Madman in a Fantasy World

111. How to ruin an auction

“Now, my friend. Who are you?”

“I, I am a person of no worth, and I am a sinner who did not recognize nobles and recklessly punished them.”

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Mum. very well educated

It is also a saying that if you don’t know, you learn while being beaten.

“Then why are you here today?”

“I came to use the auction house.”

Yeah, how nice it would be if you told me about what you’re going to tell me in the end.

You don’t get hit for nothing, you just get a ticket and go with a smile, right?

Anyway, people here are unfriendly.

A person is lost and wandering, and he does not even think of guiding you, but thinks of running away knowing only himself.

“Then, shall we get the tickets first?”

I reached out my hand to give it up quickly. Because that was the original purpose.

With an unwilling expression on his face, the nobleman took out an envelope with a seal from his pocket and handed it to him.

“hahahaha… Then can I go now?”

And I said in a tone that I wanted to run away quickly.

I said, holding the shoulder of the aristocrat who naturally turned his back.

“Where are you going?”

“Yes, yes? I gave it to you, so you’re not done with your business now…?”

“What are you talking about? I have to guide you.”

The invitation is optional, and I was looking for you because I didn’t know the way in the first place?

“Come on, hurry ahead.”

When I said it while raising my right fist, the aristocrat hurriedly nodded his head.

“Yes, yes!”

That’s how we followed the lead of the nobility.

After walking around the back alleys for a while, he entered the entrance of a building that looked like it was about to collapse. Of course, the only way was the stairs going down to the basement, so I followed and entered the building.

Upon entering the interior of the building, what caught my eye was the interior, which was so different from the entrance that I felt a sense of alienation.

Neat and patterned tables and chairs, softly lit torches, bookshelves with just the right amount of books.

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Maybe that’s why it felt more artificial. How can anyone live in a back alley and decorate like this?

But that’s not what’s important now.

This is a dead end road.

“Hey, are you on the right track?”

Didn’t it turn out that he was brought into a trap, or was he turning around in a strange way to get into trouble?

Grabbing the aristocrat by the collar, his complexion turned pale and he immediately explained.

“Oh no! That’s right here! Come this way!”

The noble moved to the only bookshelf in the room, and stopped exactly in front of the bookshelf.

Is there a device on the bookshelf? Just as he was thinking about that, he pushed the bookshelf with both hands, and the bookshelf turned sideways with a gurgling sound.

‘Wow······.’

When I saw that, I wondered in my mind if I should have done this.

If this was the case in the game, they would be criticized for rejecting newbies.

How can you find something like this if you don’t listen to someone?

Picking and entering this place among the many buildings is a struggle in itself.

“Let’s go.”

As I was about to express my dissatisfaction inwardly, the nobleman in the lead turned around and spoke to me.

“Isn’t this the end?”

“It’s still there.”

Wow, what else do you have?

Wouldn’t it be better if you roughly made something that wouldn’t even be described anyway, are you a writer? Without this guide, I would have been in big trouble. I followed the nobleman down the stairs behind the bookshelf, and this time I came to the same place as the underground water.

Low ceilings, musty smells, and the occasional rat.

There was a long road with water flowing in the middle and a road for people on either side.

‘Aristocrats often go to places like this.’

After walking for a long time and reaching the end of the aqueduct, the same dead end came out this time.

“Again…”

I can’t stand it any longer.

The way to attack the fucking maze is to break the walls of the maze, not to follow one hand, such as the right or left hand method.

That’s why I secretly took out a bomb from my inventory.

“Im here.”

The noble walked up to the wall and went in as if being sucked into the wall.

“···Barrier?”

“It’s fucking, it’s fucking.”

If anyone sees it, they’ll think it hides the secrets of the empire.

The Empire decided to hide it. Otherwise, there would be no space deep underground like this.

How many times have you sucked honey between yourself?

After following the noble who entered first, I passed through the wall, and there was a door in front of me, and I opened it and entered.

“fitting room?”

One side was a large mirror, and on the other side was a room with all sorts of uniforms and dresses.

