. Still, the price will go up."
As Lionel expected, he was awarded seventeen gold coins.
If all that stuff was going to do, I wanted to hold my head to see what else was going to happen.
And then something came up that I had to bid on.
"Entry number five, it's the Spirit's robe. This dish has high magic resistance and automatic repair. The source will be the adventurer."
"… I have no choice but to buy"
"Are you sure? I don't think that's a phony, but I don't think it's worth buying?
"Right. But what if the cape or armor Lionel always used during the Empire was in the auction?
"… we will buy"
"I think maybe that's my sisters sister's gear. If you're not, I'll equip you with something different."
"It's really sweet when it comes to saving"
"Laugh if you can get away with this"
"Okay."
I started with the Spirit's robe, winning a series of Spirit's necklaces, Pegasus boots, Spirit Tree wands, Dragon armor, Dragon's hand, Dragon's boot Dragon's robe.
"You're so admired."
"Well, the purchase price is close to ten pieces of white gold. It's like Lucielle's ruining this auction."
"Anyway, I'll say goodbye to this city tomorrow."
"I was originally going to be able to work out with me in a whirlwind mock fight."
"Oh. You don't have to want it anymore. I'll buy it."
But where tension had risen, the auction for weapons had ended, and land title books, building rights books, and so on had begun.
When he found out he was on guard of me but unwilling to buy it, the amount went up all at once.
"I'm not doubling my bet, so I don't think you're violating it, am I?
"Isn't it because we raise the amount in no-time?
"It's a psychological battle."
At last the auction of slaves began, with the end of the book of rights for the land, which was the most exciting to see here.
"I'm a slave to you from here. Entry number twenty-three, Dragon man Algredo, the criminal slave who destroyed the building with drunken momentum and killed the guard, but its strength is a must."
"... I don't like that one"
"Yes, sir."
Slaves were not guilty of what seemed pathetic and never made purchases because they had no children to protect.
"That's not a lot of stuff."
"Right. There's nothing good about working out."
"Due to the convenience of the product, entry numbers twenty-nine and thirty will be issued. When you sign up as an adventurer dressed as a razor swordsman, you are a genius swordsman who instantly became a high-ranking adventurer in a few years, and a spiritual magician who has pursued that sister with his sister."
But it was that awful condition I saw during the day that came out.
Those who waited in anticipation of the two were angry and at the end of the day they even went out to those who threw things on stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen, calm your anger. These two had just been betrayed and raped by a fellow in the labyrinth, and luckily escaped the scene by activating a labyrinth trap. But it was Hydra who was waiting for the trap to be moved to the room where the demon was located. The men who came after them were devoured, and they both finally thought to escape, returning from the labyrinth, but half of their fiercely poisoned and beautiful faces had their feet necrossed and their sister's eyes burned. But waiting for the sisters were bandits dressed as adventurers. An arrow released by accident pierced my throat and managed to save my life in a luxury potion, but I lost my voice in that recoil. I guess I was going to grab two more gear and items that would have been beautiful if they had been, but I saw that ugly turned face and went upside down, destroying both eyes and both ears and taking away the luxury gear and items. Still, the sisters fought without giving up and killed a new adventurer who accidentally came in to help. If you have funds that can cure these two people who have become criminal slaves, you can get beautiful sisters. Let's start the auction."
Moderators say so, but sighs flowed from the venue.
We all know that.
Not having crushed eyes back, or having a broken throat and no voice. The fact that the lost limbs do not return.
Still, that masked man started the auction.
"We'll start with 10 gold coins together"
Twenty, thirty, and I will make progress, but as before, there was no momentum at all.
"One white gold coin"
When I called, the others were completely silent.
Where the masked man bowed carefully here, he realized that the masked man was a slave trader.
"Lionel, were you aware of the masked man?
"Yeah, but I'm just ahead of schedule. I didn't know he was a slave trader... he would be quite a cutter"
"Next time you run a country, you want someone who can run out of it. Well, it's about not betraying you."
