Father, I Won’t Do Anything - Chapter 35

“First and foremost, the first item of the auction. Take a look at this ring. It’s not your ordinary out of the mill ring. This ring has an embedded jewel that have a high purity sapphire. I’m sure you’d recognize it in one glance if you are stylish and classy.”

When the auctioneer finished talking, people raised their hands and started bidding.

“15 million gold!”

“18 million gold!”

“23 million gold!”

Jaina doubted the amount she was hearing. Even she, who is not familiar with the ways of human world, knew it was embarrassingly expensive.

‘That’s incredible.

At that moment, Hilvenzia asked her something unusual.

“How’s that necklace, Jaina?”

Jaina looked at where Hilvenzia was pointing at with her fingertips.

An emerald necklace

Even Jaina, who was not familiar with jewelries, was aware that the elaborated three-worked piece necklace, is expensive.

“Pretty.”

“Do you like it?”

Hilvenzia’s mouth painted a soft line.

“Yes.”

Jaina who was going to say, “The color is similar to your eyes Hilvenzia, it would definitely suit you.” But…

“40 million gold.”

Hilvenzia heard only one word from Jayna and immediately entered the ongoing bidding.

With a huge sum of 40 million gold all at once, it’s not even a few million units.

‘Amazing.’

Jaina covered her small mouth as she watched people around her gasped in shock.

‘For an alchemist about the age of Hilvenzia, this amount is nothing.’

The auctioneer said with a smile painted on his lips.

“I got 40 million gold. If no one else would call—”

“50 million gold.”

At the moment, silence flowed through the auction house. Everyone doubted their ears.

“Huh.”

Hilvenzia raised her butterfly mask gently.

“It won’t be boring today.”

Her gaze touched the ponytail woman who called out 50 million gold.

After a while, Hilvenzia opened her mouth.

“60 million gold.”

***

Hilvenzia has bid for almost everything in the auction house.

The amount was so high that other people dared not raise their hands.

But someone stopped her from dominating. It was the same woman who called out the 50 million gold ponytails at the auction of the emerald necklace.

They went after each other, raising the amount of money they spend and won the bid for all the goods in the auction house.

“It’s rare for people of high character like you to be one of our customers”

As a result, after the auction was over, whether conspicuous or not, the auctioneer came to Hilvenzia separately and talked to her with a wide smile on his face.

“There will be a much more unusual auction today, and I’d really like to have you there.”

“Then shall we?”

With Hilvenzia’s lingering answer, the three also took part in the second auction.

While waiting for the next auction, Hilvenzia asked Jaina a question while holding the accessories she had won.

“Jaina, which do you think is better?”

“Emerald, by all means, goes well with the color of Hilvenzia-nim eyes.”

“Huh, I’m sorry, but it is not for me.”

After listening to this, Jaina carefully examined the designs of the jewelry that Hilvenzia won.

“Then wouldn’t it be a good chose to pick a color that will match the wearer?”

“Hmm, is that so?”

“Design, too. Whether the wearer is an adult or a young one. It is an important part to think about.”

Hilvenzia shook her head when she heard what Jaina said. Her eyes that werr looking at Jaina were very serious.

The two continued to talk about it until the night’s auction began.

“Jaina, can you put on a necklace by yourself?”

Jaina opened her eyes thinly.

“You’re not going to give me the jewelry you won for my birthday, are you?”

If it was Michael, he would definitely say, “What’s the point of complaining about it, you idiot!” But Hilvenzia was a bit better than that.

“No, I won’t. Why did you think that?”

“I’m glad to hear that.”

“It’s useless concern.”

Hilvenzia tilted her head and smiled brightly.

“I can give it to you if you want to have it.”

“No, I’m fine.”

“Didn’t you say it because you were interested? Well, you should have told me earlier.”

Jaina smiled lightly when Hilvenzia was playing with her words. And through that gap, Hilvenzia’s hand moved quickly.

“Ah!”

Hilvenzia quickly place a blue sapphire bracelet on Jaina’s wrist.

Jaina struggled to untie the bracelet, but strangely, it didn’t come undone. The bracelet perfect fit on the wrist was probably the worked of the bracelet’s magic.

Hilvenzia laughed quietly when she saw Jaina unable to take off the bracelet.

“The bracelet has location-tracking magic and mana-detection magic.

As she nonchalantly said words that would make others faint.

‘You still have the last accident in mind.’

She seemed to have come up with this method because she was worried about Jaina running into the fire again.

“This is not a gift. We must not lose our precious material to others.”

