“Auction House”

Yamamoto was in one of the rooms of the marine ship quietly reading the Reiryoku Basic Manual, since he started the journey to Elbaf he began to train the intermediate training.

The barrier remained on the ship even though he was not there transferring energy to it, this was no longer needed.

The big ship that was stolen from the Marines some time ago no longer had any sign of the navy, the flags and sails had already been changed to normal ones.

While Yamamoto was reading in concentration he heard in his mind the sound of a bell.

[Ding! Your subordinates have saved 27 slaves from the hands of some evil pirates, you are rewarded with 1,350 merit points]

*Whoa... the points for saving them initially are much higher than what I earned per month per person...* Yamamoto thought in surprise and excitement as he read the message.

He knew it was about Lego, Tesoro, Yosano, and the others since they were Yamamoto's only subordinates who were currently sent on a mission, plus 4 days had already passed, so they should have reached the island by now.

On this occasion for each person he was given 50 merit points, instead monthly he earns 10 merit points per person.

With this gain his merit points increased to 4,850, however, Yamamoto was not satisfied he wanted more merit points. Not only because of the devil fruits he had in the store to buy which especially the late Sengoku's were very powerful, but many useful things in the system could help him.

In addition, he also needed to buy life cards which were now priced at 2,000 merit points each and could go up at any time. Since he still had 11 years to live, he would give priority to the Sengoku Devil Fruit, as he could not lose it.

After a few minutes of receiving the notification from the system, a den den mushi near the table where I was reading began to sound.

Pereperepere.

Gacha.

"Mr. Yamamoto, we have arrived at the island and I have a report to make" Lego said from the other side in a serious tone.

Yamamoto rolled his eyes, they were still calling him sir and treating him with a lot of respect, "Yes... tell me, what is it?" said Yamamoto after a few seconds.

Lego began to tell him everything that happened since they arrived on the island, after defeating the pirates and capturing the vice-captain, Yosano was in charge of getting information out of him.

"Ramses, Bod, and the others are taking care of the slaves who were very hungry, there are a total of 27 people" Ramses reported.

What mattered most to Yamamoto of all this information was that Captain Red Dragon had left the island, meaning that he would most likely return with more slaves. If this happens and Lego with the others defeats him and saves the slaves again he will earn a large amount of merit points again.

"Ambush Red Dragon we must eliminate those people who see people as cattle" ordered Yamamoto in a dignified voice.

"Yes, sir!" said Lego excitedly, he knew his choice to follow Yamamoto had been the right one.

"What information did you get from the vice-captain?" asked Yamamoto.

"The captain of these pirates does possess a devil fruit" replied Lego, to which Yamamoto nodded inwardly satisfied, "What power does he have?" asked Yamamoto.

"From what Fidelma told us, Red Dragon controls objects by making movements with his hand, it's strange. He rarely uses it, as he doesn't see it as very powerful" replied Lego.

*If the user of the fruit is useless and has no imagination it's hard to take advantage of the power* thought Yamamoto, although it didn't seem to be a great power it could be useful for a not so powerful subordinate.

"When you capture Red Dragon get more information out of him about his fruit. Don't kill him and bring him to me, anything else?" asked Yamamoto.

"Yes, here comes the most important thing. These slaves are sold at a very famous auction house in the underworld. According to Fidelma, they do one auction per month, that's the reason why they were capturing so many people, in a few days there will be the auction and they were planning to sell them there" explained Lego in a serious tone.

*Here is the big prize!" thought Yamamoto excitedly.

If they manage to free all the slaves in this auction house, how many merit points would he earn? Besides there must be a lot of money and valuables, so the profit can be very high.

"Go on" said Yamamoto in a calm tone, very different from the excitement he felt.

"The name is 'The House of Golden Shadows'. The pirates of the Red Dragon made a great effort to become clients of this auction house, so they do not have much information about the leader and how much power they have, they also negotiate other objects such as high quality weapons or fruits of the devil, although this is rarely seen" Lego finished explaining all the information they got from the vice-captain.

