After a break in the afternoon, we are off to the auction.
Just in case, I am participating in Rosemary-san state.
Everyone has put on masks. For some reason, I’m also wearing one.
Apparently because it will be troublesome if my face is seen. Hm, well, I guess.
“Then we will be starting the auction.”
The facilitator drew the attention of the crowd with a clear voice.
“Then the first item. ……behold, an [Excavated Item], a dress! Look at the brilliant colour, the unique design, the every part of it is first-class! Come, we will start from 100 gold!”
Ah, I’ve seen that before. Mhm mhm, that’s the one I made.
The starting bid is twice the price, no wonder that uncle is making easy profits.
“150 gold!”
“180 gold!”
“200 gold!”
And the price kept getting pushed up and in the end it was won at 380 gold.
It was bought at 5 platinum and sold at 38 platinum……I see, no wonder that uncle is earning.
…a lot
Then some strange vase, more familiar clothes that look like the ones we sold to that uncle, those kind of things kept coming out and the bids rose.
But feeling curious, I tried [appraising] each of them and the ones that actually have effects are rare.
The vase in particular was amazing. It was said to [Bring Happiness] and sold, but the actual effect is [Increased Agility]. What are you supposed to do with it? Leaving the luck aside, how are you supposed to equip a vase?
wear it on your head
And that finally arrived.
“Next, the showpiece of this auction, a [Foreign Magic Room]. It looks like it is just a jewel, but if you drop it on the ground it will show its true form! Now we will start from 300 gold!”
“310 gold.”
“350 gold!”
“370 gold!”
It’s stingy raising, but that is good for us.
It’s better to not use money if possible.
“1000 gold”
……and as I thought that, mhm, there’s one, someone that won’t read the atmosphere.
What’s that, the order of magnitude is different already, make it 500 or something, let’s be more reserved.
“Oooh! It suddenly jumped to 1000 gold! Come, is there no one else!?”
“1100 gold.”
There’s no point if we can’t get the bid, so we also raised the price.
Ah, by the way, the one calling the price is Suzumoto who is wearing my [Magic Voice] choker.
Since I’m a slave I don’t have the right to bid, so there’s no choice but to lend him the choker.
Well, it’s simply because his voice is clear and carries well, so if he adds on the thought of [Don’t you dare raise the price anymore] with [Maigc Voice], it’s easy to pressure others.
……mhm, this thing just applies pressure.
Erm, how to put it……the [Magic Voice] skill, to increase the effect, the MP consumed will be go up quadratically……
Basically, to get 2 times the effect, the necessary MP is not 2 times, it would be 4 times, or 9 times or 16 times and so on.
To get a large effect, the MP consumed would be extreme and you’ll run out of MP.
The consumption is so bad that just by calling for Ketorami, 2 [Teleport] worth of MP disappeared.
To put it another way, it is what Utagawsan used to make the 8 of them unable to fight in the gladiator tournament’s Nona section.
……it took about 2 hours for Utagawsan to recover from that. No, it’s still quite fast compared to when I go down from running out of MP though.
In order to activate an effect that can very clearly and visibly compel everyone in this auction hall to act a certain way……never mind Suzumoto going down, it is probably not possible to activate in the first place.
Utagawsan’s profession is [Song Princess]. But she still went down after using [Magic Voice] to compel just 8 people.
Even if everyone here are probably not foreigners and have no resistance to skills at all, also even if the order is a few levels lower than [don’t bid] or [become unable to fight]……it is probably still impossible for Suzumoto.
not that op
And so, well, we don’t know if there’s any effect, but we are using the [Magic Voice] as some consolation at least.
“1200 gold.”
“1250 gold.”
“1300 gold!”
“1350 gold”
Even though Suzumoto’s voice is clearly getting thornier, the opposing noble shows no signs of backing off and just seems to be getting irritated as he keeps raising the price.
……when I asked Utagawsan later, apparently “Yeah that skill, it doesn’t affect thick-skinned people well.”. So does the mean everyone in the chemistry club who collapsed all at once in the Nona section have relatively thin skin? Then, the nobles……definitely thick-skinned.
“1500 gold! How about that!”
It finally reached 1500 gold, this is bad, but if we give up then there would have been no point coming here.
“It has reached 1500 gold! Now, what will you do?”
“1800 gold.”
If they are going to raise it, raise it even higher.
……this seemed to be effective. The noble reluctantly fell silent.
“1800 gold! It is 1800 gold! Is there anyone else!?”
Of course, the other nobles stayed silent.
“Okay, the bid is won at 1800 gold!”
Nu, nu~……but, even though we won the bid, we used up 180 platinum for this.
The classroom started with 30 platinum and ended up at 180 so the slaves……how will this end? Are we going to be okay?
Well, for now we got the classroom.
We handed over the money on the spot and obtained the classroom. This is the [Staff Room]. With this about half of 1F south area has been gathered.
so 4 more?
……but, the auction doesn’t end here.
Or rather, if it ended here I wouldn’t have become a clothing machine yesterday.
