In fact, Monchi had no other way.
After Locke Merlin's shipwreck, Thousand Sails City's alchemy market was in chaos. This was the best opportunity for the Monchi Family who had been painstakingly looking for a way into the alchemy market. For this opportunity, Monchi didn't hesitate to spend 4,000,000 golds in the Black Horn Auction to get the Volcano and Ghost potions in order to get the assistance of two Great Alchemists from the Black Tower.
He originally thought that it would only be a matter of time before he could monopolize the alchemy market thanks to these two Great Alchemists' help and Monchi Family's huge financial resources.
But it happened that Locke Merlin's son, a boy named Mafa Merlin, re-opened the Gilded Rose.
To be frank, Monchi truly didn't put Mafa Merlin in his eyes at the beginning. How could a youth that wasn't even twenty and an old man past his sixties create any storm in Thousand Sails City?
