Henry lifted his eyes to study the majestic building in front of him, the highest part was cutting the sky in two distinct halves just like a sword that rose from the ground.
The building was almost entirely made of glass and the reflection of the sunlight made it seem as if it was surrounded by a holy halo.
The front gate was as big as a house on planet Buton which made Henry smile wryly, rich people really liked exaggerating, even if all the people from the Capitole came here there would still be some room left, what was the point of such an imposing building ? Simply to boast their wealth.
After contemplating the beauty of the building for awhile Henry stepped inside and was warmly welcomed by a cute maid.
"Hello sir, how may I help you?"
"I would like to put items up for auction."
"Of course, how many items do you have ?"
"Two."
"Please follow me, we will get them analyzed by an expert to make sure they meet the minimum value and then we can put them up in the auction."
Of course this didn't surprise Henry, the Market's auction had a rule that only items of a minimum starting value of 50 000$ could be put up for auction, that was a mean to keep the auction interesting and limited to rich people.
Henry followed the girl inside a fancy room with a big coffee table surrounded by two big and two small sofas on each side, in a corner of the room was a bespectacled woman so focused on her work that she didn't even hear Henry and the girl getting in.
"Madam ? This person would like to put two items up for auction."
The woman finally got pulled out of her daze by the sweet voice of the girl and she nodded, the girl bowed and left the room leaving Henry and the unknown woman alone together.
"My name is Eloise, I am an expert in judging the value of an item and I've worked for this auction house for 10 years, you can trust my eyes."
The woman said as she extended her hand towards Henry who shook it.
"I am Henry."
He simply said and opened his backpack from which he pulled a small wooden box.
'Such a small item... I wonder what it is ?'
The woman though, it was very rare that people actually came all the way here with items whose value was lower than 50 000$. After all who had such time to lose on a prank ? So she believed what Henry had bought would surprise her.
The box was opened and Henry pulled out the body right suit that he had made himself and handed it to the woman.
"What is this ?"
She asked curiously, she could see that this wasn't a common item but since she didn't know the method do change its form it was just an almost useless body tight suit in her hands.
Henry didn't say much, he simply changed the armory hat he was wearing to the second form.
"Ohhhhh ! Form changing armor ! This is pretty rare and the demand for such items is also high, I think it could go for half a million at least-"
The woman became excited after seeing it but Henry wasn't done, he changed the armor to the third form, hopefully the ceiling was high or the same thing as with the bus might have happened.
"It has three forms ?!"
The woman got extremely excited, as if she had seen a treasure, she grabbed Henry's hand which was back to the first form and with shiny eyes asked
"Did you make this yourself?"
She was an expert in such items so she could tell that none of the famous blacksmiths had done this item which meant that it could have been done by Henry himself.
"Of course not... I'm interested by smithing but I haven't even tried it yet, I just found two such armors on the market for a small price and saw a business opportunity."
"Oh you're right... I got too excited, by the way are you selling both armors ?"
She remembered that when Henry had came in, the maid had said that he was selling two items which made her hopeful.
"No I'm keeping one for myself, the second item is this."
Henry pulled out the explosive whip from his backpack and handed it to the woman.
"If you want to try it it would be better to do it outside where there aren't too much people."
He remembered the state of the stages in the arena after his fights and was scared that the building might collapse with one wrong move with the whip.
The woman looked at him curiously but nodded, she called her assistant which was a young man of around 25 years old and headed outside followed by Henry. She went in the inside courtyard of the building and handed the armor to her assistant.
"Try it on, I want as much information about it as possible: height, weight, strength, defense..."
While her assistant was doing his job she lazily flicked the whip towards a pond, Henry looked at the pond full of fishes before the whip could hit and sighed, he felt bad for the fishes but it was too late to stop the whip now.
BOOOOM
Water evaporated under the heat of the explosion while the fishes got cooked in a second and were flown out of the pond, during the next three seconds it was raining fishes in the courtyard.
The assistant who was busy doing his assignment turned around in surprise and looked at the fishes that were falling from the sky in a daze, madam Eloise also looked like she was shook and didn't react even when a carp fell straight on top of her head and stayed there.
"Uhm... are you alright ?"
Henry asked her as she wasn't moving at all.
"You could have warned me !"
She said while her eyes were tearing up, she loved life and she refused to kill but she had just done it because of him.
"I warned you enough when I said let's go outside... why did you even aim towards a pond in the first place ?"
Henry sighed, why was a grown up woman acting like a little girl ?