It also showed how pampered the princess and the bratty twins were. They were given the equivalent of tens of millions of dollars to spend as they wished by their mommies and daddies.
I was a bit surprised that Lilith and her Scarlet Lilies didn't have enough on them to get first-row treatment, after all, they'd been high-tier adventurers for centuries now. However, when I considered that it was a yearly event and not something truly rare, thus they likely participated in hundreds of them by now as well and the likely chance that they had their wealth invested in other projects made sense to me.
Anyhow.
It was time to get the show started, evidenced by the appearance of the event's host. For once, it wasn't a woman who surrounded me from one front but a shrewd man with golden glasses, a fashionable mustache, and an elegant white suit. He seemed to be a real shameless bastard, a perfect fit for the role of the auctioneer.
