I can only bid on three flower arrangements in this auction with my number plate, and I just missed out on one flower. Since the price seems to be following an increasing trend, the third flower arrangement might be even more expensive.
Kutsuji has only given me 10 million Coppers to use. Rather than failing to get the next flower arrangement, I rather take a gamble with this one, so I raise my number plate.
This time, only me and one other buyer raised our number plates. According to the rules of the auction, we will now make increasing bids starting from 9 million Coppers, and each bid must be at least an increase of half a million Coppers.
As the other buyer raised their number plate first, I get to shout out my price first this time.
[player]9.5 million.
[Auctioneer]9.5 million Coppers going once.
[Auctioneer]9.5 million Coppers going twice.
[Auctioneer]9.5 million Coppers going three times.
[Auctioneer]The coral red skimmia has been sold at the price of 9.5 million Coppers. Congratulations to you, Buyer No.17.
The crisp sound of the mallet announces my success. The other buyer chooses to give up, probably because they don't think it's worth 10 million Coppers. That's true though. If they wanted to buy it for 10 million Coppers, they could have raised their number plate earlier.
Before I can share my joy with Noah, I hear a sigh next to me.
[Noah](Text message) You're a goner.
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