
"Name-name?" ask the woman in charge to confirm their data.
"Blue eyes" Julius said before Qazi could think of a nickname for them.
"good. Enjoy the auction."
After hanging the name, the woman handed back the previous card along with their seat number. Qazi accepted it and took Julius up to the second floor. Their seats are in VIP room number 3. There are already two seats available that lead directly to the auction just below them. From above here Julius can pay attention to all the participants present. There were about 23 different families down there and three more families in the VIP room including them, so the total of the auction participants this time was 26 families.
Of all those present in the room, Julius' eyes suddenly fell on a girl sitting in the VIP room opposite him. The girl wearing the gold-carved white mask sat down with a fat man next to her. The girl seemed to have also noticed Julius, but she immediately shifted her gaze once their eyes met. Julius didn't care much about that. He returned to focus on the auction event that was about to begin. Like any auction event in general, a woman who served as the host started the auction event. The beginning of the opening is quite interesting but over time increasingly boring for Julius. None of the items caught his attention before the order of gems they were after was auctioned.
"There's no interesting stuff so far" said Julius, who was bored.
"His gemstone will be at auction in the last order."
"We should get off the ship when the jewel is at auction, so we don't have to wait this long," Julius' boss was even playing with the brochure of the auction list. He folded the brochure into an origami stork that Qazi had just asked to teach.
"Can't be like that. All participants must be present before the event begins. We won't be allowed in if it's too late" explained Qazi, teaching Julius how to make origami storks.
"Eh? How did uncle do it?" julius asked as soon as he realized his origami was different from Qazi's.
Qazi corrected Julius' origami and asked him to try it himself. At this age Julius still has the character of children. This trait will appear when he is struck by boredom or interact with the people closest to him without anyone else around them. But Julius never showed this nature to his sisters. He thought it would be strange as the older brother who used to be cold turned out to have a side of the children as well. Julius rarely shows his emotions to others. The Qazi who had long known Julius' nature understood him.
Of the four subordinates of Daniel who trusted only in Qazi was Julius who wanted to show his true self. The girl Julius looked at was still watching Julius from a distance. He smiled at Julius and Qazi. The patience of Qazi who taught Julius made the origami of the stork much more interesting than watching the auction below. And of course Julius did not realize that alone there was a girl who continued to pay attention to herself until smiling anyway.
Fortunately Marjorie never mentioned this. That his girlfriend who is known to have a cold nature turns out to be a boy that he used to notice was very adorable with his innocent behavior.
"Let's get us on the last item to be auctioned off" the host said.
Hearing that, Julius was excited to pay attention to the auction. Currently he has made more than 5 origami storks arranged according to their size.
"This last piece is a 24-carat tortoise-shaped gold decoration with a shell of a step jewel and surrounded by pure diamonds. This gem was over 10,000 years old. The uniqueness of this gem is that it is able to emit 3 basic colors that are completely separate from one color to another color when exposed to light," explained the host.
A woman went up on stage while carrying the item in question. Slowly the stage lights dimmed. With a small flashlight in her hand, the woman shone a turtle-shaped decoration the size of a fist right above her jewel. Just like the host explained just now. Its eyes really set the flashlight into three separate colors. The participants of the auction were made amazed to see the stunning show. The woman turned off her flashlight along with the stage light coming back on.
"That's a true gem that papa explained. We have to get it. How much money did you give to get the jewel" Julius asked Qazi.
"10,000,000.00 dollars" replied Qazi.
"Oh, quite a lot," Julius was a little surprised to find out the large amount of funds.
"That's our beautiful jewel today. The price starts at 500,000.00 dollars only," the host said in a teasing tone.
"What?! Very cheap," exclaimed the auction participants did not believe the initial price of a beautiful jewel.
"1.300.000,00 dollars!" yelled that the other man did not want to lose.
"1,500,000.00 dollars!"
"1.600.000,00 dollars!"
"1.650.000,00 dollars!"
"1.750.000,00 dollars!"
"1.780.000,00 dollars!"
Everyone began competing to bid the golden turtle-shaped decoration. Although the jewel he was looking for has appeared, Julius has not moved to bid for the jewel.
"Do we also have to start bidding for Mr Julius?" ask Qazi.
"Later. We wait for the people down there to finish bidding."
"Okey."
A few minutes passed. The people who bid started out a little in number. Now the price of the turtle-shaped decoration has reached 2,500,000.00 dollars. A value that has risen many times over its initial price.
"Raise the price twice the base price," Julius' orders asked Qazi to start bidding.
"Okay" replied Qazi. He held up his bidding board while saying. "3,500,000.00 dollars!"
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