Demons agitatedly discussed the new item. Shin caught pieces of conversation around him as he got closer to the auction scene.
"Who needs this trash? My claws can kill just as well!"
"You just can't afford it, ha-ha-ha! 20 souls—that's more than you'd gather in a month, even here!"
"20 souls… a bargain! I raise 21 souls!"
"Do we want it, my friend?" Tetsu asked. Her attention was not on the knife, but on the other demons.
Shin shook his head. "No. I want to see if there will be any other occult books sold."
A few minutes later, the knife was sold for 27 souls. The next item brought even less enthusiasm from the crowd—it was a weak defensive formation, comparable to Shin's Firewall, and it was sold for only 12 souls.
The crowd was slowly thinning, and the announcer looked down on it with visible agitation.
