16. Auction (1)
Rayna’s Bow Damian.
A bow chosen by the Sanctuary as an appropriate weapon for the battlefield and a bow steeped in the story of her childhood.
By giving Damian’s name to the bow that will be with him for the rest of his life, we can see his affection for Damian, but on the other hand, we can also see how much he cherishes the bow that was named after Damian, whom he loves so much.
In other words, this bow is an item that Raina cherishes as if it were her life.
Almond was a little embarrassed.
‘Why are you doing this?’
If it was an item with that kind of symbolism, wouldn’t the tech giants want it?
“It’s a life-size SSS quality product that has never been seen before.”
“Brother, let me win!”
“Buy it for me!”
They were asking Almond to take Damien from the auction.
“It would be better for Almond to take it. “We were bad anyway.”
“Almonds! “Damian is the right person for you!”
It seemed like they were passing the baton to Almond, who they had no choice but to admit was that they couldn’t have it.
“How can we block the items that 10,000 points can choose~~”
“I wish we could break through the ceiling…”
Almond is the owner of 10,000 points.
If he participates in Damian’s auction, of course no one will be able to stop him.
But why even support it?
Is this correct?
‘Hmm…’
Almond tilted his head.
They aren’t the kind of people who would let Raina go so easily, right?
-What are they doing
? -Are they okay? Have you given up on everything?
-?? Why are they doing this? Haha.
There are some viewers who find it strange.
Tiring.
Someone who seems to know this relationship well says something.
[Hogaeng donated 1,000 won.]
[This is a trick to raise the price]
Raise the price?
What’s the point of raising the price of something you can’t even buy?
-Eh?
-So what are you doing
? -I guess it’s because of the Dehyeop kids’ other Raina goods!
-Other products??
-ah. They were aiming to increase the price of the Reina character itself haha. Wow haha.
To roughly infer from the chat, they were hoping that a big hand like Almond would come in and raise the price of Damian.
Tiring.
[Hogaeng donated 1,000 won.]
[Damian winning bid rises → Raina value rises → prices of other goods related to Raina rise]
If Damian’s winning bid rises, the value of Raina is judged to have increased, and then the resale price of Raina’s other goods also increases. Because it gets higher.
‘what. Is this why you were nice to me?’
I was wondering why the gangsters were so friendly. Ultimately, it’s about money.
Almond looked as if he was losing some steam.
‘But what’s good is good.’
I felt a little tricked, but it didn’t really matter.
Anyway, Almond wants a bow, and these people also want Almond to have a bow.
What’s wrong with each other? It’s just that the interests are aligned. It wasn’t about using and exploiting each other.
He willingly agrees to participate in the auction.
Because I was planning on doing it anyway.
“yes. “I will participate.”
Wow.
It seems like everyone is cheering.
“Tch…”
There were other stakeholders here.
* * *
Get Almond to buy Damien? So you raise the price?
“That doesn’t work!”
thud!
A gangster gets up and slams the table.
Yes.
Not everyone in the conference agreed with this opinion.
There is an opposition.
This opposition group calls themselves fundamentalists.
“You secularist bastards… How dare you hand over Damian, the first real SSS-level bastard, to that insider just for money? “Isn’t this a feeling of expulsion from the Daehyup Association?”
“therefore! The name of the association is Damian, but you can’t believe they passed Damian over. “The words are incoherent, back and forth…!”
“Those bastards are not Raina fans, they are Raina merchants.”
It was all about money, and not only did they lose Raina’s heart(?) to Almond, but they also didn’t want to lose real-life goods.
But sometimes reality is harsher than the cruelest fiction.
“But is there a way?”
“Why does that guy have 10,000 points…”
It has become more difficult not to lose the Reina goods to Almond.
Because Almond took the overwhelming first place in G-Star points, there was no one in the capital to handle him.
Even if you combine your efforts from 2nd to 5th place, the points are lower than that.
