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"

my head repeatedly, in a low voice that only Kevin

it isn't. Who would you

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

as a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal

now that I was in a business relation with

someone else

let's just say that things wouldn't

"ah..."

his mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also shared the same sentiment

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation, I

whatever, I don't want

in dismissal,

I muttered, whilst following

end, Kevin knew

wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

anger was

did make him take

my defense, everything turned out just

being angry at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful for

is well that ends

would've never

one person she detested with all

that, now that she had caught him, she would be able to take back all of the items that

for buying the sword would quickly be made

"Get in"

rolled the window of the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

one last look at the King's

had officially

*

others,

can come out

in the

Angelica for a couple of

for your hard

going to

in acknowledgment, Angelica made

"Aye"

at Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the

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

great insulating system, Angelica could now train without holding

when training as the isolating system

train

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

into my bracelet, a wooden

"The mask of Dolos..."

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

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

the

could only use it for short periods of time before my mana would run

a limit on the things

was good

compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to

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

for it, they were

"That reminds me..."

up, I

making

of the inter-academy tournament, I

tournament, there were supposed to be three big events

the first event, the banquet, there were

However, they never occurred.

or are they planning

in the living

Monolith well, I knew that they wouldn't give up on such

be

Monolith watch, 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

that was the perfect

on doing a thorough investigation of everything

what their plan was could I come up with the appropriate

able to escape from, I would much rather create holes in the net to later use to my

come up with proper countermeasures for when the

that, I needed to spend the

Perhaps I can even

I laid down on my

***

same time, in a different

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

opened her calendar and checked her schedule.

Kevin's birthday is coming up

she remembered asking Kevin for his

had told her when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that she wouldn't

buy him

muttered as her cheeks suddenly

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

dress, Emma silently shrieked as a

just thanking him for all

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

should I buy

Having never bought a gift for a boy

'Should I ask Ren?'

Ren and Kevin were, there

don't know, I'd

to help her get a gift irked her a

money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

to check how much money