The Author's POV

Chapter 199

Late night.

After returning from her short shopping trip, Emma laid down on her mattress exhausted. With her short brown hair scattered on the bed, Emma scrolled through her phone.

Thinking of something, Emma opened her bank account and checked her balance.

[Account balance : 7,472,060 U]

Seeing the number, Emma ground her teeth and muttered.

"...what a pig"

During her small trip, she had planned on only spending at most 100,000 U. She had not expected herself to fork out 750,000U. This was way beyond the budget she had set herself. In fact, spending 100,000 was already too much for her at the moment.

Normally, she wouldn't have minded.

...but her current circumstances weren't normal.

Looking at how much money she had in her bank account Emma felt bitter.

"How long will this last me..."

She truly regretted betting with Ren. Had she not bet, none of this would've happened.

-Ring!

At that moment, Emma's phone rang.

Checking who the sender was, Emma's face darkened. It was her uncle.

[Hello Emma, how was your day?]

Clenching her teeth, Emma picked up the phone and replied.

[Everything is fine, thank you, uncle]

[That's great, but Emma...]

[Yes]

[Did you go out today?]

Seeing the message, Emma's face contorted to a frown.

'How is that any of your business'

Forcefully trying to calm herself down, she replied.

[Yes, with two of my friends]

Ren was definitely not her friend.

[That's good, but do you still have enough money? I hope you're still not mad at me for blocking your card. With your dad leaving all responsibilities to me, we have to take precautions]

"Bastard..."

At her father's mention, Emma felt truly enraged. Ever since her father caught wind of a secret plot that the Monolith was brewing in preparations to attack Ashton city, as its city mayor, her father had no other choice but to leave and prevent their plans.

This was four months ago.

Right now, with her father gone, her uncle was the one in charge of the family affairs.

He did not like Emma.

With Emma being the direct inheritor of her Roshfield family, her uncle was jealous. He too had a son. However, he was only ten years old.

Given how young he was, he did not stand a chance at inheriting the family's leading position. He was just like him, stuck in his brother's shadow.

How could he tolerate that?

when the opportunity presented itself. Emma's uncle tried to do his

too much money on useless stuff, her uncle managed to convince the others to freeze

with her father gone she could only swallow

Emma

not worry about it. I have to go to sleep now as classes start early in the morning,

Uncle's reply, Emma threw her phone

herself inside of her blankets,

"...this fucker"

...

the

Amanda carefully walked towards one of her drawers. Taking out a

head in satisfaction. She really liked

"..Haa"

teddy on the drawer, tired, Amanda buried herself on

What seemed to be a regular day like any other turned out into an outing with Emma,

she hated crowds. However, with everything that had happened today, she couldn't say

It was fun.

Suddenly her phone rang.

-Ring! -Ring!

caller ID was Maxwell Benson, her

up the

"Yes?"

slow. As Amanda listened to what he wanted to say, a look of understanding appeared

week. They have agreed to

"I understand"

Amanda did not like to talk for long periods of time,

there anything else that you would

is good for

understand, I wish you good

"mhm"

her head, Amanda hung up the

-Tack!

through her phone, Amanda opened her chat log with Melissa and

by two pincers as mana was slowly injected into it. Not long after, a massive flame engulfed the

greenlight from Melissa, Amanda contacted her dad

were, they would've never have agreed. However, since it was Amanda who proposed the deal, they agreed without asking

about. Her father and the elders of the guild had agreed to listen to Ren's and Melissa's

they would've agreed, she was quite surprised by

were, she had expected to even wait as far as a couple of months. This came as a bit

of thinking and realizing who the two

was, there was no doubt that her guild wanted to form a connection

doubt that they knew a few things about him. Especially with regards to what had happened a few nights ago when he supposedly aided in the killing of

popular he was nowadays, without a doubt the elders and her father

at age

Amanda expected this somewhat, she was still shocked. Without a doubt, his

Huuu—

-Plack!

Amanda carefully put away her phone in

her eyes, Amanda

to know him better, her impression of

encounter with him had

undercover bodyguard that her

in

realized that he was completely different from how she

he was faking it, but from what Amanda figured, he was not the merciless killer that she thought

everyone else. Just a

times, serious

odd about him, it was his fashion sense. Recalling how proud he was about the clothes he was wearing, Amanda shook her

It was frankly terrible.

was so bad that Amanda was left

also recalled the look of despair on Emma's face once he got six teddies in fifteen tries whilst she didn't even get

was the first time Amanda saw Emma so depressed. The more she thought about it, the more the corner of her lips curved

"ku..."

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