“Usually everyone comes here dressed like me, but you can’t look so sloppy until you enter the auction house. You can change your clothes here and go through the front door and hand in the invitation.”

Then, across here is the auction house.

It took a very long time to get here.

“Then may I go…?”

“Yes. Search.”

-Suddenly.

In an instant, he drew his sword and separated the aristocrat’s head and body.

A fountain of blood tried to gush from the cleanly cut face, so the corpse was kicked and washed into the groundwater.

“Is it okay if I kill you?”

“It’s better than not killing and bothering you later.”

If you let them run away and come back later to retaliate, it’ll be a nuisance.

I’m taking care of it in advance so that such a misfortune does not happen.

It’s usually not a big deal for a noble to die, but there’s no CCTV anyway, so I don’t know who killed it.

If you kill and don’t get caught, that’s not assassination.

“Anyway, if you have someone to change into, change quickly.”

“I think I’ll be fine.”

“Me too!”

I was wearing the same black uniform I had worn as a professor, and Richie was wearing a passable, albeit not luxurious, outfit. Yui was originally wearing a dress that young girls would wear, so there was no problem.

then.

“Can I just change my clothes?”

“uh.”

Only Luna, who is wearing leather armor, needs to be changed.

“I’ve never worn a dress like that… Mr. Riche? Can you help me?”

“Oh, yes. Luke, you’re out for a while.”

“Why? We’ve seen everything we’ve seen anyway.”

“That and this are different!”

“Tet-Kai.”

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Male lead kicked out for changing into women’s clothes?

It’s a cliché.

Rather proudly, I crossed my arms and drove my legs into the ground with an iron ingot and did not move a single step.

“Keep…! Yui-san, help me…!”

“What? You wouldn’t be pushed even if three people pushed instead of two?”

Richie pushed me in the chest, as if he wanted to get me out somehow, but he didn’t even bother.

i am a man With the power of a woman, you don’t even blink.

“Rice, just do it. I’m fine.”

“Ugh…”

Since she said she was okay, Richie helped Luna change into a dress.

Still, I turned around and changed into a last bastion, but I don’t know why you’re making such a fuss about it, because you won’t be able to see it if you turn around and change anyway.

I looked around to see if there was anything else while Luna changed into a dress.

It wasn’t just clothes here, there were also jewelry like rings and necklaces.

Among them, the one that caught my eye the most was the mask.

An important object that covers the face and guarantees anonymity.

There were also several types of masks, from white masks with open eyes and mouths to eye masks that only covered the eyes that could be used at a ball. The types were also different.

“But what is this…?”

Among those masks, there was one that stood out by itself, and I thought it was an Easter egg created by the artist.

Still, I like things like this, so I put on the mask without hesitation.

The mask I wore was not only covering my face, it was a mask worn over my head, but due to the nature of the mask, it inevitably narrowed my field of vision.

“Yui. How are you?”

“Yes? Heeik…!”

Well. Seeing Yui’s reaction, I’m satisfied.

Luna and Riche, who had changed into dresses just in time, looked at me once and took a step back in surprise.

“······!”

“What, what is it?”

“If you go quickly, take one out and use it.”

I don’t know if you have to wear one, but masks are a national rule in places like this.

Besides, there’s nothing good about selling your face.

“It’s nice to wear it, but do I really need to wear that mask?”

“Yeah. You like me?”

“that is···?”

“Respect your taste.”

Anyone who sees it will think it was written after cutting off a person’s head and emptying out the inside.

I don’t know what’s so surprising.

“If you’re ready, let’s go quickly.”

When I opened the door at the end of the locker room, there was a spiral staircase going down again.

“Haa… the stairs again?”

I couldn’t miss escalators and elevators that much today.

We went down the stairs for about 5 minutes. At the end of the stairs, there was a building so splendid that it could not be thought of as underground.

On the way to the entrance, a red carpet was laid all the way, and two tall men stood guard in front of the entrance, so I walked confidently to hand in my ticket.

“I’ll check your tickets.”

“here.”

I showed the guard the ticket I had received as a gift from the noble I killed earlier.

The guard carefully checked the tickets to see if they were imitations, and then said that the confirmation was over.

