The Devil's Origin

33: Gladiator. (NSFW)

"An auction?"

I was eating my after-lunch dessert when Collin came to me.

He was telling me about a rumour he heard while he was traversing the back alley.

"Yes, an illegal auction to be precise. From organ trafficking to human trafficking, they deal with all kinds of dirty stuff. It seems like this time they have a new item for sale... A demonkind they said."

"That kind of thing! We need to rescue them soon!"

"I thought the same thing as well! But... We can't just attack the auction with brute force since the auction must be tightly guarded. I suggest we take a more... Direct approach."

"Direct approach..? You mean you want to join the auction?"

"Exactly so."

"But we're going to need a lot of money to do that, right?"

"Fufu~ Maou-sama, did you forget who you're talking with? I'm Cat Sidhe, The Dark Merchant you know. Of course, I have more than enough savings to enter the auction."

Oooh! Collin is so reliable!

"Okay! Let's go rescue our fellow demonkind now!"

"Before that, can you do something about the cream on your cheek first?"

While Velke, who had been standing ever so faithfully beside me wiped the cream off my face, me and Collin started to discuss our plan to rescue the rumoured demonkind from the auction.

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"Is this where the auction is?"

Before me was a building on which Collin said the auction would be held at.

Unknown stains were decorating the walls and the building was very shabby-looking.

Inside the dimly lit room, I could see some sort of stage in the centre.

I couldn't see the face of the other participant, perhaps the light in this place was delicately dimly lit to prevent people from recognizing each other.

I was walking into the building with Collin and Velke.

All three of us were disguising ourselves as humans and wore long, big hoods to blend in.

"Yes, I'm certain we're at the right place."

Up until the very last end, Velke had tried to stop me from going but luckily, Collin was on my side so Velke finally relented and decided to come with us instead.

"Your voice gives out your age too much. It's unusual for a child to loiter around the auction so don't speak while we're here, okay?" Collin said as he strode toward the manager standing near the door.

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Finally, the auction had started and the first item they showed already made my skin crawl in disgust.

Humankind was repulsive.

"To think such a young kid is being auctioned off..."

"Human, no matter what the gender is sells well in the auction so we'll be seeing more disgusting things like this as the auction progresses. Humankind has an ugly heart after all."

True to Collin's word, living rare animals, organs, and preserved animals to more humans were being showcased in the auction.

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