The Author's POV

"Did you manage to retrieve all of the stolen goods?"

Asked Amber as she sat on a large leather chair. Before her, a female secretary politely nodded her head.

"Yes, we have Madam"

"Mhm, how much would we have lost if Ivan had succeeded?"

"That..."

The secretary hesitated.

Brushing her hair to the side, Amber's brows knit and her tone became stern.

"I want a clear answer"

Instantly the atmosphere turned sullen.

"2.7 b-billion U"

Closing her eyes, the secretary mustered up her courage and revealed everything that she knew.

"huuu..."

Hearing the sum, Amber took a deep breath.

She then looked at her assistant and asked once again. She wanted to make sure she didn't mishear.

Unfortunately for her, she did not mishear as her secretary shook her head.

"2.7 billion U, am I hearing incorrectly?"

"U-unfortunately not, Madam. After investigating we found a lot of the auctioned items to have been replaced with fakes. Excluding the sword, the last item, everything that was stolen had an accumulated value of 2.7 billion U"

"Haaa...alright, you may leave"

Letting out a long sigh, Amber dismissed her secretary.

'2.7 billion...'

Although this was within her estimation, hearing the number still threw Amber off. This was a lot of money.

Even she, a ranked hero as well as the owner of multiple businesses would need at least a couple of decades to be able to save up that much money.

"Thank you, Madam, I hope you have a good night"

"Yes, yes"

Dismissed, the secretary bowed her head. Amber casually waved her hand in response. She needed to be left alone.

'”Clank!

Closing the door behind her, the servant left the room.

Silence prevailed over the room as Amber quietly picked up some papers and looked through them.

'”Flip! '”Flip!

For the next thirty minutes, Amber skimmed through the stack of papers.

Written on them were the details of the incident as well as other information regarding the times retrieved from Ivan's dimensional storage space.

'Sigh, I can't seem to be able to concentrate...'

After a while, Amber put the papers down.

Just thinking about the whole situation gave her a headache. In fact, her head was already starting to hurt.

Opening her desk drawer, Amber took a small cylindrical bottle and took out a pill.

"If not for Monica, things would've turned out disastrous..."

Taking a glass of water, Amber downed the pill and muttered.

Had it not been for Monica, her night would've been a sleepless one.

Most of the responsibility for the incident would've been put on her, and in all likelihood, she was going to be the one who would have to pay a large portion of the damages.

"To think that there was a day where I would have to thank Monica. The world is truly something..."

Bitterly laughing, Amber leaned back on her chair and covered her eyes with her arm.

She was tired.

...

Outside the King's Crown hotel...

"See, everything worked out just fine"

With a smile on my face, I patted Kevin on the shoulder.

All in all, everything worked out just fine.

Rather than remaining angry at Kevin, Monica actually thanked him and completely forgave him.

Everything worked out just fine. There was no need for Kevin to remain angry at me.

"Don't touch me!"

Smacking my hand away, Kevin grumpily made his way towards the limousine that was a few blocks ahead.

"Oh, come on! It wasn't that bad. Monica is not even angry at you!"

"It doesn't matter. You backstabbed me"

"Tsk, if we're talking about selling out shouldn't we be talking about you?"

Clicking my tongue, I rebutted.

"What about me?"

"Did you forget about the fact that you literally exposed our conversation to everyone a couple of hours ago?"

"What? that's different"

In response to my argument, Kevin's brows knit.

"Is it though?"

"Yes, it is"

that only Kevin and I could

you rather

I would rather deal with, I would've

she was weird, she wasn't as crazy as a truly angered

that I was in a business relation with Melissa, things weren't that

if it was someone else

just say that things wouldn't really be

"ah..."

words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart

was definitely

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation,

want to talk about

his hand in dismissal,

I muttered, whilst

knew that I was

Melissa wasn't someone

'That aside...'

was somewhat

take the fall for

everything turned out

angry at Kevin, Monica

they say, all is well

pissed Monica off, she would've never have been

she detested with

from that, now that she had caught him, she would be able to take back all

made for buying the sword

"Get in"

shouted as she rolled the window

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's Crown

auction had officially come

*

from the others, I returned to

can come out

rose in the

a couple of seconds,

you for your

to the training

acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards the

"Aye"

towards the training grounds, I

to this new apartment, Angelica had been spending most of her time

Angelica could now train without holding

energy being detected when training as the isolating system in the private training ground stopped all energy from

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

into my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared

"The mask of Dolos..."

on the mask of Dolos. An item that would

a lot of possibilities had opened up for me. Especially when planning future

in the future at

ranked, I could only use it for short periods of time

a limit on the things I could do with

this was good

it wouldn't be long till I would be able to fully utilize the

with the tournament coming up in a month's time,

they were for way later into the

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched

making

inter-academy tournament, I knew that

supposed to be three big events orchestrated by

banquet, there

However, they never occurred.

up or

the sofa in the living room,

I knew that they wouldn't give up on such an important event just because one of their

must be

not figure out what the

Even so...

they were planning on doing, I wasn't going to just

the

on doing a thorough investigation of everything that was happening in

what their plan was could I come up with the appropriate

up a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather create holes in

up with

needed to spend the

knows. Perhaps I can

I laid

***

time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

her bed with her hair scattered, Emma hummed to

"Hm?"

her phone, Emma opened her calendar and checked her

Kevin's birthday is coming up

she remembered asking Kevin for

his birthday was, Emma remembered

buy him a

as her cheeks

wait, wait. What am I even thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift for him? I've never bought a gift

onto the helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a

gift. I'm just thanking him

that there was no meaning behind her action, Emma changed position. This time she was

I

was stumped. Having never bought a gift for a boy before, she had no

'Should I ask Ren?'

and Kevin were, there was a chance he would know about what Kevin

don't know,

irked her a bit. If possible

much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too much money on

much money she