116. What Happened at the Auction House (2)
The first day of the auction is over.
I returned to my room and lay down on the bed. Letea, now the spirit king, appeared. Her long blue hair reached to her waistline.
As I predicted, Gartea’s appearance changed as she became the Spirit King. It became entirely female.
But that doesn’t mean spirits have a gender, so they weren’t female. And I changed the name to Letea for Gartea, who became the Spirit King.
Because Gartea was too much like a boy’s name.
―Master, you look exhausted already, so I’m worried.
“Ah, is it because of the recent high consumption of mana?”
Recently, he used enough mana to even roll the Colossus, and consumed a lot of mana while signing a contract with a higher-level spirit.
It used up a lot of mana anyway.
After that, I’m trying to consume almost no mana. It was because he slept or drank magic potions.
Letea stared down at me. He hesitated as if he had something to say.
―I am really grateful to Master. Thanks to that, I was promoted to Spirit King… . That, Lunia too… .
It was already the third time he had been thanked by Letea.
“done. If you’re thankful, use your strength properly later. And Lunia isn’t even alive yet.”
Then, Runthar suddenly appeared. It was strange to see a human-shaped flame and a female-shaped water spirit in the same space.
―Letea, don’t forget that I signed a contract with Master Edan first.
―Hey, is Runtar territorial?
And in case someone thinks it’s not ice and fire, they’re fighting nerves like this in their spare time.
―Ter, territorial? Master Ethan and I joined forces to fight against the Undead Legion, the Assassins, and the Canyon. Meanwhile, what did you do? Didn’t you attack the master under that dirty master?
―Yes, but I am the Spirit King. You are still a high-level spirit~ hahahaha!
What is this, Spirit Catfight?
Listening to the two of them wrestling makes me dizzy.
At the word Spirit King, Runthar’s expression distorted.
―Master, if you had to choose between Runtar and Letea, who would you choose?
– hahahaha! Who is not a fire spirit, he has a hot-tempered personality.
―What, what hot-tempered? Then, are you a childish Spirit King?
I put my forehead on the battle of ice and fire.
“Could you both be quiet?”
―Master, too much… .
I snapped my fingers and reverse summoned them both. Runthar couldn’t finish his words and disappeared.
I lay down on my pillow and looked up at the ceiling.
I had something to think about quietly.
First of all, it’s the Aphrodite gun.
Aphrodite herself appeared here and seduced me. When a guide was sent to Room 204, they said there was no sign of the room being occupied.
As expected, they must have returned to Olympus.
The question is, when did Aphrodite show interest in me?
The shady taste of the gods observing the people around them through the Achilles Channel was not my concern.
Is this also the butterfly effect caused by me squeezing Achilles? There is nothing good about being involved with the Greek gods anyway.
and.
‘Looking at it today, it’s a very simple game.’
I had heard from Tia about the auction house. Unlike Istvan, Northban said that the operation of the auction house was not clean.
While giving that kind of attention, Tia looked at the catalog I was holding and gave me the price range that was appropriate.
‘Thanks to that, Hogu escaped. I should treat Tia to a meal later.’
I decided to stretch and go outside to get some fresh air. It was because I felt like I would come to my senses if I breathed in the cold wind of North Barn.
I went out and walked around the city.
Clouds were floating low in the overcast sky. The weather looks like it might even snow.
As I was walking through the city, I felt someone chasing me from behind.
At first, I thought it was the same road by chance.
But it wasn’t. Even after passing through alleys, the opponent was still chasing him.
I pushed the toast with herbs that are said to be good for magical power into my mouth. After munching for a while, I took a sip of orange juice.
There was no intent to kill, as his intuition did not warn him.
Even so, since you are following me so diligently, it would be polite to say hello.
When I turned around, there was a person following me around.
The opponent was wearing a gray robe with a hood.
He was saying with his whole body that he was a suspicious person.
‘Well, it looks suspicious. Is it a demon?’
Or, the assassin I missed is aiming for me.
I believed that they were killed, but I think that at least one could be alive. For example, for reasons such as being on a dispatch.
I’ve done a lot of things lately, so I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m being followed by Mine now.
I approached my opponent with light steps.
