Chapter 440: Lilia-san, Please Come Quickly! (1/2)

After looking around the stalls for a while, I came with Isis-san to the Central Plaza…… where the third day's main event, the auction was being held.

There were so many people in the Central Plaza that we decided to observe the auction from a distance, taking into account Isis-san's magic power of death.

When we entered the plaza, we were given a plate with a number on it. This would probably be my number when I wanted to buy something from the auction.

Incidentally, I was number 985 and Isis-san was number 986. Well, I don't really intend to buy anything at the auction at the moment, but something that I want may appear, so might as well take a look.

Even so…… As one would expect from the main event of the day's festival, there was a huge crowd around us, with many participants raising their hands in competition with each other. And on the stage set up in the center of the plaza, the host with a microphone was calling out prices one after another.

[……The participants don't seem to be shouting out their bids, so how is it that the host knows how much they bid?]

[……In this auction…… You can bid through hand signs…… The host has…… high-degree compound eyes…… So she's watching all participants at the same time.]

[……I see.]

I've never seen an auction like this before, so everything looked fresh to me.

I also noticed some people were raising their hands in a thumbs-up. I wonder if that's some sort of hand signal?

[Incidentally, what does this signal mean?]

[……Ah.]

”Whoa there! Someone bid double again!!! ”Number 985! One white gold coin!”]

[……Eh?]

When I tried to ask Isis-san what the hand signal meant, she looked surprised and my number was called by the host immediately after.

A- Ah, sh*t! I see, even from this distance, the host can still see us…… In other words, I've just made a bid.

[……Errr……]

[……When you call on something…… You can't take it back anymore.]

[H- Hmmm…… But well, this doesn't really mean that I've won the bid anyway……]

”One white gold coin! Are there any bids above white gold? ……It doesn't seem like anyone is betting anymore. Well then, congratulations to the young man with number 985 for winning this item!!!”

[…………………]

Don't let your curiosity lead you to do stupid things…… It was a good lesson. The tuition I paid to learn this lesson was quite expensive, but well, I guess it can't be helped. It's my fault for being so careless, so I'll just obediently buy it.

[……Wait, what did I bid on in the first place?]

[……Errr……]

Thinking that I didn't know what item was being auctioned, I asked Isis-san, to which she pulled a huge book out from nowhere.

[That is?]

[……The auction's…… catalog…… Errr…… The one being sold now is catalog number 15, so the one before that…… is this one.]

[Errr, let's see…… ”The journal left by the First Hero, 23 pages, undeciphered”……]

……Ahh, just looking at its name let me know that it was something I shouldn't have touched. This is definitely something that could be considered as Neun-san's black history. Unnn, let's just promptly give it to Neun-san as soon as I receive it later.

But then again, I doubled the previous bid, and won with one white gold coin bid…… So there were people who wanted to buy it even if they had to pay five gold coins or five million yen…… As expected of the First Hero.

While I was thinking about this, it seemed that the bid for item number 15 had also been settled and the auction moved on.

”Well then, the next item is…… something provided by Underworld King herself!”

Oya? The next item is provided by Kuro huh…… I wonder what that is?

”Catalog number 16! ”Underworld King's handmade baby castellas”!”

Why the heck are baby castellas being auctioned off at a high-class auction…… Kuro, what the heck are you doing……

”These baby castella were made by Underworld King-sama to be given to ”a certain person”…… A collection set of ”not so good” baby castellas!”

In short, it's just a collection of your failed baby castellas, isn't it? Or rather, that ”certain person”……

[……Maybe…… for Kaito…… Kuromeina…… made a whole lot…… to feed to Kaito.]

[……I- I see……]