“Next is a slave. A healthy and sturdy male slave that is also versed in wind magic! A first-class good that can be used for manual work or as a guard! We will be starting from 100 gold!”
This is a local slave, so he’s pitiful but we have to leave him.
If we buy each and every slave to release them, it won’t be on a level of just not having enough money.
“110 gold.”
But for some reason this guy went to bid.
“120 gold!”
“125 gold!”
And other bids
“130 gold”
And for some reason he bid again. ……ah, I see, that’s what he’s doing.
“135 gold!”
“How about 200 gold!”
“230 gold!”
His strategy is to bid and make others buy at as high a price as possible.
Hm, I see. Then he started to wait and see.
Wait, and see the price of the slave.
It was 100 gold at first, but it was raised to 350 gold before the bid was won at the end.
……so, this means the price would rise higher for a female slave, and for foreigners, even higher, give us a break.
definitely not enough
After that, 1 local male and 3 local females were exhibited, then it finally came.
“Next, 1 of the main attractions of this auction! A male foreign slave! One that can use [Lost Blessings]! He manipulates the air, the sky, makes rain and even lightning! A foreign slave that controls the weather! Come come, make your bids! We will start from……yes, I guarantee you his value is above this price! ……1800 gold!”
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh! You’re starting from that!?
This world’s people put to much weight on foreigners! Or rather, am I the only one that thinks the classroom’s price can be higher?
……ah, I see. To this world’s people, it’s just some strange room you can carry around.
should still be valuable…..
The auction was extremely heated.
The price keeps jumping up at the start, so Suzumoto could only occasionally activate [Magic Voice] as strongly as possible without getting downed and call slightly higher prices.
This, just watching is painful, Suzumoto is using that mint extract each time he speaks.
Basically, MP interval running. It’s probably harder than my clothing machine since the frequency is higher.
But the effects seem to be slowly showing, the nobles are raising the price more timidly.
“3100 gold!”
“3150 gold!”
“3155!”
And aiming for that, push it up in one shot.
“3600 gold.”
“3600 gold! Is there anyone else!?”
I think there would probably be someone if it was 3500. But that strange 600 instead of 500 had an effect, probably.
We somehow won the bid.
……we won, but our remaining money is 330 platinum.
……isn’t this dangerous?
very
The money is, but Suzumoto is too, he removed he choker from his neck and pushed it to Hagasaki-kun who probably has the most MP among us.
Do your best~
“Then next. Now, I believe many of you are here for this right!? Behold these beautiful features! The black hair so glossy it is dazzling, the porcelein skin! And this slave’s value is not just in her looks! Can you believe it, this slave is not just beautiful, but also a top-notch magician! She can bring down anyone with both fire and wind! Now, let us begin! The starting bid will be……2000 gold!”
……ooh, this……isn’t this bad?
very, female too
“……after I collapse, next is Kariya.”
After saying such an ominous thing, he shouted.
“2500 gold!”
That instant, the change in the atmosphere was amazing. It suddenly fell silent and it had that air where you need to have a lot of courage to speak up.
It’s not compelling enough to make the body move directly, but it seems to have enough effect on the mind.
……Hagasaki-kun almost went down immediately. But seeing as how he is barely holding on, he understands the limit of his own MP very well and is very used to expending MP.
I probably can’t achieve such fine control.
But, kind of as expected, things don’t go so well.
“2800 gold!”
Aaaaah, stop it~, stop it~, let us win this girl too!
“3000 gold!”
Hagadaki-kun drank a few ml of mint extract and recharged his MP to shout again, but the effects feel weaker than before.
He also seemed to feel it, he tore off the choker and threw it at Kariya.
Kariya rushed to equip the choker.
“3100 gold!”
The price went up again. This is bad, we are already at our limits.
“3300 gold!”
This time Kariya activated [Magic Voice]. He’s worse at controlling MP and went down in one shot, are we okay? This price is our limit though.
logically it shouldn’t work
“Now, 3300, 3300 gold. Is there anyone else?”
It looks like the facilitator also has trouble speaking, sorry about that.
……but, somehow, finally, nobody raised the bid this time.
“Then the bid is won at 3300 gold!”
……mhm, somehow, after amazing effort and sacrifice, we somehow……won the bid on this girl too.
With this, we are penniless. Not a penny yay~”
What are nobles?
broke
It would have been nice if it ended like that. But.
“Now then, the final exhibit of today! Come, this is the goods!”
……coming onto stage, was an extremely~, familiar person.
“……okay, let’s go back.”
“Yep yep.”
I understand your feelings, but I would like you to endure it and think of a solution.
……but still, Fukuyamkun, why’re you here.
the end
When Hecate translated ominous, since it could also be translated as sinister, I mistyped omnister, then took a few seconds to realise, then corrected it to omnimous.
……compared to omnimous, I think it’s acceptable my brain actually processed omnister as an actual word for a while.
And for those that forgot, Fukuyamkun is that idiot asshole that maidnapped maito