Disabled but not Incapable Chairty Event

"I thought as much, so you just got jealous that I would offer help to someone before you? Or are you really concerned that I'd be able to seduce him. Where you worried he was into older women" She said this and flashed a quick wink towards Tanzo before returning her attention to Alice. She was about to open her mouth to say something when the blond haired woman who had been keeping watch stopped and walked over.

"My lady, hes here" She said, evidently trying to keep a bored look off her face with an expression that was probably designed to discourage people from approaching. Tanzo and Alice would get a good look at her sharp teeth.

"Ah, thank you Kuki" Andresta glanced over her shoulder at her assistant "My apologies Alice, Tanzo. I my cut short as Mr Tanaka has decided to show his face and I very much want to let him know that I intend to rob him of the opportunity of adding another piece to his private collection". With that she rolled backwards and waved to them both before turning and rolling off.

Tanzo looked at the business card he'd been given. Alice certainly was interesting, and attractive... maybe dinner wouldn't hurt. He still wasn't sure about her eating his flames though...

With a sigh Tanzo returned to hiding from the crowds. Closer to the auction time he did swing by the booth for the charity itself to check out their medical technology. But for the most part he stayed out of sight and out of mind as best he could, not every rich patron here would be as tolerable to talk too as the two he'd just been with and even they had been exhausting in their own right.

When it came time for the auction Tanzo wheeled his art contributions into place, putting his muscles to good use to help the staff move the larger pieces around. Part of it was to be helpful... part of it was that if he was backstage none of the bidders could bother him. Really the only person who could end up approaching him again would be Alice... and she was someone he'd be fine with if he ended up talking to her again today.

"Now, I do hope you aren't test one of your experiments with my event as a test subject." Alice noted, roling up behind An with a pout. "If you cause trouble I will have to ban you like all the others. We are friends, An. I don't want to have to do that."

As she chastised An she spotted Tanzo head back stage. A smirk creeped to her face and she licked her lips thinking of how much she got poke him. "You are quite lucky my focus is elsewhere. I catch you doing something to cause problems, you're out. You know the rules of my estate, please don't break them like you insist on doing with the rules outside."

Having gave her warning to her villainous aquaintance, Alice made her way back stage with Olivia in tow. She potted Tanzo and came up behind him with a grin. "Not much of the social type I see. Understandable. All the people at this part of the event aren't worth socializing with." She chuckled, earning a sigh from her poodle companion. "Ah, yes! This is Olivia, my head maid. She and Noah over there at the podium keep this place running like clockwork! If you are in need of anything at all while you're here don't hesitate to ask one of them or any of the staff."

"At your service, Mr. Camina. I apologize for Lady Alice's behavior. She is quite brash and... forward punching... but I assure that she means well." The poodle woman curtsied and bowed her head to him. Though Alice just laughed at her comment.

"Bah! Better to be forward that conniving!" The young CEO proclaimed. "That way people doing construed my words... Unless I want them to." She laughed again, giving Tanzo a wink and another Cheshire cat grin. "The auction will be starting soon." She stated.

The multimillionaire then leaned in and signaled for Tanzo to bend down so she could whisper into his. "If there is anyone you don't want to have your piece, point them out to Noah. He will make it seem like they got out bid even if the didn't. I'll be more than happy to have it if no one out bids the fake one." Before pulling away, she snuck a peck onto his cheek just to get awry out of him and slipped a list of restaurants into his pocket for him to select from if he chose to take her up on her offer. All of them were extremely high end to the point where he possibly wouldn't even know how to pronounce some of there names.

Without another word, Alice wheeled away cackling the whole way back to her spot next to An. Olivia sighed in exasperation again and curtsied once more to Tanzo before following suit behind her mistress.

"Five minutes until the auction begins!" Noah announced into the mic of the podium. "Any last minute additions must be added now!"

Andresta didn't even bother turning her head to look at Alica, with an idle wave of her hand she said "Ha, its nothing so serious, its equipment testing, which I'm not going to talk about cause even your not allowed to know what it is. After all, that would give you an unfair advantage". An continued to peruse her messages, though made sure that that the privacy settings were active. Whatever she looked at now would have a black backing to prevent people looking into her lenses and seeing what she was looking at. "Go have fun, don't do anything I wouldn't do" she added as Alice rolled off once more.

Though with actually mischievous smile of her own. She flicked her wrist and brough the drone to life, and then using the virtual controls in front of her, guided it on its own little mission.

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As Tanzo, settled into his new spot observe the auction, he'd come aware of the buzzing noise off to his side. If he bothered to look, he'd see the very same drone that Andresta had used earlier in the day to fetch a drink. However this time it was carrying a slice of cake? It was also not looking at him.

"Shes a troublesome girl isn't she?" it said with An's voice, though by the sound of it, it was text to speech rather than the woman herself speaking. "Alas that's why I feel the need to keep an eye on her, 'sigh'. Anyway, as a sort of apology for earlier." The drone turned and offer the slice of cake towards Tanzo. On closer inspection, he'd notice that the cake was just one of the times on the plate. There was also a folded piece of paper, on its out surface was a cartoon drawing of An holding a finger to her lips.

If he were to take the cake, he'd find the paper had an interesting little tip bit about Alice. It read 'tip: no olives'.

Tanzo stared at the drone as it offered him a slice of cake, as well as a note. He accepted both "She hardly strikes me as troublesome, unique for a rich girl perhaps, but only troublesome to those expecting her to be like every other rich heiress." he chuckled, then read the note "olives huh? Noted..."

With that the auction would begin, Tanzo would pick at the cake while the bidding went on, and eventually his item came out as the closing act of the show. He'd set the price high for this one, but he was still surprised by how much higher the bidding was going. These crazy rich people really were willing to just drop millions on a piece from him just cause of his family name huh? Maybe he should've set the price even higher and really gouged them for...

"Fourty-one billion yen!"

Tanzo choked on his cake, spewing crumbs over the floor as he hacked up the offending chunk of food. WHAT did she just bid? Was she insane? Who the hell would spend that much on any piece of art? Especially not this one. He had to admit it wasn't his finest or most inspired work. He knew it would sell to some rich bozo off his name alone so he kept it simple. It was not a 41 billion yen piece! Not to mention his charity sales usually had some kind of stipulation where he received some small percentage of the sale price. The intent of that was so that he could use that to pay for raw materials to make even more pieces and for metals to use for his quirk in his hero work. It was a good system, and it had let him accumulate savings to treat his friends to things.

If his piece sold for a 41 billion yen though then his cut was... well it was way more than he ever intended to make with his materials fee. What the heck was he going to do? He didn't need that kind of money! Also just how loaded was this girl where she could just throw this kind of money around in what was probably yet another instance of flirting? He took back what he said to An's drone earlier... she WAS a handful

Seeing Alice gesture for him to wait for her in another room, Tanzo meekly went along with it, still a bit too thrown off by that bid to really protest. So he entered the sitting room, looking around he saw all the artwork, appreciating it all. The portrait was interesting... Alice's mother presumably, and a young Alice. Seemed she was a firecracker even as a little kid. It made him chuckle a bit.

Looking at the coffee table and seats and fine china. Tanzo forged himself a reinforced chair to sit in. Odds were Alice's usual seats weren't built to handle his weight. He left the china alone though, he didn't want to be on the hook for breaking a china set of someone THIS rich.