Chapter 254
Aside from the Manager, the others in the waiting room were all elderly men and women . Of course, these weren’t ordinary people either . They looked sophisticated . Probably nobles .
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There were plenty of chairs and everyone sat where they liked and talked freely . At least here, it seemed like people were just generally seen as sellers, and there were no strict aristocratic rules .
“You three . Take a seat over here . ”
“Uh, sure . ”
“Aye . ”
“Th-thank you . ”
Daniela sat down to her left . Lemon didn’t hesitate to take the other seat next to Daniela, which meant I was forced to sit on the right side of the Manager .
“By the way, I don’t believe we’ve spoken before . Uh, Lemonfrost, was it?”
“Uh, ye-yes! I am Lemonfrost Grasilf . ”
“Yes, I’ve seen you with Asagi on multiple occasions . ”
I had felt that someone was staring at me a number of times once I arrived in the capital . So it was her . She had been watching me from the shadows .
Lemon and the Manager seemed to get along after that . Daniela would occasionally mutter something and the overall mood was congenial . As for me, I stared dazedly at the ceiling . I was bored… If only something interesting would happen…
“Ah . ”
“Hmm? What is it?”
The Manager turned away from Daniela to look at me . There was something that I had been wondering and it seemed like a good time to ask about it .
“Manager . Why do you go by Kapricorn Shteiner?”
“Ah, that . What took you so long to ask?”
“I had a lot on my mind and forgot . ”
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Her real name was Rindo Kizugawa .
“Look at this place . Do you think I would just use my real name?”
“Uh, I didn’t have a second thought about using mine . ”
“You have no sense of danger… In any case, I did . Besides, I was pretending to have amnesia . ”
“Right… So, why that name?”
“Because I’m a Capricorn . ”
That was simple .
“And Shteiner?”
“It sounded cool .
Embarrassing .
“Well, I told them that I got my memories back . I even had my status card remade the other day . So it’s back to Rindo Kizugawa from now on . ”
“Uh, great . ”
And that was it . Daniela had an idea about what we were talking about, so she just nodded . Lemon was looking at us blankly .
“Uh, she’s an old friend of mine . She was a manager at a general store . ”
“Oh, I see . ”
“Yes . We were separated due to circumstances . And we just happened to reunite at the tournament . ”
“It all makes sense now!”
Lemon said with a brightened expression . It was just then that there was a knock on the door . Everyone’s heads turned as it was opened .
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“I’m sorry to keep you waiting . Preparations have been made . Please follow me . ”
Finally . I was getting tired of staring at the ceiling…
Everyone got up noisily and started to shuffle out of the room . I hadn’t counted earlier, but there seemed to be about twenty of us in all . That was a lot . It kind of felt oppressive .
On the way, Daniela and Lemon were led through a different hallway, as they weren’t sellers . Still, they would apparently be seated near the front . Lemon seemed to have pretty good luck when it came to seats .
“Now, ladies and gentlemen . Thank you for gathering here today . We were quite anxious once we heard that the tournament had been delayed . And yet, so many of you have shown your faces here today . I am full of gratitude . Thank you, thank you . ”
There was a round of applause from the guests . Us sellers were seated up on the stage . Ten to the right and ten to the left . The magic lights were practically blinding and painful . In fact, I could hardly see the audience at all .
“Please forgive me, I have not introduced myself yet . I am your host for the day, Mericareed Yafina . At your service . ”
He gave a gentlemanly bow .
“Now, let us get to business . Here is the first item of the day!”
He suddenly seemed to be very excited . The audience reacted with cheers and whistles . Apparently, it was always like this . Even now, I still had images of secret auctions and slave auctions in my head, so it was a good way to be brought back to reality . I had been wondering if I should put on a mask .
The first item was a painting . It was of some muscular guy, and the painter was supposed to be very famous, so the price was quite high . After that, there was an extravagant suit of armor . And then a glass shield . What the hell?
And then came the Manager’s item .
“And here we have an artifact from the Adventurer Rindo . It was discovered deep within a dungeon . ”
Mericareed said as the bow was brought out .
“It is a bow…but it does not require arrows!”
Huh . She sure picked up something interesting . And in a dungeon…I hadn’t really experienced something like that myself . But maybe I hadn’t been searching hard enough . Though, there was that one kobold mine we had gone down . And there had been something surprising at the end .
The audience was clearly enthusiastic . And as the bids went higher and higher, I turned to the Manager .
“What kind of dungeon was this?”
“Ah, it was a place I went to with other Adventurers I happened to meet on the road . There were lots of traps and monsters, which is always fun . Makes you think of those role-playing games, doesn’t it?”
“Uh, yeah . What else?”
“That’s about it . Well, such places could hold treasures if they haven’t been cleaned out already . That bow was given to me by one of my party members . ”
“Given…you’re not being literal, are you?”
“Bah . They all died . ”
“Ah…”
It was a surprisingly sad story . She then told me that they had been killed by a guardian who was protecting the dungeon core at the deepest level .
“We were so close to winning too… It’s true what they say about letting your guard down . It leads to death . Asagi, if you are interested in dungeons, you best be careful too . ”
“I’ve had my share of brushes with death . So I know to be careful . ”
“Haha . That’s a death flag if I’ve ever heard one . ”
“Grr…”
“Ah, it’s been sold . ”
While I was being teased, the bow without arrows was sold .
“Congratulations! Sold for eight hundred pieces of gold!”
“Oh, not a bad price . I’ll be able to indulge myself for a while . ”
She stood up and took a bow before sitting back down again . Eight hundred seemed like a lot for ‘indulging yourself’ for a while . …What was she going to do?
After that, there were other magic items that I didn’t know anything about, along with some fancy armor . The kind of stuff you’d expect nobles to sell, I suppose .
But there was one thing that really caught my eye . It was a set of light armor made from wind dragon .
“Excuse me, I’d like to buy that . ”
“But you’re a seller . ”
The Manager reminded me as I raised my hand . Yeah, but if we had that… Daniela’s armor…she would have gauntlets . She had the chained ore gauntlets, which were quite powerful, but most of her equipment was made of wind dragon . So this would be perfect for her . The rest of it? We could just sell it…
As I thought about this, the bidding began . Oh, Daniela was really going for it . Yes, we were going to earn money after this anyway . There’s no need to hold back!
“All right, one thousand and four hundred! What about you?”
“One thousand and eight hundred!”
The other guests were shocked by Daniela’s words . The reward for hunting the lesser wyvern and the wind dragon materials . The reward for the orc hunt . All the money we made from selling materials . All of that added up to quite a hefty pile of savings . To be honest, I didn’t even know how much it all was . It was all in the hollow bag…
And that’s what Daniela was using . It was the party funds, so I had no problem with it . In fact, I really wanted her to get it .
“Anyone? Anyone? Sold! One thousand and eight hundred pieces of gold!”
“Yes!!”
I raised my fist into the air . I could barely make out Daniela smiling on the other side . Still…it was quite expensive . It was a whole set of armor, after all . It would have been nice if they sold it separately .
And then I realized that I was up next .
The artifact made by the ancient elves . The Automata . It was the star of the shows . How much would I get for it… I couldn’t wait to find out .