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"

repeatedly, in a low voice that only Kevin

Who would you rather piss off,

rather deal with, I would've without a doubt

she was weird, she wasn't as crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal with

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

if it was someone

say that things wouldn't really

"ah..."

out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also shared

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation, I

whatever, I don't want to talk about

his hand in dismissal, Kevin

you're running away...', I muttered, whilst following him

knew that I

angry Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

was

did make him take the fall

defense, everything turned out

being angry at Kevin, Monica

say, all is well

Kevin not pissed Monica off, she would've never have been able to discover

person she detested with all

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

for buying the sword would quickly be made

"Get in"

as she rolled the window of the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's Crown hotel, I

officially

*

others, I

you can

in the air and Angelica's enchanting figure appeared

at Angelica for a couple

for

to

acknowledgment, Angelica made her

"Aye"

indifferent figure moving towards the training grounds,

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

system, Angelica could now train without holding

worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system in the private training ground stopped all energy

train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared

"The mask of Dolos..."

of Dolos. An item that would prove extremely useful for me

had opened up for me. Especially when planning future schemes

in the future at

the mask was so highly ranked, I could only use it for short periods of time before my mana would run

put a limit on the things

was good

my strength progressing at a much faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to fully utilize

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

have plans for it, they were for

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

start making preparations for the

of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that I had to

to be three big events orchestrated by

the banquet, there

However, they never occurred.

give up or are they planning something

sofa in the living

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

be

I could not figure

Even so...

wasn't going to just sit

the perfect

a thorough investigation of everything that was happening in and out

knew what their plan was could I

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

with

I needed to spend the

Perhaps I can even benefit from

muttered as I laid down on

***

time, in

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

bed with her hair scattered, Emma hummed to the tune of one of her favorite

"Hm?"

calendar and checked her schedule. Suddenly, something

birthday is coming up

asking Kevin for his

had told her when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that

I buy him a

muttered as her cheeks

Why would I need to buy a gift for him? I've never bought a gift

silently

I'm just thanking him for

no meaning behind her action, Emma changed

should I

stumped. Having never bought a gift for a boy

'Should I ask Ren?'

her. Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance he would know

know,

gift irked her a bit. If possible she didn't

money do I

Emma suddenly recalled something.

account frozen, Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too much money

much money she had available