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"

a low voice that only Kevin and

you

deal with, I would've without

crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal

now that I was in a business relation with

was someone else rather

that things wouldn't

"ah..."

out of his mouth. Deep in

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation, I pointed

whatever, I don't want to talk

in dismissal,

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

Kevin knew

wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

anger was

make him take

my defense, everything turned out just

Kevin, Monica

all is well

pissed Monica off, she would've never have been able to

person she detested with

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

loss she made for buying the sword

"Get in"

shouted as she rolled the window

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

look at the King's Crown

officially come to

*

from the others,

you can come out

my words, black smoke rose in the air and Angelica's enchanting figure appeared before

Angelica for a couple

you for your hard

going to the

in acknowledgment, Angelica made

"Aye"

moving towards

had been spending most of her

great insulating system, Angelica could now train without

energy being detected when training as

could train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

on the mask of Dolos. An

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

the

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

things I could do with

was good enough for

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

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

they were

"That reminds me..."

I stretched

making preparations for the

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

tournament, there were supposed to be three big events orchestrated

the banquet, there were supposed to be

However, they never occurred.

up or are they planning

on the sofa in the living

I knew that they wouldn't give up on such an

must be

the Monolith watch, I could not figure out what the Monolith had

Even so...

doing, I wasn't going to just sit

was the

on doing a thorough

plan was could I come up with

that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather create

come up with proper countermeasures for

that, I needed to spend the next month

knows. Perhaps I can even benefit from

I laid down on my

***

same time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

Emma hummed to the tune of one of her favorite

"Hm?"

opened her calendar and checked

Kevin's birthday is coming up

she remembered asking Kevin for his

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

I buy him

as her

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

silently

gift. I'm just thanking him for

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

I buy

Having never bought a gift for a boy before, she had

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

don't know, I'd rather

asking Ren to help her get a gift irked

much money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

needed to check how much money she had