In fact, almonds are king at auction.
“ha. “At least I shouldn’t have known that Damian was coming.”
“Are they going to stay still? “You just went ahead and told me.”
The only way to prevent it was to not even know that Damian was coming in the first place. In fact, it was just a rumor, like putting a bell on a cat’s neck.
Wouldn’t it be known immediately if just one person opened their mouth?
Even the most insidious secularists are not even one and act collectively for their own benefit.
It was impossible to stop this.
Sure enough, they are already rushing over to inform us.
It was almost a fateful necessity for almonds to participate in the auction in the first place.
“You need a strategy.”
Rather, it was important to come up with a strategy to outperform him in the auction.
“Does such a thing exist? 10,000 points ahead?”
However, in this room too, I feel at a loss in front of the huge wall of 10,000 points…
“…there is a way. “As always.”
Someone is trying to suggest a way.
Some people may ask this.
No, an auction is about giving something to someone who bids the highest price. Is there a way to beat a rich guy in the first place? Called.
“Of course you can never beat money.”
The cooperative that proposed the strategy decided.
“So you have to make sure the other person doesn’t have money. “It’s about dispersing the money.”
The strategy was like this. Distribute the opponent’s points.
“First of all, make sure you don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”
* * *
One of the group’s fundamentalists approaches Almond and speaks to him.
“Almond. Damian is also Damian. “There are a lot of good things that came out before that.”
-??
-What is this
guy? -He looks like a door-to-door salesman.
-Dehyeop guys are so annoying.
Dehyeop introduces Almond to products other than Damian.
“look. There is also a limited edition skin figure of a succubus modeled after Miho… Ah, since you are an acquaintance, this may be embarrassing. Then… do you remember the Sayul combination?”
The goal is to prevent Almond from pouring all his money into Damian.
Since he has so many points, it would be pointless to spread them out a bit.
First of all, this seemed to be the first operation.
“Sayul?”
“You and Sana and Yul and I have been going around in the jungle and mid-air together, right?”
“ah…!”
A fighting combination of Yul, who is the embodiment of close combat but boasts tenacity, and Sana, a long-distance healer.
A combination that was popular a long time ago, tacos and almonds, was introduced in a recent Nant match and became quite a hot topic.
Of course, even if it was not an incident, this combination was once so infamous that it is also released as a collaboration figure.
“This time, I made them into a collaboration figure for the first time. It’s a Sayul combination concept. Something like this is really rare. Police rarely make figures with the two characters together…”
From what I heard, there were more than one or two things that would catch your eye if you like reel.
Since the main sponsor this time was Legend Tale, an RPG game from Reel, the production company paid a lot of attention.
‘It’s okay.’
Almonds have a lot of points anyway, so I thought it was worth buying them all.
At that time—
“Huh? Are you still not in? What are you doing there? “It’s already started?”
Joo Hyuk calls Almond.
I was surprised to see that the guy who had said he would enter first was still at the entrance.
“ah. “For the fans for a moment.”
“Oh, I see. hello. “I’m the manager.”
Joo-hyuk smiles and approaches the group, saying hello to them.
“…Oh hello.”
“Ah… yes yes.”
Feeling threatened by its size, which was much larger than expected, the gangsters retreated without even realizing it. That’s because it stings.
“We have to go to the auction…”
“Ah ah! yes! Go try it! We have to go to the auction too! ha ha ha!”
“Yes then…”
Hmm?
Joo-hyuk feels that something is strange.
* * *
The path into the auction house.
“what?”
Joo-hyuk hears something somewhat surprising from Sang-hyeon.
“The dealers told you about things that would be good to buy at auction? “And Damian is coming out?”
“huh. It’s surprisingly friendly. Viewers say it’s because they want to raise Damian’s price.”
“Hmm…”
Joo-hyuk tilted his head as if confused.
“But they told me everything else as well.”
“uh. But those people seemed a little different from the people in front of them.”
