"Now, please welcome our next auction item—Life!"
Along with the auctioneer's voice booming through the microphone, clinking chains echoed through the hall.
This place was a towering structure—hollow inside, its vast interior encircled by long corridors that now served as stands for the guests attending this apocalypse-era auction.
Nearly a year had passed since the world had fallen, and various factions had begun to take shape.
Here, in the TO Auction Center, rare treasures were traded—items that could enhance an esper's abilities, or sometimes, scarce supplies that were otherwise impossible to obtain in this era.
Today's auction had drawn an enormous crowd—because of the pre-announced finale item: Life, one of the rare healing espers still existing.
He was said to be a miracle. Life's power was defiant of nature itself—so long as a person still had a breath left in their body, they could bring them back from the brink of death.
