Roselyn peered intently into the cage and nodded as if she liked the product.
“This is good.”
"Ah. This item isn't fully tamed yet. It's a Kaluta, after all. As you know, those barbarians aren't easy to tame..."
The guide explained slowly.
"But as you know, if you tame it well, it will become the ultimate slave."
Roselyn nodded without saying much.
The boy inside the cage opened his eyes wide and glared at Roselyn.
The green eyes seemed to scrutinize her closely, then soon shifted their gaze to the guard behind her.
The boy, who had been slowly examining the area, slowly lowered his gaze.
"Of course, I also plan to provide a control device made of Soul Stones, but since I spent quite a lot of money to obtain this one, the immediate purchase price is expensive."
“How much?”
"It is 698.5 million Orlang."
Roselyn paused.
“It’s expensive.”
Even though this money belonged to Marquis Garen and not to herself, it was expensive.
Considering that the average price of a slave is between 100 million and 200 million, it was quite a rip-off.
"400 million."
Roselyn clicked her tongue softly and said.
The guide, who had been speaking in a flat voice, paused at Roselyn's words.
"Unless you are ignoring me because you think I'm a pushover, I wish you would stop messing around."
"..."
"If you're serious, you'd better be prepared."
Roselyn's red eyes behind the mask stared directly into the opponent's brown eyes.
The guide swallowed hard.
'I sold it for 400 million Orlangs before; what do you mean...?'
It was just as the guide was about to nod at Roselyn's words.
“500 million.”
A voice was suddenly heard from behind Roselyn.
"I'll buy that child for 500 million."
Roselyn flinched at the sudden interruption and narrowed her eyes behind the mask.
'Has it already appeared?'
Roselyn let out a sigh inwardly.
"..."
Then, she turned around to check the owner of the voice.
It was a man wearing a gray wolf mask and leaning on a cane. Because he was wearing gloves so meticulously, not a single bit of skin was visible.
A guide wearing an equally expressionless white mask was attached to the gray wolf as well.
Next to him, a personal guard wearing a black mask and robe was visible.
'Gray wolf mask, green eyes, gloves, black mask of a guard.'
It is the same as the information about the other world that Roselyn knows.
That means there is a high probability that the contents are the same.
"So I decided to buy it first."
Roselyn said.
'I really wanted to get out before facing these guys.'
She frowned beneath her mask.
"But you haven't decided, have you?"
"No, I was just haggling."
"So I asked for a higher price, but..."
Roselyn chuckled.
At the obvious mockery, the opponent's hand gripping the cane tightened.
"It seems you've forgotten why you came here. Ah... or maybe it's your first time here?"
She laughed.
"No matter what, you shouldn't show off that you grew up without anything..."
"...Look here, what on earth have you been talking about since earlier?"
Roselyn lifted her chin.
"Unlike lowly commoners, we have privileges."
Roselyn tapped her finger and leisurely opened her mouth, feeling the eyes watching her from all around.
"I'm saying there's no need to swarm like a pack of dogs just for a single item. Do you think this is some kind of auction market?"
The VIP auction house was different from the regular underground auction.
What was taking place here was not an auction to begin with. It was intended to satisfy the VIPs' sense of superiority.
In other words, no auction takes place during these '3 hours for VIPs'.
Once you decide to buy, you simply pay the price.
The first person to buy it owned it, and it was customary to yield to the person who said they would buy it first.
"If you're going to act like such a commoner, you might as well just go to an auction."
At the voice mixed with mockery, the opponent glared with wide eyes behind their mask.
'You can hide your skin, but you can't hide the green eyes behind the mask.'
Roselyn laughed.
"I have one question, guide."
"Yes, please speak, Mrs. Red Cat."
The guide, who seemed even more disciplined than before, said.
"How much do adult Kaluta cost?"
The man wearing the gray wolf mask paused at Roselyn's words.
The guide looked puzzled at him.
"Adult Kaluta are not easy to catch. They are not easy to tame either... The minimum starting bid is really around 1 billion."
Roselyn nodded her head, which was tilted crookedly.
"The stench of animal odor has been overwhelming for a while now, and I can't stand it anymore..."
She laughed softly.
"Unless I'm mistaken, the gentleman in front of me seems to be a member of the Kaluta tribe."
The man wearing a gray wolf mask took a deep breath and glared at Roselyn with a piercing gaze.
"...What do you guys think?"
"How rude! I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Aren't those vivid green eyes a characteristic of the Kaluta tribe? Of course, their skin is completely covered up, so I can't be sure, but..."
Roselyn's eyes crinkled beautifully through the hole in the mask.
"If you don't have anything to prick you with, at least take off your gloves."
"...Kaluta tribe?”
The white-masked guides in the slave corner simultaneously headed toward the gray wolf and its escort.
"You’ve been talking nonsense for a while now! Is this how you treat VIPs?!"
"In that case, why don't you take off your gloves and prove it? All we need to do is check your skin color."
Someone came inside and said.
"Ah. Excuse me, I just came in for a moment because it was so noisy."
This time, unlike the others, it was a man wearing an expressionless red mask.
'Red Mask...'
Roselyn's gaze fell upon the man in the red mask.
The white masks were simply closer to hired people.
The Red Mask is a key figure.
In short, it means middle management.
"..."
The gray wolf was silent.
You can't prove it.
If Roselyn's prediction was correct, that man was King Kaluta's half-brother.
It means that the older brother, jealous of his younger brother who became King, personally traveled all the way here to eliminate his brother's children.
In fact, in her world, that man succeeded in killing the boy.
They kill the boy, cut off his head, and send it to King Kaluta as if it were the work of this imperial noble.
And King Kaluta, having lost his sight after losing his child, wages war, and the Emperor of Dianitas kills the King of Kaluta in that battle, but the wounds he sustained then become a problem, and he dies not long after.
Not long after the generational shift took place, Roselyn also died.
The main storyline will remain the same, so this incident will happen just as it is.
'I have no intention of starting another war even in this world...'
The reason she came to the auction house is that if she takes this child with her, she can start the negotiation with Kaluta on a slightly better note.
Of course, she had no intention of being disturbed.
"There is no answer."
The red mask said.
"That means..."
Roselyn saw the blue eyes behind the mask curve into a circle.
"I suppose it's okay to consider them livestock."
No sooner had she finished speaking than the gray wolf and the black mask faced each other, kicked off the ground, and ran toward the exit.
It was an entrance where a red mask was standing.
The red mask burst into laughter as he watched those approaching him.
Soon, something pitch-black stretched out from around him.
The pitch-black darkness gathered into a circle and soon became a huge circle that caught the two people running away.
Those whose bodies were consumed by darkness ended up with only their heads sticking out over a round sphere.
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