Auction House

Kwaaaang!

“Ack!”

“Kheu-euk!”

Arang neutralized Belly-Cover and the Elf in just one minute.

“Unni, calm down and step back.”

“Okay. I understand.”

Arang patted Belly-Cover’s butt a few times as she obediently listened, then approached the Elf, kicking her in the abdomen as she tried to get up to fight again.

“Keuheuk!”

Despair flowed from Arang’s hand, binding the Elf’s limbs.

“Eueueueuk!”

Arang grabbed the restraint device from afar with Despair, intending to put it around the Elf’s neck, but the restraint device, already touched by the Saintess, was powerless.

“Ah, what should I do with this?”

She tossed the restraint device aside.

“Eueup! Eup!”

I need to go to the auction house, and to get there, I need this Elf. Because this Elf was the merchandise, I can impersonate these criminals I wiped out to get in.

The problem is, how do I drag this Elf to the auction house all nice and docile?

“Should I just cut off her limbs? That’s a sure way. If Shueri-unni was here, she could keep her alive even with her limbs cut off, I think.”

“A, Arang-a···!?”

“Shueri-unni, come over here. I’ll cut them off one by one, so just heal her enough to not die. We can make her limbs grow back at the auction house.”

“T-that’s too cruel···. You shouldn’t do that, A, Arang-a···!”

“Eyy, over limbs? I don’t have limbs either, so what. Not having limbs isn’t that bad.”

Shueri also knows. That the Elf did something wrong. And that she’s an NPC.

But even so, she thinks what Arang is trying to do is too cruel, so she’s trying to refuse.

Sseuek.

The flickering shadow of the scythe met Shueri’s neck.

The cool, flickering shadow moved, caressing Shueri’s neck, sending shivers down her spine.

Gulppeok.

Shueri looked at Arang without trembling.

As if proving that her decision for Arang and the Elf was not wrong.

Arang sighed at Shueri’s gaze.

“Unni. She’s just an NPC anyway. And she’s going to die here if you don’t help. So, you know?”

‘Demon King, she is···.’

Shueri couldn’t see Arang as a 16-year-old girl at all, with her natural threats and cruel demeanor.

Arang is just Arang who wants to enjoy playing this LEORE, but in the eyes of Shueri, who has become a resident of this world, she really looked like a Demon King who would lead this world to destruction.

“Belly-Cover-unni, check here where the auction house is being held.”

“Okay.”

Arang handed over the clues she had collected in advance from her inventory to Belly-Cover, then brought her beloved sword, Tasimgeom, to the Elf’s right arm.

“W-wait a minute!”

The moment Arang’s hand was about to move, Shueri shouted.

“Huh? Shueri-unni, why?”

“T-that··· cutting off her limbs seems too cruel for Arang···!”

“Huh? There’s no blood and gore, and it’s not like flesh or bones will come out when I cut them off?”

“Still, this isn’t good for Arang’s mental health!”

“Eyy.”

Arang didn’t agree with Shueri’s words.

Of course, from a 16-year-old’s perspective, it could have a bad influence on her mind.

But the one in front of her is clearly an NPC, a clear enemy who tried to kill her, and her mind is clearly that of an adult male.

If something like this would affect her mind, it should have already happened.

There have been countless fights, such as PVP, large-scale PVP, siege warfare, survival, raids, subjugation battles, and dungeons.

To nitpick with this? Arang recalled the social perception of games from her days as a man.

Killing people while playing FPS games increases violence and causes problems. Games make people who kill people. How many times have those words been said?

But she knows that’s all bullshit.

But looking at Shueri, she thought a little differently.

‘Is this unni really doing Sword Online?’

From Arang’s point of view, she was worried that Shueri was too immersed in the game RP. It was to the point where she really mistook it for a resident of this world.

Treating NPCs like real people and not being able to distinguish this world from reality.

She decided that her evaluation of Shueri had changed from just a sincere Saintess to a dangerous person.

‘I was going to keep her around because the Saintess buff is more delicious than I thought, but both the story and the person are someone I should distance myself from.’

“Okay. Okay.”

To avoid provoking Shueri, she took the sword off the Elf’s arm.

“Hoo. Thank you, Arang-a.”

“Then, what do you want me to do with this Elf, Shueri-unni? You know we can’t get into the auction house without this Elf, right?”

“I’ll try to persuade the Elf···! Can you give me a little time···?”

“Hmm···. Do you know when, where, and what time the auction house opens?”

Belly-Cover answered Arang’s question.

“Arang-a. The auction house opens exactly 3 hours from LEORE time. Fortunately, that auction house is also in Yggdrasil here.”

“Oh, really? Then we still have plenty of time. Okay, then I’ll give you exactly 2 hours of LEORE time.”

“Thank you···!”

At Arang’s words, the Saintess quickly went next to the Elf.