If you're that hung up, you must be aiming for an opportunity to build on your own power.
I guess the goal of being a slave trader is to collect funds and talent.
I felt that way.
"The merchant will flow to his advantage, so it is possible if he stops with righteousness and continues to profit..."
"Huh. If I could do that, I wouldn't have a hard time..."
"Indeed."
As we laugh and exchange words, the masked host calls the end of the auction.
"Today's auction will be dissolved with more than that. Please join us next time."
When the masked man bowed, the curtain of the stage dropped.
The last time I bought those sisters, the gaze from around me turned into a gaze that could be directed at Bonbons who didn't know how to spend the gold, so the only salvation is that there doesn't seem to be a fight.
With that in mind, I decided to head over to collect the weapons I had purchased with the two of you.
The attendant guided me to the auction and paid the bid amount for the call to exchange for the item.
"Lord healer, please come this way because there are many items."
I don't know what it was for, but I was put through to a private room.
And to respond was the man who went back from masked man to slave trader.
"You can safely hand it over here. First give me the sum of the eight points here."
I put down eleven white gold coins.
"It's the price of ten dishes combined with the slave sisters. I don't need fishing."
"... Indeed. Please wait while I bring you here."
"No, let's go this way"
I chose to touch and retrieve my gear and follow the man.
"... Really? Then go ahead."
For a moment, but I felt the man's face attracted.
When we got there, they had been put in jail, but the other slaves had been put inside, and it was not a very good environment.
I wasn't being physically touched, beaten, or rambled, but it was a mentally stressful environment.
"... that's terrible"
"There are a lot of things going on here."
"Fine. Then can you bring the two of us?
"Please Wait"
The slaver's man, speaking to the men he was watching, dragged him to his sight when he went inside and grabbed him abusively.
"What does it mean to treat what I own as such, no matter how many slaves!!
I had Lionel grabbing my shoulder at this time and I couldn't move.
"Oh, were you also kind to slaves?"
The man is provoking me.
I felt a man's eyes say that.
"... just do it"
"... then hand over the slave print. Can I have some blood?
I started working lightly with a face that seemed uninteresting what I endured.
Even if I didn't cut it because I was squeezing my fist so hard, my blood fell from the palm of my hand immediately.
"Now you own these slaves."
I took the robe out of the magic bag at the same time I heard the words and put it on both of us, crossing my sisters arms to the fulcrum of my neck, lifting it with my hips.
"We're leaving, Lionel."
"Ha."
If there was a raid, you could shake it off because Lionel's hands are empty.
With that in mind, when I got out of the auction venue building, everyone was picking me up.
"What's wrong with you?
"They said there was a raid after the auction, so I picked them up. When I tried to come alone, they said they wanted to pick me up. So those two?
Apparently, Master Brodo was worried about the raid.
I don't think there's much to gather at the auction if it's with a specialized unit, but maybe not.
"Yes, I've been on heels for a long time, so I thought I'd stay here until the inn, but now that I'm attacked here, it doesn't seem like there's a problem."
I activated Recover, Dispel and Purifications instantly.
"Master Luciel, did you immediately free the two of them from slavery?
Keffin asks me as surprised, but I was laughing at Lionel next to him.
"Yeah. But I didn't liberate the slaves because I trusted these two, or because they're miserable with emotion. Even Lionel was going to tell me that, wasn't he?
"Yes. That man is hiding something. I felt that, and I felt disturbed when I was under a slavery contract. I think you were right about this decision. Thank you. You had the same eyes that you had to explore."
You felt it when you visited the slave trader.
That gave the impression that it was being appraised.
I don't have any trouble being appraised, but it's also true that I was a little concerned about what that cutter was thinking.
"Well, that's why I'll go back to the inn first and get these two back together once and for all"
That's what I proclaimed, and when I tried to get Ketty and Estia to carry my sisters, they were grabbing me by the gutter.
"Then I'm sure you won't be able to solve it."
"Good luck, Master Luciel"
When they spoke that way, they were going to carry them all the way around with a warm gaze.