“Because they are different people…”
It was the same story, but different.
Joo Hyuk somehow seemed to know what was going on.
At least make sure to diversify Almond’s assets.
“Anyway, let’s go. We have a lot of bullets, so there is nothing to worry about. Just do whatever you want. “Just sit over there.”
Since you have so much, it won’t matter if you slip up a little.
Joo-hyuk says that and sits comfortably on the chair at the auction house.
“this.”
chuck.
Sanghyun holds out a sign to him. This is a sign with a screen used when participating in an auction.
“huh? “You’re not doing it?”
“huh. “I’ve never done an auction before.”
-You’re entrusting Hodu to your assistant manager again lol
-Quick and accurate, Hodu lol
-A man who coolly gives up on Walnut!
-???: Agent?! This is also a plan!?
“Oh yeah.”
Joo Hyuk looks at the front and back of the sign and asks.
“Have you decided what you want?”
“For now, there’s only Damian. It’s a Rayna bow and it comes in a limited edition. Other than that, let’s just bid on anything that looks good.”
“okay. “With this many bullets, you can sweep it all away.”
Joo Hyuk already had an auction strategy in mind after hearing about the gangsters.
It will be much easier if you do it yourself.
* * *
The atmosphere inside the auction house is already heated.
Because it arrived a little late, the first product was already gone.
“now! Second prize!”
This is the second product coming out this time.
“This is a statue of Terry the explosion enthusiast. It’s of great quality. It’s not a limited edition though. This is the first edition that will be sold in the future. First, considering today’s distribution rate, we will start from 100 points.”
Distribution rate is a very important concept in this point system.
It literally refers to the numbers that show who the points went to and how much the gap between the rich and the poor is.
This G-Star had an unprecedentedly low distribution rate. This is because the points for first place are too high.
If the distribution rate is set low, G-Star lowers the overall market price.
Consideration is given so that even those who have earned a small number of points can participate.
‘That would actually be inconsiderate.’
In fact, because of this consideration, those with more are at a greater advantage.
I have a lot, but the price is cheap.
‘It is advantageous in general sales, but it is especially advantageous in auctions.’
In addition to pricing based on this distribution rate, G-Star’s auction environment has even more special features.
This is where the 10 people with the highest capital were revealed.
In this case, psychologically, if there is a competition with these 10 people, they will just give up right away, and people with more money will be able to bid with less money.
‘If almonds get involved, almost everyone has no choice but to give up.’
Even Almond is the one with the overwhelming capital here.
He was the most feared person in this auction house.
“I’m going to participate.”
“uh? This? “Explosion freak?”
Sanghyeon asked back as if asking why he bothered to buy that.
Joo-hyuk holds up the sign.
chuck!
“ah. Number 14! 300! I called 300! Do you have 310? “Do you have 310~?”
No one will be able to stand against him. It’s obvious that if we stick together anyway, we’ll end up bleeding.
“omg. “Is it almond?”
“Number 14 is almond. “Remember it well.”
“Oh my…”
“You crazy almond came here?”
I know for sure that Almond has 10,000 points. It was natural that I couldn’t dare to attack him.
So, this auction item is easy to pass up.
‘That’s how it should be.’
That must be its original appearance.
But—
“Ah! Number 92! 400!? I’m raising you 100 now!”
Joo-hyuk looks back.
Indeed, a man raised 100.
“Okay, it’s 400! Do you have 410?”
As expected, reality and theory were different.
There exists a force here that is willing to burn its own body in order to steal Almond’s points.
‘It was a good catch.’
There was a sneer on Joo Hyuk’s lips as he looked ahead again.
If there is a gap between theory and reality, the theory is poor.
A well-established theory even matches the variables of reality.
chuck!
He holds up the sign again.
“Ahhh! Number 14! Raise to 410!?”
A strange race begins to unfold over a mere explosion fanatic statue.
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