The huge wave sweeping the anime world

Inside a hotel somewhere near the northern port of the Kingdom of St. John.

A gorgeously decorated elevator is descending rapidly.

"Hey, Babanuki, are you sure that the news is true? Will fruits like that appear in this kind of auction?"

In the elevator, Holdem of the Beasts Pirates asked the man next to him in disbelief.

"I also heard it through the grapevine. I heard that the auction added two more items to liven up the event. The ancient fruit is one of them. We must bid for it."

Babanuki folded his arms across his chest, waiting for the elevator to reach the underground auction house.

An ancient animal-type devil fruit is of great significance to their Beasts Pirates. If he could bid for the fruit, perhaps Lord Beasts would be merciful and give it to him as a reward for his hard work.

At that time, he can spit out the fruit, leave the ranks of real fighters, and compete for the position of the signboard.

There must not be any mistakes.

"Put on your mask and follow the rules here before you get the fruit. You don't want Lord Beast to hear that it was because of your negligence that the Beast Pirates lost a powerful animal-type devil fruit, right?"

Babanuki saw the mask tilted on Holdem's face and warned him.

"Okay, I won't let you down."

Holdem immediately put on his mask. They were both real fighters, but the opponent was Lord Kaido's direct troops, and he was just a subordinate who was in charge.

Anyone who has a little knowledge of the formula for position weight should be able to understand the gap between him and Babanuki.

He had no choice but to listen to the other party.

"Ding Dong"

The elevator stopped, and what came into view was a brightly lit passage. With the flashing lights, it was as if we had entered a time tunnel.

“Dear guests, I am your guide.”

A man in a black robe led the two through the corridor and came to the real auction venue.

The auction hall is arranged like a small auditorium, with a well-organized layout.

It is about 600 square meters and is decorated very luxuriously. The seats for the auction are emitting white silver light.

"It seems like there are a lot of opponents today."

After sitting down, Babanuki began to observe the people around him. Three years ago, he also participated in an underground auction, but there were not so many people.

"I hope that damn rabbit isn't here to snatch the fruit from us."

Although his face was covered by a silver-white mask, he could still judge the other person's identity from his ears which were not hidden.

Randolph from the BIGMOM Pirates.

The long-legged guy next to him must be the Crane Knight.

Although they are both pirate groups re-established by members of the Rocks Pirates, they are incompatible with each other and their subordinates have blood debts against people from both sides.

Babanuki then calmly observed the people around him, and sure enough, there were people from other pirate groups, even two veteran pirates.

At this moment, he felt like there was something stuck in his throat, like a thorn in his back, and like he was sitting on pins and needles even while sitting in the soft armchair.

The bidding pressure was a bit high, but he also thought of a good idea. If he really couldn't win the auction, he would wait until the auction was over and bring people to rob the robbers. As long as the item was delivered to Lord Kaido, he would see who dared to come forward to ask for it.

After praising himself for his cleverness, Babanuki closed his eyes and waited quietly for the auction to begin.

Masked guests took their seats one after another, but the auction venue remained deathly silent.

This is the rule of the auction. No matter how familiar you are with each other, you cannot communicate inside the auction hall.

This is to protect the privacy of the auctioneer, after all, this is a place where criminal items are bought and sold.

A red-haired girl dressed extremely revealingly walked onto the auction stage with a sexy model walk.

At this moment, the curtain behind her was pulled open at the same time. All the auctioneers who had their eyes closed heard the sound and opened their eyes to prepare to start bidding.

"Thank you all for coming all the way to the annual auction held by the Crypt Auctions."

There was no applause from the participants in the audience, not because they didn't want to applaud, but because not applauding is the rule here.

"Everyone here is either a provider of auction items or a frequent visitor to our auctions, so I can skip the daily advertising process."

"But please allow me to briefly introduce the various items in this auction."

"Arms, treasures, extremely valuable ornaments, slaves, devil fruits, and Master Hanny's latest creation"

“Of course, we also have two mysterious items for the finale.”

...

Those who participate in the auction only have to raise their placards, and the people in the venue will record the bids. The only voice throughout the process is the auctioneer's tempting voice.

The arms, treasures and other items at the beginning were just appetizers, and almost all the items were sold. After all, in such a high-end auction arrangement, some people came to compete for the first three items at low prices.

After that was the auction of slaves, there was a merman, two mermen, a long-armed person, two long-legged people and a snake-headed person.

A total of two Devil Fruits were auctioned, the former being an Animal-type Devil Fruit in the form of a rat-type mole.

This was Babanuki's original goal. Although it was not a very powerful fruit and he himself would not even consider eating it, but if he auctioned it off, he would definitely please Lord Kaido.

However, everything has changed now. With the temptation of the ancient species, he doesn't want to consider this fruit at all.

After a fierce bidding, it was finally bought by a tall and thin man.

The other one was a superhuman cream fruit, which was bought by Randall of BIGMOM. During the auction, Babanuki deliberately raised the other party's price several times to ensure that the other party did not have too much financial space to auction the ancient fruit.

"Okay, everyone. The next item is our underground auction's featured item, Master Hanny's latest work."

The random auctioneer pulled open the four display cabinets on the auction table. They were empty, but each had a label on it.

"Dear old customers, each of our four containers this time contains two equivalent pieces of "artworks". While you are enjoying them, you can also learn about the name of the "artwork", the source of the raw materials, the insurance period and other information."

Although the people in the audience didn't say anything, the atmosphere became agitated at this moment, and many auctioneers who had never raised their signs before rushed to bid.

Babanuki showed disdain at the corner of his mouth. He once used his "private money" to auction a work of art out of curiosity. When he received the finished product, he wanted to smash the auction house directly.

These works of art had no appeal to him, and he found it difficult to understand why anyone would be so perverted as to purchase such works of art.