The Author's POV

Chapter 230

"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"

repeatedly, in a low voice that only Kevin

you

me who I would rather deal with, I would've without a doubt have

a

a business relation with Melissa, things weren't

it was someone else rather

that

"ah..."

of his mouth. Deep

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

of his

don't want

hand in dismissal, Kevin entered the

you're running away...', I muttered,

Kevin knew

wasn't

'That aside...'

was somewhat

him take the

everything turned

at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful for

say, all is

would've never have

one person she detested

she would be able to take back all of

buying the sword

"Get in"

shouted as she rolled the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

one last look at the King's Crown hotel, I entered the

auction had officially come

*

from the others,

can come

the air and Angelica's

couple of seconds, I thanked

you for your

to

her head in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way

"Aye"

towards the training grounds,

been

its great insulating system, Angelica

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

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden

"The mask of Dolos..."

had finally laid my hands on the mask of Dolos. An item that would prove extremely useful

lot of possibilities had

the future at

I could only use it for

things I could do with

good enough for

it wouldn't be long till I would be able

in a month's time, I wasn't planning on using the mask

have plans for it, they were

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

I should start making preparations for the upcoming

tournament,

to

banquet, there were supposed to be another two

However, they never occurred.

give up or are they planning something

sofa in the living room,

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

must be

checking on the Monolith watch, I could not figure out what the Monolith had in plan for

Even so...

on doing, I wasn't going to just sit down and wait

that was the

doing a thorough investigation of everything that was happening

their plan was could I come up

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

I could come up with proper countermeasures for when the situation

to spend the

I can even benefit from this

as I laid down

***

time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

Emma hummed to the tune of one of her favorite

"Hm?"

calendar and checked her

is coming up

she remembered asking

his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on

buy him

muttered as her

need to buy a gift for him?

dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad of thoughts

no meaning behind the gift. I'm just thanking him for

no meaning behind her action, Emma changed position. This time she was laying down face flat on her

I buy

bought a gift for a boy before, she had no clue

'Should I ask Ren?'

thought suddenly struck her. Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance he would know about what Kevin

know,

gift irked her a bit.

much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

realized that she couldn't spend too much money

how much

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