The Olsylvia Academy’s central branch, the Commoners’ Francis Academy. Since the Olsylvia Academy spanned across the entire city, there were quite a few shopping districts on school property. Of which, the most renowned was the ‘Heaven of Philosophers’ that Bella had visited previously and was located on Bruce Street.
Within the Bruce Street was a passageway to the City of Sin, Halifax. Bella’s original plan for the weekend was to make another trip to Halifax, but Britney had intercepted her. She had wanted to go there because even though she captured Maria and the others, she had to let them go on when Monday arrived since the mysterious disappearance of a certain student council president would cause quite the chaos.
The 7th sin,【Lust]Asmodeus should have quite a few more interesting toys for sale. There might even be some that will make Maria and the holy maidens completely and totally submit to Bella. However, Bella couldn’t just ignore Britney now that she has come knocking on her door, especially since she has already promised to help cure her little sister.
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Bella and the others were currently heading towards the biggest shopping district within Francis Academy, Heslet Street. Different from Bruce Street, this place was completely controlled by the Mask of Darkness, one of the Ten Great Societies. Most of the things sold here were inclined towards commoners, so only on a few rare occasions would people from the noble academies visit such a place. Students from the academies would never appear in such a place, as it would ruin their reputations.
Accompanying Bella was President Britney, Sharon- formerly one of the Five Divine Grand Ladies of the Rose Society, Betty- the peace-breaker Poison Refining Loli, President Isaman, her dorm mate, and her younger sister Elaine.
Elaine was wearing a huge windbreaker that covered her face. In fact, she had a curse on her body, and according to her, her previous dormmates say that a strange shadow appears next to her bed in the middle of the night. After a long period of time, no one dared to stay with her anymore.
Luckily for her though, since Elaine started staying with Bella and the others, her curse had vanished. Bella figured that the curse had the same nature as the grieving spirit from the cursed ring on Lisha, and it might also be related to Elaine’s previous life. However, the curse didn’t completely disappear, instead choosing not to stir up trouble, afraid about Bella and her other dormmates real identities.
“I’m sorry, Bellina. The things here don’t really fit your status, right?”
“It’s fine, Britney. Also, just calling me by my nickname will do. Bellina is a name meant for outsiders that don’t really know me.”
Britney was very apologetic and regretful to Bella and the others. Heslet Street is a territory controlled by the Mask of Darkness, hence the public security here wasn’t great. None of the females would come shopping in such a place, not even members of the Disciplinary Committee. The shoppers were prominently males, making it feel like a ‘discount’ Bruce Street.
In a prominent position of the street, Bella and her gang finally located their destination, Meredith Auctions. This auction house belonged to the Golden Legend Society’s President Carlos’ family business. It was no wonder they ignored Bellina’s name since they were an opposing society’s business. If it wasn’t for the fact that Sharon’s family owned a smelting factory and that they were lacking materials, Bella would never purchase anything from here.
At the entrance of the auction house, a devious-looking fatty received Bella and her group, “Welcome to our auction house! If you would follow me, I will bring you further in. Are you ladies here to auction off your items or to participate in the bidding?”
“We are here to participate. When does it start?”
“We will begin the daytime auction in another half an hour!”
Once he finished speaking, they noticed the fake loli, Charlotte, arrive at the entrance to the auction house. She was still wearing that black gothic loli dress, making her look the same as a few days ago, the only difference being that she is now holding a small black umbrella.
The fake loli was immediately surrounded by a few men, and after taking a closer look, wasn’t one of them Scott, who might possibly be the Savior from the Knight Class? What was he doing at the auction house? Furthermore, this loser couldn’t be blind, right?
Could he not see that Charlotte was a boy?!
“Little girl, what is your name? Uh, there is a lot of bad people around here. Don’t be afraid though, big brother will protect you!”
“Big brother, I don’t like the smell of your body. I better go to the big sister over there.”
Charlotte remained completely unmoved by Scott’s actions. In a flash, he avoided Scott’s extended hand that was reaching for his head and accurately appeared next to Bella.
Charlotte wanted to pull on Bella’s sleeve originally, but when he saw Betty and Elaine next to her, he hesitated before changing his target to Britney. Scott turned around with an awkward expression when he saw Bella and her group.
“Duchess…Bellina, is there your little sister? Don’t misunderstand, I don’t have any malicious intentions! I saw her wandering dangerously by herself, so I…”
“Classmate…Scott, Charlotte is not my little sister. Furthermore, Charlotte is… if you didn’t notice that she isn’t… Nevermind, forget it! You should…”
“Big sister Bellina, this big brother is so naughty! He has been fooling around with beautiful big sisters along the way and even wanted to lay his hands on me. I am not a girl… but he still wants to hook up with me.”
Scott was instantly petrified by his words. He actually had such an error in judgment? This Charlotte was actually a boy!? This time, nobody was sure where Charlotte found a black fan, but it was positioned over the front of his neck, obstructing his throat from view. Scott, the veteran driver, was careless for a moment and unfortunately overturned his car. Seeing how stunned Scott was, Bella didn’t feel like teasing him anymore, so she simply brought Charlotte into the auction house.
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There were a large number of people inside waiting for it to start, like the countless Francis Academy students. The scale of the auction wasn’t very high class, instead targeting middle to low-class people. Basically, people with a decent status wouldn’t be attending. If they were to attend an auction, they would probably go to the Ingersoll Auctions that were hosted at the royal academy- Euphemia Academy. It has been said that they once auctioned off a junior-grade divine artifact, but no one knew if this rumor was true or not.
What Bella wanted to buy were the raw materials required to make the resurrection medicine; Seven Star Herb, Blood Coral, and the Jasper Vine. These materials should appear at the Ingersoll Auctions, but they were hard to collect. In addition, higher class auctions seldom auction raw materials for medicine.
In this other world, the process of refining medicinal ingredients wasn’t going to be 100% successful. The higher the grade, the higher the risk during refinement. This directly influenced the price of the higher grade raw materials, hence it’s much more cost-effective to buy finished products.
Bella was planning to assist Sharon in helping Britney’s little sister refine the resurrection medicine. She could have asked Betty for helped, but her resurrection medicine wasn’t considered a real one on stricter terms. It was a failed product that was made from the refinement of highly toxic medicines and the composition was drastically different from the traditional kind.
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