Jaina, who heard Hilvenzia’s joke, ended up laughing lightly.

However, some people took it seriously.

‘What is she talking about?’

Izren gave Hilvenzia a look of deep vigilance. How can you threaten a child who is less than half of your size?

‘No one on the tower is ordinary.’

Izren, Jaina’s escort knight, burned his fighting spirit, thinking he had to work harder to protect her.

“You don’t seem to like it.”

“You know it’s not that.”

“I’m sad because you don’t seem to show any interest even after knowing that this bracelet was a magic artifact.”

Hilvenzia didn’t just present a blue sapphire bracelet with location tracking and mana detection magic.

The sapphire jewel in the center of the bracelet had a special magic that triggered a shield at a dangerous moment.

“I didn’t really add a word to Michael’s scolding the other day but…”

Hilvenzia brought up again the past accident where Jaina saves people and even turn herself into her dragon form.

“So if you want to torture yourself like that, it’ll be more fun to be my lab experiment instead.”

Hilvenzia pulled Jaina’s cheek with one hand. The soft flesh stretched out in her hand.

“Uahhh Hilvenzia-nim.”

Even though Jaina muttered, “It hurts,” Hilvenzia said seriously, without changing her expression.

“But this is pretty fun.”

Hilvenzia raised her other hand and began to pull both of Jaina’s cheeks. Jaina struggled in pain, but Hilvenzia did not let her go.

“I’m scarier than I look”

It’s not “better than it looks,”it’s just a scary person!

Jaina gave her an look of injustice, but Hilvenzia just kept on smiling.

However, the appearance was different from usual.

What came to Hilvenzia’s face right now was a smile that was a little more brighter than the relaxed smile she usually have.

Hilvenzia said in a clear voice.

“Jaina, Happy tenth birthday in advance.”

And then, the night’s auction officially began.

‘Huh?’

Jaina felt a very different atmosphere than before.

If there was a leisurely feeling of rich people choosing luxuries at day’s auction, at night’s auction everyone was showing an inexplicable enthusiasm.

Is it because this is an auction for high-quality customers and everyone was greedy to win?

However, it felt somewhat different to call it a mere desire to won an artifact or a desire to show off. It is a more essential desire.

‘It’s unusual.’

Jaina looked around the auction house with her calf-like gentle eyes keenly wide open.

Indeed, as expected, the words that could be heard in her sensitive ears were not things that could be easily passed.

“That jewel… I am sure it is the heirloom that Viscount Elegort was seeking for with blood tears.”

“But how could that idiot know a place like this?”

“Hahaha, it’s definitely a place that man don’t know.”

As they said, the night auction seemed to have something special.

The initial auction was a family heirloom, so it was clear that the later it went on, the greater the item was going to come out be.

Jayna could feel the people’s hopeful eyes reaching the host.

She glanced up at Hilvenzia, who was next to her. But couldn’t find any change in her facial expression.

She’s just smiling as usual.

“Well, then let me introduce our own works to this auction!”

As soon as the representative work was introduced, Jaina saw the face of Izren, who came as her escort knight, filled with astonishment.

‘What’s going on?’

His bloodshot eyes were looking straight ahead. It seems like he was shocked, or maybe sad.

Whatever it was, it was clear that he was different from the usual. Izren’s body, who was staring at something, trembled.

‘Huh?’

No, maybe it’s not Izren who’s shaking, but his own body.

Then Jaina felt dizzy for a moment by the strange smell that pierced her nose.

‘……I noticed it too late.’

The moment I feel like there’s opaque pink powders that were floating in the air.

That was it. Jaina’s consciousness was engulfed by darkness.

****

“You, know it first?”

Izren’s angry gaze was ferociously fixed on Hilvenzia.

It was the first time that Izren, who had not said a word while accompanying as a escort driver, spoke to Hilvenzia. It was words said in a grievous voice.

“Well? I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Lies.”

“That’s rude. Do you think you’re in a position to say that to me?”

Hilvenzia’s tone towards Izren was cold and low.

But her voice soon became bewitching and amiable.

“Whoa, don’t forget that even if I knew that your people were going to be sold at this auction, you don’t deserve nor have the right to blame it on me.”

“…..”

“Is it a Neandra tribe? Yes, it looks like the appearance of the popular stuffed animal. Besides, there are many hidden secrets about that tribe, Isn’t that right, ‘little cat’?”

On the stage of the auction house, the Neanderans, Izren’s own people, were not only have their head covered in black cloth but were also tied up in chains.