Soon, the opponent who heard my footsteps moved quickly. It was like running.
It seemed like he knew he was being tailed.
“Do you use it because you can’t tail like that?”
The opponent, startled with his back to me, started running at all. I hurriedly pursued my opponent.
Soon, the opponent turned around the alley and disappeared inside. As I entered the alley, the opponent was running on the roof after stepping on the wall.
I shrugged once and used Blink.
In an instant, it moved in front of the opponent.
puck!
The opponent hit me in the chest and fell backwards. The person who wore the hood was unable to make eye contact as he wandered from side to side.
“Who are you?”
I scratched the back of my head. When I reached out to the hood, the opponent got up again and prepared to run quickly.
That too, from the roof of the 3rd floor towards the ground.
It meant no ordinary people. If only the back of the head hadn’t been caught, it would have been.
The opponent who was caught on the back of the back was hit on the butt and sat down as it was.
When the hood was removed, a familiar figure was revealed.
After a while, the other person turned his head slightly and smiled awkwardly.
Pink hair tied back, eyes resembling those of a cat, and even blue eyes.
It was sepia.
“hahahaha! Oh hello! Ethan?”
“what… ? sepia?”
“Hehe-! It’s a coincidence.”
Sepia still smiled awkwardly and avoided my gaze. I couldn’t help but scratch the back of my head.
“Why are you here?”
“So, I came to North Barn by chance, what the hell! Oh yeah! I was going to participate in the auction, but I saw a familiar back! I was trying to surprise you!”
Somehow, Sepia seemed to be talking gibberish today. I shrugged once.
After speaking, Sepia averted my eyes like a guilty child.
“Did you try to participate in the auction too?”
“Ah, uh, yes!”
Sepia pulled out a membership card that looked like a passport from the inside pocket of her robe. It was an annual membership with a premium.
“make… Voila!”
“Are you here alone? What about Vivian?”
“Vivian suddenly said she had something to do… !”
“okay? to do?”
Aha!
By now Vivian should be taking her academy exams.
Although the entrance exam is difficult as it is a prestigious imperial academy, with Vivian’s skills, she will pass without difficulty.
That’s how Vivian comes in as Sephia’s junior by a year.
“Let’s look at the membership card for a second.”
I took a closer look at the annual membership. A picture of a young sepia was attached. It was real as it even had an anti-counterfeiting watermark attached.
I thought it was a doppelganger, but it meant it wasn’t.
Even during summer vacation and fall vacation, there is an excessive feeling of coincidence, so it is natural to suspect the doppelganger.
Was it because of the lucky ring that I met Sepia?
For a while, I kept my eyes on the sepia picture for longer than I thought.
“Oh, you’re so pierced, aren’t you watching? It’s a picture taken when I was 16, so it’s kind of like that. hahahaha!”
“No, it came out cute.”
I folded my membership and returned it to Sepia. Then, he gave a hand to Sepia, who was still falling.
Sepia stood up holding my hand and brushed off the hem of her clothes.
“Hey Ethan, you… , Did you eat dinner?”
“Did you just eat toast?”
“ah… , okay? What is that, why eat alone… . what about mine?”
I wondered why he seemed disappointed, but he said he ate alone.
“Why… . I ate alone because I was alone. More than that, you hate toast.”
Sepia hates toast.
On weekend mornings, Sepia ate toast with her mother, and since her mother passed away, she hates it because it reminds her of the past.
“How do you know that?”
Oops. This was a fact that even Vivian did not know. It was because he did not show his weakness to the servants.
It is revealed in novels or as inner descriptions.
“I don’t know how long I’ve been with you.”
I shrugged my shoulders, feeling like I was being evasive.
“is it… .”
“That’s it. What.”
“… Ethan, aren’t you going to have dinner?”
The warrior type is basically a body type, so it consumes a lot of calories. Even if you feel full right now, it will be digested quickly.
After all, it’s a bit like if you’re hungry before bed.
“Then, shall we go to dinner?”
“Oh, yes! great. I know a place where I am fine, should I go there?”
“Okay, where is it? Do you know where it is?”
“Yes! Believe me!”
Sepia nodded with expectant eyes. I was already excited at the thought of eating something delicious.