*What a haughty name* thought Yamamoto as he thought of what to order Lego and the others.

They didn't know the strength of the enemy and that could be fatal, however, Yamamoto didn't think they were that powerful, at least not as powerful as the people he faced since he came to this world.

"Your new mission is to infiltrate the auction house, once you know the strength of these people you will have to decide if they can rescue all the slaves and take down the criminals, I will leave it up to you" said Yamamoto.

This was a great opportunity to earn merit points and for Lego, Tesoro, Yosano, and everyone else to show what they are made of.

Even though there are dangerous people and nobles with great status Yamamoto doesn't mind this at all, he was the Fire Demon his reputation couldn't go any lower anymore and he had killed a marine admiral, so he wasn't afraid of angering some nobles or people from the underworld.

"How will we infiltrate?" asked Lego.

"You said Red Dragon was a client of theirs. When he arrives at the island capture him and threaten him if he doesn't want to die that he will cooperate with you, they will go on his ship to the auction house" replied Yamamoto.

If it was a new customer, the auction house people at most will remember Red Dragon's face, not his minions, so there would be no problem if they went Lego, Yosano, Tesoro, and the others acting as his minions.

"I understand, but if they see we have no slaves they will know something is wrong."

"Use the Red Dragon pirates, I guess they have already killed the pirates that were with the vice-captain, so use the ones that are left" said Yamamoto.

"Good" said Lego decisively.

"And lastly, ask the slaves they freed, who are the ones who will follow us. Those who say yes and decide to follow us, before heading to the auction house drop them off at Aurora Island" said Yamamoto.

"Understood, what about those who don't accept?" asked Lego.

"We won't do more charity than necessary, you said Red Dragon owns two ships let them have a ship so they can go back home or whatever" said Yamamoto, after that ended the call.

If in addition to saving them, they were to take them home one by one it would take forever and they would only put themselves in danger. They were kind enough to save them and give them a ship.

...

At the end of the call Lego passed on everything important to the others, "We will destroy that auction house" said Yosano with a fierce look, after torturing Fidelma she had calmed her anger.

"First we must infiltrate and know well how it works, so get a hold of yourself" said Tesoro with a frown.

"Relax, I can act like a slave trafficker anyway we'll use those dirty pirates" said Yosano with a maniacal grin.

*They're screwed...* thought Ralph.

"'The House of Golden Shadows..." muttered Tesoro as he thought.

"Do you know them?" asked Lego.

After a few seconds, Tesoro replied, "Yes... I remember them now. When I had my business... not so legal to say, they contacted me to sell them my product so they could offer it in their auction house."

"Damn dealer" said Yosano spitting on the floor.

"I'm redeeming myself for my actions!" said Tesoro in embarrassment.

"And you sold them to him?" asked Lego stopping the discussion.

"Of course not, although I was a criminal, I didn't work with slave traders" replied Tesoro who before meeting Stella, had his pride as a criminal.

"So, do you know anything about them or not?" asked Ralph in a strange tone, since if he didn't contribute anything the conversation was pointless.

"Yes, wait let me remember" said Tesoro after a few minutes a smile broke out on his face.

"The person who contacted me was a swordsman, if I'm not mistaken his name was Hiroshi, he seemed to have a high position in the auction house" Tesoro recounted.

"What was he doing in West Blue?" asked Yosano.

"I don't know... I guess shady business, or looking for something to then take to the auction house" replied Tesoro.

"And he went so quietly at the negative answer?" asked Ralph.

"He didn't like me saying no at all, but he seemed to have other business, plus I wasn't afraid to confront him" replied Tesoro confidently.

"Hiroshi, the edge of the night!" exclaimed Lego in surprise.

While they were talking, Ramses, Bob, Ed, and the others were cooking a huge bear, to give to the slaves who looked at the meat with drool in their mouths. They had also brought a big pot to make a broth.