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"

voice that only Kevin and I

you rather piss off, Monica

deal with, I would've without

wasn't as crazy as a truly angered Melissa.

business

someone else

just say that things wouldn't really be

"ah..."

out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also shared the same sentiment

was definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation, I

don't want

his hand in dismissal, Kevin entered the

I muttered, whilst

knew that I

wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

anger was

him take the fall for

my defense, everything turned

at Kevin, Monica was

is

not pissed Monica off, she would've never have

one person she detested with

be able to take back

she made for buying the sword

"Get in"

shouted as she rolled the window of the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

last look at the King's

officially come to

*

others, I returned

you can

smoke rose in the air and Angelica's

couple of

for your hard

going to the training

in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards the

"Aye"

towards the training grounds, I

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

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 from

could train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

An item that would prove extremely useful for me

possibilities had opened up for me. Especially when

the

could only use it for short

the things I

this was good enough

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

time,

for it, they were for way later into the

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched

I should start making preparations for the upcoming

a month left till the start of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that I had to start making preparations for

to the tournament, there were supposed to

destroying the first event, the banquet, there were supposed

However, they never occurred.

or are they

in the living room,

on such an important event just because one of their plans had

be something

I could not figure out what the Monolith had in

Even so...

they were planning on doing, I wasn't going to just sit down and wait for everything

the

next month or so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything

once I knew what their plan was could

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

way I could come up with proper countermeasures for when the

to spend the

Perhaps I can even benefit from

I laid down

***

same time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

bed with her hair scattered, Emma hummed to the tune

"Hm?"

her calendar and checked

is coming up

ago she remembered asking Kevin

remembered putting

I buy him a

as her cheeks suddenly

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

dress, Emma silently shrieked as

meaning behind the gift. I'm just thanking him for all

behind her action, Emma changed position. This time she was laying

I

stumped. Having never bought a gift for a boy before,

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

don't know, I'd rather

her get a gift irked her a bit. If

money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

needed to check how much money she had available