"Sure enough... this guy was just here to have fun."
Watching Austin get carried away with his playfulness, Mihawk and Crocodile each pressed a hand to their foreheads and shook their heads helplessly.
He had even said something about looking around and finding problems.
But in the end...
"A century-old vintage wine from the Kingdom of Wine, starting bid: one million Beli!!!"
"One million two hundred thousand Beli!!"
"One million two hundred thousand and one Beli!!"
"One million three hundred thousand Beli!!"
"One million three hundred thousand and one Beli!!"
"???"
Watching the long-haired man in sunglasses casually raise his hand and add only one Beli each time, the burly pirate in the front row holding a wine barrel clearly became enraged!
"Hey!!! You bastard!!! You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?! You only add one Beli more than me every time!!
And you auction house people, aren't you going to do anything about it?! This guy isn't even following the minimum bid increment!!!"
In response, everyone in the auction house, including the owner, simply pretended not to hear. They looked around innocently and whistled.
Hearing that, Austin merely smiled indifferently and said teasingly:
"No, no, no. I just so happen to like this rare sort of wine that doesn't taste terrible."
With that, he raised his hand again.
"Ten million Beli!!!"
Austin was clearly arrogant to the extreme, and this was not the last time.
With one leg crossed over the other, he clearly enjoyed casually calling out prices and treating money like it was nothing.
What followed was a massive sweep. No matter who bid or what the item was, Austin crushed them all with an overwhelming monetary offensive.
This immediately rendered the auction house's planted bidders useless.
"We're finished!!! This auction is basically the same as not