Before the time of the auction, Kirigiri and I stayed in my room to develop countermeasures.
In conclusion, we didn't think of any decent countermeasures.
During the auction, the atmosphere of the scene in real-time will affect the results of the auction to a large extent. Yesterday's auction was a good example.
In the end, all we did was wait until that time.
Without psychic reasoning ability, it would be impossible to win at the auctions.
6 PM finally came.
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The time has come, so we went to the cafeteria serving as the auction venue, and from the balcony came noises.
Looking up, the participants were all gathered around the dark portrait painting.
"What's wrong, everyone?"
I shouted from below, and Shinsen responded.
"There is a strange doll here. It wasn't here during the day..." I went up to the balcony with Kirigiri.
The doll is placed directly below the portrait. It's a French doll, about 50 centimeters tall, and wears a cute looking dress with aqua blue frills.
However– for some reason, the face of this doll is like an old woman.
Generally speaking, the faces of such dolls are that of cute little children, but this doll's face looks like an old woman.
The doll is sitting against the wall.
"Good evening, everyone, it's past 6 o'clock. I think it's time to start today's auction."
Just like last time, an electronically synthesized voice came out of a speaker that's installed somewhere.
"Hey, you bastard, where are you! Come out!" Minase yelled at the ceiling.
"Norman said that he won't come out again, I think..."
Toyano'oh looked back at the portrait. Yesterday this LCD screen was still a portrait of Norman, but today it's pitch black.
"I'm here."
"Haa? Where!"
"Sitting right in front of you all."
"This hag doll? Who are you, bitch!"
"I'm Norman's mother, and I will be hosting the auction in place of my son today."
"Shut up, I'll break you!"
Minase wanted to kick the doll into the air. All of us hurried up to stop him.
"We don't know what will happen if you mess with it like that." Shinsen said. "The doll might have a bomb inside."
"How could there be that kinda thing."
"No, I have a bad feeling about it. In fact, Uozumi-san was shot and killed yesterday. We don't know what form the murderer will attack with."