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“Unni, that Saintess is too scary, isn’t she?”

As Shueri approached the Elf, I whispered to Belly-Cover in a voice too small for Shueri to hear.

“Yeah. She’s living in this world right now···? How can a person be like that?”

“I know. That unni is a real Saintess.”

“From what I saw in the gallery, her personality wasn’t RP, but her real personality?”

“I know, it’s so sincere that I feel sorry for even calling it RP?”

This is the first time I’ve seen someone so immersed in LEORE.

No matter how well-made LEORE is, to the point where it’s called another world that’s the same as reality···.

“She’s a real game addict···?”

It’s not something I should be saying, but Shueri is the real deal.

Shueri is living in this world and is sincerely trying to persuade the Elf.

Of course, the Elf doesn’t seem to have any intention of being persuaded by Shueri at all right now.

It’s quite a headache.

Just by looking at her, that Elf is almost like a wild wolf. In other words, it’s impossible to tame her.

I’d like to cut off the Elf’s limbs, seal them, and drag her in defenseless to the auction house, but that seems impossible.

I feel a little guilty about ignoring that unni and cutting off the Elf’s limbs.

It’s not that I care, but that Shueri-unni’s reaction is a little, just a little scary.

It’s like I don’t know what will happen.

If she were a moderately normal person, I would just joke around and do it, but if she’s a really weird person, I can’t even joke around. It’s kind of like that.

Shueri-unni started looking back and forth between the Elf and me, watching my reaction.

The time we set is slowly approaching. But the Elf’s eyes were still emitting murderous intent to kill me and Belly-Cover.

“I’m sorry···!”

Paaatㅡ!

“Huh?”

“Wow.”

After shouting sorry to me, she hugged the Elf, and Shueri and the Elf’s bodies were enveloped in pure white light and disappeared.

It was teleportation.

Usually, teleportation can only be done alone, but seeing her disappear with the Elf, it seems that one of the Saintess’s skills is teleportation.

Anyway, I didn’t expect her to run away like this.

No matter how much she has the title of Saintess and is sincere about this world, I didn’t expect her to ignore me in this LEORE and run away with the Elf I wanted.

“No, seriously, how sincere are you about LEORE! Is this person holding memorial services for NPCs too?”

“I saw it in the gallery, she really does?”

“Oh, really? Wammma···.”

Hoo. It can’t be helped. I was trying to refrain from this method as much as possible, but it can’t be helped.

It’s the method of me entering as the product instead of the Elf.

I looked at Belly-Cover with a smile.

Belly-Cover knows me so well now that she let out a big sigh just by seeing my smile and understanding my intentions.

==

I safely entered the auction house that Belly-Cover found out about as a product for sale.

They were flustered that it wasn’t the Elf who was originally intended to be exhibited, but me, but they said it was okay even if it wasn’t the Elf because of my amazing appearance stat MAX. They put the same restraint device around my neck as the Elf and took me to a strange warehouse.

This wasn’t a reckless auction house, but a well-organized auction house that moved precisely.

Is it because it’s a black market auction house? It was proceeding meticulously down to the very details.

I was locked in a cage, but I had Belly-Cover’s broadcast screen turned on. Belly-Cover’s broadcast is naturally a private broadcast that only our guild members can watch.

The first auction item that came out at the started auction was a boring auction item that could be seen even at a non-dark auction house.

Just as I was about to get sleepy, things that I would finally be interested in started to come out.

[Ring Drenched in Life Force]

A ring made by a black magician using the life force of people.

The ring, made by gathering several vengeful spirits, has powerful power.

-Inflicts a bleeding debuff on the opponent upon a successful attack.

‘Wow, what are the stats and effects?’

Raids are balancing with a system called item level adjustment, but dungeon, story, and field bosses can utilize item effects 100%.

As the story became more interesting, important, and diverse, and as countless fights broke out, unique items became quite important.

The problem is whether I can buy that item.

“100 million gold. 100 million gold has been offered.”

“110 million gold. 110 million gold has been offered.”

“150 million gold. 150 million gold has been offered.”

“Is there anyone else? I’ll count. 3, 2, 1.”

Bang. Bang. Bang.

100 million gold.

It’s brutal. Right now, my Tasimgeom is still a tier 1 sword and is traded for 20 million gold, and that 20 million gold is quite expensive.

Even if it’s a unique item, 100 million gold?

It’s not easy.

Plus, the gold I have is almost 0 gold. There are over 1 billion gold in the guild house warehouse, but to steal that and throw it all in at the auction house···?

I’ll just go straight to the community forum.

Of course, the guild members said I could take it out and use it whenever I wanted, but even if my mind has become younger, I’m not reckless enough to just take it out and use it···.

“The next auction item is a rabbit beastkin.”

Should I just use it for today?

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