A refined beauty worth ten million Beli—had to say, that was quite a high price.
The starting price for an ordinary human was five hundred thousand Beli. By that standard, ten million Beli was already an astronomical sum. Yet even such a sky-high price failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the bidders.
For ordinary people, let alone ten million Beli, even a hundred thousand Beli was an astronomical figure.
But the pirate world was distorted. Most of the world's wealth was controlled by nobles and major merchants. To people like them, ten million Beli was merely "pocket change."
In the blink of an eye, the bid had already reached eleven million Beli. Clearly, the refined beauty in the pink cage was quite popular with the crowd.
Seeing the eager looks on the faces of the crowd, the woman inside the cage revealed deep sorrow in her eyes, so pitiful that one could not bear to look at her.
"Something like slavery really shouldn't exist!"
"Commodore Kuzan, Yoriichi, as Marines who uphold justice, are we really going to sit by and watch this happen right in front of us?"
"Are we really not going to do anything?!"
Kyros looked at the woman in the cage, his eyes full of sympathy. This was the kind of world it was—women and children often stirred up the sense of justice in people's hearts more easily. Kyros was young to begin with, and he had joined the Marines because becoming a Marine would allow him to help more people.
Seeing the woman locked in the cage, Kyros could no longer suppress the anger in his chest. At that moment, he could truly empathize with the slave in the cage.
Aokiji let out a soft sigh and rose to his feet.
In truth, Kyros did not