The much-anticipated Sigli Auction officially ended after a week.
Once again, it had been a grand affair that did not disappoint.
Total sales exceeded twenty billion Beli.
Several rare Devil Fruits appeared, and Vegapunk's brain fetched an astonishing price.
Vegapunk's brain had been divided into 240 slices and sold in lots of twelve, each lot averaging two to three hundred million Beli.
Just as Ignis had expected, he took in a little over five billion Beli in all.
Even the Kronos Kingdom bought three lots.
Some were for its own research, while the rest were for Kaz.
As a Cell-Cell Fruit user, Kaz could use Vegapunk's cells to transform his brain into a superbrain.
Even Typhon, the King of Monsters, bought two lots.
Vegapunk's brain was immensely valuable to him as well.
The same went for other powers with considerable research capabilities.
There were plenty of bidders competing for those mere twenty lots of Vegapunk's brain.
Time passed quietly into Sea Era 1492.
Yet the year had barely begun when an enormous uproar erupted within the World Government.
It began when a ten-year-old boy arrived with his father's head and demanded to return to the Holy Land and regain his status as a Celestial Dragon.
It was a joke. Celestial Dragon status was hardly so easy to obtain. If they let this child back in, what would all the others who coveted that status think?
Besides, Doflamingo had committed a grave taboo.
He had killed a Celestial Dragon, even if his father had been a former one.
The turn of events caught many people off guard.
The Holy Land knew little about what had happened to Homing's family. It had been so long since anyone had heard from them that they had practically been forgotten.
Some thought Homing's family would