“I checked the tickets. Are the people in the back party?”

“uh.”

“That… Excuse me… Are you really going to wear that mask…?”

“Do you have any problem?”

Didn’t you bring it to use?

Then you can use it, so why talk like you can’t use it?

“Kuhmm… it’s nothing. Have a good time.”

When the two guards opened the door, a large circular space appeared, and several participants were in the middle of an auction in the tiered seats.

***

“The next thing is this!”

The presenter standing in the middle of the auction house raised a coffin containing a terrifying sword and shouted.

“This sword is made from the teeth of the A-class monster Hydra! The starting price is 50 gold coins! The minimum unit is 10 gold coins!”

Tsk. The man clicked his tongue.

Selling things that you don’t even know if they’re real or fake for money.

You can’t know whether an item that comes up for auction is real or not until you buy it and appraise it.

In a word, no one can tell if the sword the presenter is talking about is a weapon made from the teeth of a hydra.

So, who buys it? The nobles who have a lot of money and like to gamble.

People who collect rare artifacts or magic tools, people who collect all kinds of swords. Such people buy such dubious things with expensive money.

If it was an auction held by the imperial family, it would be judged whether it was genuine or fake, and it would come up, but there is no such thing in the shadows. If you are deceived, the deceived person is at fault.

The reason why a man occupies a place in such a place, tongue-tied, is because of what he does.

There is no particular job name. What they do is receive a list of auction items with prices written on them from the organizers and raise their bids up to the indicated amount or higher.

While the men were thinking, their own league began.

“60 gold coins!”

“60 gold coins are out!”

“80 gold coins!”

“Currently 80 gold coins!”

“100 gold coins!”

“100 gold coins! Do you have any more?!”

Just 100 gold coins.

It was quiet after that.

The bidders thought it was a waste of more than 100 gold coins for that sword.

However, whether or not that sword is real, 100 gold coins are too few, as long as the name ‘Hydra’ is included.

The goal of the Hydra Sword that was uploaded this time is 200 gold coins. As long as that’s what you’re going to do, even if you can’t get there, you have to pull out a bid that’s close to that.

So the man raised his hand and raised the bid.

“110 gold coins!”

Raising the bid like this was implicitly promoting that the sword was real, not fake, and that it was a good sword for people who didn’t know about Hydra.

If you upload too much all at once, the ulterior motive is obvious, so you have to upload it as if you’ve seen it, so that the other person has the illusion that they are engaged in psychological warfare.

Only then.

“120 gold coins!”

comes along

The corner of his mouth rises beyond the man’s mask at the bid price someone raised.

The man watched for a while and waited for the host to count.

And let’s go into the count as if the presenter is about to close.

“130 gold coins!”

They raised the price subtly.

When such a fight continues, and the target value of 200 gold coins is approaching.

“190 gold coins!”

The man who had reached his goal was thinking.

‘Please call me one more time and fill up with 200 gold coins…!’

However, there was no reply from the other party who had been chasing him, as if he had suddenly lost interest.

“190 gold coins! It’s a successful bid!”

“ah···.”

A situation where he was accidentally won the bid for himself.

It doesn’t matter though. There were rare cases like this, but he was a person planted by the auction house, so even if he was a real winner, he wouldn’t be buying it.

I’ll put it somewhere and put it up for auction later.

‘It was a waste this time, but I just need to adjust the next one.’

This time, it was a division that happened after being too greedy to meet the target.

Let’s go a little safer next time.

The man who had such thoughts made up his mind while looking at the next auction item, the imitation elixir.

But the next time, and even after that, the man couldn’t avoid winning the bid.

The reason was that someone kept walking a tightrope with him and avoiding winning the bid.

He knows how to read his thoughts, and he stops just at the right timing.

I knew it when it came to this.

That the other person is doing the same thing as the man.

And that you’re trying to fool yourself.

‘What son of a bitch…!’

The man quickly turned his head to find the culprit.

Then he could find a man who shouted his bid, then raised his hand and bid again.

But… he was wearing a suspicious mask even at first glance.

‘···wild boar?’

Yes.

He was wearing a wild boar mask.